High Availability Contracts in Birmingham

High Availability
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 62 85
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 -27
Contract jobs citing High Availability 8 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.06% 1.70% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.93% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £388 £340 -
25th Percentile £400 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £597 £588 £527
90th Percentile £600 £610 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £490 £600
% change year-on-year -18.37% -18.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 776 1,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.71% 88.18% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 519 876
10th Percentile £250 £273 £225
25th Percentile £375 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £594
90th Percentile £689 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 22
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.29 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% -5.54% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £19.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
% change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Birmingham over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) DMZ
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DBA
2 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (50.00%) SQL DBA
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Statistics
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Offensive Security
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Database Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) BC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CASP
3 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (25.00%) GCED
3 2 (25.00%) GIAC
3 2 (25.00%) GSEC
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) TippingPoint
2 2 (25.00%) Trend Micro
3 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper