Observability Jobs in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 596 576
Rank change year-on-year +129 -20 +85
Permanent jobs citing Observability 332 132 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.24% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.25% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 100 55 127
10th Percentile £42,375 - £45,450
25th Percentile £54,000 £42,874 £53,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £114,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - +8.47% -7.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 June 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 12 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
Scotland +66 162 £67,319 +52.88% 3
North of England +50 80 £67,500 +53.30% 14
North West +22 65 £80,000 +14.29% 12
South West 0 52 £80,000 - 6
Midlands -25 15 £50,000 -54.55% 5
South East -53 11 £87,500 +2.94% 13
East of England -9 10 - - 4
East Midlands -20 10 £39,500 -43.57% 2
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +52 7 £85,000 +93.04% 2
West Midlands -7 5 £50,000 -54.55% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £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 16 (4.82%) Apache
1 16 (4.82%) Apache Spark
1 16 (4.82%) Jupyter
1 16 (4.82%) nginx
2 2 (0.60%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 188 (56.63%) AWS
2 130 (39.16%) Datadog
3 78 (23.49%) Amazon S3
4 56 (16.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 56 (16.87%) Amazon EKS
5 55 (16.57%) Route 53
6 54 (16.27%) Amazon ECR
6 54 (16.27%) IBM Cloud
6 54 (16.27%) OCI
7 50 (15.06%) Azure
8 29 (8.73%) OpenShift
9 24 (7.23%) GCP
10 19 (5.72%) Serverless
11 18 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (4.82%) MinIO
13 14 (4.22%) GitHub
14 11 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.11%) Network Security
2 5 (1.51%) AMQP
2 5 (1.51%) DNS
2 5 (1.51%) VPN
3 4 (1.20%) Firewall
3 4 (1.20%) LAN
3 4 (1.20%) MQTT
3 4 (1.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) DHCP
4 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.60%) SNMP
5 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (9.34%) Relational Database
3 23 (6.93%) Big Data
4 16 (4.82%) Hadoop
4 16 (4.82%) Presto
5 12 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.01%) InfluxDB
7 9 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.71%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.51%) Power BI
10 4 (1.20%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.20%) Metadata
10 4 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.90%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (14.76%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.53%) GitLab
3 16 (4.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (2.11%) Git
5 5 (1.51%) JIRA
6 3 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.60%) Gradle
7 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.30%) Appium
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) JUnit
8 1 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 211 (63.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 166 (50.00%) Finance
3 159 (47.89%) Law
4 126 (37.95%) Marketing
5 93 (28.01%) Social Skills
6 55 (16.57%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.61%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.71%) Banking
9 8 (2.41%) Retail
10 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 103 (31.02%) Software Engineer
2 100 (30.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 80 (24.10%) Senior
4 74 (22.29%) Lead
5 57 (17.17%) Senior DevOps
5 57 (17.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 54 (16.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (15.66%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 41 (12.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (7.23%) Software Engineering Director
10 21 (6.33%) Data Engineer
10 21 (6.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (5.42%) Engineering Manager
11 18 (5.42%) Senior Manager
11 18 (5.42%) Software Engineering Manager
12 16 (4.82%) Big Data Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Site Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 25 (7.53%) Spring
3 22 (6.63%) RabbitMQ
3 22 (6.63%) Spring Boot
4 20 (6.02%) YAML
5 19 (5.72%) .NET
6 18 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (4.82%) ActiveMQ
7 16 (4.82%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (2.11%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.81%) REST
10 5 (1.51%) JSP
10 5 (1.51%) Kafka
11 4 (1.20%) PySpark
12 3 (0.90%) Node.js
12 3 (0.90%) React
12 3 (0.90%) RESTful
13 2 (0.60%) .NET Framework
13 2 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (37.35%) Cloud Native
2 73 (21.99%) Public Cloud
3 72 (21.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (16.27%) Blockchain
4 54 (16.27%) e-Learning
5 39 (11.75%) Algorithms
6 20 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (6.02%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.52%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.30%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.30%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.05%) Linux
2 17 (5.12%) Windows
3 6 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.60%) VMS
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (62.95%) Agile
2 172 (51.81%) Software Engineering
3 169 (50.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 163 (49.10%) CI/CD
5 137 (41.27%) DevOps
6 130 (39.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 114 (34.34%) Community of Practice
8 104 (31.33%) SDLC
9 96 (28.92%) Machine Learning
9 96 (28.92%) Operational Stability
10 90 (27.11%) Containerisation
11 87 (26.20%) Continuous Delivery
12 79 (23.80%) Mentoring
13 75 (22.59%) Coaching
14 74 (22.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (21.69%) Architectural Design
15 72 (21.69%) Information Architecture
15 72 (21.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 62 (18.67%) Test Automation
17 56 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 96 (28.92%) Java
2 77 (23.19%) Python
3 28 (8.43%) Bash
4 24 (7.23%) SQL
5 23 (6.93%) Shell Script
6 12 (3.61%) Go
6 12 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.71%) C#
8 5 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (1.51%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.20%) Ruby
10 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.82%) DV Cleared
3 12 (3.61%) Degree
4 6 (1.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.30%) CCNP
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.31%) SLA
3 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 68 (20.48%) Docker
2 12 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 192 (57.83%) Terraform
2 163 (49.10%) Grafana
3 159 (47.89%) Prometheus
4 129 (38.86%) Kubernetes
5 26 (7.83%) Ansible
6 16 (4.82%) HAProxy
7 5 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.51%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.20%) Kibana
9 3 (0.90%) Nagios
9 3 (0.90%) Puppet
10 2 (0.60%) Netcool
10 2 (0.60%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.60%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.30%) Consul
11 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 174 (52.41%) Dynatrace
2 124 (37.35%) Splunk
3 56 (16.87%) IBM
4 54 (16.27%) Red Hat
5 19 (5.72%) Google
6 12 (3.61%) VMware
7 9 (2.71%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.71%) New Relic
7 9 (2.71%) PagerDuty
8 7 (2.11%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.51%) Oracle
10 3 (0.90%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.60%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.60%) ScienceLogic
11 2 (0.60%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.60%) Sybase
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco
12 1 (0.30%) Databricks
12 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.30%) Zscaler