High Availability Contracts in Birmingham

High Availability
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 58 59
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +29
Contract jobs citing High Availability 11 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.11% 1.16% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.40% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £192 £390 £340
25th Percentile £266 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £588
90th Percentile £565 £600 £610
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% -16.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £15.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Birmingham

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Birmingham

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Birmingham

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Birmingham

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Network Security
2 5 (45.45%) BGP
2 5 (45.45%) OSPF
2 5 (45.45%) VLAN
3 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) IPsec
3 4 (36.36%) SSL
3 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 4 (36.36%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless Security
4 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) SIEM
3 2 (18.18%) BCP
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Business Impact Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Network Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CCSE
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) FortiGate
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
1 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Juniper
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler