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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 - 389
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 12 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.060% - 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £481 - £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - £614
England median daily rate £488 - £470
% change year-on-year - - -8.29%

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 2,779 2,075 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.84% 15.43% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,931 1,373 1,612
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £757
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 27
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.80 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £22.15
Median hourly rate £62.75 £38.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.94% +55.00% -60.16%
75th Percentile £81.25 £57.69 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.73 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.62%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in London over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in London

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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
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Central London - 1 £475 - 2
Failover Clustering
England

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 5 (41.67%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 3 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Kerberos
2 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 4 (33.33%) VSAN
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) DNS
4 1 (8.33%) NAS
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Big Data
1 5 (41.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Clustering
2 5 (41.67%) Replication
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) SUSE
4 3 (25.00%) VMS
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 5 (41.67%) BCP
3 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
3 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Project Management
4 4 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) Server Management
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (33.33%) vSphere
4 3 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Puppet
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (33.33%) VxRail
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) SCOM
4 1 (8.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (33.33%) Dell
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (8.33%) Veeam