High Availability Contracts in Sheffield

High Availability
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 44 46 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing High Availability 6 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 2.37% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.56% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £370 £235 -
25th Percentile £400 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% - -
75th Percentile £525 £550 -
90th Percentile £570 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £485 £550
% change year-on-year -7.22% -11.82% -20.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Beam
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) LPAR
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) B2B
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) ActionScript
1 2 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) CLIST
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) JCL
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) HP ASE
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (16.67%) Microcode
2 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Nagios
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk