Observability Jobs

Observability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 575 385
Rank change year-on-year +56 -190 +242
Permanent jobs citing Observability 442 412 1,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.46% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 181 203 305
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,874 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £119,700 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £63,150 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.68% -2.85% -27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +145 325 £80,000 +26.68% 59
England -41 263 £80,000 - 130
Scotland +62 168 £67,319 +52.88% 4
London -11 105 £80,000 -1.54% 77
Work from Home -28 90 £80,000 +3.23% 56
North of England +65 71 £57,500 +30.59% 20
North West +36 58 £80,000 +30.61% 14
South West +14 50 £80,000 +11.09% 4
Midlands -1 14 £50,000 -44.44% 6
South East -32 11 £87,500 +2.94% 16
East of England -1 9 - - 6
East Midlands -10 9 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +47 5 £82,500 +87.36% 6
West Midlands -10 5 £50,000 -54.55% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £55,000 - 3

Observability
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 24 (5.43%) Apache
1 24 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 23 (5.20%) nginx
3 16 (3.62%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.90%) Confluence
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 256 (57.92%) AWS
2 144 (32.58%) Datadog
3 84 (19.00%) Amazon S3
4 81 (18.33%) Azure
5 63 (14.25%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (13.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 59 (13.35%) Route 53
7 58 (13.12%) Amazon ECR
7 58 (13.12%) IBM Cloud
7 58 (13.12%) OCI
8 44 (9.95%) GCP
9 40 (9.05%) OpenShift
10 33 (7.47%) Serverless
11 21 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (4.75%) GitHub
12 16 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (3.62%) MinIO
13 15 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (2.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.94%) Firewall
2 12 (2.71%) AMQP
3 9 (2.04%) Network Security
4 6 (1.36%) DNS
4 6 (1.36%) VPN
5 3 (0.68%) DHCP
5 3 (0.68%) LAN
5 3 (0.68%) MQTT
5 3 (0.68%) Multicast
5 3 (0.68%) WAN
5 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.45%) SNMP
6 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
2 55 (12.44%) Relational Database
3 29 (6.56%) Big Data
4 28 (6.33%) MongoDB
5 27 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 18 (4.07%) Hadoop
7 16 (3.62%) Presto
8 14 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.71%) DB2
10 12 (2.71%) RDBMS
11 10 (2.26%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.26%) InfluxDB
11 10 (2.26%) MySQL
12 9 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (2.04%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.04%) Redis
13 8 (1.81%) CockroachDB
14 6 (1.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 29 (6.56%) GitLab
3 16 (3.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (2.49%) Cypress.io
5 10 (2.26%) Git
5 10 (2.26%) JIRA
6 8 (1.81%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.58%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.58%) Mocha
8 6 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.90%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.45%) Gradle
11 2 (0.45%) JUnit
12 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.23%) Mockito
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 231 (52.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 191 (43.21%) Finance
3 169 (38.24%) Law
4 133 (30.09%) Marketing
5 96 (21.72%) Social Skills
6 62 (14.03%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.75%) Tech for Good
8 16 (3.62%) Banking
9 13 (2.94%) Retail
10 11 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (2.04%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.68%) Legal
14 1 (0.23%) Games
14 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (29.19%) Senior
2 123 (27.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 113 (25.57%) Software Engineer
4 81 (18.33%) Lead
5 73 (16.52%) Senior DevOps
5 73 (16.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 56 (12.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (11.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 42 (9.50%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (6.11%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.66%) Architect
11 24 (5.43%) Software Engineering Director
12 21 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (4.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 20 (4.52%) Developer
13 20 (4.52%) Technical Architect
14 18 (4.07%) Engineering Manager
14 18 (4.07%) Senior Manager
14 18 (4.07%) Software Engineering Manager
15 17 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (19.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 41 (9.28%) .NET
3 38 (8.60%) Spring
4 32 (7.24%) Spring Boot
5 29 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
6 24 (5.43%) Kafka
7 22 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.07%) REST
8 18 (4.07%) YAML
9 17 (3.85%) React
10 16 (3.62%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (3.62%) Apache NiFi
10 16 (3.62%) Node.js
11 12 (2.71%) Spring XD
12 11 (2.49%) JSP
13 10 (2.26%) OpenAPI
14 9 (2.04%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.04%) PySpark
14 9 (2.04%) RESTful
15 8 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 134 (30.32%) Cloud Native
2 77 (17.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 75 (16.97%) Public Cloud
4 58 (13.12%) Blockchain
4 58 (13.12%) e-Learning
5 46 (10.41%) Algorithms
6 33 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (6.33%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.39%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.36%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.13%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.68%) Robotics
13 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.35%) Linux
2 20 (4.52%) Windows
3 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (56.33%) Agile
2 218 (49.32%) CI/CD
3 204 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 191 (43.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 181 (40.95%) DevOps
6 136 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 120 (27.15%) Community of Practice
8 117 (26.47%) SDLC
9 115 (26.02%) Containerisation
10 104 (23.53%) Machine Learning
11 102 (23.08%) Operational Stability
12 91 (20.59%) Mentoring
13 90 (20.36%) Continuous Delivery
14 87 (19.68%) Coaching
15 83 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 77 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (16.29%) Architectural Design
17 72 (16.29%) Information Architecture
17 72 (16.29%) Test Automation
17 72 (16.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 138 (31.22%) Java
2 112 (25.34%) Python
3 52 (11.76%) SQL
4 33 (7.47%) Bash
5 24 (5.43%) Shell Script
6 21 (4.75%) C#
6 21 (4.75%) Go
6 21 (4.75%) JavaScript
7 17 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.62%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.26%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.58%) Scala
11 6 (1.36%) C++
11 6 (1.36%) Ruby
12 5 (1.13%) Groovy
12 5 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (8.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (3.62%) DV Cleared
3 11 (2.49%) Degree
4 10 (2.26%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.17%) SLA
3 9 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.13%) QA
7 2 (0.45%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 106 (23.98%) Docker
2 15 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 232 (52.49%) Terraform
2 184 (41.63%) Grafana
3 181 (40.95%) Kubernetes
4 174 (39.37%) Prometheus
5 41 (9.28%) Ansible
6 16 (3.62%) HAProxy
7 8 (1.81%) Kiali
8 7 (1.58%) Kibana
8 7 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.36%) Puppet
10 5 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (1.13%) Packer
11 4 (0.90%) Consul
11 4 (0.90%) Nagios
12 3 (0.68%) Istio
13 2 (0.45%) Netcool
13 2 (0.45%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.23%) logstash
14 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 189 (42.76%) Dynatrace
2 141 (31.90%) Splunk
3 60 (13.57%) IBM
4 59 (13.35%) Red Hat
5 24 (5.43%) Google
6 17 (3.85%) Oracle
7 16 (3.62%) Microsoft
8 15 (3.39%) VMware
9 12 (2.71%) Sybase
10 11 (2.49%) AppDynamics
10 11 (2.49%) New Relic
11 9 (2.04%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.58%) LogicMonitor
13 6 (1.36%) Databricks
14 4 (0.90%) Dataiku
15 3 (0.68%) Facebook
16 2 (0.45%) Ab Initio
16 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
16 2 (0.45%) ScienceLogic
16 2 (0.45%) SolarWinds