Failover Clustering Contracts in England

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 597 720
Rank change year-on-year +81 +123 -109
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 15 43 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.089% 0.070%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.58% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 37 39
10th Percentile £145 £388 £310
25th Percentile £190 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -59.07% +19.44% -
75th Percentile £421 £550 £556
90th Percentile £560 £575 £613
UK median daily rate £220 £531 £465
% change year-on-year -58.59% +14.25% +3.33%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,393 7,468 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 15.50% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 5,420 8,200
10th Percentile £258 £355 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £558 £565
% change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 158
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.34
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £34.69
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £57.88
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £54.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -52.44% +146.25% -45.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in England.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +96 5 £560 +1.82% 4
North of England +35 3 £220 -60.00% 3
Midlands +23 3 £200 -46.67%
North West - 3 £220 -
West Midlands - 3 £200 -
South East +32 2 - - 2
South West +2 2 £350 -36.36% 2
Failover Clustering
UK

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) LAN
2 8 (53.33%) VLAN
2 8 (53.33%) VoIP
2 8 (53.33%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) WAN
2 8 (53.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) Skype
3 2 (13.33%) SSH
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (53.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 6 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) CyberArk Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Wintel Support
5 1 (6.67%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) OpenID
1 2 (13.33%) SailPoint
1 2 (13.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
2 1 (6.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (40.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (20.00%) PKI
4 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 8 (53.33%) Mac OS
4 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (26.67%) Linux
6 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
1 8 (53.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (13.33%) Database Mirroring
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Key Management
3 2 (13.33%) Server Hardening
3 2 (13.33%) Use Case
3 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL
4 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.67%) Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Server Management
4 1 (6.67%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (6.67%) MCSE
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (20.00%) vSphere
5 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) SCCM
2 8 (53.33%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (40.00%) Autotask
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (6.67%) Ansible
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (6.67%) Nessus
6 1 (6.67%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (6.67%) Terraform
6 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
6 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (73.33%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Apple
3 6 (40.00%) Datto
4 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) BEA
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper
5 1 (6.67%) NETGEAR
5 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.67%) Symantec