Failover Clustering Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.065% - 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.51% - 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £200
75th Percentile - - £210
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £210
% change year-on-year -11.36% +161.90% -61.38%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 396 189 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.87% 13.88% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 132 142
10th Percentile £300 £200 £200
25th Percentile £412 £314 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £550
90th Percentile £619 £700 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile £25.91 £12.18 £23.52
25th Percentile £50.40 £12.94 £35.33
Median hourly rate £64.07 £16.19 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +295.72% -70.56% +197.30%
75th Percentile £72.25 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £18.13 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £26.38
% change year-on-year +107.34% +3.29% -54.12%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Failover Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Failover Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Warwickshire - 2 £450 -
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Server Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware