Observability Contracts in Scotland

Observability
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 130 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 23 34 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.07% 1.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 0
10th Percentile £418 £434 -
25th Percentile £478 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% - -
75th Percentile £623 £522 -
90th Percentile £682 £546 -
UK median daily rate £550 £595 £675
% change year-on-year -7.56% -11.85% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Scotland

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Scotland

Observability
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 Observability within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 +8 19 £525 +13.51% 1
Edinburgh +33 3 £510 +2.00%
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 5 (21.74%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) OpenShift
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) SAN
2 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (21.74%) iSCSI
2 5 (21.74%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) DB2
2 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Artifactory
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
4 3 (13.04%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Python Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Flash
1 5 (21.74%) POSIX
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) AWS CDK
3 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) NVMe
2 4 (17.39%) Client/Server
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (30.43%) Windows
4 6 (26.09%) Unix
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
5 4 (17.39%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (34.78%) Data Protection
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Problem Management
5 6 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (21.74%) Capacity Management
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
6 5 (21.74%) Data Deduplication
6 5 (21.74%) High Availability
6 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Preventative Maintenance
6 5 (21.74%) SDLC
6 5 (21.74%) Storage Management
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) OO
7 4 (17.39%) Storage Virtualisation
7 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Perl
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) Java
5 4 (17.39%) Bash
5 4 (17.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) NFS
2 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) GPFS
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Grafana
1 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (60.87%) Ansible
3 12 (52.17%) Prometheus
4 10 (43.48%) Terraform
5 4 (17.39%) Kibana
5 4 (17.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Veritas
2 4 (17.39%) Brocade
2 4 (17.39%) EMC
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
2 4 (17.39%) Sybase
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace