High Availability Contracts in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 193 246
Rank change year-on-year +12 +53 +21
Contract jobs citing High Availability 243 293 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.28% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.43% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 177 187
10th Percentile £313 £374 £378
25th Percentile £392 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £651 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.18% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £26.25 £43.88 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £59.06 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £61.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% - -
75th Percentile - £65.88 -
90th Percentile - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% +176.04% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East +51 84 £490 -10.91% 27
North of England +32 48 £475 -9.52% 22
Scotland +27 38 £492 -5.38% 11
South West -8 32 £640 +16.36% 9
Midlands -5 24 £411 -17.80% 21
Yorkshire +27 21 £507 -8.85% 4
North West +4 17 £475 -9.52% 16
East of England -11 16 £375 -31.82% 13
East Midlands +15 12 £418 -7.11% 8
West Midlands -12 12 £400 -18.37% 13
North East +21 10 £388 - 2
Wales -3 4 £525 -
Northern Ireland +5 3 - - 1
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (6.58%) Confluence
2 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.53%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.23%) SAS
4 3 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (2.47%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.70%) Azure
2 42 (17.28%) AWS
3 19 (7.82%) Serverless
4 16 (6.58%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.35%) GitHub
6 11 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.53%) GCP
6 11 (4.53%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.12%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.12%) PaaS
8 9 (3.70%) IaaS
9 8 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.29%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 5 (2.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.06%) Azure API Management
10 5 (2.06%) SaaS
11 4 (1.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (20.58%) Firewall
2 36 (14.81%) VPN
3 21 (8.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 16 (6.58%) Wireless
5 14 (5.76%) WAN
6 12 (4.94%) 3GPP
6 12 (4.94%) 4G
6 12 (4.94%) DMZ
6 12 (4.94%) LTE
6 12 (4.94%) Radio Access Network
6 12 (4.94%) Wireshark
7 10 (4.12%) LAN
8 9 (3.70%) DNS
9 8 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (2.88%) DHCP
10 7 (2.88%) SAN
10 7 (2.88%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.47%) Network Security
12 5 (2.06%) Extranet
12 5 (2.06%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.87%) SQL Server
2 36 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (11.93%) Oracle Database
4 21 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (6.17%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.94%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.53%) Hadoop
8 10 (4.12%) Big Data
9 9 (3.70%) Data Lake
10 8 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (3.29%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.29%) SAP HANA
11 6 (2.47%) Informix
12 5 (2.06%) Couchbase
12 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (12.35%) Git
2 20 (8.23%) JIRA
3 15 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.76%) JUnit
5 12 (4.94%) GitLab
6 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 26 (10.70%) Banking
4 23 (9.47%) Finance
5 22 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.76%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.76%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.06%) Military
8 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.23%) Law
9 3 (1.23%) Marketing
9 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Automotive
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (13.17%) Architect
1 32 (13.17%) Network Engineer
2 27 (11.11%) DBA
3 21 (8.64%) Senior
4 20 (8.23%) Developer
4 20 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (7.82%) Linux Engineer
6 18 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 18 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.41%) SQL DBA
7 14 (5.76%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) Administrator
8 12 (4.94%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) Cisco Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) Juniper Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) Linux Support
8 12 (4.94%) Linux Support Engineer
9 10 (4.12%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.23%) Kafka
2 18 (7.41%) Spring
3 14 (5.76%) React
3 14 (5.76%) Spring Boot
4 13 (5.35%) REST
5 12 (4.94%) Hibernate
5 12 (4.94%) JPA
6 9 (3.70%) Flash
7 8 (3.29%) .NET
7 8 (3.29%) AWS CDK
7 8 (3.29%) SAP Basis
7 8 (3.29%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (2.88%) Web Services
9 6 (2.47%) LDAP
10 5 (2.06%) Middleware
10 5 (2.06%) Vert.x
11 4 (1.65%) YAML
12 3 (1.23%) Node.js
12 3 (1.23%) POSIX
12 3 (1.23%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.05%) Clustering
2 27 (11.11%) Replication
3 15 (6.17%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.94%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.53%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.70%) PKI
6 9 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.88%) Blog
8 5 (2.06%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.06%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.23%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.23%) NVMe
9 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.82%) NHS
10 2 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.05%) Linux
2 41 (16.87%) Windows
3 25 (10.29%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.53%) Solaris
6 10 (4.12%) Unix
7 7 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.06%) AIX
9 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.82%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.41%) VMS
11 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 53 (21.81%) Agile
3 47 (19.34%) DevOps
4 34 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (11.52%) Scrum
6 25 (10.29%) Mentoring
6 25 (10.29%) Microservices
6 25 (10.29%) Migration
6 25 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
6 25 (10.29%) Roadmaps
7 23 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (8.23%) Project Delivery
9 19 (7.82%) Analytics
9 19 (7.82%) Capacity Management
9 19 (7.82%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (7.00%) Containerisation
10 17 (7.00%) ITIL
10 17 (7.00%) Project Management
11 16 (6.58%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.58%) SQL
2 37 (15.23%) Java
3 31 (12.76%) Python
4 24 (9.88%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.05%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.82%) Bash
7 9 (3.70%) Perl
8 7 (2.88%) Ruby
9 6 (2.47%) C#
9 6 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.06%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.65%) C
11 4 (1.65%) PHP
11 4 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.23%) C++
13 2 (0.82%) VBScript
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
14 1 (0.41%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 92 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 41 (16.87%) DV Cleared
4 25 (10.29%) Degree
5 13 (5.35%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.94%) CCNA
7 11 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.88%) CCNP
8 7 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.88%) RHCE
8 7 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.47%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.06%) JNCIA
10 5 (2.06%) JNCIS
10 5 (2.06%) MCITP
10 5 (2.06%) MCSE
10 5 (2.06%) MCTS
10 5 (2.06%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.65%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.29%) SLA
2 3 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
3 2 (0.82%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.82%) QA
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (20.16%) Active Directory
2 40 (16.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (13.58%) Docker
4 14 (5.76%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.35%) vSphere
6 11 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.12%) Hyper-V
8 7 (2.88%) KVM
9 5 (2.06%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (2.06%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (1.65%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.65%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.23%) NFS
12 2 (0.82%) Ceph
12 2 (0.82%) GPFS
12 2 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.82%) XenApp
13 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 30 (12.35%) Terraform
3 25 (10.29%) Ansible
4 11 (4.53%) vCenter Server
5 10 (4.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 9 (3.70%) Grafana
7 5 (2.06%) Data Guard
7 5 (2.06%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.65%) Puppet
8 4 (1.65%) vMotion
9 3 (1.23%) Nagios
10 2 (0.82%) Kibana
10 2 (0.82%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.82%) SCCM
10 2 (0.82%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 51 (20.99%) VMware
2 47 (19.34%) Oracle
3 44 (18.11%) Microsoft
4 36 (14.81%) Cisco
5 29 (11.93%) Red Hat
6 22 (9.05%) Juniper
7 16 (6.58%) SAP
8 14 (5.76%) SolarWinds
9 13 (5.35%) Fortinet
10 12 (4.94%) Actix
10 12 (4.94%) Blue Coat
10 12 (4.94%) CheckPoint
10 12 (4.94%) Ericsson
10 12 (4.94%) Huawei
10 12 (4.94%) Nokia
11 11 (4.53%) Atlassian
11 11 (4.53%) Google
12 9 (3.70%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.29%) Citrix
13 8 (3.29%) F5