Observability Contracts in Glasgow

Observability
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 15 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.96% 2.25% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 2.43% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 5
10th Percentile £353 £413 £438
25th Percentile £408 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.51% -
75th Percentile £538 £623 £550
90th Percentile £550 £722 £596
Scotland median daily rate £472 £522 £500
% change year-on-year -9.58% +4.40% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 782 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.59% 92.54% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 504 593
10th Percentile £300 £275 £351
25th Percentile £389 £385 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £629 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 37 31
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.03 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.71 £31.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.43% +121.05% -64.38%
75th Percentile £35.11 £53.75 £29.38
90th Percentile £74.21 £67.50 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year +2.41% +20.00% -56.59%

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

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Glasgow

Observability
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 1 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) OpenShift
2 10 (66.67%) Azure
3 9 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 9 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (33.33%) Cohesity
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) SAN
2 9 (60.00%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (73.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (13.33%) Gradle
3 2 (13.33%) Maven
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) NetBackup Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Loki
2 1 (6.67%) Flash
2 1 (6.67%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Unix
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Data Deduplication
2 9 (60.00%) Data Protection
3 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
4 7 (46.67%) Task Automation
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (26.67%) SDLC
6 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) High Availability
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (13.33%) ITIL
8 2 (13.33%) TDD
8 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Go
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) GPFS
3 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (60.00%) NetBackup
2 9 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Veritas
2 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Brocade
4 1 (6.67%) EMC
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase