Observability Contracts in Edinburgh

Observability
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +41 +19
Contract jobs citing Observability 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.37% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.42% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £442 £507
25th Percentile £413 £468 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £519
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.69% +3.75%
75th Percentile £463 £515 £533
90th Percentile £508 £518 £536
Scotland median daily rate £486 £522 £506
% change year-on-year -6.85% +3.11% +1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Edinburgh

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Observability in Edinburgh

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Tech for Good
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk