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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 137 202
Rank change year-on-year -4 +65 +40
Permanent jobs citing Observability 23 169 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 2.48% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 2.71% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £54,375 - -
25th Percentile £57,188 £37,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £67,319 £46,350
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +45.24% -42.06%
75th Percentile £82,938 £98,474 £48,668
90th Percentile £83,725 - £54,692
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%

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 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +30 17 £62,500 -7.16% 44
Glasgow +47 6 £74,500 - 38
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 2 (8.70%) CICS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) GCP
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) Datadog
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Sentry
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) BGP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) CockroachDB
3 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Redis
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.04%) Law
5 2 (8.70%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Site Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Incident Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Firewall Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) FIDO
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) JWT
3 1 (4.35%) Memcached
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.35%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) Playwright
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Product Ownership
2 5 (21.74%) Private Cloud
3 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.70%) Clustering
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Roadmaps
3 9 (39.13%) SDLC
4 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (30.43%) Product Roadmap
5 7 (30.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps
6 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (26.09%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (21.74%) Software Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Design Thinking
8 4 (17.39%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) C
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) JCL
5 1 (4.35%) Rust
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.70%) CCNP
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Grafana
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Argo
5 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.35%) Netcool
5 1 (4.35%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (4.35%) Opsgenie
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Splunk
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.70%) IBM
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
3 1 (4.35%) F5
3 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase