Observability Job Trends in Edinburgh

Observability
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 36 85
Rank change year-on-year -21 +49 +10
Permanent jobs citing Observability 13 45 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.09% 5.87% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 6.33% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £67,908 £62,250 -
25th Percentile £72,289 £67,500 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £70,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +1.00% +6.63%
75th Percentile £115,000 £72,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £124,000 £75,650 -
Scotland median annual salary £72,500 £72,250 £69,308
% change year-on-year +0.35% +4.25% +6.63%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 766 711 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.26% 92.70% 87.46%
Number of salaries quoted 467 284 505
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,684 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £41,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.58% -31.25% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,862 £64,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,621 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Observability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Observability job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Observability
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Edinburgh

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (23.08%) Azure AI
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) Broadband
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (7.69%) Multicast
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) VXLAN
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Site Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Principal Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Python Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) AI Agents
2 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Replication
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
4 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) AI
6 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
6 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) Foundry
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Arista
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki