High Availability Contracts in the South West

High Availability
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 118 122
Rank change year-on-year +44 +4 +33
Contract jobs citing High Availability 37 39 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.21% 1.22% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.47% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 36
10th Percentile £466 £329 £400
25th Percentile £522 £374 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £605 £706 £575
90th Percentile £673 £744 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - £63.60
England median hourly rate £26.73 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -49.10% -25.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the South West

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the South West

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the South West

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the South West

High Availability
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 High Availability within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire +38 15 £563 +7.14% 5
Bristol +3 10 £463 -28.85% 9
Gloucestershire +19 4 £563 +12.50% 7
Dorset - 4 £550 -
Somerset - 3 £625 - 1
High Availability
England

High Availability
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 12 (32.43%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) IIS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) BASE24
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (8.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) DNS
2 4 (10.81%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) DHCP
3 2 (5.41%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.41%) SAN
3 2 (5.41%) VoIP
3 2 (5.41%) VSAN
3 2 (5.41%) WebEx
4 1 (2.70%) ATM
4 1 (2.70%) BGP
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.70%) HSRP
4 1 (2.70%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.70%) LAN
4 1 (2.70%) OSPF
4 1 (2.70%) SSH
4 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.70%) VPN
4 1 (2.70%) WAN
4 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.70%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle9i Database
2 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (45.95%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (8.11%) DevOps Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) Flash
2 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Clustering
2 3 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Replication
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) EMV
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.41%) VMS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 14 (37.84%) NsoIT
1 14 (37.84%) Power Management
1 14 (37.84%) Service Management
1 14 (37.84%) System Testing
1 14 (37.84%) Validation
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) Computer Science
2 12 (32.43%) Critical Thinking
2 12 (32.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (32.43%) Waterfall
3 10 (27.03%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (18.92%) Task Automation
4 7 (18.92%) Workflow
5 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
5 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (13.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Bash
1 6 (16.22%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
2 4 (10.81%) Perl
3 1 (2.70%) C
3 1 (2.70%) C++
3 1 (2.70%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 30 (81.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (64.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (37.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (32.43%) CCNA
4 12 (32.43%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (32.43%) Degree
4 12 (32.43%) Master's Degree
5 5 (13.51%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) CCNP
6 2 (5.41%) MCSA
6 2 (5.41%) MCSE
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) VMware ESXi
1 15 (40.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (37.84%) VMware NSX
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.70%) NFS
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.70%) Samba
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) vCenter Server
2 8 (21.62%) Ansible
3 7 (18.92%) Terraform
4 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
5 4 (10.81%) Grafana
5 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.41%) Kibana
6 2 (5.41%) logstash
6 2 (5.41%) SCOM
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.70%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.70%) Nagios
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) Puppet
7 1 (2.70%) SELinux
7 1 (2.70%) WSUS
7 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) VMware
2 17 (45.95%) Cisco
3 12 (32.43%) Atlassian
4 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.70%) HP
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle
7 1 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds