High Availability Contracts in Edinburgh

High Availability
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 58 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +36 +29
Contract jobs citing High Availability 22 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.52% 1.72% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 1.94% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 15
10th Percentile £402 £340 £420
25th Percentile £469 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £440 £493
Median % change year-on-year +37.95% -10.66% -1.50%
75th Percentile £666 £619 £750
90th Percentile £685 £658 £775
Scotland median daily rate £500 £575 £514
% change year-on-year -13.04% +11.87% -2.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

High Availability 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Edinburgh

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Edinburgh

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Edinburgh

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) OCI
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) IPsec
1 3 (13.64%) LAN
1 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
1 3 (13.64%) Unified Communications
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
1 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle Database
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.55%) Big Data
5 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) DBA
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Field Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Database Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Great Expectations
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) Pandas
1 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 6 (27.27%) Mainframe
2 5 (22.73%) Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Solaris
3 5 (22.73%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) HPUX
5 2 (9.09%) Unix
6 1 (4.55%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (18.18%) Service Management
4 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (13.64%) Database Migration
5 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (13.64%) ITSM
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (13.64%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) JCL
3 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CCNA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Splunk
3 4 (18.18%) IBM
3 4 (18.18%) Sun
3 4 (18.18%) Unisys
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco
4 3 (13.64%) F5
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
5 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
5 2 (9.09%) HP
6 1 (4.55%) Commvault
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) Teradata