Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in the North East

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.13% - 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% - 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £300
75th Percentile - - £325
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £470 £260
% change year-on-year -4.15% +80.58% -49.27%

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 147 45 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 19.52% 15.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 39 6
10th Percentile £313 £200 £228
25th Percentile £368 £341 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £406
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +14.46% -32.29%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £498
90th Percentile £594 £579 £538
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 3
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +19.27% +78.69% -44.55%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Failover Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the North East

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £225 -
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam