Failover Clustering Contracts

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Failover Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 566 661
Rank change year-on-year +59 +95 +130
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 13 16 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.037% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.28% 0.31% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 41
10th Percentile £464 £150 £388
25th Percentile £530 £190 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £220 £538
Median % change year-on-year +161.25% -59.07% +10.26%
75th Percentile £589 £473 £575
90th Percentile £654 £616 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £220 £550
% change year-on-year +164.55% -60.00% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Top 7 Contract 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 1 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +63 11 £582 +164.55% 12
England +52 9 £550 +150.00% 18
Scotland - 4 £589 - 1
East of England - 4 £467 -
South East +47 3 £658 - 7
Work from Home +43 3 £550 +18.28% 8
London +37 2 £550 +292.86% 11

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) OCI
3 3 (23.08%) Nutanix
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (23.08%) VSAN
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) SSH
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Database Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Database Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Clustering
2 8 (61.54%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (30.77%) AIX
4 4 (30.77%) Solaris
5 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (15.38%) CentOS
6 2 (15.38%) SUSE
6 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) ITIL
1 8 (61.54%) Problem Management
2 7 (53.85%) Proactive Maintenance
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Proactive Management
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Database Tuning
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Power Management
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
1 7 (53.85%) Hyper-V
2 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
4 3 (23.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Data Guard
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Flashback
1 4 (30.77%) Podman
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (23.08%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) WSUS
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 2 (15.38%) Puppet
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Dell
3 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
3 4 (30.77%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Symantec
5 2 (15.38%) Juniper
5 2 (15.38%) NETGEAR
5 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 2 (15.38%) TP-LINK