Failover Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 428 481
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 -74
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 11 33 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.14% 0.091%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.47% 0.91% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 30 23
10th Percentile - £408 £220
25th Percentile £190 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £266 £575 £478
90th Percentile £407 - £543
UK median daily rate £220 £538 £464
% change year-on-year -59.07% +15.90% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,343 3,628 4,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.27% 15.01% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 2,655 3,001
10th Percentile £210 £274 £231
25th Percentile £375 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £594
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £566 £564
% change year-on-year -9.01% +0.40% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 142 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £36.94
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.50 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -45.22% +158.08% -23.17%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
North of England +35 3 £220 -60.00% 1
Midlands +25 3 £200 -46.67% 1
South West +18 3 £410 -25.45% 2
West Midlands - 3 £200 -
North West - 3 £220 -
South East +10 2 - -
Failover Clustering
UK

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) VLAN
2 6 (54.55%) VoIP
2 6 (54.55%) VPN
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (18.18%) NAS
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) Skype
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 6 (54.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (54.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
1 1 (9.09%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (54.55%) Driving Licence
3 3 (27.27%) PKI
4 2 (18.18%) Fat Client
4 2 (18.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
3 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (63.64%) Windows 10
4 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (54.55%) Mac OS
6 3 (27.27%) Linux
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
1 6 (54.55%) Mobile Device Management
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (54.55%) Quality Management
2 2 (18.18%) Database Mirroring
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Key Management
3 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.09%) Compliance Management
3 1 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Server Management
3 1 (9.09%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) MCSE
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (90.91%) Hyper-V
3 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (27.27%) vSphere
5 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) SCCM
2 6 (54.55%) Autotask
2 6 (54.55%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Ansible
5 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (9.09%) Nessus
5 1 (9.09%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
5 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (81.82%) VMware
3 6 (54.55%) Apple
3 6 (54.55%) Datto
4 1 (9.09%) BEA
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) NETGEAR
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) Symantec