High Availability Contracts in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 196 252
Rank change year-on-year +19 +56 -2
Contract jobs citing High Availability 235 296 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 1.26% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.41% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 186 177
10th Percentile £325 £378 £378
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £600
90th Percentile £680 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile £41.44 £48.00 -
25th Percentile - £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
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 High Availability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +45 77 £490 -10.91% 29
Scotland +33 47 £525 +3.55% 7
North of England +26 41 £475 -9.52% 39
South West +7 34 £650 +18.18% 14
Midlands 0 21 £400 -19.60% 27
North West +19 19 £480 -8.57% 24
West Midlands +2 13 £400 -18.37% 13
Yorkshire +20 12 £430 -21.82% 13
East of England -27 11 £602 +9.45% 14
North East +25 10 £388 - 2
East Midlands +20 8 £400 -11.11% 14
Wales +4 5 £525 -
Northern Ireland +9 3 - - 4
High Availability
UK

High Availability
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 20 (8.51%) Confluence
2 15 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.13%) SAS
4 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.40%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.55%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.17%) Azure
2 33 (14.04%) AWS
3 13 (5.53%) GitHub
4 12 (5.11%) Entra ID
4 12 (5.11%) IaaS
4 12 (5.11%) Serverless
5 11 (4.68%) OpenShift
5 11 (4.68%) PaaS
6 8 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.55%) Azure API Management
7 6 (2.55%) SaaS
8 5 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.70%) GCP
9 4 (1.70%) OCI
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.57%) Firewall
2 35 (14.89%) VPN
3 19 (8.09%) Cisco Nexus
4 18 (7.66%) Wireless
5 16 (6.81%) WAN
6 15 (6.38%) DNS
6 15 (6.38%) LAN
7 13 (5.53%) 4G
7 13 (5.53%) DHCP
7 13 (5.53%) LTE
7 13 (5.53%) Radio Access Network
7 13 (5.53%) Wireshark
8 12 (5.11%) 3GPP
9 11 (4.68%) SAN
10 10 (4.26%) DMZ
11 8 (3.40%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.55%) Network Security
12 6 (2.55%) SMTP
13 5 (2.13%) MPLS
13 5 (2.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.72%) SQL Server
2 40 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (12.34%) Oracle Database
4 15 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 15 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.98%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.55%) Informix
6 6 (2.55%) SAP HANA
6 6 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.13%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.70%) DB2
9 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.28%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.28%) PowerCenter
9 3 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (9.79%) JIRA
2 22 (9.36%) Git
3 14 (5.96%) JUnit
4 12 (5.11%) GitLab
5 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.70%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Maven
9 1 (0.43%) Postman
9 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.43%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.30%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.34%) Finance
4 24 (10.21%) Banking
5 19 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.09%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.23%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.13%) Marketing
8 4 (1.70%) Electronics
8 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.70%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.70%) Military
9 3 (1.28%) Law
9 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (14.04%) DBA
2 28 (11.91%) Network Engineer
3 26 (11.06%) Senior
4 22 (9.36%) Architect
4 22 (9.36%) Developer
4 22 (9.36%) SQL DBA
5 18 (7.66%) Java Developer
5 18 (7.66%) Linux Engineer
6 17 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.11%) Administrator
7 12 (5.11%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Cisco Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Juniper Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Lead
9 9 (3.83%) Linux Support
9 9 (3.83%) Linux Support Engineer
10 8 (3.40%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.66%) Spring
2 16 (6.81%) REST
3 14 (5.96%) React
3 14 (5.96%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.11%) Flash
4 12 (5.11%) Hibernate
4 12 (5.11%) JPA
5 10 (4.26%) Kafka
6 9 (3.83%) .NET
7 8 (3.40%) AWS CDK
7 8 (3.40%) LDAP
8 7 (2.98%) Web Services
9 6 (2.55%) Middleware
9 6 (2.55%) SAP Basis
9 6 (2.55%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (2.13%) POSIX
10 5 (2.13%) Vert.x
11 4 (1.70%) YAML
12 3 (1.28%) Node.js
12 3 (1.28%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.60%) Clustering
2 28 (11.91%) Replication
3 13 (5.53%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.68%) PKI
5 10 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.98%) Blog
7 7 (2.98%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.55%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.13%) NHS
9 5 (2.13%) NVMe
10 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.70%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.28%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.98%) Linux
2 48 (20.43%) Windows
3 31 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.53%) Unix
6 9 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.40%) Solaris
8 7 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.55%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (2.13%) AIX
11 4 (1.70%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.43%) VMS
13 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.66%) Disaster Recovery
2 56 (23.83%) Agile
3 40 (17.02%) DevOps
4 30 (12.77%) Scrum
5 29 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (11.49%) Mentoring
6 27 (11.49%) Migration
7 25 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (10.21%) Project Delivery
9 22 (9.36%) Capacity Management
10 21 (8.94%) Microservices
10 21 (8.94%) Problem Management
10 21 (8.94%) Roadmaps
11 19 (8.09%) ITIL
12 17 (7.23%) Computer Science
12 17 (7.23%) Project Management
13 16 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (6.81%) Service Management
14 15 (6.38%) Data Protection
14 15 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.85%) SQL
2 33 (14.04%) PowerShell
3 29 (12.34%) Java
4 24 (10.21%) Python
5 22 (9.36%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.38%) Bash
7 12 (5.11%) Perl
8 9 (3.83%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.98%) C#
9 7 (2.98%) Ruby
10 6 (2.55%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.70%) C
11 4 (1.70%) PHP
12 3 (1.28%) C++
12 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.85%) VBScript
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
14 1 (0.43%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 88 (37.45%) Security Cleared
2 65 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.74%) DV Cleared
4 25 (10.64%) Degree
5 16 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.53%) CCNA
7 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.83%) CCNP
9 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.13%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.13%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.13%) MCITP
11 5 (2.13%) MCSE
11 5 (2.13%) MCTS
11 5 (2.13%) SAP Certification
12 4 (1.70%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.70%) RHCE
13 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.13%) SLA
2 4 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.85%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) QA
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 38 (16.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.62%) Docker
4 13 (5.53%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.11%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.11%) vSphere
6 11 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (4.26%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.55%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.55%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (2.55%) Terminal Services
9 5 (2.13%) NFS
9 5 (2.13%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (1.70%) GPFS
10 4 (1.70%) KVM
11 3 (1.28%) Firmware
12 2 (0.85%) Ceph
12 2 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.06%) Ansible
3 21 (8.94%) Terraform
4 13 (5.53%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 9 (3.83%) Grafana
7 6 (2.55%) Data Guard
7 6 (2.55%) vMotion
8 5 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.13%) Puppet
8 5 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (1.28%) Nagios
11 2 (0.85%) Kibana
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.85%) SCCM
11 2 (0.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 51 (21.70%) VMware
2 49 (20.85%) Oracle
3 40 (17.02%) Microsoft
4 32 (13.62%) Cisco
5 26 (11.06%) Red Hat
6 22 (9.36%) Juniper
7 16 (6.81%) SAP
7 16 (6.81%) SolarWinds
8 14 (5.96%) Atlassian
9 13 (5.53%) Actix
9 13 (5.53%) Nokia
10 12 (5.11%) Ericsson
10 12 (5.11%) Huawei
11 11 (4.68%) Fortinet
12 10 (4.26%) Blue Coat
12 10 (4.26%) CheckPoint
12 10 (4.26%) Citrix
13 7 (2.98%) Commvault
14 6 (2.55%) Infoblox
15 5 (2.13%) F5