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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 55 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 13 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.04% 0.20% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 0.24% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £313 - £516
25th Percentile £327 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £568
90th Percentile - - £572
North West median daily rate £414 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -15.61% -6.67% +6.06%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 587 424 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.30% 84.97% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 282 220
10th Percentile £306 £323 £275
25th Percentile £358 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% -3.45% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £588
90th Percentile £648 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 32
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.15
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -37.11% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £39.19 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.80% +46.36%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing High Availability

High Availability
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 8 £380 - 1
Warrington - 2 £325 - 3
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 5 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) BGP
2 4 (30.77%) MPLS
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 4 (30.77%) OSPF
2 4 (30.77%) VLAN
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Designer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Network Designer
1 4 (30.77%) Solutions Designer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Wintel Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
1 5 (38.46%) Customer Acquisition
1 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
1 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
1 5 (38.46%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
2 4 (30.77%) ITSM
2 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
2 4 (30.77%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Service Design
2 4 (30.77%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (30.77%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (30.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCIE
1 4 (30.77%) CCNP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) JNCIE
1 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
1 2 (15.38%) vMotion
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) F5
1 4 (30.77%) Fortinet
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) VMware