Observability Jobs with Work from Home Options

Observability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 511 474 380
Rank change year-on-year -37 -94 +126
Permanent jobs citing Observability 91 160 697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.43% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.44% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 79 130 132
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,874 £48,775
25th Percentile £63,000 £58,963 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £105,000 £90,938 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year - +8.47% -7.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 June 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 (7.69%) Apache
2 6 (6.59%) nginx
3 5 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.30%) Confluence
5 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 60 (65.93%) AWS
2 32 (35.16%) Azure
3 19 (20.88%) GCP
4 15 (16.48%) Serverless
5 13 (14.29%) Datadog
6 12 (13.19%) GitHub
7 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.79%) OpenShift
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.59%) npm
9 6 (6.59%) Yarn
10 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.49%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.40%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) AMQP
2 8 (8.79%) Network Security
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
4 3 (3.30%) Firewall
5 2 (2.20%) DNS
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.10%) LAN
6 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.10%) WAN
6 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 10 (10.99%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (9.89%) InfluxDB
3 9 (9.89%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.89%) MySQL
4 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.69%) BigQuery
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.59%) Big Data
7 5 (5.49%) Data Vault
7 5 (5.49%) Looker
7 5 (5.49%) Tableau
8 4 (4.40%) Metadata
8 4 (4.40%) Power BI
9 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.30%) Data Mart
9 3 (3.30%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.69%) GitLab
2 7 (7.69%) JIRA
3 6 (6.59%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.59%) Mocha
4 4 (4.40%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.20%) Gradle
7 1 (1.10%) Gatling
7 1 (1.10%) Git
7 1 (1.10%) JUnit
7 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.10%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (17.58%) Finance
2 9 (9.89%) Tech for Good
3 8 (8.79%) Retail
4 7 (7.69%) Banking
4 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Marketing
6 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (39.56%) Senior
2 31 (34.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 14 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Analyst
5 9 (9.89%) DBA
5 9 (9.89%) Senior DBA
6 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Backend Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Backend Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Monitoring Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) IT Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) .NET
1 11 (12.09%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
2 8 (8.79%) Node.js
3 7 (7.69%) React
4 6 (6.59%) Express.js
4 6 (6.59%) GraphQL
4 6 (6.59%) gRPC
4 6 (6.59%) Jest
4 6 (6.59%) JWT
4 6 (6.59%) Kafka
4 6 (6.59%) MEAN Stack
4 6 (6.59%) MERN Stack
4 6 (6.59%) Mongoose
4 6 (6.59%) NestJS
4 6 (6.59%) OAuth
4 6 (6.59%) OAuth2
4 6 (6.59%) OpenAPI
5 5 (5.49%) Apache Beam
5 5 (5.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.59%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.40%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Linux
2 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) DevOps
2 31 (34.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (31.87%) Agile
4 27 (29.67%) CI/CD
4 27 (29.67%) Fintech
5 24 (26.37%) Containerisation
6 20 (21.98%) Platform Engineering
6 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
7 15 (16.48%) Event-Driven
8 14 (15.38%) Configuration Management
8 14 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (15.38%) DevSecOps
9 12 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (12.09%) Microservices
10 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.99%) Data Engineering
11 10 (10.99%) Visualisation
12 9 (9.89%) Data Management
12 9 (9.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 29 (31.87%) Python
2 22 (24.18%) Java
2 22 (24.18%) SQL
3 12 (13.19%) Go
4 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.89%) Kotlin
4 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.59%) Bash
7 6 (6.59%) C#
8 4 (4.40%) Groovy
9 3 (3.30%) Ruby
9 3 (3.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.49%) Degree
3 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CCNP
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.20%) QA
6 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 26 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (56.04%) Terraform
2 42 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 22 (24.18%) Grafana
4 20 (21.98%) Prometheus
5 13 (14.29%) Ansible
6 6 (6.59%) Progress Chef
7 5 (5.49%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (5.49%) Packer
8 4 (4.40%) Consul
9 3 (3.30%) Kibana
10 2 (2.20%) Nagios
10 2 (2.20%) Puppet
10 2 (2.20%) Rundeck
11 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.10%) Istio
11 1 (1.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Dynatrace
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) New Relic
4 6 (6.59%) PagerDuty
5 4 (4.40%) Google
5 4 (4.40%) Splunk
6 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.20%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.20%) Databricks
7 2 (2.20%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
7 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco
8 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.10%) Zscaler