Observability Jobs in the North West

Observability
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 273 247
Rank change year-on-year +28 -26 -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 58 18 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.24% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.26% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 14
10th Percentile £48,250 - £52,375
25th Percentile £54,000 £42,874 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £84,250 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,635 7,040 9,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.63% 95.51% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,406 3,845 5,293
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North West

Observability
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Observability in the North West

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the North West

Observability
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +45 45 £65,750 +9.58% 8
Cheshire -5 13 £80,000 +16.36% 7
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 41 (70.69%) AWS
2 38 (65.52%) Amazon S3
3 36 (62.07%) Amazon ECR
3 36 (62.07%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (62.07%) IBM Cloud
3 36 (62.07%) OCI
3 36 (62.07%) Route 53
4 13 (22.41%) Azure
5 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.07%) GitHub
7 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.62%) Anthos
8 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (8.62%) Datadog
8 5 (8.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
8 5 (8.62%) Serverless
9 3 (5.17%) GCP
10 2 (3.45%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) MQTT
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (62.07%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.62%) Power BI
4 4 (6.90%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
5 3 (5.17%) Data Mart
5 3 (5.17%) DocumentDB
5 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.45%) Redis
6 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.72%) Looker
7 1 (1.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) GitLab
1 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.72%) Appium
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 36 (62.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 36 (62.07%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.62%) Retail
2 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (65.52%) Senior
2 37 (63.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (62.07%) Senior DevOps
3 36 (62.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Site Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Splunk Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Developer
6 2 (3.45%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Senior Software Test Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) AWS CDK
2 4 (6.90%) PySpark
3 3 (5.17%) Kafka
3 3 (5.17%) Spring
3 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.45%) Node.js
5 1 (1.72%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (65.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (62.07%) Blockchain
2 36 (62.07%) e-Learning
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) FMCG
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
1 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.72%) Android
2 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (82.76%) DevOps
2 41 (70.69%) Agile
2 41 (70.69%) Containerisation
3 38 (65.52%) Mentoring
4 37 (63.79%) Coaching
4 37 (63.79%) Test Automation
5 36 (62.07%) Artificial Intelligence
5 36 (62.07%) Secrets Management
6 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
7 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.62%) Analytics
10 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (8.62%) Data Engineering
10 5 (8.62%) Data Modelling
10 5 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (8.62%) Microservices
10 5 (8.62%) Visualisation
11 4 (6.90%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) Bash
3 6 (10.34%) Java
3 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.34%) SQL
4 5 (8.62%) Go
4 5 (8.62%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (5.17%) Ruby
6 2 (3.45%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) R
7 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (84.48%) Terraform
2 43 (74.14%) Kubernetes
3 38 (65.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (62.07%) Dynatrace
1 36 (62.07%) IBM
1 36 (62.07%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.07%) Splunk
3 5 (8.62%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (8.62%) PagerDuty
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) New Relic
6 1 (1.72%) Databricks