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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 351 393
Rank change year-on-year -69 +42 +69
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.026% 0.016% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 - £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £571 - £614
England median daily rate £450 £550 £220
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 2,643 1,941 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.88% 15.52% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,822 1,302 1,686
10th Percentile £358 £354 £330
25th Percentile £438 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -10.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 35
10th Percentile £26.29 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £35.75 £27.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.34% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.55
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +14.29% +70.73% -44.09%

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
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 20 June 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 -
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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Stack
3 3 (60.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VLAN
1 4 (80.00%) VSAN
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Replication
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
3 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (80.00%) SUSE
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Remediation Plan
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Firmware
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (80.00%) VxRail
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft