High Availability Contracts in the Midlands

High Availability
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 105 177
Rank change year-on-year -10 +72 -49
Contract jobs citing High Availability 26 53 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.88% 1.65% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.88% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 21
10th Percentile £353 £356 £375
25th Percentile £392 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% -13.48% +27.78%
75th Percentile £450 £569 £675
90th Percentile £590 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £44.80 £68.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year -34.60% +186.49% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. 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
East Midlands +15 15 £411 -8.67% 3
West Midlands -10 11 £400 -18.37% 9
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.85%) Ethereum
1 1 (3.85%) MetaMask
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.69%) LAN
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 2 (7.69%) WAN
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) DMZ
4 1 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) MPLS
4 1 (3.85%) NX-OS
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
4 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (30.77%) Banking
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Advertising
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) DBA
2 8 (30.77%) SQL DBA
3 7 (26.92%) Administrator
3 7 (26.92%) Architect
4 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (15.38%) Designer
6 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) ETL Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) CSS
1 1 (3.85%) CSS3
1 1 (3.85%) HTML
1 1 (3.85%) HTML5
1 1 (3.85%) JSON
1 1 (3.85%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.85%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (3.85%) Truffle
1 1 (3.85%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (23.08%) Business Strategy
2 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (23.08%) Data Transformation
2 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (23.08%) ETL
2 6 (23.08%) IT Strategy
2 6 (23.08%) Microservices
2 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 6 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
2 6 (23.08%) Technical Debt
2 6 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
3 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
3 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (11.54%) Statistics
6 2 (7.69%) Change Control
6 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
6 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) Solidity
2 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) MCITP
2 5 (19.23%) MCTS
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.69%) CCNP
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CASP
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.85%) GCED
4 1 (3.85%) GIAC
4 1 (3.85%) GSEC
4 1 (3.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) KVM
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Juniper
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Aerohive Networks
5 1 (3.85%) Avaya
5 1 (3.85%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) EMC
5 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.85%) McAfee
5 1 (3.85%) Mitel
5 1 (3.85%) NetApp
5 1 (3.85%) Nortel
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) TippingPoint
5 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam