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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 105 96
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +93
Contract jobs citing High Availability 47 28 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.87% 1.06% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.30% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 32
10th Percentile £233 £363 £234
25th Percentile £397 £383 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.44% -15.79% -12.64%
75th Percentile £575 £453 £569
90th Percentile £610 £599 £665
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 2,202 2,159 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.52% 81.38% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,468 1,797
10th Percentile £230 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £607 £600
90th Percentile £639 £700 £706
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 96 85
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £21.35 £19.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -29.15% +48.65%
75th Percentile £26.69 £35.63 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.36 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.55
% change year-on-year -41.17% +5.44% +50.28%

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 18 August 2025.

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 18 August 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
West Midlands +17 38 £537 -6.61% 29
East Midlands -6 9 £466 +16.41% 8
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 4 (8.51%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (8.51%) SAS
2 3 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.26%) SAP PM
3 1 (2.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) GitHub
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.51%) Serverless
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.38%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.26%) Collibra
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) Firewall
1 14 (29.79%) Network Security
2 9 (19.15%) VPN
3 8 (17.02%) BGP
3 8 (17.02%) OSPF
3 8 (17.02%) VLAN
4 7 (14.89%) SD-WAN
5 6 (12.77%) DNS
5 6 (12.77%) IPsec
5 6 (12.77%) SSL
5 6 (12.77%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.77%) Wireless
6 5 (10.64%) DHCP
6 5 (10.64%) WAN
7 4 (8.51%) Wireshark
8 2 (4.26%) EIGRP
8 2 (4.26%) Ethereal
8 2 (4.26%) Internet
8 2 (4.26%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (4.26%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
1 4 (8.51%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 4 (8.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 4 (8.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) DB2
2 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.26%) GIS
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) GitLab
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Finance
4 8 (17.02%) Telecoms
5 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Automotive
7 2 (4.26%) Electronics
7 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.26%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Check Point Expert
3 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Administrator
6 2 (4.26%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.26%) DBA
6 2 (4.26%) Network Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (4.26%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Network Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Systems Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.26%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.26%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.26%) HTML
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) Kafka
2 2 (4.26%) OAuth
2 2 (4.26%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.26%) REST
2 2 (4.26%) SOAP
2 2 (4.26%) Software Packaging
2 2 (4.26%) XML
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.02%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.51%) IoT
3 4 (8.51%) Replication
3 4 (8.51%) SCADA
4 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (4.26%) NB-IoT
5 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Check Point GAiA
1 6 (12.77%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (27.66%) Analytics
3 12 (25.53%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) ITIL
4 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
4 10 (21.28%) ETL
5 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
6 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (17.02%) Microservices
6 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
6 8 (17.02%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (14.89%) Business Strategy
7 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.89%) Service Management
8 6 (12.77%) Agile
8 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (12.77%) Data Transformation
8 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (12.77%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) Bicep
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.26%) VBScript
5 1 (2.13%) Perl
5 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) CCNP
3 6 (12.77%) CCSE
3 6 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (10.64%) Degree
4 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) CCIE
6 3 (6.38%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (4.26%) OCP
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.38%) NCSC
4 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) FortiGate
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) OpenView
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Data Guard
4 2 (4.26%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) Kibana
4 2 (4.26%) logstash
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) SCCM
5 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) Fortinet
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle
3 7 (14.89%) Cisco
4 6 (12.77%) CheckPoint
5 5 (10.64%) SAP
6 4 (8.51%) F5
7 3 (6.38%) Juniper
8 2 (4.26%) Cognos
8 2 (4.26%) Databricks
8 2 (4.26%) IBM
8 2 (4.26%) Informatica
8 2 (4.26%) Pega
8 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.13%) Concur
9 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.13%) Splunk
9 1 (2.13%) Verint
9 1 (2.13%) Zscaler