High Availability Contracts in Glasgow

High Availability
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing High Availability 25 2 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.31% 0.29% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 0.32% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 9
10th Percentile £324 £420 £491
25th Percentile £422 £431 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £458 £592
Median % change year-on-year +13.66% -22.72% -2.35%
75th Percentile £587 £481 £626
90th Percentile £649 £489 £635
Scotland median daily rate £540 £425 £528
% change year-on-year +27.06% -19.43% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £57.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 616 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.73% 89.80% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 431 521
10th Percentile £300 £263 £338
25th Percentile £368 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £638 £673
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 28
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.13 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.88
Median hourly rate £18.64 £40.94 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.48% +182.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 - £50.49
90th Percentile £35.60 £61.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -13.95%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Glasgow

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Glasgow

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Glasgow

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Glasgow

High Availability
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 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Mule
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
2 1 (4.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) IaaS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) OCI
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Fivetran
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.00%) AMQP
2 1 (4.00%) DSL
2 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) NewSQL
2 4 (16.00%) OLTP
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (8.00%) CockroachDB
4 2 (8.00%) DB2
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Python Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Database Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Database Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Developer
6 2 (8.00%) JIRA Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Administrator
7 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) OAuth
2 4 (16.00%) OpenID
2 4 (16.00%) SAML
3 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (8.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) SOAP
3 2 (8.00%) SPFx
3 2 (8.00%) XML
4 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Camel
4 1 (4.00%) JPA
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) JWT
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 9 (36.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (32.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (20.00%) Clustering
5 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (16.00%) Replication
6 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (4.00%) NVMe
6 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) Unix
3 6 (24.00%) Windows
4 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (16.00%) AIX
5 4 (16.00%) Solaris
6 1 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (32.00%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Python
1 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Perl
3 8 (32.00%) Erlang
3 8 (32.00%) Prolog
4 4 (16.00%) ANSI SQL
5 3 (12.00%) Java
6 2 (8.00%) Groovy
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) DataWeave
7 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (12.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) GPFS
4 1 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Data Guard
3 4 (16.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (12.00%) Terraform
5 1 (4.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) VMware
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.00%) Dell
5 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (8.00%) Sybase
7 1 (4.00%) Avaya
7 1 (4.00%) Brocade
7 1 (4.00%) Cisco
7 1 (4.00%) EMC
7 1 (4.00%) Google
7 1 (4.00%) IBM
7 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
7 1 (4.00%) NetApp
7 1 (4.00%) Pega
7 1 (4.00%) SAP
7 1 (4.00%) Sun
7 1 (4.00%) Veritas