Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in the South East

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 - 214
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.026% - 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.17% - 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.98%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £468 £470 £525
% change year-on-year -0.53% -10.48% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Failover Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 585 613 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.49% 14.69% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 460 498
10th Percentile £255 £267 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £625
90th Percentile £614 £685 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 28
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.15 £22.80
25th Percentile £18.97 £26.13 £29.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £49.07
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% -30.70% +44.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.37 £69.45
90th Percentile £86.32 £44.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.83 £49.00
% change year-on-year -4.98% -24.83% +96.00%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Failover Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the South East

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire - 1 £325 -
Thames Valley - 1 £325 -
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium