High Availability Contracts in Reading

High Availability
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 76 86
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing High Availability 13 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.09% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.30% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 8
10th Percentile £314 £353 £466
25th Percentile £335 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £569
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -16.48% +42.19%
75th Percentile £416 £569 £628
90th Percentile £511 £725 £649
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £463 £600
% change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 926 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.08% 89.99% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 615 825
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £664 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -1.06%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Reading

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (15.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (15.38%) PaaS
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (15.38%) BGP
3 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
3 2 (15.38%) MPLS
3 2 (15.38%) OSPF
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
1 4 (30.77%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Consultant
1 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Network Operations Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) SAP Technical Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) SAP Basis
1 4 (30.77%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) Regular Expression
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Change Management
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) B2C
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Business Case
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) CCNP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) JNCIA
2 2 (15.38%) JNCIS
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco
1 5 (38.46%) Juniper
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) BMC
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Kenna
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow