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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 537 566
Rank change year-on-year -96 +29 +66
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 26 13 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.040% 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.25% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 18
10th Percentile £397 £465 £175
25th Percentile £449 £550 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £589 £325
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% +81.23% -36.59%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £467
90th Percentile £596 £649 £587
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £589 £220
% change year-on-year -23.68% +167.73% -57.07%

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 7,096 5,134 5,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.71% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,853 3,396 3,844
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -2.26% -5.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 71 101
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.79
25th Percentile £21.88 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.21% +42.50% -13.21%

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 13 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 11 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 13 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 -99 21 £450 -18.18% 3
UK excluding London -85 18 £450 -23.68% 3
South West - 10 £450 -
Work from Home -52 9 £535 -9.17% 1
London -63 5 £500 -9.09% 1
Midlands - 3 £375 -
North West - 3 £405 -
North of England - 3 £405 -
Scotland -16 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Stack
3 3 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 6 (23.08%) DHCP
3 4 (15.38%) VLAN
3 4 (15.38%) VSAN
4 3 (11.54%) Firewall
4 3 (11.54%) Network Security
4 3 (11.54%) SAN
4 3 (11.54%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (11.54%) VoIP
4 3 (11.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (26.92%) SAP HANA
3 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) DBA
3 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) PowerShell Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) SQL DBA
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Citrix Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) JDBC
1 1 (3.85%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (65.38%) Clustering
2 9 (34.62%) Replication
3 5 (19.23%) PKI
4 3 (11.54%) Fat Client
4 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (11.54%) Smartcard
4 3 (11.54%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Linux
1 14 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Windows
3 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) SUSE
5 3 (11.54%) VMS
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.85%) Solaris
7 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) High Availability
2 10 (38.46%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (23.08%) Server Management
5 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (19.23%) Patch Management
5 5 (19.23%) Runbook
5 5 (19.23%) Validation
6 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
7 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.54%) Converged Infrastructure
7 3 (11.54%) Database Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Virtual Environments
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
2 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) Corosync
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (15.38%) vSphere
5 3 (11.54%) Firmware
6 2 (7.69%) XenApp
6 2 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Pacemaker
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) WSUS
3 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
3 4 (15.38%) VxRail
4 3 (11.54%) vRealize
5 2 (7.69%) Ansible
5 2 (7.69%) SCCM
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 10 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 9 (34.62%) VMware
3 7 (26.92%) SAP
4 4 (15.38%) Dell
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco
5 3 (11.54%) McAfee
6 2 (7.69%) Citrix
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) RedGate
7 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds