Observability Jobs with Work from Home Options

Observability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 502 471 374
Rank change year-on-year -31 -97 +123
Permanent jobs citing Observability 87 185 651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.46% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.48% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 76 143 138
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,874 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,000 £58,138 £57,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £90,625 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £104,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Observability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Observability trend for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability.

Observability salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Observability over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Observability salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (8.05%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) nginx
3 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.45%) Confluence
5 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 58 (66.67%) AWS
2 32 (36.78%) Azure
3 19 (21.84%) GCP
4 15 (17.24%) Serverless
5 13 (14.94%) Datadog
6 12 (13.79%) GitHub
7 9 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon S3
8 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
9 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.90%) npm
10 6 (6.90%) Yarn
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.75%) Snowflake
12 4 (4.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) AMQP
2 8 (9.20%) Network Security
3 3 (3.45%) VPN
4 2 (2.30%) DNS
4 2 (2.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (11.49%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (10.34%) InfluxDB
3 9 (10.34%) MySQL
4 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.05%) BigQuery
6 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.90%) Big Data
7 5 (5.75%) Data Vault
7 5 (5.75%) Looker
7 5 (5.75%) Tableau
8 4 (4.60%) Metadata
8 4 (4.60%) Power BI
9 3 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.45%) Data Mart
9 3 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.05%) GitLab
2 7 (8.05%) JIRA
3 6 (6.90%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.90%) Mocha
4 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.30%) Gradle
7 1 (1.15%) Gatling
7 1 (1.15%) Git
7 1 (1.15%) JUnit
7 1 (1.15%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (18.39%) Finance
2 9 (10.34%) Tech for Good
3 8 (9.20%) Retail
4 7 (8.05%) Banking
5 6 (6.90%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.75%) Marketing
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Games
8 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (37.93%) Senior
2 27 (31.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (12.64%) Senior DevOps
3 11 (12.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Analyst
5 9 (10.34%) DBA
5 9 (10.34%) Senior DBA
6 8 (9.20%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Backend Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Backend Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Monitoring Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.60%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) .NET
1 11 (12.64%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
2 8 (9.20%) Node.js
3 7 (8.05%) React
4 6 (6.90%) Express.js
4 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
4 6 (6.90%) gRPC
4 6 (6.90%) Jest
4 6 (6.90%) JWT
4 6 (6.90%) Kafka
4 6 (6.90%) MEAN Stack
4 6 (6.90%) MERN Stack
4 6 (6.90%) Mongoose
4 6 (6.90%) NestJS
4 6 (6.90%) OAuth
4 6 (6.90%) OAuth2
4 6 (6.90%) OpenAPI
5 5 (5.75%) Apache Beam
5 5 (5.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.60%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.30%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 6 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.87%) DevOps
2 28 (32.18%) Agile
3 27 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (27.59%) Fintech
5 20 (22.99%) Containerisation
5 20 (22.99%) Software Engineering
6 17 (19.54%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (17.24%) Event-Driven
8 14 (16.09%) Configuration Management
8 14 (16.09%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (12.64%) DevSecOps
10 11 (12.64%) Microservices
11 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.49%) Data Engineering
11 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (11.49%) Visualisation
12 9 (10.34%) Data Management
12 9 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Python
2 21 (24.14%) Java
2 21 (24.14%) SQL
3 12 (13.79%) Go
4 9 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.34%) Kotlin
4 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.05%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.90%) Bash
7 6 (6.90%) C#
8 4 (4.60%) Groovy
9 3 (3.45%) Ruby
9 3 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 25 (28.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (54.02%) Terraform
2 39 (44.83%) Kubernetes
3 22 (25.29%) Grafana
4 20 (22.99%) Prometheus
5 12 (13.79%) Ansible
6 7 (8.05%) Progress Chef
7 5 (5.75%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (5.75%) Packer
8 4 (4.60%) Consul
9 3 (3.45%) Kibana
9 3 (3.45%) Puppet
10 2 (2.30%) Nagios
10 2 (2.30%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.15%) Istio
11 1 (1.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Dynatrace
2 8 (9.20%) New Relic
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.90%) PagerDuty
5 4 (4.60%) Google
5 4 (4.60%) Splunk
6 3 (3.45%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.30%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle
7 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto