Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.032% - 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% - 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £339
25th Percentile £513 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £410
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.45%
75th Percentile £538 - £454
90th Percentile - - £470
England median daily rate £525 £550 £220
% change year-on-year -4.55% +150.00% -58.10%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 417 323 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.50% 18.99% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 252 321
10th Percentile £313 £355 £213
25th Percentile £450 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £641 £631 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £46.40 £71.74 -
25th Percentile £50.75 £74.35 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.70 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% +96.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile £96.50 £80.83 £70.44
90th Percentile £119.00 £82.11 £76.58
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the South West

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Failover Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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 4 April 2026. 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
Bristol - 1 £525 -
Failover Clustering
England

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) SAP