Failover Clustering Contracts

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 644 780
Rank change year-on-year +76 +136 -118
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 15 52 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.089% 0.069%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 0.56% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 47
10th Percentile £150 £388 £329
25th Percentile £190 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £538 £465
Median % change year-on-year -59.07% +15.59% +3.33%
75th Percentile £473 £563 £580
90th Percentile £632 £575 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -60.00% +25.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,067 9,328 14,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 16.04% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,709 10,128
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 207 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.13 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.70 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%

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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 13 May 2024.

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 10 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 13 May 2024. 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 +71 13 £220 -59.54% 9
UK excluding London +47 9 £220 -60.00% 6
London +83 4 £350 -36.36% 3
Midlands +33 3 £200 -46.67%
North of England +24 3 £220 -60.00% 1
West Midlands - 3 £200 -
North West - 3 £220 -
Work from Home +104 2 £513 -6.82% 2
South East +15 2 - - 1
South West +11 1 £350 -36.36% 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) LAN
2 8 (53.33%) VLAN
2 8 (53.33%) VoIP
2 8 (53.33%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) WAN
2 8 (53.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) Skype
4 1 (6.67%) SSH
4 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 6 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) OpenID
1 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
1 1 (6.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (40.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (20.00%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Fat Client
4 1 (6.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 9 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (53.33%) Mac OS
4 8 (53.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
2 8 (53.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (40.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (6.67%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.67%) Server Hardening
4 1 (6.67%) Software Asset Management
4 1 (6.67%) Use Case
4 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) MCSE
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (86.67%) Hyper-V
3 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) SCCM
2 8 (53.33%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (40.00%) Autotask
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (6.67%) Ansible
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Nessus
6 1 (6.67%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (6.67%) SCOM
6 1 (6.67%) SCOrch
6 1 (6.67%) SCVMM
6 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (6.67%) Terraform
6 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (73.33%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Apple
3 6 (40.00%) Datto
4 1 (6.67%) BEA
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) NETGEAR
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) Varonis