High Availability Contract Job Trends in Manchester

High Availability
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 57 95
Rank change year-on-year -13 +38 +33
Contract jobs citing High Availability 17 26 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.65% 2.22% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.55% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 8
10th Percentile £355 £393 £447
25th Percentile £381 £550 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £644 £499
Median % change year-on-year -26.99% +29.07% +1.01%
75th Percentile £612 £670 £663
90th Percentile £641 £675 £681
North West median daily rate £400 £638 £513
% change year-on-year -37.25% +24.39% +3.54%

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 928 1,020 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.27% 87.18% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 586 1,060
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 61
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £26.93 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -7.43%
75th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

High Availability job vacancy trend in Manchester

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Manchester

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing High Availability

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Back Office
2 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
1 3 (17.65%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Credit Derivative
1 2 (11.76%) Derivative
1 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Acquisition
3 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (17.65%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Release Management
3 3 (17.65%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Fintech
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.76%) Information Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Basel III
1 2 (11.76%) MiFID
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Sybase
4 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Pega