Observability Jobs in the South East

Observability
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 352 437
Rank change year-on-year -38 +85 -48
Permanent jobs citing Observability 11 38 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.062% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £48,750 £60,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £58,500 £72,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £103,125 £90,000 -
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,000 £77,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,831 12,988 19,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 94.36% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,186 7,705 11,814
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,339 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the South East

Observability
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Observability in the South East

Observability
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the South East

Observability
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Surrey -12 4 £87,500 +2.94% 1
Thames Valley -7 3 £52,500 -46.15% 3
Kent - 3 £110,000 -
Buckinghamshire -23 2 £52,500 -46.15%
Oxfordshire -2 1 £52,500 -
Hampshire -35 1 £66,500 -8.28% 3
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Datadog
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SNMP
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Security Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) TOGAF
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) Big Data Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Nagios
3 3 (27.27%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Netcool
4 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 2 (18.18%) ZABBIX
5 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) New Relic
2 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
3 3 (27.27%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) BigPanda
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (18.18%) ScienceLogic
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft