High Availability Contracts in Cardiff

High Availability
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 27 31 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing High Availability 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.88% 1.89% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.48% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £224 £501 -
25th Percentile £309 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +2.38% +22.94%
75th Percentile £500 £584 £538
90th Percentile £530 £594 -
South Wales median daily rate £295 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -45.12% +2.38% +16.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) SOLID
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) RedGate