Failover Clustering Contracts in England

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 476 528 602
Rank change year-on-year +52 +74 +126
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 9 14 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.038% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.32% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 40
10th Percentile £463 £140 £388
25th Percentile £469 £190 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £220 £544
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -59.54% +17.25%
75th Percentile £597 £303 £575
90th Percentile £661 £480 £593
UK median daily rate £575 £220 £538
% change year-on-year +161.25% -59.07% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
East of England - 4 £467 -
South East +47 3 £658 - 7
London +37 2 £550 +292.86% 11
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (33.33%) VSAN
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) SSH
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Clustering
2 4 (44.44%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) SUSE
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Capacity Management
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (44.44%) Proactive Management
1 4 (44.44%) Problem Management
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Power Management
3 1 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) Hyper-V
2 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
4 3 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Podman
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (33.33%) WSUS
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (33.33%) Symantec
4 2 (22.22%) Juniper
4 2 (22.22%) NETGEAR
4 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 2 (22.22%) TP-LINK