High Availability Contracts in the West Midlands

High Availability
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability 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 80 95 101
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +52
Contract jobs citing High Availability 17 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 0.82% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.98% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile £275 £313 £331
25th Percentile £525 £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% -16.60%
75th Percentile £625 £563 £576
90th Percentile £665 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
England median hourly rate £26.73 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -49.10% -25.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
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 High Availability within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +19 11 £428 -18.46% 15
Coventry +8 2 £625 +25.00% 1
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 4
Shropshire - 1 - -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (11.76%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Network Security
2 5 (29.41%) BGP
2 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) OSPF
2 5 (29.41%) VLAN
2 5 (29.41%) VPN
3 4 (23.53%) IPsec
3 4 (23.53%) SSL
3 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.76%) 5G
4 2 (11.76%) Internet
4 2 (11.76%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
5 1 (5.88%) DHCP
5 1 (5.88%) DNS
5 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) Modbus
5 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Check Point Expert
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Service Continuity Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Architect
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Support
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
3 1 (5.88%) ADO
3 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 2 (11.76%) IoT
1 2 (11.76%) NB-IoT
1 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
1 2 (11.76%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (23.53%) SIEM
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Network Management
4 2 (11.76%) Business Impact Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (11.76%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.76%) Runbook
4 2 (11.76%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCSE
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) NCSC
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Kibana
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) logstash
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
1 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Juniper
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) Concur
3 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Zscaler