High Availability Contracts in Gloucestershire

High Availability
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 56 46
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 8 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.91% 0.88% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 1.03% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £320 £556 -
25th Percentile £366 £584 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £630 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £623 £550
% change year-on-year -11.65% +13.18% -13.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 240 388 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.27% 85.84% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 211 271
10th Percentile £221 £363 £375
25th Percentile £350 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £735 £738 £748
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 34 47
10th Percentile £15.31 £22.50 £31.80
25th Percentile £26.85 £28.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -49.98% +130.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £84.04
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Gloucestershire

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Gloucestershire

High Availability
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Gloucester +4 6 £413 - 4
High Availability
South West

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (37.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) VoIP
1 2 (25.00%) WebEx
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (25.00%) vMotion
2 2 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) NetApp
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow