Observability Contracts in Glasgow

Observability
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 65 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 22 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.89% 0.39% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 0.43% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 5
10th Percentile £356 - £438
25th Percentile £423 £511 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +12.86% -
75th Percentile £525 £533 £550
90th Percentile £600 - £596
Scotland median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 703 696 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.26% 90.63% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 467 568
10th Percentile £300 £266 £350
25th Percentile £373 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £581
90th Percentile £601 £620 £676
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 37
10th Percentile £16.49 £11.68 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +187.30% -61.93%
75th Percentile £26.21 £57.50 £18.93
90th Percentile £59.00 £72.50 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.62 £15.99
% change year-on-year -2.98% +28.92% -57.28%

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

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

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 1 (4.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 6 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (22.73%) Cohesity
5 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.64%) PaaS
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Datadog
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.55%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) SAN
2 6 (27.27%) NAS
3 5 (22.73%) Firewall
4 1 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 8 (36.36%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) Gradle
4 2 (9.09%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) NetBackup Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (9.09%) Loki
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 2 (9.09%) OpenID
2 2 (9.09%) React
2 2 (9.09%) SAML
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Flash
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.55%) Equities
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.55%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Unix
2 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) Data Protection
4 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) Task Automation
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (27.27%) Data Deduplication
6 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) TDD
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Microservices
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (13.64%) High Availability
8 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) GPFS
3 1 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Terraform
3 6 (27.27%) Grafana
3 6 (27.27%) NetBackup
3 6 (27.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.09%) Ansible
6 1 (4.55%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Veritas
2 6 (27.27%) AppDynamics
3 4 (18.18%) Splunk
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) VMware
6 1 (4.55%) Brocade
6 1 (4.55%) EMC
6 1 (4.55%) Genesys
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) NetApp
6 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
6 1 (4.55%) Sybase
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