Failover Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Failover Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Failover Clustering 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 325 388 429
Rank change year-on-year +63 +41 +53
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 11 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.053% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.58% 0.47% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 31
10th Percentile £463 - £413
25th Percentile £495 £190 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £220 £550
Median % change year-on-year +164.55% -60.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £589 £266 £575
90th Percentile £661 £407 -
UK median daily rate £575 £220 £538
% change year-on-year +161.25% -59.07% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Failover Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Scotland - 4 £589 - 1
East of England - 4 £467 -
South East +47 3 £658 - 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) OCI
2 3 (27.27%) Nutanix
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Database Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Database Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Clustering
2 8 (72.73%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (45.45%) Linux
4 4 (36.36%) AIX
4 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (36.36%) Solaris
5 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
1 8 (72.73%) Problem Management
2 7 (63.64%) Proactive Maintenance
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Capacity Management
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (36.36%) Proactive Management
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Database Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Power Management
5 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) DBS Check
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
1 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) VMware NSX
3 3 (27.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Data Guard
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Flashback
1 4 (36.36%) Podman
2 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
2 3 (27.27%) WSUS
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (36.36%) Dell
3 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 4 (36.36%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (27.27%) Symantec
5 2 (18.18%) Juniper
5 2 (18.18%) NETGEAR
5 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 2 (18.18%) TP-LINK