Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 510 571
Rank change year-on-year -110 +61 +52
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 26 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.044% 0.041%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.39% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 15
10th Percentile - £464 £160
25th Percentile £449 £530 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £220
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +161.25% -57.59%
75th Percentile £542 £589 £516
90th Percentile £596 £654 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £582 £220
% change year-on-year -22.77% +164.55% -57.07%

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 6,669 4,669 5,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 15.77% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,546 3,136 3,832
10th Percentile £325 £304 £298
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 50 99
10th Percentile £19.14 £13.75 £14.88
25th Percentile £22.41 £19.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £51.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.83 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -5.88%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Failover Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the UK

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Top 10 Contract Job 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 15 June 2026. 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
England -98 18 £463 -15.91% 6
UK excluding London -112 15 £450 -22.77% 7
Work from Home -38 11 £535 -2.73% 3
South West - 8 £450 - 1
London -65 5 £500 -9.09% 1
North West - 3 £405 -
North of England - 3 £405 -
Scotland -19 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 £450 -
West Midlands - 2 £450 -

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Stack
4 3 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (15.38%) VLAN
2 4 (15.38%) VSAN
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) Network Security
3 3 (11.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SAP HANA
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Azure Consultant
1 6 (23.08%) Consultant
1 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V Consultant
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell Consultant
1 6 (23.08%) VMware Consultant
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DBA
4 3 (11.54%) SQL DBA
5 2 (7.69%) Citrix Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Server Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Unix Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) JDBC
1 1 (3.85%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Clustering
2 9 (34.62%) Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (7.69%) PKI
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
1 11 (42.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) SUSE
5 3 (11.54%) VMS
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.85%) Solaris
7 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) High Availability
2 10 (38.46%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (19.23%) Runbook
5 5 (19.23%) Validation
6 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
7 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.54%) Converged Infrastructure
7 3 (11.54%) Database Migration
7 3 (11.54%) ITIL
7 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Server Management
8 2 (7.69%) Application Virtualisation
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
8 2 (7.69%) Server Hardening
8 2 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
2 6 (23.08%) Corosync
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (15.38%) vSphere
5 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
5 3 (11.54%) Firmware
6 2 (7.69%) XenApp
6 2 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Pacemaker
2 6 (23.08%) vRealize
3 5 (19.23%) Terraform
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
4 4 (15.38%) VxRail
5 3 (11.54%) SCCM
6 2 (7.69%) Ansible
6 2 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) VMware
2 8 (30.77%) SAP
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
4 4 (15.38%) Dell
5 2 (7.69%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) NetApp
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) RedGate
6 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds