Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 519 573
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 +158
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 1 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.042% 0.076%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.023% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 25
10th Percentile - £221 £398
25th Percentile - £368 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.85% -10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £560 £550
90th Percentile - £596 £610
UK median daily rate £595 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.29% +5.00%

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 4,283 4,500 6,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.53% 13.63% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,844 3,157 4,618
10th Percentile £304 £310 £325
25th Percentile £407 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -5.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £712 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 62 153
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.83 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year +42.54% -25.94% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.80 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.07 £73.73 £79.83
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.54% -36.21% +139.13%

Failover Clustering
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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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Failover Clustering

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Failover Clustering

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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 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +8 1 £325 - 4
Failover Clustering
UK

Failover Clustering
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium