Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 352 391
Rank change year-on-year -25 +39 +133
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.029% 0.016%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £400 -
25th Percentile - £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +46.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,274 2,039 2,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.60% 14.69% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,337 1,811
10th Percentile £350 £359 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -10.80%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £724 £789 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.76% -2.33% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 31
10th Percentile £20.96 £22.30 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £24.23
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.25 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +17.40% +47.36%
75th Percentile £63.32 £72.13 £61.25
90th Percentile - £106.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +19.95%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Failover Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in London

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Failover Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Pacemaker
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware