High Availability Contracts in the North West

High Availability
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 76 115 124
Rank change year-on-year +39 +9 +20
Contract jobs citing High Availability 44 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.24% 0.80% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 0.93% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 20
10th Percentile £319 £369 £448
25th Percentile £363 £427 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -7.61% +16.66%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £550
90th Percentile £660 £938 £627
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +23 23 £510 +6.25% 37
Cheshire +8 11 £325 -35.00% 8
Lancashire +6 4 £438 - 14
Merseyside +6 3 £625 -
Cumbria - 2 - -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (6.82%) IIS
5 2 (4.55%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) AWS
3 11 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.91%) IaaS
5 6 (13.64%) GitHub
6 4 (9.09%) GCP
6 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (6.82%) Serverless
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
1 11 (25.00%) Network Security
2 7 (15.91%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (13.64%) SAN
4 5 (11.36%) DNS
5 4 (9.09%) BGP
5 4 (9.09%) DHCP
5 4 (9.09%) OSPF
5 4 (9.09%) VPN
6 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.55%) EIGRP
7 2 (4.55%) MPLS
7 2 (4.55%) NAS
7 2 (4.55%) VLAN
8 1 (2.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.55%) GIS
3 2 (4.55%) MSDE
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.27%) DTS
4 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.09%) Legal
3 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Administrator
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Architect
5 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Lead
5 3 (6.82%) VMWare Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Wintel Administrator
6 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Node.js
2 2 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.82%) Clustering
2 3 (6.82%) Replication
3 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Windows
2 18 (40.91%) Windows Server
3 11 (25.00%) Linux
4 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (13.64%) Unix
7 4 (9.09%) HPUX
7 4 (9.09%) Solaris
8 2 (4.55%) AIX
8 2 (4.55%) CentOS
8 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Business Continuity
4 9 (20.45%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) BCP
6 7 (15.91%) Business Continuity Planning
6 7 (15.91%) Change Management
6 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
6 7 (15.91%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 6 (13.64%) Analytics
7 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (13.64%) Line Management
7 6 (13.64%) Load Balancing
8 5 (11.36%) Information Security
8 5 (11.36%) ITIL
8 5 (11.36%) ITSM
8 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 4 (9.09%) Bash
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) Perl
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.09%) CCNP
4 4 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) MCSE
4 4 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.55%) CCIE
5 2 (4.55%) CCNA
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) JNCIE
5 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (34.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (18.18%) vSphere
4 7 (15.91%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (15.91%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.55%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (15.91%) vCenter Server
1 7 (15.91%) WSUS
2 5 (11.36%) Ansible
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (6.82%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
3 3 (6.82%) Puppet
3 3 (6.82%) vMotion
4 2 (4.55%) Terraform
5 1 (2.27%) Perfmon
5 1 (2.27%) SCOM
5 1 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) VMware
2 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Cisco
4 4 (9.09%) Citrix
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.55%) F5
6 2 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.55%) IBM
6 2 (4.55%) Meraki
6 2 (4.55%) Sun
7 1 (2.27%) Unisys