Observability Jobs in Scotland

Observability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 130 129 196
Rank change year-on-year -1 +67 +35
Permanent jobs citing Observability 15 171 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.53% 2.54% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 2.73% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile £51,750 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £43,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £46,350
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +40.24% -42.06%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,730 £67,603
90th Percentile £83,550 £98,474 £68,635
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in Scotland.

Salary trend for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +24 11 £62,500 -3.85% 14
Glasgow +57 4 £64,750 - 5
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) Sentry
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) FIDO
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) JWT
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Design Thinking
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (20.00%) Release Train
5 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) JCL
4 1 (6.67%) Rust
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CCNP
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (6.67%) Opsgenie
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity