Observability Jobs in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 636 563
Rank change year-on-year +167 -73 +90
Permanent jobs citing Observability 321 134 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.24% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 93 53 116
10th Percentile £42,750 - £48,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £42,874 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -18.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £114,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,251 56,179 68,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 95.60% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41,534 28,920 41,183
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Scotland +70 169 £67,319 +45.24% 3
North of England +67 67 £54,000 +22.64% 15
North West +38 55 £80,000 +30.61% 9
South West +26 50 £80,000 +81.68% 3
Midlands +2 13 £50,000 -44.44% 5
South East -19 10 £87,500 +2.94% 51
East of England +8 9 - - 2
East Midlands +2 9 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +64 4 £82,500 +87.36% 6
West Midlands +11 4 £50,000 -54.55% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £55,000 - 2
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (5.30%) Apache
1 17 (5.30%) Apache Spark
1 17 (5.30%) Jupyter
1 17 (5.30%) nginx
2 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 179 (55.76%) AWS
2 129 (40.19%) Datadog
3 72 (22.43%) Amazon S3
4 57 (17.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 49 (15.26%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (14.95%) Route 53
7 47 (14.64%) Amazon ECR
7 47 (14.64%) IBM Cloud
7 47 (14.64%) OCI
8 45 (14.02%) Azure
9 30 (9.35%) OpenShift
10 21 (6.54%) GCP
11 18 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (5.30%) MinIO
13 16 (4.98%) Serverless
14 13 (4.05%) GitHub
15 10 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.87%) Network Security
2 5 (1.56%) AMQP
3 4 (1.25%) DNS
3 4 (1.25%) VPN
4 3 (0.93%) DHCP
4 3 (0.93%) Firewall
4 3 (0.93%) LAN
4 3 (0.93%) WAN
4 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.62%) MQTT
5 2 (0.62%) SNMP
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.51%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (10.90%) Relational Database
3 25 (7.79%) Big Data
4 17 (5.30%) Hadoop
4 17 (5.30%) Presto
5 12 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.12%) InfluxDB
7 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.56%) Power BI
9 4 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.25%) Metadata
9 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.93%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.93%) Redis
11 2 (0.62%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 49 (15.26%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.85%) GitLab
3 17 (5.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (2.18%) Git
5 5 (1.56%) JIRA
6 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.62%) Gradle
7 2 (0.62%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.31%) Appium
8 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) JUnit
8 1 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 211 (65.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 173 (53.89%) Finance
3 164 (51.09%) Law
4 133 (41.43%) Marketing
5 88 (27.41%) Social Skills
6 48 (14.95%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.74%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.80%) Banking
9 8 (2.49%) Retail
10 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 108 (33.64%) Software Engineer
2 92 (28.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (23.36%) Senior
4 71 (22.12%) Lead
5 55 (17.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (16.51%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 51 (15.89%) Senior DevOps
7 51 (15.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 42 (13.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (7.48%) Software Engineering Director
10 22 (6.85%) Data Engineer
10 22 (6.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.61%) Engineering Manager
11 18 (5.61%) Senior Manager
11 18 (5.61%) Software Engineering Manager
12 17 (5.30%) Big Data Engineer
13 15 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (4.05%) Architect
15 11 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.43%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (23.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (7.17%) RabbitMQ
2 23 (7.17%) Spring
3 20 (6.23%) Spring Boot
4 19 (5.92%) .NET
4 19 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (5.92%) YAML
5 17 (5.30%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (5.30%) Apache NiFi
6 12 (3.74%) REST
7 11 (3.43%) JSP
8 5 (1.56%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.25%) PySpark
10 3 (0.93%) Kafka
10 3 (0.93%) Node.js
10 3 (0.93%) React
10 3 (0.93%) RESTful
11 2 (0.62%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.62%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 121 (37.69%) Cloud Native
2 73 (22.74%) Public Cloud
3 66 (20.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 47 (14.64%) Blockchain
4 47 (14.64%) e-Learning
5 45 (14.02%) Algorithms
6 20 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (6.23%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.67%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.25%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.31%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.46%) Linux
2 16 (4.98%) Windows
3 6 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.62%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (63.24%) Agile
2 174 (54.21%) Software Engineering
3 168 (52.34%) CI/CD
4 162 (50.47%) Artificial Intelligence
5 126 (39.25%) DevOps
6 124 (38.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 120 (37.38%) Community of Practice
8 110 (34.27%) SDLC
9 103 (32.09%) Operational Stability
10 97 (30.22%) Machine Learning
11 87 (27.10%) Continuous Delivery
12 83 (25.86%) Containerisation
13 74 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 72 (22.43%) Architectural Design
14 72 (22.43%) Information Architecture
14 72 (22.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 69 (21.50%) Mentoring
16 68 (21.18%) Coaching
17 59 (18.38%) Visualisation
18 55 (17.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (30.84%) Java
2 80 (24.92%) Python
3 28 (8.72%) SQL
4 27 (8.41%) Bash
5 24 (7.48%) Shell Script
6 16 (4.98%) C#
7 13 (4.05%) Go
8 12 (3.74%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.25%) Ruby
11 3 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.62%) Groovy
13 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.30%) DV Cleared
3 10 (3.12%) Degree
4 6 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 67 (20.87%) Docker
2 11 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 177 (55.14%) Terraform
2 168 (52.34%) Grafana
3 149 (46.42%) Prometheus
4 119 (37.07%) Kubernetes
5 27 (8.41%) Ansible
6 17 (5.30%) HAProxy
7 5 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.25%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) Nagios
9 3 (0.93%) Puppet
10 2 (0.62%) Netcool
10 2 (0.62%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.31%) Consul
11 1 (0.31%) Istio
11 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 173 (53.89%) Dynatrace
2 128 (39.88%) Splunk
3 49 (15.26%) IBM
4 47 (14.64%) Red Hat
5 19 (5.92%) Google
6 11 (3.43%) VMware
7 10 (3.12%) New Relic
8 9 (2.80%) PagerDuty
9 7 (2.18%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.56%) Oracle
11 4 (1.25%) Microsoft
12 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.62%) BigPanda
13 2 (0.62%) ScienceLogic
13 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.62%) Sybase
14 1 (0.31%) Databricks