High Availability Contracts in Cheshire

High Availability
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 47 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 0.60% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.61% +16.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 4 £439 - 1
Warrington -3 3 £325 -35.00% 10
High Availability
North West

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (27.27%) IIS
3 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) BGP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) MPLS
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) OSPF
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) GIS
2 2 (18.18%) MSDE
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) DTS
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) DBA
4 2 (18.18%) Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Network Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
2 4 (36.36%) Customer Acquisition
2 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Network Design
4 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CCIE
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) JNCIE
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
1 3 (27.27%) vMotion
1 3 (27.27%) WSUS
2 1 (9.09%) Perfmon
2 1 (9.09%) SCOM
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) F5
2 2 (18.18%) Fortinet