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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 16 16 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.76% 3.86% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 4.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 0
10th Percentile £384 £404 -
25th Percentile £402 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% - -
75th Percentile £500 £550 -
90th Percentile £523 £635 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -12.37% -6.64% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 549 365 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.82% 87.95% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 196 229
10th Percentile £301 £395 £400
25th Percentile £375 £443 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £700
90th Percentile £625 £641 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -8.93% -14.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +43.08% -36.64% +13.29%

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Sheffield

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing High Availability

High Availability
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 4 (25.00%) CICS
2 2 (12.50%) CMS
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) GCP
2 9 (56.25%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) NAS
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.25%) DWDM
2 1 (6.25%) FCoE
2 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Multicast
2 1 (6.25%) NGFW
2 1 (6.25%) SMS
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (37.50%) Liquibase
3 4 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (6.25%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Financial Institution
3 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) z/OS Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (37.50%) REST
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) ISPF
3 1 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (31.25%) Public Cloud
3 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (18.75%) Mainframe
5 2 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (12.50%) VSAM
6 1 (6.25%) Clustering
6 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (6.25%) LPAR
6 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) zOS
3 1 (6.25%) MVS
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Solaris
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Automation
3 9 (56.25%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
6 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (37.50%) Data Security
6 6 (37.50%) Microservices
6 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 5 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (25.00%) Agile
8 4 (25.00%) Change Management
8 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (25.00%) Cryptography
8 4 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Go
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) JCL
4 3 (18.75%) COBOL
5 1 (6.25%) CLIST
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) REXX
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) HP ASE
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) KVM
3 1 (6.25%) Microcode
3 1 (6.25%) NFS
3 1 (6.25%) RACF
3 1 (6.25%) SRDF
3 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Ansible
1 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (37.50%) Grafana
3 6 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google
1 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) EMC
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
3 2 (12.50%) Pure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) Brocade
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) VMware