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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 355 391
Rank change year-on-year -43 +36 +105
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.024% 0.016% 0.011%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.16% 0.098% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £595 - -
25th Percentile £598 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £550 £140
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% +292.86% -73.33%
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £609 - -
England median daily rate £586 £550 £220
% change year-on-year +6.59% +150.00% -58.10%

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 2,469 2,049 2,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.82% 15.96% 12.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 1,398 1,606
10th Percentile £350 £367 £316
25th Percentile £429 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 38
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.59 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% +14.38% -57.74%
75th Percentile £63.32 £56.25 £56.06
90th Percentile - £63.25 £60.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Architect
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Pacemaker
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware