High Availability Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

High Availability
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.80% 0.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -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 226 150 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.76% 78.13% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 66 78
10th Percentile £263 £146 £204
25th Percentile £325 £168 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +12.12% -15.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £529
90th Percentile £634 £650 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 17 9
10th Percentile £12.81 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +27.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £16.00
90th Percentile - £43.00 £18.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

High Availability job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing High Availability

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 4 November 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 -2 2 £500 - 1
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP