High Availability Contracts in Wales

High Availability
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 42 46 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing High Availability 5 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.25% 2.69% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 3.13% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 12
10th Percentile £340 £506 £413
25th Percentile £400 £513 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £453
Median % change year-on-year - +15.89% -4.63%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £483
90th Percentile £588 £613 £527
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 317 544 847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.05% 86.21% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 419 616
10th Percentile £172 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £570 £569 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -24.74% +29.87%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Wales

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Wales

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Wales

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Wales

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales +6 4 £538 +2.38% 1
Dyfed +2 1 £300 -36.84%
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (60.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (20.00%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Support
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) AIX
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) E-business
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) HL7
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) RedGate