High Availability Contracts in Bedfordshire

High Availability
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing High Availability 2 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.26% 0.88% 6.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.05% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £309
25th Percentile - £363 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £323
Median % change year-on-year - +16.28% -
75th Percentile - £388 £342
90th Percentile - - £344
East of England median daily rate £473 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +26.00% -31.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 191 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.97% 83.77% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 109 104
10th Percentile £380 £300 £208
25th Percentile £500 £393 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £600
90th Percentile £746 £654 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 38 4
10th Percentile £25.71 £15.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £60.38 £15.39 £20.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £21.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +248.84% -55.67% -7.62%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £91.60 £66.45 £87.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +81.82% +41.94%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Bedfordshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Bedfordshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 2025. 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
Luton - 2 - - 26
High Availability
East of England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware