OpenTelemetry
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OpenTelemetry skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OpenTelemetry over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 798 977 1198
Rank change year-on-year +179 +221 -298
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 109 18 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.018% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.059% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile - £90,000 £58,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £103,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £133,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.93% +91.07% -
75th Percentile £96,875 £144,063 £77,188
90th Percentile £125,000 £147,250 £81,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 - £70,000

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenTelemetry is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,989 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.31% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,696 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenTelemetry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenTelemetry.

Salary trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London - 100 £72,500 - 1
Scotland - 97 - -
England +86 9 £75,000 -43.93% 10
London +115 6 £137,500 +2.80% 9
North West - 3 £72,500 -
North of England - 3 £72,500 -

OpenTelemetry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (19.27%) GemFire
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 76 (69.72%) AWS
1 76 (69.72%) Datadog
2 56 (51.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (2.75%) Azure
3 3 (2.75%) Serverless
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.61%) CockroachDB
2 22 (20.18%) NoSQL
3 21 (19.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (19.27%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.83%) Big Data
5 1 (0.92%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 29 (26.61%) Jaeger
2 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (96.33%) Finance
1 105 (96.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 102 (93.58%) Law
3 77 (70.64%) Social Skills
4 42 (38.53%) Marketing
5 24 (22.02%) Banking
5 24 (22.02%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.34%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (88.99%) Software Engineer
2 63 (57.80%) Lead
2 63 (57.80%) Lead Software Engineer
3 53 (48.62%) Cloud Engineer
3 53 (48.62%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 22 (20.18%) Java Engineer
4 22 (20.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 22 (20.18%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 21 (19.27%) Lead Java Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Architect
6 8 (7.34%) Payments Architect
6 8 (7.34%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Developer
7 4 (3.67%) Senior
8 3 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Developer
8 3 (2.75%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.61%) Kafka
1 29 (26.61%) Spring Boot
2 24 (22.02%) REST
3 21 (19.27%) JPA
3 21 (19.27%) Spring
4 8 (7.34%) Middleware
5 3 (2.75%) Node.js
5 3 (2.75%) React
6 2 (1.83%) RESTful
7 1 (0.92%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 95 (87.16%) Cloud Native
2 55 (50.46%) Public Cloud
3 28 (25.69%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (25.69%) Management Information System
4 21 (19.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (19.27%) Replication
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (93.58%) CI/CD
2 101 (92.66%) Agile
3 98 (89.91%) Software Engineering
4 96 (88.07%) Community of Practice
5 94 (86.24%) Operational Stability
6 93 (85.32%) Architectural Design
6 93 (85.32%) Information Architecture
6 93 (85.32%) SDLC
7 91 (83.49%) Continuous Delivery
8 85 (77.98%) Observability
9 74 (67.89%) Machine Learning
10 72 (66.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 72 (66.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 72 (66.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 55 (50.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 52 (47.71%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (33.94%) Microservices
14 36 (33.03%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (26.61%) Data Modelling
16 21 (19.27%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (77.98%) Java
2 30 (27.52%) SQL
3 21 (19.27%) Groovy
4 6 (5.50%) Go
5 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.75%) Python
5 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 97 (88.99%) Grafana
2 58 (53.21%) Terraform
3 46 (42.20%) Prometheus
4 21 (19.27%) HAProxy
4 21 (19.27%) ITRS Geneos
4 21 (19.27%) Kibana
4 21 (19.27%) Zipkin
5 16 (14.68%) Kubernetes
6 8 (7.34%) Ansible
6 8 (7.34%) Kiali
Vendors
1 104 (95.41%) Splunk
2 93 (85.32%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.34%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft