High Availability Contracts in Berkshire

High Availability
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 99 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -24
Contract jobs citing High Availability 37 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.94% 0.74% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 0.82% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 14
10th Percentile £335 £314 £466
25th Percentile £349 £339 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £519 £544 £638
90th Percentile £590 £635 -
South East median daily rate £495 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.58% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

High Availability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,698 1,576 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.95% 89.90% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,005 1,363
10th Percentile £231 £350 £272
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 48 37
10th Percentile £17.45 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +175.32% -0.24%
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.69 £35.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £73.11
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Reading -2 14 £375 -18.92% 2
Ascot - 11 - -
Maidenhead -1 4 £375 -
Wokingham 0 3 £475 +43.94%
Bracknell - 3 - -
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (18.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Azure API Management
2 6 (16.22%) PaaS
2 6 (16.22%) SaaS
3 5 (13.51%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (48.65%) Firewall
2 17 (45.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 14 (37.84%) VPN
4 11 (29.73%) DMZ
5 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (8.11%) BGP
6 3 (8.11%) EIGRP
6 3 (8.11%) MPLS
6 3 (8.11%) Network Security
6 3 (8.11%) OSPF
7 1 (2.70%) DNS
7 1 (2.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle Database
2 7 (18.92%) SAP HANA
3 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Redis
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 11 (29.73%) Banking
1 11 (29.73%) Investment Banking
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Military
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Network Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Cisco Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Juniper Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Consultant
4 7 (18.92%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 7 (18.92%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (18.92%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 7 (18.92%) Technical Consultant
5 6 (16.22%) Network Operations Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Backup Specialist
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco Security Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.11%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) SAP Basis
1 7 (18.92%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (16.22%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) Web Services
4 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
5 1 (2.70%) OpenID
5 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.70%) SOAP
5 1 (2.70%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.70%) XML
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) ITSM
2 13 (35.14%) Design Patterns
3 12 (32.43%) Architectural Patterns
4 11 (29.73%) Change Control
5 10 (27.03%) Change Management
6 8 (21.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.92%) DevOps
7 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (18.92%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (13.51%) API Management
8 5 (13.51%) Microservices
8 5 (13.51%) Network Architecture
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.81%) Affinity Analysis
9 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps
9 4 (10.81%) Migration
9 4 (10.81%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) PHP
3 3 (8.11%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Ruby
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.11%) CCNA
2 3 (8.11%) CCNP
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) JNCIA
2 3 (8.11%) JNCIS
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Cisco
1 17 (45.95%) Juniper
2 11 (29.73%) Blue Coat
2 11 (29.73%) CheckPoint
2 11 (29.73%) Fortinet
2 11 (29.73%) Oracle
3 7 (18.92%) SAP
4 6 (16.22%) VMware
5 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.11%) Commvault
7 2 (5.41%) BMC
7 2 (5.41%) Remedy
8 1 (2.70%) Databricks
8 1 (2.70%) Kenna
8 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow