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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 560 542
Rank change year-on-year -78 -18 +93
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 33 6 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.018% 0.062%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.47% 0.12% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 15
10th Percentile £367 £578 £194
25th Percentile £449 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £589 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% +30.89% -12.20%
75th Percentile £592 £597 £480
90th Percentile £725 £600 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £589 £438
% change year-on-year -23.68% +34.63% -14.63%

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 7,073 5,165 5,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.24% 15.69% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,802 3,413 3,653
10th Percentile £326 £300 £301
25th Percentile £425 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 77 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £58.13
90th Percentile £79.10 £77.98 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £43.09
% change year-on-year +14.79% +27.64% -6.69%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 - 31 £488 - 11
UK excluding London -77 23 £450 -23.68% 9
South West - 12 £487 -
London - 10 £598 - 3
Work from Home -57 6 £488 -18.75% 3
North of England - 6 £405 - 4
North West - 5 £440 - 4
Midlands - 3 £375 - 1
Scotland -14 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
North East - 1 £225 -

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 (12.12%) JBoss
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.06%) IIS
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) Azure Stack
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) DHCP
3 6 (18.18%) VSAN
4 4 (12.12%) Kerberos
4 4 (12.12%) SAN
4 4 (12.12%) VLAN
5 3 (9.09%) Firewall
5 3 (9.09%) Network Security
5 3 (9.09%) VoIP
5 3 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) SAP HANA
3 4 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (12.12%) Big Data
3 4 (12.12%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Local Government
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Administrator
2 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) DBA
3 4 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) SQL DBA
3 4 (12.12%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) JDBC
1 1 (3.03%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (81.82%) Clustering
2 10 (30.30%) Replication
3 5 (15.15%) PKI
4 3 (9.09%) Fat Client
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (9.09%) Smartcard
4 3 (9.09%) Thin Client
5 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (54.55%) Linux
1 18 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 17 (51.52%) Windows
3 12 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.12%) SUSE
5 3 (9.09%) VMS
6 2 (6.06%) Solaris
6 2 (6.06%) Unix
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) High Availability
2 12 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (33.33%) Migration
4 10 (30.30%) DevOps
4 10 (30.30%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (24.24%) Validation
6 7 (21.21%) Runbook
7 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 6 (18.18%) ITIL
7 6 (18.18%) Server Management
8 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) Patch Management
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
9 4 (12.12%) BCP
9 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity
9 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity Planning
9 4 (12.12%) Project Management
9 4 (12.12%) Remediation Plan
9 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Hyper-V
1 12 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.21%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (18.18%) Corosync
4 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (12.12%) vSphere
5 3 (9.09%) Firmware
6 2 (6.06%) XenApp
6 2 (6.06%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (21.21%) Pacemaker
3 6 (18.18%) VxRail
4 5 (15.15%) Terraform
4 5 (15.15%) WSUS
5 4 (12.12%) Puppet
5 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
6 2 (6.06%) Ansible
6 2 (6.06%) SCCM
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (42.42%) Red Hat
3 13 (39.39%) VMware
4 7 (21.21%) Cisco
4 7 (21.21%) SAP
5 4 (12.12%) Dell
6 3 (9.09%) McAfee
7 2 (6.06%) Citrix
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle
7 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.03%) RedGate
8 1 (3.03%) Veeam