Observability Jobs in Scotland

Observability
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 196 222
Rank change year-on-year +63 +26 -53
Permanent jobs citing Observability 168 26 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.50% 0.55% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 0.59% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 8
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,874 £65,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,743 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,350 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.24% -42.06% -
75th Percentile £90,730 £67,603 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £68,635 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,238 4,437 5,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.24% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,226 2,788
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,577 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Glasgow +12 160 - - 2
Edinburgh +29 8 £65,000 +40.24% 2
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 108 (64.29%) Datadog
2 96 (57.14%) AWS
3 55 (32.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (8.93%) Azure
6 6 (3.57%) Serverless
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.79%) GitHub
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.19%) GCP
8 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.19%) IaaS
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.60%) Route 53
9 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.48%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Big Data
3 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.12%) GitLab
3 4 (2.38%) Git
4 3 (1.79%) JIRA
5 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.19%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 161 (95.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 161 (95.83%) Law
2 160 (95.24%) Finance
3 127 (75.60%) Marketing
4 72 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 4 (2.38%) Banking
6 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.19%) Retail
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (61.90%) Software Engineer
2 58 (34.52%) Lead
3 53 (31.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 53 (31.55%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 41 (24.40%) Lead Software Engineer
5 23 (13.69%) Software Engineering Director
6 22 (13.10%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 19 (11.31%) Senior
8 18 (10.71%) Engineering Manager
8 18 (10.71%) Senior Manager
8 18 (10.71%) Software Engineering Manager
9 11 (6.55%) Python Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.79%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (1.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.19%) AWS Software Engineer
12 2 (1.19%) Java Engineer
12 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (44.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (9.52%) Spring
2 16 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 15 (8.93%) .NET
4 11 (6.55%) JSP
4 11 (6.55%) REST
5 3 (1.79%) React
6 2 (1.19%) React Native
6 2 (1.19%) RESTful
7 1 (0.60%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.60%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 114 (67.86%) Cloud Native
2 71 (42.26%) Public Cloud
3 45 (26.79%) Algorithms
4 20 (11.90%) Management Information System
5 19 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (8.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (96.43%) Software Engineering
2 131 (77.98%) Agile
3 123 (73.21%) CI/CD
4 118 (70.24%) Community of Practice
5 113 (67.26%) Artificial Intelligence
6 103 (61.31%) SDLC
7 102 (60.71%) Operational Stability
8 95 (56.55%) Machine Learning
9 94 (55.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 86 (51.19%) Continuous Delivery
11 71 (42.26%) Architectural Design
11 71 (42.26%) Information Architecture
11 71 (42.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (42.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 53 (31.55%) Visualisation
13 52 (30.95%) Identity Access Management
14 41 (24.40%) Computer Science
14 41 (24.40%) Mathematics
15 31 (18.45%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 82 (48.81%) Java
2 33 (19.64%) Python
3 12 (7.14%) SQL
4 11 (6.55%) C#
5 5 (2.98%) Bash
6 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.19%) Go
7 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.60%) Groovy
8 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (13.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 120 (71.43%) Grafana
2 74 (44.05%) Terraform
3 58 (34.52%) Prometheus
4 23 (13.69%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.79%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 118 (70.24%) Splunk
2 116 (69.05%) Dynatrace
3 17 (10.12%) Google