Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.016% - 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.094% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £220
Median % change year-on-year - - -60.00%
75th Percentile £588 - £230
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £210
% change year-on-year -11.36% +161.90% -60.93%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,060 611 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.25% 18.73% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 408 375
10th Percentile £325 £263 £243
25th Percentile £402 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £580
90th Percentile £630 £650 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 3 21
10th Percentile £40.42 £45.45 £16.79
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +177.78% -40.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.95 £82.50
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £26.38
% change year-on-year +107.34% +3.29% -54.12%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Failover Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North West - 1 £575 - 1
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet