High Availability Contract Job Trends in Scotland

High Availability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 95 82
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 +80
Contract jobs citing High Availability 34 21 62
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.23% 1.25% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 1.39% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 28
10th Percentile £358 £415 £486
25th Percentile £401 £443 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £476 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% -14.92% +18.41%
75th Percentile £488 £517 £647
90th Percentile £588 £625 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%

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 1,335 1,511 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.43% 89.67% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 894 1,334
10th Percentile £235 £230 £250
25th Percentile £396 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 44 55
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £32.66 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

High Availability job vacancy trend in Scotland

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Scotland

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing High Availability

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 18 December 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
Glasgow +15 22 £450 -6.15% 1
Edinburgh +7 10 £463 -1.80% 3
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.94%) Mule
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (70.59%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) Serverless
3 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (20.59%) Snowflake
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (14.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (11.76%) GCP
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) VPN
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (5.88%) IPsec
3 2 (5.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (5.88%) LAN
3 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.88%) WAN
3 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.94%) AMQP
4 1 (2.94%) BGP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (2.94%) DSL
4 1 (2.94%) IPv4
4 1 (2.94%) MPLS
4 1 (2.94%) NGFW
4 1 (2.94%) OSPF
4 1 (2.94%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.88%) NewSQL
5 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.88%) OLTP
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.94%) DB2
6 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) JUnit
3 1 (2.94%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.94%) Subversion
3 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.59%) Banking
4 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Data Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Snowflake Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Administrator
3 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Database Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Principal Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Node.js
2 4 (11.76%) OAuth
3 3 (8.82%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.88%) OpenID
4 2 (5.88%) React
4 2 (5.88%) RESTful
4 2 (5.88%) SAML
4 2 (5.88%) SOAP
4 2 (5.88%) XML
5 1 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.94%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.94%) HTML
5 1 (2.94%) JPA
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (20.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (11.76%) IVR
4 4 (11.76%) NHS
5 3 (8.82%) Clustering
5 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) Windows
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 21 (61.76%) DevOps
3 17 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (44.12%) Migration
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 8 (23.53%) Data Security
8 7 (20.59%) AI
8 7 (20.59%) Cost Management
8 7 (20.59%) Data Protection
8 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
8 7 (20.59%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
8 7 (20.59%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
9 6 (17.65%) Design Patterns
10 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Python
2 7 (20.59%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) SQL
4 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
5 4 (11.76%) Bash
6 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.88%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (5.88%) Korn
8 1 (2.94%) C++
8 1 (2.94%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (2.94%) Perl
8 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) CCNA
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
1 4 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.82%) PMO
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) Terraform
2 12 (35.29%) Ansible
3 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Cisco
2 7 (20.59%) Greenplum
3 4 (11.76%) Avaya
3 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 4 (11.76%) Pega
3 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.82%) Genesys
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.82%) Splunk
5 2 (5.88%) F5
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.94%) BT
6 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.94%) Confluent
6 1 (2.94%) Delphix
6 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft