High Availability Contracts in the Thames Valley

High Availability
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 132 136
Rank change year-on-year +33 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing High Availability 37 20 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.39% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.75% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 20
10th Percentile £335 £315 £461
25th Percentile £363 £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £546
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.33% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £628
90th Percentile £585 £725 £641
South East median daily rate £483 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -12.27% +12.82% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,661 3,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £576
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +12 33 £450 -2.70% 5
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £563 - 3
Oxfordshire +5 1 £425 - 2
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Azure API Management
2 6 (16.22%) PaaS
2 6 (16.22%) SaaS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (45.95%) Firewall
2 15 (40.54%) Cisco Nexus
3 13 (35.14%) VPN
4 9 (24.32%) DMZ
5 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (10.81%) Network Security
7 3 (8.11%) BGP
7 3 (8.11%) EIGRP
7 3 (8.11%) MPLS
7 3 (8.11%) OSPF
8 1 (2.70%) DNS
8 1 (2.70%) LAN
8 1 (2.70%) SNMP
8 1 (2.70%) WAN
8 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle Database
2 5 (13.51%) SAP HANA
3 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Redis
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 9 (24.32%) Banking
1 9 (24.32%) Investment Banking
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Network Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Cisco Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Juniper Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Consultant
3 6 (16.22%) Network Operations Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 5 (13.51%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (13.51%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Backup Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Commvault Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.11%) VMware Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) DBA
7 1 (2.70%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) SAP Basis
2 5 (13.51%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (8.11%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) Web Services
4 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.41%) Flash
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
5 1 (2.70%) OpenID
5 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.70%) SOAP
5 1 (2.70%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.70%) XML
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) ITSM
2 11 (29.73%) Design Patterns
3 10 (27.03%) Architectural Patterns
4 9 (24.32%) Change Control
5 8 (21.62%) Change Management
5 8 (21.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (16.22%) Migration
7 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) API Management
8 5 (13.51%) Microservices
8 5 (13.51%) Network Architecture
8 5 (13.51%) Technical Architecture
9 4 (10.81%) Affinity Analysis
9 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
9 4 (10.81%) Security Architecture
10 3 (8.11%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) PHP
3 3 (8.11%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Ruby
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) CCNA
2 4 (10.81%) CCNP
2 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) JNCIA
3 3 (8.11%) JNCIS
4 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Cisco
2 15 (40.54%) Juniper
3 11 (29.73%) Oracle
4 10 (27.03%) Fortinet
5 9 (24.32%) Blue Coat
5 9 (24.32%) CheckPoint
6 7 (18.92%) VMware
7 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
7 5 (13.51%) SAP
8 3 (8.11%) Commvault
9 2 (5.41%) BMC
9 2 (5.41%) Remedy
10 1 (2.70%) Databricks
10 1 (2.70%) Kenna
10 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.70%) Veeam