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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 50 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 +43
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 18 21 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.81% 2.59% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 3.04% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 10
10th Percentile £445 - £461
25th Percentile £456 £340 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £413 £514
Median % change year-on-year +42.79% -19.71% +2.75%
75th Percentile £675 £494 £563
90th Percentile £695 £634 £775
Scotland median daily rate £540 £435 £530
% change year-on-year +24.28% -18.02% -11.67%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 691 1,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.60% 85.20% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 372 675
10th Percentile £313 £207 £213
25th Percentile £413 £349 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +196.28%
75th Percentile £39.40 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £55.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £19.06
% change year-on-year +2.09% +2.81% -1.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 August 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) OCI
3 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (11.11%) IPsec
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) CockroachDB
4 1 (5.56%) DB2
4 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) NewSQL
4 1 (5.56%) OLTP
4 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.56%) Subversion
2 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) DBA
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Database Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Data Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) DB2 DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Great Expectations
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OpenID
1 1 (5.56%) Pandas
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
1 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 6 (33.33%) Replication
2 4 (22.22%) Mainframe
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Clustering
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Solaris
4 4 (22.22%) HPUX
5 1 (5.56%) AIX
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (22.22%) Service Management
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (16.67%) ITSM
6 3 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
7 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNA
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) IBM
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) Sun
1 4 (22.22%) Unisys
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) F5
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Delphix
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) Teradata