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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 142 168
Rank change year-on-year +52 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing High Availability 76 41 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.29% 0.88% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 1.02% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 37 24
10th Percentile £316 £313 £450
25th Percentile £363 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -11.63% +10.26%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £569
90th Percentile £700 £650 £591
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 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -56.62% -12.00% +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 2,979 4,003 5,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.95% 85.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,913 2,440 3,571
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £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 157 362 201
10th Percentile £13.62 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.72 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.19% -38.90% +55.98%
75th Percentile £58.27 £45.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £83.85 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +52.24%

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 10 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 10 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 +40 45 £475 -1.04% 42
Yorkshire +30 30 £525 +22.09% 30
North East -12 1 £550 +41.94% 13
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 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.89%) Confluence
2 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.95%) IIS
5 2 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.84%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) AWS
3 15 (19.74%) GCP
4 13 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (14.47%) Entra ID
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub
6 7 (9.21%) IaaS
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.58%) Slack
9 4 (5.26%) OneDrive
9 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.95%) Serverless
11 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Firewall
2 12 (15.79%) SAN
3 11 (14.47%) Network Security
4 8 (10.53%) NAS
5 7 (9.21%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (7.89%) VPN
7 5 (6.58%) DNS
7 5 (6.58%) HTTP
7 5 (6.58%) SSL
8 4 (5.26%) BGP
8 4 (5.26%) DHCP
8 4 (5.26%) OSPF
8 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
9 3 (3.95%) VLAN
10 2 (2.63%) EIGRP
10 2 (2.63%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.63%) MPLS
10 2 (2.63%) SSH
11 1 (1.32%) DWDM
11 1 (1.32%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) MongoDB
1 11 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.89%) Flink
3 6 (7.89%) MySQL
4 5 (6.58%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.63%) Big Data
5 2 (2.63%) GIS
5 2 (2.63%) MSDE
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.32%) DTS
6 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) GitLab
2 6 (7.89%) JIRA
3 5 (6.58%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.58%) Jasmine
3 5 (6.58%) JUnit
4 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.32%) DBeaver
General
1 12 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Finance
2 7 (9.21%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.89%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Legal
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Architect
2 8 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.21%) Senior
3 7 (9.21%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.89%) Administrator
5 5 (6.58%) Analyst
5 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Lead
6 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) Kafka
2 6 (7.89%) Apache Beam
2 6 (7.89%) RESTful
2 6 (7.89%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (6.58%) JDBC
3 5 (6.58%) LDAP
3 5 (6.58%) Middleware
3 5 (6.58%) OpenAPI
3 5 (6.58%) REST
3 5 (6.58%) Spring
3 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.58%) Swagger
4 4 (5.26%) Spring Batch
4 4 (5.26%) Spring Security
5 3 (3.95%) Node.js
6 2 (2.63%) .NET
6 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.32%) ADO
7 1 (1.32%) ISPF
7 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Clustering
3 5 (6.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (6.58%) Replication
4 4 (5.26%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.32%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.58%) Windows
2 23 (30.26%) Linux
3 19 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (14.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.53%) Unix
5 8 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (9.21%) Solaris
6 7 (9.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (9.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (7.89%) HPUX
8 3 (3.95%) AIX
8 3 (3.95%) CentOS
8 3 (3.95%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (27.63%) DevOps
2 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
3 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
4 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (14.47%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (13.16%) Business Continuity
7 9 (11.84%) BCP
7 9 (11.84%) Project Delivery
8 8 (10.53%) Business Continuity Planning
8 8 (10.53%) Cloud Security
8 8 (10.53%) Migration
8 8 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 7 (9.21%) Agile
9 7 (9.21%) Analytics
9 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (9.21%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.42%) SQL
2 12 (15.79%) Bash
3 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
3 9 (11.84%) Python
4 5 (6.58%) Java
5 4 (5.26%) Perl
5 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.63%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.63%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.32%) CLIST
7 1 (1.32%) Groovy
7 1 (1.32%) JCL
7 1 (1.32%) Korn
7 1 (1.32%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.21%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.58%) CCNP
3 5 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) MCSE
4 4 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.63%) CCIE
5 2 (2.63%) CCNA
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.63%) JNCIE
5 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.95%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (22.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.53%) Docker
3 8 (10.53%) vSphere
4 7 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (9.21%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (6.58%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) KVM
7 1 (1.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (1.32%) Microcode
7 1 (1.32%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.47%) Ansible
3 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.21%) vCenter Server
3 7 (9.21%) WSUS
4 6 (7.89%) Grafana
4 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.58%) Terraform
6 4 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.26%) Puppet
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (3.95%) NetApp OnCommand
7 3 (3.95%) vMotion
8 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.32%) Nagios
8 1 (1.32%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.32%) SCOM
8 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) VMware
2 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.53%) Cisco
4 7 (9.21%) IBM
5 6 (7.89%) Oracle
5 6 (7.89%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.89%) Splunk
6 5 (6.58%) Confluent
7 4 (5.26%) Citrix
7 4 (5.26%) Sun
8 3 (3.95%) Google
8 3 (3.95%) Unisys
9 2 (2.63%) F5
9 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.63%) HP
9 2 (2.63%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (2.63%) Meraki
10 1 (1.32%) Databricks
10 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.32%) Pure Storage