High Availability Contract Job Trends in West Wales

High Availability
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.44% 3.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wales median daily rate £500 £204 £300
% change year-on-year +145.40% -32.08% -45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Wales median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32 21 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 78.05% 67.74% 78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 12
10th Percentile £400 £125 -
25th Percentile £413 £313 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £319
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +56.86% -32.89%
75th Percentile £488 £535 £372
90th Percentile £500 £555 £494
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £415
% change year-on-year -2.76% +2.41% -12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.47% - -
75th Percentile £16.43 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.92 - -
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £23.84 £29.83
% change year-on-year -23.74% -20.09% +49.84%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in West Wales

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Swansea +3 1 £500 -
High Availability
Wales

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification