High Availability Contracts in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 186 248
Rank change year-on-year +8 +62 +20
Contract jobs citing High Availability 252 282 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.24% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.40% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 169 190
10th Percentile £301 £378 £380
25th Percentile £400 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £597 £576 £613
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £26.25 £43.88 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £59.06 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £61.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% - -
75th Percentile - £65.88 -
90th Percentile - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% +176.04% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +58 82 £495 -10.00% 24
North of England +28 55 £463 -11.90% 13
Scotland +34 37 £475 -8.65% 3
South West -12 32 £630 +14.55% 11
Yorkshire +28 29 £400 -28.09% 4
Midlands -10 26 £400 -19.60% 11
East of England -10 18 £465 -15.55% 13
North West +4 17 £475 -9.52% 7
East Midlands +15 15 £411 -8.67% 2
West Midlands -10 11 £400 -18.37% 9
North East +17 9 £400 - 2
Wales +1 5 £525 - 3
Northern Ireland -1 3 - -
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 15 (5.95%) Confluence
2 12 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.19%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.38%) Teamcenter
4 3 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.03%) AWS
2 47 (18.65%) Azure
3 20 (7.94%) Serverless
4 18 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 17 (6.75%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (4.76%) GCP
6 12 (4.76%) GitHub
7 11 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.37%) PaaS
8 10 (3.97%) IaaS
8 10 (3.97%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.57%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 8 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (2.38%) Azure API Management
12 6 (2.38%) SaaS
13 4 (1.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.24%) Firewall
2 39 (15.48%) VPN
3 21 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 19 (7.54%) Wireless
5 15 (5.95%) WAN
6 13 (5.16%) LAN
6 13 (5.16%) SD-WAN
7 12 (4.76%) 3GPP
7 12 (4.76%) 4G
7 12 (4.76%) DMZ
7 12 (4.76%) LTE
7 12 (4.76%) Radio Access Network
7 12 (4.76%) Wireshark
8 11 (4.37%) Network Security
9 10 (3.97%) DNS
10 8 (3.17%) DHCP
11 5 (1.98%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.98%) Extranet
11 5 (1.98%) IPsec
12 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 35 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (10.32%) Oracle Database
4 22 (8.73%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.95%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.76%) Hadoop
7 12 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.37%) Big Data
9 10 (3.97%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (3.57%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.17%) SAP HANA
12 7 (2.78%) Informix
13 5 (1.98%) Couchbase
13 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (12.30%) Git
2 21 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.54%) JIRA
4 16 (6.35%) GitLab
5 14 (5.56%) JUnit
6 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) MSI
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 27 (10.71%) Banking
4 23 (9.13%) Finance
5 21 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.16%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.98%) Military
9 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Law
10 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (14.29%) Architect
2 35 (13.89%) Network Engineer
3 25 (9.92%) DBA
4 21 (8.33%) Senior
4 21 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.94%) Developer
6 19 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 17 (6.75%) Linux Engineer
8 17 (6.75%) SQL DBA
9 14 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Juniper Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.33%) Kafka
2 18 (7.14%) Spring
3 14 (5.56%) React
3 14 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 13 (5.16%) REST
5 12 (4.76%) Hibernate
5 12 (4.76%) JPA
6 9 (3.57%) .NET
7 8 (3.17%) AWS CDK
7 8 (3.17%) SAP Basis
7 8 (3.17%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (2.78%) Web Services
9 6 (2.38%) LDAP
10 5 (1.98%) Middleware
10 5 (1.98%) Vert.x
11 4 (1.59%) Flash
11 4 (1.59%) YAML
12 3 (1.19%) J2EE
12 3 (1.19%) Node.js
13 2 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.29%) Clustering
2 26 (10.32%) Replication
3 19 (7.54%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.57%) PKI
5 9 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.78%) Blog
7 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.98%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.19%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) NHS
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.43%) Linux
2 42 (16.67%) Windows
3 23 (9.13%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.37%) Solaris
6 9 (3.57%) Unix
7 7 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.98%) AIX
9 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.79%) VMS
11 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (29.37%) Disaster Recovery
2 55 (21.83%) DevOps
3 50 (19.84%) Agile
4 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 27 (10.71%) Microservices
7 27 (10.71%) Scrum
8 26 (10.32%) Containerisation
9 24 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 23 (9.13%) Migration
10 23 (9.13%) Performance Tuning
11 21 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 20 (7.94%) Analytics
12 20 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (7.94%) Project Delivery
13 19 (7.54%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (7.14%) ETL
15 17 (6.75%) ITIL
15 17 (6.75%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.65%) SQL
2 35 (13.89%) Java
3 31 (12.30%) Python
4 23 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 22 (8.73%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.33%) Bash
7 7 (2.78%) C#
7 7 (2.78%) Ruby
8 6 (2.38%) Perl
8 6 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.59%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.59%) PHP
10 3 (1.19%) C
10 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) VBScript
12 1 (0.40%) Bicep
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 67 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.87%) DV Cleared
4 26 (10.32%) Degree
5 12 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.57%) CCNA
7 9 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.78%) CCNP
8 7 (2.78%) RHCE
9 6 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.98%) MCITP
10 5 (1.98%) MCSE
10 5 (1.98%) MCTS
10 5 (1.98%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.17%) SLA
2 4 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.19%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.19%) QA
4 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.79%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (19.84%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (15.48%) Docker
4 13 (5.16%) VMware NSX
4 13 (5.16%) vSphere
5 12 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.97%) Hyper-V
8 7 (2.78%) KVM
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (1.98%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (1.59%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.59%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.19%) XenApp
12 2 (0.79%) Ceph
12 2 (0.79%) Firmware
12 2 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 38 (15.08%) Terraform
3 25 (9.92%) Ansible
4 10 (3.97%) Grafana
4 10 (3.97%) vCenter Server
5 9 (3.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.98%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.59%) Puppet
8 4 (1.59%) vMotion
9 3 (1.19%) Nagios
9 3 (1.19%) SCCM
10 2 (0.79%) Cacti
10 2 (0.79%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.79%) Podman
10 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (20.24%) VMware
2 46 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 45 (17.86%) Oracle
4 37 (14.68%) Cisco
5 28 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 19 (7.54%) Juniper
7 16 (6.35%) SAP
7 16 (6.35%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.16%) Fortinet
9 12 (4.76%) Actix
9 12 (4.76%) Blue Coat
9 12 (4.76%) CheckPoint
9 12 (4.76%) Ericsson
9 12 (4.76%) Huawei
9 12 (4.76%) Nokia
10 11 (4.37%) F5
10 11 (4.37%) Palo Alto
11 10 (3.97%) Atlassian
11 10 (3.97%) Google
12 8 (3.17%) Citrix