High Availability Contracts in Scotland

High Availability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 75 110
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 +58
Contract jobs citing High Availability 42 53 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.60% 2.39% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.69% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 27
10th Percentile £347 £408 £439
25th Percentile £413 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £514
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +11.87% -2.10%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £630
90th Percentile £660 £699 £775
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.73 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -56.62% -12.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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
Edinburgh +14 22 £607 +37.95% 9
Glasgow -6 19 £450 -25.00% 5
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 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.76%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) IaaS
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.52%) OCI
4 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.14%) Serverless
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.76%) GCP
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.76%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.76%) PaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.38%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DHCP
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) IPsec
2 3 (7.14%) LAN
2 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 3 (7.14%) Unified Communications
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
2 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle Database
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.76%) DB2
4 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.38%) Big Data
5 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (7.14%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 18 (42.86%) Finance
3 15 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (23.81%) Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Architect
1 7 (16.67%) Database Engineer
1 7 (16.67%) Senior
2 5 (11.90%) Administrator
2 5 (11.90%) Python Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Senior Database Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (7.14%) DBA
4 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Scrum Master
4 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Loki
1 2 (4.76%) SPFx
2 1 (2.38%) Flash
2 1 (2.38%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.38%) Node.js
2 1 (2.38%) Pandas
2 1 (2.38%) POSIX
2 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Replication
2 7 (16.67%) Clustering
3 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (14.29%) Mainframe
3 6 (14.29%) Virtual Team
4 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.38%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Linux
2 13 (30.95%) Windows
3 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (23.81%) Solaris
4 9 (21.43%) Unix
5 5 (11.90%) AIX
6 4 (9.52%) HPUX
7 1 (2.38%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (33.33%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (28.57%) DevOps
5 11 (26.19%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (19.05%) Database Tuning
6 8 (19.05%) Migration
7 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.67%) ITIL
7 7 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 7 (16.67%) Service Management
7 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 6 (14.29%) Load Balancing
9 5 (11.90%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
9 5 (11.90%) Incident Management
9 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Python
1 13 (30.95%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) Perl
3 4 (9.52%) Erlang
3 4 (9.52%) Prolog
4 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.76%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) JCL
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.90%) Docker
4 3 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.38%) GPFS
6 1 (2.38%) NFS
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Oracle
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.67%) Splunk
4 6 (14.29%) VMware
5 5 (11.90%) Dynatrace
5 5 (11.90%) IBM
5 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
5 5 (11.90%) Sun
6 4 (9.52%) Cisco
6 4 (9.52%) Dell
6 4 (9.52%) Unisys
7 3 (7.14%) F5
7 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 3 (7.14%) Veritas
8 2 (4.76%) Google
8 2 (4.76%) HP
8 2 (4.76%) Sybase
9 1 (2.38%) Brocade
9 1 (2.38%) SAP
9 1 (2.38%) Teradata