High Availability Contracts in Northern Ireland

High Availability
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 24 21 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing High Availability 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.03% 2.01% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 2.65% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 113 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 80
10th Percentile £154 £212 £165
25th Percentile £295 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £660 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Northern Ireland

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Northern Ireland

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -5 8 £325 - 14
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Ant
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
1 4 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (37.50%) Law
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Equities
2 4 (50.00%) Derivative
2 4 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
3 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) OO
1 4 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (50.00%) SDLC
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle