High Availability Contracts in Cheshire

High Availability
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 55 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing High Availability 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.58% - 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £347
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.83%
75th Percentile - - £415
90th Percentile - - £501
North West median daily rate £485 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.61% +16.66% +40.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 439 492 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.59% 91.62% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 334 254
10th Percentile £284 £266 £214
25th Percentile £401 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +6.11% +2.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £627 £654 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 24 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.97 £11.29
25th Percentile £16.67 £22.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +24.65% -19.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £45.00 £38.80 £61.30
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Warrington - 3 £500 - 2
High Availability
North West

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DMZ
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto