Observability Jobs in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 382 341
Rank change year-on-year +49 -41 +29
Permanent jobs citing Observability 73 41 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.26% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.27% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 29 21 51
10th Percentile £38,750 - £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £44,033 £60,995
Median % change year-on-year +30.59% -27.81% +10.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £88,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,940 15,250 17,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.23% 96.75% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,785 7,790 10,681
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the North of England.

Salary trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +23 59 £80,000 +14.29% 12
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +56 6 £85,000 +93.04% 2
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 47 (64.38%) AWS
2 38 (52.05%) Amazon S3
3 36 (49.32%) Amazon ECR
3 36 (49.32%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (49.32%) IBM Cloud
3 36 (49.32%) OCI
3 36 (49.32%) Route 53
4 17 (23.29%) Azure
5 9 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.59%) GCP
6 7 (9.59%) GitHub
7 6 (8.22%) Datadog
7 6 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.22%) Serverless
8 5 (6.85%) Anthos
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (6.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) DNS
1 4 (5.48%) MQTT
2 3 (4.11%) DHCP
2 3 (4.11%) Firewall
2 3 (4.11%) LAN
2 3 (4.11%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) WAN
2 3 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (49.32%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.85%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.85%) Power BI
5 4 (5.48%) Big Data
5 4 (5.48%) DocumentDB
5 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.48%) Metadata
5 4 (5.48%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (4.11%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.11%) Data Mart
6 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.11%) Redis
7 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) GitLab
2 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.74%) Gradle
5 1 (1.37%) Appium
5 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.37%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 37 (50.68%) Public Sector
2 36 (49.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Retail
5 4 (5.48%) Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Marketing
6 2 (2.74%) Finance
7 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (53.42%) DevOps Engineer
1 39 (53.42%) Senior
2 36 (49.32%) Senior DevOps
2 36 (49.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Site Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Splunk Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Analyst
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Software Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.48%) Lead
5 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Developer
6 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Spring
2 6 (8.22%) AWS CDK
2 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.85%) Kafka
4 4 (5.48%) PySpark
5 2 (2.74%) .NET
5 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.74%) Node.js
5 2 (2.74%) YAML
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (1.37%) Swagger
6 1 (1.37%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (52.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (49.32%) Blockchain
2 36 (49.32%) e-Learning
3 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.48%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.48%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (75.34%) DevOps
2 51 (69.86%) Agile
3 42 (57.53%) Containerisation
3 42 (57.53%) Mentoring
4 37 (50.68%) Coaching
4 37 (50.68%) Test Automation
5 36 (49.32%) Artificial Intelligence
5 36 (49.32%) Secrets Management
6 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (12.33%) Microservices
10 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
10 8 (10.96%) TDD
11 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (8.22%) E-Commerce
13 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (6.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.03%) Python
2 11 (15.07%) SQL
3 10 (13.70%) Java
4 9 (12.33%) Bash
5 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.85%) Go
6 5 (6.85%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (4.11%) Ruby
8 2 (2.74%) C#
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.37%) R
9 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.85%) Degree
2 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (73.97%) Terraform
2 47 (64.38%) Kubernetes
3 43 (58.90%) Prometheus
4 9 (12.33%) Grafana
5 3 (4.11%) Kibana
6 2 (2.74%) Ansible
6 2 (2.74%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (49.32%) Dynatrace
1 36 (49.32%) IBM
1 36 (49.32%) Red Hat
2 7 (9.59%) Splunk
3 5 (6.85%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (6.85%) PagerDuty
4 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.11%) Oracle
5 3 (4.11%) VMware
6 2 (2.74%) Google
6 2 (2.74%) New Relic
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks