High Availability Contracts in Preston

High Availability
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 14 15 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 5.80% 1.82% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 2.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £438 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
Lancashire median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 50 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 92.75% 90.91% 98.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 28
10th Percentile £350 £356 £303
25th Percentile £447 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £571 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +30.62% +4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £743 £532
90th Percentile £630 £981 £771
Lancashire median daily rate £533 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 39
10th Percentile £24.76 £12.20 £23.60
25th Percentile £26.88 - £29.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -62.21% +6.99%
75th Percentile £31.07 £19.05 £49.52
90th Percentile £43.39 £46.18 £54.03
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Preston

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Preston

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Preston

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware