High Availability Contracts in South Wales

High Availability
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 38 41
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing High Availability 6 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.48% 1.19% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 1.49% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £226 £501 -
25th Percentile £285 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -45.12% +2.38% +16.15%
75th Percentile £413 £584 £550
90th Percentile £500 £594 £568
Wales median daily rate £295 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -43.81% - +15.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 268 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.08% 80.00% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £284 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cardiff +5 3 £450 -16.28% 3
Newport - 1 £290 -
Bridgend - 1 £300 -
Gwent - 1 £290 -
High Availability
Wales

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) 802.11
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (33.33%) HSRP
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) FHIR
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) SOLID
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cacti
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) RedGate