High Availability Contracts in the North of England

High Availability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 170 176
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 -34
Contract jobs citing High Availability 41 46 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.87% 0.79% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.87% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 41
10th Percentile £313 £450 £363
25th Percentile £363 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +7.73%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £560
90th Percentile £650 £584 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
England median hourly rate £44.80 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -36.00% +192.76% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the North of England

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +19 19 £485 -7.62% 25
Yorkshire +14 12 £430 -21.82% 11
North East +26 10 £388 - 2
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) AWS
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (4.88%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) OCI
4 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
2 7 (17.07%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (12.20%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (12.20%) VPN
4 3 (7.32%) LAN
4 3 (7.32%) WAN
5 2 (4.88%) BGP
5 2 (4.88%) DMZ
5 2 (4.88%) EIGRP
5 2 (4.88%) MPLS
5 2 (4.88%) OSPF
5 2 (4.88%) SAN
6 1 (2.44%) DHCP
6 1 (2.44%) DNS
6 1 (2.44%) HTTP
6 1 (2.44%) SMTP
6 1 (2.44%) VLAN
6 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (29.27%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Git
2 13 (31.71%) JUnit
3 4 (9.76%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.44%) GitLab
5 1 (2.44%) Maven
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.44%) Postman
5 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Network Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 5 (12.20%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) DBA
5 4 (9.76%) Junior
5 4 (9.76%) Junior Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Spring
1 13 (31.71%) Spring Boot
2 12 (29.27%) Hibernate
2 12 (29.27%) JPA
2 12 (29.27%) React
2 12 (29.27%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) Kafka
4 1 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.44%) Akka
4 1 (2.44%) JMS
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) LDAP
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Clustering
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Windows
2 8 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.32%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Agile
2 17 (41.46%) DevOps
3 14 (34.15%) Scrum
4 13 (31.71%) Mentoring
4 13 (31.71%) Unit Testing
5 12 (29.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 12 (29.27%) Front End Development
5 12 (29.27%) Microservices
6 6 (14.63%) Change Management
6 6 (14.63%) CI/CD
6 6 (14.63%) ITIL
7 5 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (12.20%) Software Delivery
7 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Coaching
8 4 (9.76%) Service Management
9 3 (7.32%) Change Control
9 3 (7.32%) Design Patterns
9 3 (7.32%) Release Management
9 3 (7.32%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Java
2 12 (29.27%) TypeScript
3 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.32%) SQL
5 2 (4.88%) Python
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (34.15%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) CCNA
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.88%) A+ Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CCENT
5 2 (4.88%) CCNP
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
5 2 (4.88%) JNCIA
5 2 (4.88%) JNCIS
5 2 (4.88%) MCSA
5 2 (4.88%) MCSE
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.88%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.44%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.44%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Cisco
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Juniper
4 5 (12.20%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.44%) Citrix
6 1 (2.44%) Databricks
6 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.44%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Symantec