High Availability Contracts in Berkshire

High Availability
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 96 115
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -31
Contract jobs citing High Availability 30 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.50% 0.88% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.96% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 14
10th Percentile £335 £315 £466
25th Percentile £342 £372 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -22.92% +26.32%
75th Percentile £528 £561 £634
90th Percentile £568 £725 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -10.91% +12.82% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -17.87% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,781 1,661 2,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.18% 91.31% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,063 1,389
10th Percentile £213 £350 £274
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 49 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.30 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.13 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.30 £58.75 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% +179.10% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £74.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £80.25 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Reading -14 13 £375 -21.05% 5
Ascot - 8 - -
Maidenhead - 4 £375 -
Bracknell - 3 - -
Wokingham -2 1 £450 +36.36% 1
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure API Management
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (13.33%) PaaS
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) Firewall
2 14 (46.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (33.33%) VPN
4 8 (26.67%) DMZ
5 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (10.00%) BGP
6 3 (10.00%) EIGRP
6 3 (10.00%) MPLS
6 3 (10.00%) OSPF
7 2 (6.67%) Network Security
8 1 (3.33%) DNS
8 1 (3.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle Database
2 4 (13.33%) SAP HANA
3 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Zeppelin
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 8 (26.67%) Banking
1 8 (26.67%) Investment Banking
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Juniper Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Architect
5 4 (13.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) SAP Technical Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Backup Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Commvault Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
8 1 (3.33%) Applications Architect
8 1 (3.33%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) SAP Basis
2 4 (13.33%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.67%) Web Services
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) OAuth
5 1 (3.33%) OpenID
5 1 (3.33%) Regular Expression
5 1 (3.33%) SOAP
5 1 (3.33%) WebSockets
5 1 (3.33%) XML
5 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 10 (33.33%) ITSM
2 9 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 8 (26.67%) Change Control
4 7 (23.33%) Change Management
5 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 4 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (10.00%) API Management
8 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (10.00%) Migration
8 3 (10.00%) Network Architecture
9 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security
9 2 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
9 2 (6.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 2 (6.67%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) PHP
3 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (3.33%) Bicep
4 1 (3.33%) Groovy
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) CCNA
2 3 (10.00%) CCNP
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) JNCIA
2 3 (10.00%) JNCIS
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Cisco
1 14 (46.67%) Juniper
2 8 (26.67%) Blue Coat
2 8 (26.67%) CheckPoint
2 8 (26.67%) Fortinet
2 8 (26.67%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.33%) SAP
5 3 (10.00%) Commvault
6 2 (6.67%) BMC
6 2 (6.67%) Databricks
6 2 (6.67%) Remedy
7 1 (3.33%) Kenna
7 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow