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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 543 547
Rank change year-on-year -110 +4 +56
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 40 8 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.025% 0.061%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 0.17% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 12
10th Percentile £386 £380 £368
25th Percentile £449 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 - £500
90th Percentile £725 - £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £325 £444
% change year-on-year +42.31% -26.76% -11.25%

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 6,017 4,592 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.02% 14.09% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 2,968 3,028
10th Percentile £313 £273 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £685 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 92 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.85
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +154.90% -32.45% -29.77%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.29 £64.00
90th Percentile £88.37 £67.23 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.24 £21.39 £39.00
% change year-on-year +200.33% -45.15% -17.03%

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 29 September 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 13 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 29 September 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 -101 37 £500 +53.85% 13
UK excluding London -73 30 £463 +42.31% 9
South West - 12 £487 - 1
North of England - 11 £475 - 2
London -79 10 £700 - 3
North West - 10 £488 - 1
Work from Home -57 5 £450 -25.00% 4
Scotland - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 £375 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
South East -68 1 £600 +84.62% 1
North East - 1 £225 -
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 1

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 5 (12.50%) JBoss
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) IIS
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint 2010
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) DNS
2 7 (17.50%) DHCP
3 6 (15.00%) SAN
4 5 (12.50%) Kerberos
5 3 (7.50%) VoIP
6 2 (5.00%) VSAN
7 1 (2.50%) NAS
7 1 (2.50%) VLAN
7 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) SAP HANA
3 5 (12.50%) Big Data
3 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (5.00%) Sybase IQ
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (22.50%) Senior
2 7 (17.50%) Administrator
3 6 (15.00%) DBA
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (10.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) SQL DBA
5 4 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Unix Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Citrix Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) JDBC
2 1 (2.50%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (85.00%) Clustering
2 8 (20.00%) Replication
3 6 (15.00%) PKI
4 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
5 4 (10.00%) Fat Client
5 4 (10.00%) Thin Client
6 3 (7.50%) Smartcard
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.50%) NVMe
7 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Windows
2 18 (45.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (42.50%) Linux
4 15 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (12.50%) Unix
6 3 (7.50%) Solaris
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) High Availability
2 15 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (35.00%) Migration
4 12 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Runbook
7 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 8 (20.00%) ITIL
8 7 (17.50%) Project Delivery
8 7 (17.50%) Task Automation
9 6 (15.00%) BCP
9 6 (15.00%) Business Continuity
9 6 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) Validation
10 5 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
10 5 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
10 5 (12.50%) Patch Management
10 5 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 12 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
4 7 (17.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (15.00%) Corosync
6 2 (5.00%) XenApp
6 2 (5.00%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.50%) Firmware
7 1 (2.50%) KVM
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Pacemaker
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (12.50%) Puppet
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (12.50%) WSUS
4 4 (10.00%) Ansible
4 4 (10.00%) SCCM
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) SCOM
5 2 (5.00%) VxRail
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) PaperCut
6 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 12 (30.00%) VMware
4 8 (20.00%) Cisco
5 7 (17.50%) SAP
6 3 (7.50%) McAfee
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle
7 2 (5.00%) Citrix
7 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.00%) Sybase
7 2 (5.00%) Veeam
8 1 (2.50%) Dell
8 1 (2.50%) HP
8 1 (2.50%) Intel
8 1 (2.50%) Juniper
8 1 (2.50%) Qualys
8 1 (2.50%) RedGate
8 1 (2.50%) Splunk
8 1 (2.50%) Xerox
8 1 (2.50%) Zscaler