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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 158 184
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 -46
Contract jobs citing High Availability 55 44 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.90% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 36
10th Percentile £288 £463 £363
25th Percentile £375 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +9.09% +8.15%
75th Percentile £520 £569 £560
90th Percentile £610 £686 £581
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
England median hourly rate £44.80 £68.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year -34.60% +186.49% +59.40%

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 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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
Yorkshire +28 29 £400 -28.09% 4
North West +4 17 £475 -9.52% 7
North East +17 9 £400 - 2
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 10 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.82%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
2 14 (25.45%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (18.18%) Azure
3 10 (18.18%) GCP
4 9 (16.36%) Amazon S3
4 9 (16.36%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 9 (16.36%) Serverless
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.82%) OCI
6 1 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (7.27%) VPN
3 1 (1.82%) BGP
3 1 (1.82%) DHCP
3 1 (1.82%) DMZ
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.82%) HTTP
3 1 (1.82%) LAN
3 1 (1.82%) MPLS
3 1 (1.82%) OSPF
3 1 (1.82%) SMTP
3 1 (1.82%) VLAN
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
3 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (21.82%) Relational Database
2 10 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 10 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 9 (16.36%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (16.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (16.36%) Big Data
3 9 (16.36%) BigQuery
4 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.82%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (43.64%) Git
2 17 (30.91%) Jenkins
3 13 (23.64%) JUnit
4 7 (12.73%) GitLab
5 3 (5.45%) JIRA
6 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.82%) Maven
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.82%) Postman
6 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (23.64%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.91%) Banking
3 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Developer
1 14 (25.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (23.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.18%) Architect
4 9 (16.36%) Junior
4 9 (16.36%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.91%) Network Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Junior DevOps
6 5 (9.09%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) DBA
7 4 (7.27%) Junior Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Junior Java Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Lead
7 4 (7.27%) Lead Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Network Operations Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) Spring
1 13 (23.64%) Spring Boot
2 12 (21.82%) Hibernate
2 12 (21.82%) JPA
2 12 (21.82%) React
2 12 (21.82%) REST
3 11 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.82%) Akka
4 1 (1.82%) JMS
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) LDAP
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
4 1 (1.82%) Web Services
4 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Clustering
2 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.82%) PKI
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Windows
2 6 (10.91%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) DevOps
2 23 (41.82%) Containerisation
3 22 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (32.73%) Agile
5 16 (29.09%) CI/CD
6 13 (23.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (23.64%) Scrum
6 13 (23.64%) Unit Testing
7 12 (21.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 12 (21.82%) Front End Development
7 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
7 12 (21.82%) Microservices
8 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 10 (18.18%) ETL
8 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (16.36%) Analytics
9 9 (16.36%) Data Governance
9 9 (16.36%) Data Integration
9 9 (16.36%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (16.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) Java
2 17 (30.91%) Python
3 12 (21.82%) SQL
3 12 (21.82%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.91%) Bash
5 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Ruby
6 1 (1.82%) Scala
6 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.45%) DV Cleared
4 10 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 10 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Degree
6 2 (3.64%) MCSE
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.82%) CCNA
7 1 (1.82%) CCNP
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.82%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 28 (50.91%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.82%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (50.91%) Kubernetes
2 22 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.82%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.18%) Google
3 6 (10.91%) Cisco
4 5 (9.09%) Juniper
5 3 (5.45%) VMware
6 2 (3.64%) Oracle
6 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.82%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.82%) Citrix
7 1 (1.82%) Databricks
7 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.82%) HP
7 1 (1.82%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) Symantec