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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 538 545
Rank change year-on-year -101 +7 +99
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 28 8 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.024% 0.067%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.40% 0.16% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 18
10th Percentile £336 £469 £175
25th Percentile £449 £543 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £589 £431
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +36.58% -15.85%
75th Percentile £542 £592 £467
90th Percentile £596 £600 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £582 £388
% change year-on-year -22.73% +50.13% -24.39%

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 7,026 5,106 5,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 15.59% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,767 3,366 3,741
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -3.75% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 75 83
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £25.07 £19.56 £22.16
Median hourly rate £61.00 £37.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% +20.97% -46.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +7.94% +56.77% -24.03%

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 28 July 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 12 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 28 July 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 -91 24 £450 -4.15% 8
UK excluding London -81 19 £450 -22.73% 6
South West - 10 £450 -
Work from Home -53 8 £530 -11.67% 2
London - 7 £500 - 4
North of England - 4 £381 - 1
North West - 3 £405 - 1
Midlands - 3 £375 - 1
Scotland -17 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
North East - 1 £225 -
East Midlands - 1 £300 -

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 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) IIS
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 3 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) DNS
2 7 (25.00%) DHCP
3 4 (14.29%) VLAN
3 4 (14.29%) VSAN
4 3 (10.71%) Firewall
4 3 (10.71%) Network Security
4 3 (10.71%) SAN
4 3 (10.71%) VoIP
4 3 (10.71%) VPN
5 2 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) SAP HANA
3 4 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) DBA
2 4 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 3 (10.71%) Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Citrix Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) JDBC
1 1 (3.57%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Clustering
2 10 (35.71%) Replication
3 5 (17.86%) PKI
4 3 (10.71%) Fat Client
4 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (10.71%) Smartcard
4 3 (10.71%) Thin Client
5 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (53.57%) Linux
1 15 (53.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (50.00%) Windows
3 9 (32.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.29%) SUSE
5 3 (10.71%) VMS
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.57%) Solaris
7 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) High Availability
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (28.57%) Migration
4 7 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (21.43%) Server Management
6 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Patch Management
6 5 (17.86%) Runbook
6 5 (17.86%) Validation
7 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
8 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
8 3 (10.71%) Converged Infrastructure
8 3 (10.71%) Database Migration
8 3 (10.71%) ITIL
8 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (10.71%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Hyper-V
2 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (21.43%) Corosync
4 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (14.29%) vSphere
5 3 (10.71%) Firmware
6 2 (7.14%) XenApp
6 2 (7.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 7 (25.00%) Pacemaker
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) WSUS
3 4 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.29%) VxRail
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) SCCM
4 2 (7.14%) vRealize
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (35.71%) VMware
4 7 (25.00%) SAP
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco
5 4 (14.29%) Dell
6 3 (10.71%) McAfee
7 2 (7.14%) Citrix
7 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle
8 1 (3.57%) RedGate
8 1 (3.57%) Veeam