Failover Clustering Contracts

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering 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 583 660 782
Rank change year-on-year +77 +122 -137
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 15 59 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.099% 0.075%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.61% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 42 49
10th Percentile £145 £388 £335
25th Percentile £190 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £531 £488
Median % change year-on-year -58.59% +8.97% +8.33%
75th Percentile £399 £569 £575
90th Percentile £479 £575 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -60.00% +22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the UK 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
England +88 13 £210 -60.93% 11
UK excluding London +42 11 £220 -60.00% 8
North of England +35 3 £220 -60.00% 1
Midlands +22 3 £200 -46.67% 1
South West +18 3 £410 -25.45% 1
West Midlands - 3 £200 -
North West - 3 £220 -
London +89 2 £140 -73.33% 4
South East +24 2 - -
Work from Home +115 1 £465 -15.45% 3

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) LAN
2 8 (53.33%) VLAN
2 8 (53.33%) VoIP
2 8 (53.33%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) WAN
2 8 (53.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) Skype
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 6 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
1 1 (6.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (40.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (26.67%) PKI
4 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 9 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 9 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (53.33%) Mac OS
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
2 8 (53.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (40.00%) Quality Management
4 2 (13.33%) Database Mirroring
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Key Management
5 1 (6.67%) Compliance Management
5 1 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (6.67%) Due Diligence
5 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Runbook
5 1 (6.67%) Server Management
5 1 (6.67%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) MCSE
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (93.33%) Hyper-V
3 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (26.67%) vSphere
5 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) SCCM
2 8 (53.33%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (40.00%) Autotask
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (6.67%) Ansible
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (6.67%) Nessus
6 1 (6.67%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (6.67%) SCOM
6 1 (6.67%) SCOrch
6 1 (6.67%) SCVMM
6 1 (6.67%) Terraform
6 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (80.00%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Apple
3 6 (40.00%) Datto
4 1 (6.67%) BEA
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) NETGEAR
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) Varonis