High Availability Contracts in the South East

High Availability
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 185 157
Rank change year-on-year +54 -28 0
Contract jobs citing High Availability 69 41 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 0.70% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 0.79% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 75
10th Percentile £335 £358 £385
25th Percentile £413 £434 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £622
90th Percentile £606 £725 £683
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the South East.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +22 34 £425 -8.11% 10
Berkshire +9 30 £375 -18.92% 5
Hampshire +10 21 £593 -5.58% 2
West Sussex - 14 £475 - 1
Surrey +17 9 £335 -41.74% 4
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £563 - 4
East Sussex - 3 £490 -
Kent +4 2 - - 2
Home Counties - 2 - -
Oxfordshire +2 1 £425 - 1
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (7.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (5.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.45%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) Azure
2 13 (18.84%) AWS
3 8 (11.59%) GitHub
4 4 (5.80%) Azure API Management
4 4 (5.80%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (5.80%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.80%) PaaS
4 4 (5.80%) SaaS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.35%) Datadog
5 3 (4.35%) IaaS
5 3 (4.35%) OCI
5 3 (4.35%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.68%) Firewall
2 14 (20.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 14 (20.29%) VPN
3 8 (11.59%) DMZ
4 6 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (5.80%) DNS
5 4 (5.80%) LAN
5 4 (5.80%) WAN
5 4 (5.80%) Wireless
6 3 (4.35%) BGP
6 3 (4.35%) EIGRP
6 3 (4.35%) MPLS
6 3 (4.35%) Network Security
6 3 (4.35%) OSPF
7 2 (2.90%) DHCP
8 1 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.45%) SAN
8 1 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (14.49%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.25%) SAP HANA
3 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.80%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.45%) Redis
7 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) GitLab
2 4 (5.80%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.90%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Banking
2 8 (11.59%) Investment Banking
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Military
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Electronics
5 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Marketing
5 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Network Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Juniper Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Senior
3 6 (8.70%) Consultant
3 6 (8.70%) Database Specialist
3 6 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Network Operations Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Platform Specialist
4 5 (7.25%) Architect
4 5 (7.25%) Developer
4 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 5 (7.25%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) .NET
1 5 (7.25%) SAP Basis
1 5 (7.25%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (5.80%) Kafka
2 4 (5.80%) Spring
2 4 (5.80%) Vert.x
3 3 (4.35%) REST
3 3 (4.35%) YAML
4 2 (2.90%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.90%) Flash
4 2 (2.90%) Node.js
4 2 (2.90%) Web Services
5 1 (1.45%) LDAP
5 1 (1.45%) Prisma
5 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.45%) React
5 1 (1.45%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.45%) SOAP
5 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.49%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (14.49%) Replication
3 9 (13.04%) Clustering
4 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
5 5 (7.25%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.35%) NHS
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.45%) Life Science
8 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.45%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Windows
3 6 (8.70%) Unix
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.35%) Solaris
5 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.45%) VMS
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.99%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (20.29%) Migration
4 13 (18.84%) Agile
5 12 (17.39%) ITSM
6 10 (14.49%) Data Migration
6 10 (14.49%) Design Patterns
6 10 (14.49%) DevOps
6 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (11.59%) Capacity Management
8 8 (11.59%) Change Control
8 8 (11.59%) Change Management
8 8 (11.59%) Database Security
8 8 (11.59%) Scrum
8 8 (11.59%) Storage Management
8 8 (11.59%) Task Automation
8 8 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.14%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.84%) Bash
2 12 (17.39%) SQL
3 9 (13.04%) Java
3 9 (13.04%) Python
4 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.70%) C#
6 5 (7.25%) Ruby
7 3 (4.35%) C
7 3 (4.35%) C++
7 3 (4.35%) Perl
8 2 (2.90%) PHP
8 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.90%) VBScript
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
9 1 (1.45%) Groovy
9 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) CCNA
3 4 (5.80%) CCNP
3 4 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) JNCIA
4 3 (4.35%) JNCIS
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Degree
5 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.49%) vSphere
3 8 (11.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (11.59%) Docker
4 5 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.35%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.90%) Ceph
6 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.90%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Ansible
1 16 (23.19%) Terraform
2 12 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (4.35%) Nagios
4 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.35%) Puppet
5 2 (2.90%) IBM BigFix
5 2 (2.90%) Pacemaker
5 2 (2.90%) Podman
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (2.90%) SCCM
5 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.90%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.45%) Packer
6 1 (1.45%) SELinux
6 1 (1.45%) vRealize
6 1 (1.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (34.78%) Oracle
2 19 (27.54%) VMware
3 15 (21.74%) Cisco
3 15 (21.74%) SolarWinds
4 14 (20.29%) Juniper
5 13 (18.84%) Red Hat
6 9 (13.04%) Fortinet
7 8 (11.59%) Blue Coat
7 8 (11.59%) CheckPoint
7 8 (11.59%) SAP
8 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
8 4 (5.80%) Remedy
9 3 (4.35%) Commvault
9 3 (4.35%) New Relic
9 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.35%) Splunk
10 2 (2.90%) Citrix
10 2 (2.90%) Ivanti
10 2 (2.90%) Sun
10 2 (2.90%) Symantec