High Availability Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

High Availability
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 97 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 +47
Contract jobs citing High Availability 46 16 30
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.48% 0.85% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.02% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 18
10th Percentile £346 £255 £209
25th Percentile £409 £269 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £469 £418
Median % change year-on-year +14.56% +12.28% -36.98%
75th Percentile £669 £623 £525
90th Percentile £892 £713 £620
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.99 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.00 £27.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -1.82% -56.35% +157.62%

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 1,662 1,566 1,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.60% 82.90% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 984 1,184
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £679 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 39 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.45 £16.38 £21.82
Median hourly rate £23.03 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -12.07% +55.19%
75th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing High Availability

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 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing High Availability

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 7 October 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 23 £638 -5.56% 9
Coventry - 9 £473 - 3
Shropshire - 7 £526 - 5
Warwickshire +2 6 £220 -61.74% 2
Solihull - 2 £220 -
Herefordshire +3 1 £625 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 1
High Availability
England

High Availability
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 4 (8.70%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (8.70%) SAS
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.35%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Serverless
4 7 (15.22%) GitHub
5 6 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.70%) GCP
7 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.35%) Collibra
9 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 16 (34.78%) Network Security
3 12 (26.09%) VPN
4 9 (19.57%) DNS
4 9 (19.57%) SSL
4 9 (19.57%) TCP/IP
5 7 (15.22%) BGP
5 7 (15.22%) OSPF
5 7 (15.22%) VLAN
6 6 (13.04%) IPsec
6 6 (13.04%) SD-WAN
7 5 (10.87%) DHCP
7 5 (10.87%) Wireless
8 4 (8.70%) WAN
9 3 (6.52%) Wireshark
10 2 (4.35%) 5G
10 2 (4.35%) Ethereal
10 2 (4.35%) LAN
10 2 (4.35%) LoRaWAN
11 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
1 5 (10.87%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.70%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 4 (8.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 4 (8.70%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.35%) DB2
3 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.35%) GIS
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) GitLab
2 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) Git
3 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 3 (6.52%) Liquibase
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Telecoms
4 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.04%) Finance
6 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.52%) Automotive
7 3 (6.52%) Banking
7 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.35%) Electronics
8 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.35%) Marketing
9 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) Check Point Expert
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DBA
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Network Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.87%) REST
3 4 (8.70%) RESTful
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) JSON
4 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
4 2 (4.35%) Software Packaging
4 2 (4.35%) XML
5 1 (2.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.70%) IoT
2 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.70%) SCADA
3 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Replication
4 2 (4.35%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (4.35%) NB-IoT
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 6 (13.04%) Check Point GAiA
4 2 (4.35%) Unix
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
2 15 (32.61%) DevOps
3 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
4 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.09%) ITIL
6 11 (23.91%) Analytics
7 9 (19.57%) Mentoring
8 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (15.22%) Migration
9 7 (15.22%) Service Management
10 6 (13.04%) Agile
10 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (13.04%) Microservices
10 6 (13.04%) SIEM
11 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
11 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.52%) Go
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) Java
5 2 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.35%) VBScript
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) CCSE
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (10.87%) CCNP
4 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (10.87%) Degree
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.70%) CCIE
5 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.52%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (4.35%) OCP
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.17%) CCNA
8 1 (2.17%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) SLA
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) NCSC
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (2.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.57%) Terraform
3 8 (17.39%) Ansible
4 6 (13.04%) FortiGate
4 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.87%) Grafana
6 4 (8.70%) OpenView
7 2 (4.35%) Data Guard
7 2 (4.35%) Kibana
7 2 (4.35%) logstash
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) Fortinet
3 9 (19.57%) CheckPoint
4 8 (17.39%) Cisco
5 7 (15.22%) F5
5 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
6 6 (13.04%) Splunk
7 5 (10.87%) SAP
8 3 (6.52%) Palo Alto
9 2 (4.35%) Cognos
9 2 (4.35%) Databricks
9 2 (4.35%) Google
9 2 (4.35%) IBM
9 2 (4.35%) Informatica
9 2 (4.35%) Juniper
9 2 (4.35%) Pega
9 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
9 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.17%) Veeam