High Availability Contracts in South Wales

High Availability
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing High Availability 4 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.29% 3.59% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 4.03% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 13
10th Percentile £501 - £413
25th Percentile £503 £513 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £454
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +15.64% +2.60%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £525
90th Percentile £594 £575 £531
Wales median daily rate £525 £525 £458
% change year-on-year - +14.57% -3.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 447 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.71% 89.04% 83.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 344 534
10th Percentile £143 £201 £265
25th Percentile £350 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £678 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 22
10th Percentile £11.12 £16.37 £15.35
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £21.63
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -16.12% -0.07%
75th Percentile £69.38 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.82 £18.14 £21.63
% change year-on-year +9.26% -16.12% +1.05%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in South Wales

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cardiff +11 4 £538 +2.38%
High Availability
Wales

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (75.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (25.00%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) FHIR
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) AIX
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) E-business
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Informatica
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) RedGate