High Availability Contracts in Manchester

High Availability
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 79 91
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 +34
Contract jobs citing High Availability 23 17 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.48% 1.12% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.29% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 19
10th Percentile £380 £368 £445
25th Percentile £450 £409 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.56% +12.89%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £550
90th Percentile £755 £995 £629
North West median daily rate £475 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.61% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +150.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Manchester

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Manchester

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Manchester

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Manchester

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wigan - 2 £375 -
Altrincham - 1 - - 1
High Availability
North West

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
1 7 (30.43%) Entra ID
1 7 (30.43%) IaaS
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
1 9 (39.13%) Network Security
2 7 (30.43%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (8.70%) BGP
3 2 (8.70%) EIGRP
3 2 (8.70%) OSPF
3 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (30.43%) Telecoms
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Continuity Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) HPUX
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (39.13%) Business Continuity
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) BCP
3 7 (30.43%) Business Continuity Planning
3 7 (30.43%) Change Management
3 7 (30.43%) Project Delivery
3 7 (30.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 6 (26.09%) Analytics
4 6 (26.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (26.09%) Load Balancing
5 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (21.74%) Information Security
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Line Management
5 5 (21.74%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (21.74%) Web Operations
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) CCNA
3 2 (8.70%) CCNP
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
1 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (30.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
1 7 (30.43%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco
2 2 (8.70%) IBM
2 2 (8.70%) Meraki
2 2 (8.70%) Sun
3 1 (4.35%) Unisys