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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 199 233
Rank change year-on-year +72 +34 -57
Permanent jobs citing Observability 163 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.38% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 10
10th Percentile - - £64,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,874 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,319 £44,033 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.88% -44.96% -
75th Percentile £98,474 £51,081 £85,000
90th Percentile - £61,682 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -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 6,134 4,071 5,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.50% 94.63% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,041 2,892
10th Percentile £28,025 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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 11 June 2024.

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 11 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +15 157 - - 2
Edinburgh +32 6 £67,319 +52.88%
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 (0.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 109 (66.87%) Datadog
2 96 (58.90%) AWS
3 55 (33.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (9.82%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (9.20%) Azure
6 5 (3.07%) Serverless
7 3 (1.84%) GitHub
8 2 (1.23%) GCP
8 2 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.23%) IaaS
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.61%) Route 53
9 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.88%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (11.04%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.82%) GitLab
3 3 (1.84%) Git
3 3 (1.84%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.23%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) JUnit
5 1 (0.61%) Mockito
General
1 158 (96.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 158 (96.93%) Law
2 157 (96.32%) Finance
3 123 (75.46%) Marketing
4 73 (44.79%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.07%) Banking
6 3 (1.84%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (61.35%) Software Engineer
2 58 (35.58%) Lead
3 52 (31.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 52 (31.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 41 (25.15%) Lead Software Engineer
5 24 (14.72%) Software Engineering Director
6 21 (12.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 18 (11.04%) Engineering Manager
7 18 (11.04%) Senior
7 18 (11.04%) Senior Manager
7 18 (11.04%) Software Engineering Manager
8 6 (3.68%) Python Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (1.84%) AWS Software Engineer
10 3 (1.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.84%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 2 (1.23%) Java Engineer
12 1 (0.61%) Java Software Engineer
12 1 (0.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (46.01%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (9.82%) Spring
2 16 (9.82%) Spring Boot
3 15 (9.20%) .NET
4 6 (3.68%) JSP
4 6 (3.68%) REST
5 3 (1.84%) RESTful
6 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.61%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.61%) React
6 1 (0.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 115 (70.55%) Cloud Native
2 72 (44.17%) Public Cloud
3 40 (24.54%) Algorithms
4 20 (12.27%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (12.27%) Management Information System
5 15 (9.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (97.55%) Software Engineering
2 128 (78.53%) Agile
3 117 (71.78%) CI/CD
4 115 (70.55%) Artificial Intelligence
4 115 (70.55%) Community of Practice
5 99 (60.74%) SDLC
6 97 (59.51%) Operational Stability
7 96 (58.90%) Machine Learning
7 96 (58.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 86 (52.76%) Continuous Delivery
9 72 (44.17%) Architectural Design
9 72 (44.17%) Information Architecture
9 72 (44.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 72 (44.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 52 (31.90%) Identity Access Management
11 49 (30.06%) Visualisation
12 42 (25.77%) Computer Science
12 42 (25.77%) Mathematics
13 31 (19.02%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (15.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (47.24%) Java
2 27 (16.56%) Python
3 7 (4.29%) SQL
4 6 (3.68%) C#
5 3 (1.84%) Bash
6 2 (1.23%) Go
6 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.61%) Groovy
7 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (12.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 116 (71.17%) Grafana
2 73 (44.79%) Terraform
3 59 (36.20%) Prometheus
4 21 (12.88%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.84%) Ansible
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 115 (70.55%) Splunk
2 112 (68.71%) Dynatrace
3 17 (10.43%) Google