OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in Scotland

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.88% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £622 £750
% change year-on-year -11.58% -17.07% +14.94%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 353 376 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.16% 21.22% 21.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 241 344
10th Percentile £360 £350 £388
25th Percentile £423 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £552
90th Percentile £625 £675 £626
UK median daily rate £505 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -7.94% -0.26% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £70.07
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenTelemetry relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in Scotland

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenTelemetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 14 £450 -
OpenTelemetry
UK

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 4 (28.57%) Redis
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Site Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) FastAPI
2 4 (28.57%) Flask
2 4 (28.57%) Hugging Face
2 4 (28.57%) LangChain
2 4 (28.57%) LangGraph
2 4 (28.57%) Loki
2 4 (28.57%) OAuth
2 4 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 4 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
2 4 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 3 (21.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) React
4 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 4 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Equities
2 3 (21.43%) Fixed Income
2 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Market Risk
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 10 (71.43%) Observability
2 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
3 8 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
5 5 (35.71%) Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) AI
6 4 (28.57%) BDD
6 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 4 (28.57%) Data Privacy
6 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
6 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 4 (28.57%) Open Source
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Go
2 4 (28.57%) PromQL
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Grafana
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (57.14%) Prometheus
3 4 (28.57%) Kustomize
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Splunk
2 4 (28.57%) PagerDuty