High Availability Job Trends in Scotland

High Availability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 133 133
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -51
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 8 11 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.29% 0.43% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.46% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 42
10th Percentile £63,250 £43,642 -
25th Percentile £73,750 £45,354 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £48,779 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.51% -2.44% -26.07%
75th Percentile £103,750 £54,862 £61,949
90th Percentile - £59,114 £91,934
UK median annual salary £72,500 £69,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% +20.43% -14.81%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,185 2,384 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.86% 92.87% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,001 1,817
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,904 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Scotland

High Availability
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for High Availability in Scotland

High Availability
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +17 4 £93,750 +97.37% 1
Edinburgh -8 3 - - 4
Renfrewshire - 1 £77,500 - 1
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Coaching
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Go
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) Avaya
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto