Failover Clustering Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 161 164
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 -26
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 3 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.094% 0.19% 0.080%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.73% 1.13% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £359 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% - -
75th Percentile £454 £575 -
90th Percentile £470 - -
England median daily rate £210 £544 £464
% change year-on-year -61.38% +17.25% +3.06%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 410 621 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.84% 16.86% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 504 388
10th Percentile £205 £314 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +10.19%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £62.43 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £69.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.03% +245.00% -54.25%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £87.05 £55.03
England median hourly rate £27.00 £56.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -52.00% +161.63% -7.37%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the South West

Failover Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Wiltshire - 2 £410 - 2
Gloucestershire +1 1 - -
Failover Clustering
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Skype
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Database Mirroring
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) BEA