Observability Contracts in Glasgow

Observability
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 64 61 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 20 23 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.28% 2.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 0
10th Percentile £413 £438 -
25th Percentile £481 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - -
75th Percentile £623 £550 -
90th Percentile £722 £596 -
Scotland median daily rate £522 £506 £506
% change year-on-year +3.11% - +20.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 806 862 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.90% 94.31% 92.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 629 702
10th Percentile £280 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Glasgow

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Route 53
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) SAN
2 5 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 5 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) DB2
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Python Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Flash
1 5 (25.00%) POSIX
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) NVMe
2 4 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Unix
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Problem Management
4 6 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Capacity Management
5 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (25.00%) Data Deduplication
5 5 (25.00%) High Availability
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (25.00%) SDLC
5 5 (25.00%) Storage Management
6 4 (20.00%) Investment Management
6 4 (20.00%) OO
6 4 (20.00%) Storage Virtualisation
6 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Wealth Management
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Perl
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) NFS
2 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Grafana
1 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 11 (55.00%) Ansible
4 9 (45.00%) Terraform
5 4 (20.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (15.00%) NetBackup
7 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Veritas
2 4 (20.00%) Brocade
2 4 (20.00%) EMC
2 4 (20.00%) Google
2 4 (20.00%) IBM
2 4 (20.00%) NetApp
2 4 (20.00%) Sybase
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk