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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 56 65
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing High Availability 18 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.26% 0.70% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 0.88% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £192 £383 £183
25th Percentile £266 £394 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +23.08% -32.47%
75th Percentile £575 £447 £481
90th Percentile - £531 £568
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £400 £434
% change year-on-year +37.50% -7.78% -18.35%

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 480 571 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.96% 79.97% 83.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 396 505
10th Percentile £163 £235 £263
25th Percentile £313 £386 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £610
90th Percentile £638 £725 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 18 23
10th Percentile - £13.23 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £14.03 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.44 £38.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.43% +55.00% +40.06%
75th Percentile £22.08 £53.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £26.51 £61.74 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £18.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +19.19% -31.48% +56.52%

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 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Birmingham

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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 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Network Security
2 8 (44.44%) BGP
2 8 (44.44%) OSPF
2 8 (44.44%) VLAN
3 7 (38.89%) Firewall
4 6 (33.33%) IPsec
4 6 (33.33%) SSL
4 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (33.33%) VPN
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) EIGRP
5 2 (11.11%) LAN
5 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) Wireless
5 2 (11.11%) Wireless Security
5 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.56%) DHCP
6 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Telecoms
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Electronics
5 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (11.11%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Check Point Expert
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) DBA
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Nutanix Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Voice Recording Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Check Point GAiA
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) SIEM
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 3 (16.67%) BCP
5 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Business Impact Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Network Management
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) Runbook
5 3 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Database Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Network Optimisation
6 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CCSE
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) OCP
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 6 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) Juniper
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Commvault
4 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam
4 1 (5.56%) Verint
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler