Failover Clustering Contracts

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 568 639
Rank change year-on-year +52 +71 +169
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 14 19 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.044% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 37
10th Percentile £466 £160 £388
25th Percentile £550 £190 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £220 £513
Median % change year-on-year +164.55% -57.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £597 £516 £550
90th Percentile £643 £614 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £220 £513
% change year-on-year +164.55% -57.07% +10.22%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,875 5,379 8,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.39% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 3,842 6,095
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -5.59% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.36 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.86 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
UK excluding London +44 10 £582 +164.55% 18
England +50 8 £550 +150.00% 32
Work from Home +42 5 £589 +5.18% 14
Scotland - 4 £589 -
South East +54 3 £658 - 2
East of England - 3 £467 - 4
London +35 2 £550 -1.79% 13

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) OCI
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Nutanix
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (21.43%) VSAN
3 2 (14.29%) DHCP
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) MPLS
3 2 (14.29%) SSH
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) MariaDB
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Database Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Database Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Clustering
2 7 (50.00%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (28.57%) AIX
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (14.29%) CentOS
6 2 (14.29%) SUSE
6 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
1 7 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 6 (42.86%) Proactive Maintenance
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Capacity Management
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) Database Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Proactive Management
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) DBS Check
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 5 (35.71%) Docker
3 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
5 3 (21.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Data Guard
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Flashback
2 3 (21.43%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (21.43%) Podman
2 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
2 3 (21.43%) WSUS
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Dell
3 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
4 3 (21.43%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Symantec
5 2 (14.29%) Citrix
5 2 (14.29%) Juniper
5 2 (14.29%) NETGEAR
5 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (14.29%) TP-LINK
5 2 (14.29%) Veeam
5 2 (14.29%) Zerto