High Availability Contracts in the South East

High Availability
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 176 153
Rank change year-on-year +58 -23 +29
Contract jobs citing High Availability 82 39 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.43% 0.69% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 0.77% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 84
10th Percentile £363 £294 -
25th Percentile £459 £381 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £486
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.11% +8.06%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £636
90th Percentile £659 £677 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £26.25 - -
25th Percentile £52.76 - -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
75th Percentile - £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £44.80 £68.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year -34.60% +186.49% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the South East.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
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 High Availability within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 June 2024. 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
Thames Valley +33 36 £425 -22.73% 8
Berkshire +17 35 £425 -22.73% 7
Hampshire +11 35 £609 +57.10% 5
West Sussex - 15 £475 - 1
Surrey +19 11 - - 8
East Sussex - 3 £490 -
Kent +10 2 - - 3
Home Counties - 2 - -
Oxfordshire 0 1 £425 -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 8 (9.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.22%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) AWS
3 8 (9.76%) GitHub
4 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.32%) Azure API Management
5 6 (7.32%) IaaS
5 6 (7.32%) PaaS
5 6 (7.32%) SaaS
6 4 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (3.66%) Datadog
7 3 (3.66%) OCI
8 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.44%) Serverless
8 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (39.02%) Firewall
2 22 (26.83%) VPN
3 15 (18.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (13.41%) DMZ
5 8 (9.76%) WAN
6 6 (7.32%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (4.88%) DNS
7 4 (4.88%) Network Security
8 3 (3.66%) LAN
8 3 (3.66%) Wireless
9 2 (2.44%) DHCP
10 1 (1.22%) BGP
10 1 (1.22%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.22%) MPLS
10 1 (1.22%) NX-OS
10 1 (1.22%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (1.22%) OSPF
10 1 (1.22%) SAN
10 1 (1.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.41%) Oracle Database
3 8 (9.76%) SAP HANA
4 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.10%) Couchbase
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.22%) MySQL
8 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) GitLab
2 5 (6.10%) Git
3 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.44%) JIRA
6 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.22%) JMeter
6 1 (1.22%) JUnit
6 1 (1.22%) MSI
General
1 26 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Banking
2 11 (13.41%) Investment Banking
3 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.10%) Military
5 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Finance
7 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Electronics
7 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.44%) Marketing
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Network Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Cisco Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Juniper Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Consultant
4 8 (9.76%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 8 (9.76%) SAP Consultant
4 8 (9.76%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 8 (9.76%) Senior
4 8 (9.76%) Technical Consultant
5 6 (7.32%) Database Specialist
5 6 (7.32%) Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Platform Specialist
6 5 (6.10%) Architect
6 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) SAP Basis
1 8 (9.76%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (6.10%) Kafka
2 5 (6.10%) Spring
2 5 (6.10%) Vert.x
3 3 (3.66%) .NET
3 3 (3.66%) Web Services
3 3 (3.66%) YAML
4 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.22%) LDAP
5 1 (1.22%) Prisma
5 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.22%) React
5 1 (1.22%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.22%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 9 (10.98%) Replication
4 8 (9.76%) Public Cloud
5 7 (8.54%) Clustering
6 5 (6.10%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.44%) NHS
8 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.22%) Life Science
9 1 (1.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.61%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Windows
3 7 (8.54%) Unix
4 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.66%) Solaris
5 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.44%) VMS
5 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (18.29%) ITSM
4 14 (17.07%) Migration
5 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.63%) DevOps
6 12 (14.63%) Technical Architecture
7 11 (13.41%) Agile
7 11 (13.41%) Architectural Patterns
7 11 (13.41%) Change Control
7 11 (13.41%) Design Patterns
8 10 (12.20%) Change Management
9 9 (10.98%) Analytics
9 9 (10.98%) Network Monitoring
10 8 (9.76%) Database Security
11 7 (8.54%) Capacity Management
11 7 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.54%) Data Migration
11 7 (8.54%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (8.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.63%) Bash
2 11 (13.41%) Java
3 10 (12.20%) Python
3 10 (12.20%) SQL
4 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.32%) Ruby
6 4 (4.88%) C#
7 3 (3.66%) C
7 3 (3.66%) C++
7 3 (3.66%) Perl
7 3 (3.66%) PHP
8 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.44%) VBScript
9 1 (1.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.22%) Groovy
9 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.66%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.44%) CCNA
5 2 (2.44%) CCNP
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.22%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 19 (23.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (17.07%) Active Directory
3 11 (13.41%) vSphere
4 9 (10.98%) VMware NSX
5 8 (9.76%) Docker
6 7 (8.54%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.66%) XenApp
8 2 (2.44%) Ceph
8 2 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (18.29%) Ansible
1 15 (18.29%) Terraform
2 13 (15.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (6.10%) FortiGate
4 5 (6.10%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.66%) Nagios
5 3 (3.66%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.66%) Puppet
5 3 (3.66%) SCCM
6 2 (2.44%) Pacemaker
6 2 (2.44%) Podman
6 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.22%) Grafana
7 1 (1.22%) Kibana
7 1 (1.22%) Packer
7 1 (1.22%) SELinux
7 1 (1.22%) vRealize
7 1 (1.22%) VxRail
7 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) VMware
2 23 (28.05%) Oracle
3 17 (20.73%) Cisco
4 15 (18.29%) Juniper
5 14 (17.07%) SolarWinds
6 13 (15.85%) Red Hat
7 12 (14.63%) Fortinet
8 11 (13.41%) Blue Coat
8 11 (13.41%) CheckPoint
9 10 (12.20%) SAP
10 5 (6.10%) F5
10 5 (6.10%) Remedy
11 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
11 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.88%) Splunk
12 3 (3.66%) Citrix
12 3 (3.66%) Commvault
12 3 (3.66%) New Relic
13 2 (2.44%) Ivanti
13 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto