High Availability Contracts in the North of England

High Availability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 141 168
Rank change year-on-year +48 +27 -9
Contract jobs citing High Availability 74 44 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.25% 0.92% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.08% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 31
10th Percentile £321 £313 £450
25th Percentile £363 £363 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -10.71% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £559
90th Percentile £705 £650 £600
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -60.00% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.73 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -49.10% -25.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North West +39 44 £475 -2.06% 46
Yorkshire +24 28 £513 +19.19% 15
North East -9 1 £550 +41.94% 10
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 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.11%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.05%) IIS
5 2 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.84%) Azure
2 20 (27.03%) AWS
3 14 (18.92%) GCP
4 12 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
6 7 (9.46%) GitHub
6 7 (9.46%) IaaS
7 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.76%) Slack
8 4 (5.41%) OneDrive
8 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.05%) Serverless
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.92%) Firewall
2 12 (16.22%) SAN
3 11 (14.86%) Network Security
4 8 (10.81%) NAS
5 7 (9.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (6.76%) DNS
6 5 (6.76%) HTTP
6 5 (6.76%) SSL
6 5 (6.76%) VPN
7 4 (5.41%) BGP
7 4 (5.41%) DHCP
7 4 (5.41%) OSPF
7 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.05%) VLAN
9 2 (2.70%) EIGRP
9 2 (2.70%) HTTPS
9 2 (2.70%) MPLS
9 2 (2.70%) SSH
10 1 (1.35%) DWDM
10 1 (1.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.51%) MongoDB
2 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.11%) MySQL
4 5 (6.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.76%) Flink
5 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.70%) GIS
6 2 (2.70%) MSDE
6 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.35%) Big Data
7 1 (1.35%) DTS
7 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) GitLab
2 6 (8.11%) JIRA
3 5 (6.76%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.76%) Jasmine
3 5 (6.76%) JUnit
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.35%) DBeaver
General
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.46%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.11%) Finance
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Legal
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Architect
2 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (10.81%) Senior
3 7 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.11%) Administrator
4 6 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.05%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) Kafka
2 6 (8.11%) RESTful
3 5 (6.76%) Apache Beam
3 5 (6.76%) LDAP
3 5 (6.76%) Middleware
3 5 (6.76%) OpenAPI
3 5 (6.76%) REST
3 5 (6.76%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (6.76%) Spring
3 5 (6.76%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.76%) Swagger
4 4 (5.41%) JDBC
4 4 (5.41%) Spring Batch
4 4 (5.41%) Spring Security
5 3 (4.05%) Node.js
6 2 (2.70%) .NET
6 2 (2.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.35%) ADO
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.46%) Clustering
3 5 (6.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (6.76%) Replication
4 4 (5.41%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.35%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.08%) Linux
1 23 (31.08%) Windows
2 18 (24.32%) Windows Server
3 11 (14.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.81%) Unix
4 8 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (9.46%) Solaris
5 7 (9.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (9.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (8.11%) HPUX
7 3 (4.05%) AIX
7 3 (4.05%) CentOS
7 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (28.38%) DevOps
3 20 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
4 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
5 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (14.86%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (13.51%) Business Continuity
7 10 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (12.16%) BCP
8 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
9 8 (10.81%) Business Continuity Planning
9 8 (10.81%) Change Management
9 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
9 8 (10.81%) Migration
9 8 (10.81%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 7 (9.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (9.46%) Load Balancing
10 7 (9.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) SQL
2 12 (16.22%) Bash
3 9 (12.16%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.16%) Python
4 5 (6.76%) Java
5 4 (5.41%) Perl
5 4 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.70%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.35%) CLIST
7 1 (1.35%) Groovy
7 1 (1.35%) JCL
7 1 (1.35%) Korn
7 1 (1.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
1 12 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.76%) CCNP
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.41%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) MCSE
5 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.70%) CCIE
6 2 (2.70%) CCNA
6 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.70%) JNCIE
6 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.35%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (4.05%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (22.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (20.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.81%) Docker
3 8 (10.81%) vSphere
4 7 (9.46%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (9.46%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.70%) KVM
7 1 (1.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (1.35%) Microcode
7 1 (1.35%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.51%) Ansible
3 8 (10.81%) WSUS
4 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (9.46%) vCenter Server
5 6 (8.11%) Grafana
5 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.11%) Terraform
6 4 (5.41%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.41%) Puppet
7 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (4.05%) NetApp OnCommand
7 3 (4.05%) vMotion
8 1 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.35%) Nagios
8 1 (1.35%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.35%) SCOM
8 1 (1.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) VMware
2 17 (22.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.81%) Cisco
4 7 (9.46%) IBM
5 6 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 6 (8.11%) Splunk
6 5 (6.76%) Confluent
6 5 (6.76%) Oracle
7 4 (5.41%) Citrix
7 4 (5.41%) Sun
8 3 (4.05%) Google
8 3 (4.05%) Unisys
9 2 (2.70%) F5
9 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.70%) HP
9 2 (2.70%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (2.70%) Meraki
10 1 (1.35%) Databricks
10 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.35%) Pure Storage