High Availability Contracts in the North of England

High Availability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 162 177
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -30
Contract jobs citing High Availability 35 56 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.74% 0.94% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.04% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 42
10th Percentile £300 £450 £363
25th Percentile £363 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +12.30% +16.88%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £559
90th Percentile £665 £569 £643
England median daily rate £550 £550 £566
% change year-on-year - -2.87% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -42.50% +192.76% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

High Availability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,068 5,410 6,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.90% 91.06% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,518 3,774 4,705
10th Percentile £280 £300 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £556
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 217 268
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.65
25th Percentile £12.40 £14.75 £13.09
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% +49.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £44.07 £45.06 £32.97
90th Percentile £52.69 £65.00 £51.99
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +56.25% -

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
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 High Availability within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
North West +13 18 £485 -7.60% 18
North East +29 10 £388 -
Yorkshire +13 7 £325 -40.91% 5
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) OCI
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) Firewall
2 8 (22.86%) VPN
3 7 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (14.29%) DMZ
5 3 (8.57%) LAN
5 3 (8.57%) WAN
6 2 (5.71%) BGP
6 2 (5.71%) EIGRP
6 2 (5.71%) MPLS
6 2 (5.71%) OSPF
6 2 (5.71%) SAN
7 1 (2.86%) DHCP
7 1 (2.86%) DNS
7 1 (2.86%) HTTP
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security
7 1 (2.86%) SMTP
7 1 (2.86%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.71%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) OLTP
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) DBA
2 5 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.57%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Support
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Spring
1 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.71%) JPA
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) React
2 2 (5.71%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.86%) Akka
3 1 (2.86%) JMS
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Clustering
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Cyberattack
3 2 (5.71%) PKI
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.43%) Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Agile
1 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 6 (17.14%) Change Management
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) ITIL
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 5 (14.29%) Scrum
6 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Service Management
6 4 (11.43%) Software Deployment
7 3 (8.57%) Information Governance
7 3 (8.57%) Information Security
7 3 (8.57%) Release Management
7 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
7 3 (8.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) CCNA
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.57%) Degree
5 2 (5.71%) A+ Certification
5 2 (5.71%) CCENT
5 2 (5.71%) CCNP
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.71%) JNCIA
5 2 (5.71%) JNCIS
5 2 (5.71%) MCSA
5 2 (5.71%) MCSE
6 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.71%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.86%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.86%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.86%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Cisco
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Juniper
3 5 (14.29%) VMware
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) Citrix
6 1 (2.86%) Databricks
6 1 (2.86%) F5
6 1 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) HP
6 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.86%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) Symantec