Failover Clustering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 450 590
Rank change year-on-year +105 +140 -118
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 2 16 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.064% 0.073%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 25
10th Percentile £468 £478 £378
25th Percentile £483 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £538 - £585
90th Percentile £551 - £628
UK median daily rate £220 £538 £465
% change year-on-year -59.07% +15.59% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,633 4,133 7,103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.86% 16.49% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 3,055 5,286
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £515 £562 £565
% change year-on-year -8.36% -0.53% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 75 48
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.28 £15.88
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +76.00% -18.87%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.75%

Failover Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Failover Clustering trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Failover Clustering.

Failover Clustering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Failover Clustering.

Failover Clustering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Server Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOrch
1 1 (50.00%) SCVMM
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Varonis
1 1 (50.00%) VMware