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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 112 163
Rank change year-on-year +34 +51 -12
Contract jobs citing High Availability 37 52 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.73% 1.95% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.12% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 7
10th Percentile £340 £456 £478
25th Percentile £370 £481 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -13.33% +54.84%
75th Percentile £581 £634 £613
90th Percentile £615 £775 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% +176.04% +59.40%

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 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 June 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 June 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
Edinburgh +38 21 £413 -18.32% 4
Glasgow -10 7 £490 -10.91% 2
South Lanarkshire - 4 £600 -
Renfrewshire +1 3 - -
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 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (16.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon S3
2 8 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Serverless
3 7 (18.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.81%) IaaS
6 3 (8.11%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (8.11%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (8.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.11%) iPaaS
6 3 (8.11%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
1 6 (16.22%) LAN
1 6 (16.22%) VPN
2 4 (10.81%) DHCP
2 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 4 (10.81%) WAN
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (8.11%) IPsec
3 3 (8.11%) Network Security
3 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
3 3 (8.11%) SMTP
3 3 (8.11%) Unified Communications
3 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (27.03%) MongoDB
2 10 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (18.92%) Informix
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (8.11%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Exchange Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Linux Support
3 6 (16.22%) Linux Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Support Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Database Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) DBA
5 4 (10.81%) SQL DBA
6 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.11%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) J2EE
2 3 (8.11%) LDAP
2 3 (8.11%) Web Services
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Clustering
2 8 (21.62%) Replication
3 3 (8.11%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) N-Tier
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 11 (29.73%) Windows
3 8 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (16.22%) Solaris
5 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (40.54%) Agile
3 12 (32.43%) Roadmaps
4 9 (24.32%) Problem Management
5 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) Kanban
5 8 (21.62%) Scrum
6 6 (16.22%) Capacity Management
6 6 (16.22%) Compliance Management
6 6 (16.22%) Customer Service
6 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
6 6 (16.22%) Security Patching
7 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.81%) Community of Practice
8 4 (10.81%) Identity Management
8 4 (10.81%) Migration
9 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (8.11%) Load Balancing
9 3 (8.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) Degree
4 6 (16.22%) RHCE
5 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) CCNA
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.70%) MCSE
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.41%) ISO 20022
3 2 (5.41%) ISO 8583
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
2 6 (16.22%) KVM
3 3 (8.11%) BitLocker
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (8.11%) Terminal Services
3 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Ansible
1 8 (21.62%) Grafana
2 4 (10.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Red Hat
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (18.92%) Oracle
4 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
4 6 (16.22%) VMware
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Citrix
5 3 (8.11%) Commvault
5 3 (8.11%) F5
5 3 (8.11%) Infoblox
5 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto