High Availability Contracts in the West Midlands

High Availability
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 93 103 155
Rank change year-on-year +10 +52 -49
Contract jobs citing High Availability 16 36 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 1.51% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.71% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 18
10th Percentile £313 £355 £410
25th Percentile £388 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -15.74% +30.56%
75th Percentile £563 £576 £675
90th Percentile £600 £655 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +3 9 £525 +5.00% 6
Solihull -14 3 - -
Coventry +10 2 £500 +25.00%
Warwickshire -1 1 £325 -30.48%
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) VPN
3 4 (25.00%) LAN
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security
3 4 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (18.75%) DMZ
4 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) DHCP
5 1 (6.25%) DNS
5 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Advertising
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DBA
2 4 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Regular Expression
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
1 2 (12.50%) Taxonomies
1 2 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Change Control
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Statistics
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (12.50%) Hardware Maintenance
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) SIEM
4 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) BC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) CASP
4 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (12.50%) GCED
4 2 (12.50%) GIAC
4 2 (12.50%) GSEC
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Juniper
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
4 3 (18.75%) McAfee
5 2 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) F5
5 2 (12.50%) LogRhythm
5 2 (12.50%) TippingPoint
5 2 (12.50%) Trend Micro
6 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
6 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.25%) VMware