High Availability Contracts in South Yorkshire

High Availability
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 52
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing High Availability 12 18 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.22% 3.71% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 4.23% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 1
10th Percentile £341 £305 -
25th Percentile £376 £448 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% -7.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £459 £550 -
90th Percentile £521 £625 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% -30.43% +2.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 510 426 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.44% 87.84% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 240 282
10th Percentile £293 £318 £300
25th Percentile £383 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -11.31% +12.75%
75th Percentile £546 £580 £675
90th Percentile £638 £638 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 13
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 -
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% +20.70% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 -
90th Percentile - £21.90 £17.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -28.95% +1.60%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in South Yorkshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in South Yorkshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in South Yorkshire

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in South Yorkshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Sheffield -11 12 £407 -19.82% 11
High Availability
Yorkshire

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) GCP
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) DWDM
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 4 (33.33%) Liquibase
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Financial Institution
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Programmer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) ISPF
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Beam
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (8.33%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) zOS
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Change Management
5 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
5 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (33.33%) Data Security
5 4 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (16.67%) B2B
7 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) ActionScript
3 2 (16.67%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JCL
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) CLIST
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (16.67%) IBM Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (8.33%) Microcode
3 1 (8.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Google
2 5 (41.67%) Splunk
3 3 (25.00%) IBM
4 2 (16.67%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) Brocade
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (8.33%) Databricks
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) EMC
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) NetApp
5 1 (8.33%) Pure Storage