High Availability Contracts in the South East

High Availability
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 179 157
Rank change year-on-year +60 -22 +7
Contract jobs citing High Availability 80 39 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.45% 0.69% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 0.77% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 70
10th Percentile £341 £348 £385
25th Percentile £438 £386 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £486
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +13.11% +17.88%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £623
90th Percentile £608 £669 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

High Availability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,658 5,075 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.18% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,720 3,524 4,648
10th Percentile £255 £248 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 223 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.37 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.76
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Thames Valley +24 39 £450 +12.50% 7
Berkshire +9 35 £450 +12.50% 5
Hampshire +15 29 £593 -5.20% 7
West Sussex - 15 £475 - 2
Surrey +21 10 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £563 - 1
East Sussex - 3 £490 -
Kent +6 2 - - 3
Home Counties - 2 - -
Oxfordshire +4 1 £425 - 1
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (3.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (7.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (1.25%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 9 (11.25%) GitHub
4 6 (7.50%) Azure API Management
4 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.50%) PaaS
4 6 (7.50%) SaaS
5 5 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (6.25%) IaaS
6 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (3.75%) Datadog
6 3 (3.75%) OCI
6 3 (3.75%) Serverless
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (37.50%) Firewall
2 19 (23.75%) VPN
3 16 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (12.50%) DMZ
5 6 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (7.50%) WAN
6 4 (5.00%) DNS
6 4 (5.00%) Network Security
7 3 (3.75%) BGP
7 3 (3.75%) EIGRP
7 3 (3.75%) LAN
7 3 (3.75%) MPLS
7 3 (3.75%) OSPF
7 3 (3.75%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.75%) Wireless
8 2 (2.50%) DHCP
9 1 (1.25%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (1.25%) SAN
9 1 (1.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.75%) Oracle Database
3 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.50%) SAP HANA
5 5 (6.25%) Couchbase
5 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.25%) MySQL
9 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.25%) Redis
9 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) GitLab
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.25%) JMeter
5 1 (1.25%) JUnit
General
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Banking
2 10 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Military
4 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Electronics
6 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Network Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Juniper Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Database Specialist
5 6 (7.50%) Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Network Operations Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (7.50%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) SAP Technical Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) .NET
1 6 (7.50%) SAP Basis
1 6 (7.50%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (6.25%) Kafka
2 5 (6.25%) Spring
2 5 (6.25%) Vert.x
3 3 (3.75%) REST
3 3 (3.75%) Web Services
3 3 (3.75%) YAML
4 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.50%) Flash
4 2 (2.50%) Node.js
5 1 (1.25%) OpenID
5 1 (1.25%) Prisma
5 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.25%) React
5 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 10 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 10 (12.50%) Replication
2 9 (11.25%) Clustering
3 8 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) NHS
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.25%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) Unix
4 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.75%) Solaris
5 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.25%) VMS
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (21.25%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (20.00%) Migration
4 15 (18.75%) ITSM
5 14 (17.50%) Agile
6 13 (16.25%) DevOps
7 12 (15.00%) Design Patterns
8 11 (13.75%) Architectural Patterns
8 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.50%) Change Control
9 10 (12.50%) Data Migration
10 9 (11.25%) Change Management
10 9 (11.25%) Database Security
11 8 (10.00%) Capacity Management
11 8 (10.00%) Scrum
11 8 (10.00%) Storage Management
11 8 (10.00%) Task Automation
11 8 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
11 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (8.75%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) SQL
2 13 (16.25%) Bash
3 11 (13.75%) Java
4 10 (12.50%) Python
5 8 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.75%) C#
7 6 (7.50%) Ruby
8 3 (3.75%) C
8 3 (3.75%) C++
8 3 (3.75%) Perl
8 3 (3.75%) PHP
9 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.50%) VBScript
10 1 (1.25%) Bicep
10 1 (1.25%) Groovy
10 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) CCNA
4 4 (5.00%) CCNP
4 4 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 3 (3.75%) JNCIA
5 3 (3.75%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (12.50%) vSphere
4 9 (11.25%) Docker
5 6 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (7.50%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.50%) Ceph
7 2 (2.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (2.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (20.00%) Ansible
1 16 (20.00%) Terraform
2 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.75%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.75%) Nagios
5 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.75%) Puppet
6 2 (2.50%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (2.50%) Pacemaker
6 2 (2.50%) Podman
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.50%) SCCM
6 2 (2.50%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.25%) Grafana
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) Packer
7 1 (1.25%) vRealize
7 1 (1.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (32.50%) Oracle
2 23 (28.75%) VMware
3 17 (21.25%) Cisco
4 16 (20.00%) Juniper
5 14 (17.50%) Red Hat
5 14 (17.50%) SolarWinds
6 11 (13.75%) Fortinet
7 10 (12.50%) Blue Coat
7 10 (12.50%) CheckPoint
8 8 (10.00%) SAP
9 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
10 4 (5.00%) Remedy
10 4 (5.00%) Splunk
11 3 (3.75%) Commvault
11 3 (3.75%) F5
11 3 (3.75%) New Relic
11 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.50%) BMC
12 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
12 2 (2.50%) Symantec