High Availability Contract Job Trends in Chester

High Availability
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring High Availability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.14% - 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% - 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £514
25th Percentile £413 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £538
75th Percentile £438 - £566
90th Percentile - - £571
Cheshire median daily rate £358 £393 £550
% change year-on-year -8.79% -28.64% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 58 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 77.27% 81.69% 77.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 32
10th Percentile £190 £458 £378
25th Percentile £419 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% +26.47%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £588
90th Percentile £763 £740 £674
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 14
10th Percentile £12.56 £16.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £12.63 £25.50 £30.54
Median hourly rate £14.00 £35.00 £31.77
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +10.17% +45.87%
75th Percentile £20.20 £41.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £23.17 £47.50 £38.51
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Chester

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) F5