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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 504 568
Rank change year-on-year -89 +64 +87
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 22 13 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.044% 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 12
10th Percentile £449 £464 £145
25th Percentile £456 £530 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £220
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +161.25% -59.07%
75th Percentile £596 £589 £399
90th Percentile - £654 £479
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £582 £220
% change year-on-year -22.72% +164.55% -60.00%

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 6,407 4,666 5,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.84% 15.84% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,403 3,207 3,660
10th Percentile £320 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.88% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 50 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £21.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £73.00 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -34.86%

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 21 April 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 9 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 21 April 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 -102 15 £488 -11.36% 10
Work from Home -22 10 £596 +8.36% 4
UK excluding London -103 9 £450 -22.72% 9
South West - 6 £450 - 6
London -59 5 £500 -9.09% 1
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 -
North West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 £575 -

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 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Stack
3 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) VLAN
3 4 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) VPN
3 4 (18.18%) VSAN
4 3 (13.64%) Network Security
5 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.55%) BGP
6 1 (4.55%) EIGRP
6 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
6 1 (4.55%) MPLS
6 1 (4.55%) OSPF
6 1 (4.55%) SNMP
6 1 (4.55%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (4.55%) SSL
6 1 (4.55%) TACACS
6 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Electronics
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Azure Consultant
1 7 (31.82%) Consultant
1 7 (31.82%) Hyper-V Consultant
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell Consultant
1 7 (31.82%) VMware Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Citrix Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Clustering
2 7 (31.82%) Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
1 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (18.18%) SUSE
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (13.64%) VMS
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) High Availability
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Remediation Plan
3 4 (18.18%) Validation
4 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.64%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
4 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (13.64%) Runbook
4 3 (13.64%) Server Management
5 2 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (9.09%) Change Management
5 2 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.09%) Problem Management
5 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Server Hardening
5 2 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (59.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Hyper-V
2 5 (22.73%) Corosync
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (18.18%) vSphere
4 3 (13.64%) Firmware
5 2 (9.09%) XenApp
5 2 (9.09%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) vRealize
2 5 (22.73%) Pacemaker
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (18.18%) SCCM
3 4 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 4 (18.18%) VxRail
4 3 (13.64%) Terraform
5 2 (9.09%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) WSUS
6 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
6 1 (4.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) VMware
2 6 (27.27%) SAP
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
4 4 (18.18%) Dell
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) NetApp