High Availability Contracts in Scotland

High Availability
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 113 163
Rank change year-on-year +36 +50 -25
Contract jobs citing High Availability 53 50 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.38% 1.75% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.89% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 7
10th Percentile £408 £432 £478
25th Percentile £475 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.22% -1.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £578
90th Percentile £699 £775 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

High Availability 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 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Scotland

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Scotland

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Scotland

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Scotland

High Availability
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 High Availability within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +4 28 £600 +9.09% 2
Edinburgh +37 14 £440 -11.29% 10
Renfrewshire +2 5 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 £600 -
High Availability
UK

High Availability
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 11 (20.75%) Confluence
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) AWS
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) Serverless
3 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (16.98%) IaaS
3 9 (16.98%) OpenShift
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (13.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (5.66%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (5.66%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (5.66%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (5.66%) iPaaS
6 3 (5.66%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) DHCP
1 10 (18.87%) DNS
2 8 (15.09%) Firewall
3 5 (9.43%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (9.43%) iSCSI
3 5 (9.43%) SMTP
3 5 (9.43%) VPN
4 4 (7.55%) SAN
5 3 (5.66%) LAN
5 3 (5.66%) WAN
6 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.89%) HTTP
7 1 (1.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (26.42%) MongoDB
3 13 (24.53%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (20.75%) SQL Server
5 6 (11.32%) Informix
6 4 (7.55%) DB2
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.66%) InfluxDB
7 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Public Sector
3 11 (20.75%) Finance
4 10 (18.87%) Banking
5 8 (15.09%) Investment Banking
6 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Senior
2 12 (22.64%) DBA
3 11 (20.75%) SQL DBA
4 9 (16.98%) Senior DBA
5 8 (15.09%) Architect
5 8 (15.09%) Senior SQL DBA
6 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Senior SQL Server DBA
6 7 (13.21%) SQL Server DBA
7 6 (11.32%) Exchange Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Python Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Database Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Hardware Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Storage Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) AWS CDK
2 5 (9.43%) Flash
2 5 (9.43%) LDAP
2 5 (9.43%) POSIX
3 3 (5.66%) .NET
3 3 (5.66%) J2EE
3 3 (5.66%) Web Services
4 2 (3.77%) Kafka
4 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.89%) Middleware
5 1 (1.89%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Clustering
1 8 (15.09%) Replication
2 7 (13.21%) Client/Server
3 5 (9.43%) NVMe
3 5 (9.43%) PKI
4 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.55%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.66%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (39.62%) Linux
1 21 (39.62%) Windows
2 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
3 9 (16.98%) Unix
4 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (7.55%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.77%) Solaris
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (37.74%) Problem Management
3 19 (35.85%) Agile
4 13 (24.53%) Capacity Management
5 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (16.98%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
7 8 (15.09%) DevOps
7 8 (15.09%) Investment Management
7 8 (15.09%) Kanban
7 8 (15.09%) Project Delivery
7 8 (15.09%) Scrum
7 8 (15.09%) Security Patching
7 8 (15.09%) Wealth Management
8 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (11.32%) Migration
8 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.32%) SDLC
8 6 (11.32%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) PowerShell
2 16 (30.19%) SQL
3 12 (22.64%) Python
4 11 (20.75%) Perl
5 9 (16.98%) T-SQL
6 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
7 6 (11.32%) Java
8 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.89%) Bash
9 1 (1.89%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) RHCE
6 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.89%) MCSE
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.77%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.77%) ISO 8583
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.09%) Hyper-V
3 5 (9.43%) BitLocker
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (9.43%) NFS
3 5 (9.43%) Terminal Services
3 5 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.55%) Docker
4 4 (7.55%) Firmware
4 4 (7.55%) GPFS
4 4 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.77%) KVM
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Ansible
2 7 (13.21%) Grafana
3 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.43%) vCenter Server
3 5 (9.43%) vMotion
4 4 (7.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (7.55%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (1.89%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.89%) Kibana
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.89%) Puppet
5 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Atlassian
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.98%) VMware
4 8 (15.09%) Oracle
5 5 (9.43%) Citrix
5 5 (9.43%) Infoblox
5 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.55%) Brocade
6 4 (7.55%) Commvault
6 4 (7.55%) EMC
6 4 (7.55%) Google
6 4 (7.55%) IBM
6 4 (7.55%) NetApp
6 4 (7.55%) Sybase
6 4 (7.55%) Veritas
7 3 (5.66%) F5