Observability Contracts in Glasgow

Observability
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 65 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 16 23 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.96% 2.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £411 £438 -
25th Percentile £450 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - -
75th Percentile £623 £550 -
90th Percentile £642 £596 -
Scotland median daily rate £520 £500 -
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 754 850 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.18% 94.34% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 594 650
10th Percentile £275 £350 £268
25th Percentile £376 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +6.82%
75th Percentile £561 £582 £538
90th Percentile £618 £684 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 34 19
10th Percentile £11.94 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.83
Median hourly rate £36.22 £13.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +161.05% -62.93% +87.15%
75th Percentile £54.69 £22.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.75 £56.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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 3 (18.75%) SAS
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) OpenShift
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Route 53
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) NAS
3 3 (18.75%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (18.75%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Python Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) Flash
2 3 (18.75%) POSIX
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (18.75%) NVMe
2 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Data Protection
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
5 4 (25.00%) Data Deduplication
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Storage Management
6 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
7 2 (12.50%) OO
7 2 (12.50%) Software Distribution
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Perl
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) NFS
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Grafana
2 11 (68.75%) Prometheus
3 10 (62.50%) Ansible
3 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (43.75%) Terraform
5 2 (12.50%) NetBackup
5 2 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Veritas
2 2 (12.50%) Brocade
2 2 (12.50%) EMC
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) NetApp
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Sybase