Failover Clustering Contracts in the East of England

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Failover Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Failover Clustering 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 78 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 4 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% - 0.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.77% - 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 18
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £463 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 - £550
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £473 - £610
England median daily rate £550 £220 £544
% change year-on-year +150.00% -59.54% +17.25%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

Failover Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 97 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 5.08% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 201
10th Percentile £215 £188 £225
25th Percentile £338 £258 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 22
10th Percentile £30.25 - £14.25
25th Percentile £36.25 - £14.56
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%
75th Percentile £58.25 £20.19 £65.75
90th Percentile £64.55 £44.16 £74.50
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 £467 -
Failover Clustering
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (75.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 4 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Podman
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat