High Availability Contracts in the North West

High Availability
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 127 152
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing High Availability 22 33 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.80% 1.03% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.14% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 20
10th Percentile £369 £448 £359
25th Percentile £427 £496 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +16.66% +40.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £531
90th Percentile £938 £627 £559
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -25.00% +192.76% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the North West.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +5 17 £480 -8.56% 16
Cheshire - 3 £500 - 4
Merseyside +13 1 - - 3
Lancashire +2 1 - - 2
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DMZ
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
2 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) OLTP
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
1 7 (31.82%) JUnit
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
1 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
2 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) DBA
3 2 (9.09%) Junior
3 2 (9.09%) Junior Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Junior Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Spring
1 7 (31.82%) Spring Boot
2 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 6 (27.27%) JPA
2 6 (27.27%) React
2 6 (27.27%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (4.55%) JMS
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 8 (36.36%) Scrum
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
4 6 (27.27%) Microservices
4 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Software Delivery
6 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Change Control
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (9.09%) Coaching
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
8 2 (9.09%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) SC Cleared
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
3 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Juniper
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto