High Availability Contracts in Scotland

High Availability
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 115 161
Rank change year-on-year +36 +46 -20
Contract jobs citing High Availability 48 56 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.21% 2.03% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.19% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 5
10th Percentile £340 £442 £471
25th Percentile £427 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% +31.25%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £556
90th Percentile £676 £775 £628
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

High Availability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,556 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.51% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,817 2,256
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.78 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £46.24 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.13 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 0 21 £575 +4.55% 2
Edinburgh +36 16 £429 -12.89% 6
Renfrewshire +1 5 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 £600 -
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 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (18.75%) Confluence
3 5 (10.42%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) AWS
3 9 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 8 (16.67%) Serverless
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (14.58%) IaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (6.25%) iPaaS
7 3 (6.25%) PaaS
8 2 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) DHCP
1 9 (18.75%) DNS
2 5 (10.42%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 5 (10.42%) iSCSI
2 5 (10.42%) SMTP
2 5 (10.42%) VPN
3 4 (8.33%) SAN
4 3 (6.25%) LAN
4 3 (6.25%) WAN
5 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (27.08%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.50%) Informix
5 4 (8.33%) DB2
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (6.25%) InfluxDB
6 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.75%) Banking
3 9 (18.75%) Finance
4 7 (14.58%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Senior
2 10 (20.83%) DBA
3 9 (18.75%) SQL DBA
4 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Senior DBA
6 6 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior SQL DBA
7 5 (10.42%) Architect
7 5 (10.42%) Senior SQL Server DBA
7 5 (10.42%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Database Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Linux Support
8 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 5 (10.42%) Flash
2 5 (10.42%) LDAP
2 5 (10.42%) POSIX
3 3 (6.25%) .NET
3 3 (6.25%) J2EE
3 3 (6.25%) Web Services
4 2 (4.17%) Kafka
4 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Clustering
2 8 (16.67%) Replication
3 7 (14.58%) Client/Server
4 5 (10.42%) NVMe
4 5 (10.42%) PKI
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (6.25%) N-Tier
7 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Linux
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 10 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.42%) Unix
4 4 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (8.33%) Solaris
5 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
2 18 (37.50%) Problem Management
3 13 (27.08%) Capacity Management
4 9 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
4 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 8 (16.67%) Kanban
5 8 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 8 (16.67%) Scrum
5 8 (16.67%) Security Patching
6 7 (14.58%) Investment Management
6 7 (14.58%) Wealth Management
7 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.50%) Migration
7 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.50%) SDLC
7 6 (12.50%) Storage Management
8 5 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) PowerShell
2 16 (33.33%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) Python
4 9 (18.75%) Perl
5 8 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (14.58%) T-SQL
7 5 (10.42%) Java
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (39.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) Degree
4 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.33%) RHCE
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) MCSE
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) SLA
2 3 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 5 (10.42%) BitLocker
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (10.42%) NFS
3 5 (10.42%) Terminal Services
3 5 (10.42%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (8.33%) Docker
4 4 (8.33%) GPFS
4 4 (8.33%) KVM
4 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (6.25%) Firmware
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Ansible
2 7 (14.58%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) vCenter Server
3 5 (10.42%) vMotion
4 4 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (8.33%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (2.08%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (2.08%) Kibana
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
5 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) Atlassian
2 9 (18.75%) VMware
3 8 (16.67%) Oracle
4 7 (14.58%) Red Hat
5 5 (10.42%) Citrix
5 5 (10.42%) Infoblox
6 4 (8.33%) Brocade
6 4 (8.33%) Commvault
6 4 (8.33%) EMC
6 4 (8.33%) Google
6 4 (8.33%) IBM
6 4 (8.33%) NetApp
6 4 (8.33%) Sybase
6 4 (8.33%) Veritas