High Availability Contracts with Work from Home Options

High Availability
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 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 211 286
Rank change year-on-year +43 +75 -31
Contract jobs citing High Availability 183 291 394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 1.16% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.29% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 202 245
10th Percentile £300 £400 £385
25th Percentile £397 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £686 £753
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £568
% change year-on-year - -3.17% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £63.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

High Availability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

High Availability trend for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
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 High Availability.

High Availability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing High Availability over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

High Availability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
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 High Availability.

High Availability hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
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 21 (11.48%) Confluence
2 8 (4.37%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.64%) IIS
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.09%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.09%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.55%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.55%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Elite 3E
2 7 (3.83%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.09%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.55%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.55%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.55%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (39.34%) Azure
2 54 (29.51%) AWS
3 22 (12.02%) GCP
4 17 (9.29%) Serverless
5 14 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (7.10%) IaaS
6 13 (7.10%) PaaS
7 12 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.01%) SaaS
9 10 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (4.92%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.37%) GitHub
12 7 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.83%) Nutanix
12 7 (3.83%) Rubrik
13 6 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.57%) Firewall
2 17 (9.29%) DNS
3 16 (8.74%) DHCP
4 13 (7.10%) TCP/IP
5 11 (6.01%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (5.46%) BGP
6 10 (5.46%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (5.46%) OSPF
7 9 (4.92%) MPLS
7 9 (4.92%) SAN
8 8 (4.37%) Kerberos
9 7 (3.83%) HTTP
9 7 (3.83%) LAN
9 7 (3.83%) NAS
9 7 (3.83%) Network Security
9 7 (3.83%) VLAN
9 7 (3.83%) WAN
10 5 (2.73%) EIGRP
10 5 (2.73%) SNMP
11 4 (2.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.95%) SQL Server
2 29 (15.85%) Oracle Database
3 17 (9.29%) MongoDB
3 17 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.28%) PowerCenter
8 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.73%) Informix
8 5 (2.73%) MySQL
9 4 (2.19%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.19%) Oracle ODI
9 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.09%) Power BI
11 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (14.21%) JIRA
2 22 (12.02%) Git
3 17 (9.29%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.83%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.19%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.19%) GitLab
5 4 (2.19%) Subversion
6 3 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.55%) Gatling
8 1 (0.55%) JUnit
8 1 (0.55%) Mockito
8 1 (0.55%) ScalaTest
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.55%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.94%) Finance
3 26 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.01%) Banking
6 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.19%) Marketing
8 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Electronics
9 3 (1.64%) Legal
9 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.09%) French Language
10 2 (1.09%) German Language
10 2 (1.09%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.09%) Korean Language
10 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) Senior
2 37 (20.22%) DBA
3 28 (15.30%) Architect
4 23 (12.57%) SQL DBA
5 21 (11.48%) Developer
6 18 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (8.74%) Support Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Senior DBA
9 13 (7.10%) Applications Support
9 13 (7.10%) Network Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Applications Support Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Senior Applications Support
10 12 (6.56%) Senior Support Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Administrator
12 10 (5.46%) Senior SQL DBA
13 9 (4.92%) Oracle DBA
14 8 (4.37%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.29%) .NET
2 13 (7.10%) SailPoint
3 12 (6.56%) LDAP
4 11 (6.01%) Middleware
4 11 (6.01%) YAML
5 9 (4.92%) Node.js
6 8 (4.37%) REST
7 7 (3.83%) AWS CDK
7 7 (3.83%) React
8 6 (3.28%) SOAP
9 5 (2.73%) JSON
9 5 (2.73%) Spring
10 4 (2.19%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.19%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.19%) JPA
10 4 (2.19%) OAuth
10 4 (2.19%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.19%) XML
11 3 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.31%) Replication
2 27 (14.75%) Data Centre
3 21 (11.48%) Clustering
4 8 (4.37%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.83%) Blog
5 7 (3.83%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.19%) NHS
8 3 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.09%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.32%) Windows
2 39 (21.31%) Linux
3 24 (13.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.46%) Solaris
6 7 (3.83%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (3.83%) Unix
7 6 (3.28%) AIX
8 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.97%) DevOps
2 58 (31.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (25.14%) Migration
4 38 (20.77%) Agile
5 33 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (16.94%) CI/CD
7 30 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
8 27 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (10.93%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (9.84%) ETL
11 15 (8.20%) Containerisation
11 15 (8.20%) Microservices
11 15 (8.20%) Scrum
12 14 (7.65%) Cloud Security
12 14 (7.65%) Problem Management
13 13 (7.10%) Application Security
13 13 (7.10%) Architectural Design
13 13 (7.10%) Kanban
13 13 (7.10%) Roadmaps
14 12 (6.56%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.80%) SQL
2 43 (23.50%) Python
3 36 (19.67%) PowerShell
4 20 (10.93%) Java
5 19 (10.38%) Bash
6 17 (9.29%) C#
7 12 (6.56%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.46%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.92%) Bicep
10 7 (3.83%) C++
10 7 (3.83%) Perl
10 7 (3.83%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
11 6 (3.28%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.19%) Ruby
13 3 (1.64%) C
13 3 (1.64%) Go
13 3 (1.64%) PHP
14 2 (1.09%) Solidity
14 2 (1.09%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.74%) Degree
4 13 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.01%) CCNP
5 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.83%) CCNA
8 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.73%) CCDP
8 5 (2.73%) JNCIA
8 5 (2.73%) JNCIS
8 5 (2.73%) MCSE
9 3 (1.64%) MCITP
9 3 (1.64%) MCSA
9 3 (1.64%) MCTS
9 3 (1.64%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.09%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.09%) CCENT
11 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.83%) GDPR
1 7 (3.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.73%) QA
4 2 (1.09%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.55%) HL7
5 1 (0.55%) IFRS
5 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 32 (17.49%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.02%) Docker
3 15 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (4.92%) Firmware
6 7 (3.83%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.64%) vSphere
9 2 (1.09%) Ceph
9 2 (1.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (1.09%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.55%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.55%) XenApp
10 1 (0.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (19.67%) Terraform
2 34 (18.58%) Ansible
3 27 (14.75%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.92%) Data Guard
4 9 (4.92%) Grafana
5 7 (3.83%) EMC NetWorker
5 7 (3.83%) Netcool
5 7 (3.83%) Puppet
5 7 (3.83%) Tivoli
5 7 (3.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (3.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.19%) BladeLogic
8 4 (2.19%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.64%) Kibana
9 3 (1.64%) Nagios
10 2 (1.09%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (1.09%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.09%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 46 (25.14%) Oracle
2 29 (15.85%) VMware
3 27 (14.75%) Microsoft
4 24 (13.11%) Cisco
4 24 (13.11%) ServiceNow
5 20 (10.93%) CyberArk
6 13 (7.10%) Dell
7 12 (6.56%) BeyondTrust
7 12 (6.56%) Splunk
8 10 (5.46%) IBM
8 10 (5.46%) SAP
9 9 (4.92%) Commvault
9 9 (4.92%) Red Hat
10 8 (4.37%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.83%) EMC
11 7 (3.83%) HP
11 7 (3.83%) Isilon
11 7 (3.83%) Qualys
11 7 (3.83%) Serena
12 6 (3.28%) Citrix