High Availability Contracts in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 190 254
Rank change year-on-year +9 +64 +21
Contract jobs citing High Availability 249 284 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.25% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.40% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 171 190
10th Percentile £300 £363 £380
25th Percentile £400 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £597 £576 £613
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £26.25 £43.88 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £59.06 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £61.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% - -
75th Percentile - £65.88 -
90th Percentile - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% +176.04% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
South East +61 83 £490 -10.91% 23
North of England +39 54 £469 -10.71% 18
Scotland +26 38 £475 -8.65% 6
South West -13 31 £630 +14.55% 11
Yorkshire +24 28 £443 -20.45% 5
Midlands -11 25 £400 -19.60% 19
North West +2 17 £475 -9.52% 12
East of England -10 17 £465 -15.55% 12
East Midlands +18 14 £411 -8.67% 10
West Midlands -11 11 £400 -18.37% 9
North East +21 9 £400 - 1
Wales -1 4 £525 - 4
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 1
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (6.02%) Confluence
2 12 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.81%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (2.41%) Teamcenter
4 3 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.68%) AWS
2 43 (17.27%) Azure
3 20 (8.03%) Serverless
4 18 (7.23%) Amazon S3
5 15 (6.02%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (5.22%) GitHub
7 12 (4.82%) GCP
8 10 (4.02%) Entra ID
8 10 (4.02%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.02%) PaaS
9 9 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.61%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 9 (3.61%) IaaS
10 8 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.01%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.01%) SaaS
13 4 (1.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.48%) Firewall
2 39 (15.66%) VPN
3 21 (8.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 17 (6.83%) Wireless
5 15 (6.02%) WAN
6 13 (5.22%) LAN
7 12 (4.82%) 3GPP
7 12 (4.82%) 4G
7 12 (4.82%) DMZ
7 12 (4.82%) LTE
7 12 (4.82%) Radio Access Network
7 12 (4.82%) Wireshark
8 11 (4.42%) SD-WAN
9 10 (4.02%) DNS
10 9 (3.61%) Network Security
11 8 (3.21%) DHCP
12 5 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (2.01%) Extranet
13 4 (1.61%) SAN
13 4 (1.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.47%) SQL Server
2 36 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.84%) Oracle Database
4 22 (8.84%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.82%) Hadoop
8 11 (4.42%) Big Data
9 10 (4.02%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (3.61%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.21%) SAP HANA
12 7 (2.81%) Informix
13 5 (2.01%) Couchbase
13 5 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (12.45%) Git
2 20 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.63%) JIRA
4 16 (6.43%) GitLab
5 14 (5.62%) JUnit
6 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) MSI
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 26 (10.44%) Banking
4 23 (9.24%) Finance
5 21 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.62%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.22%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.01%) Military
9 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.20%) Law
10 3 (1.20%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (13.65%) Architect
2 33 (13.25%) Network Engineer
3 27 (10.84%) DBA
4 21 (8.43%) Senior
5 20 (8.03%) Developer
5 20 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.23%) Java Developer
7 18 (7.23%) SQL DBA
8 17 (6.83%) Linux Engineer
9 13 (5.22%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Administrator
10 12 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Cisco Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Juniper Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Linux Support
10 12 (4.82%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.43%) Kafka
2 18 (7.23%) Spring
3 14 (5.62%) React
3 14 (5.62%) Spring Boot
4 13 (5.22%) REST
5 12 (4.82%) Hibernate
5 12 (4.82%) JPA
6 8 (3.21%) .NET
6 8 (3.21%) AWS CDK
6 8 (3.21%) SAP Basis
6 8 (3.21%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (2.81%) Web Services
8 6 (2.41%) LDAP
9 5 (2.01%) Flash
9 5 (2.01%) Middleware
9 5 (2.01%) Vert.x
10 4 (1.61%) YAML
11 3 (1.20%) J2EE
11 3 (1.20%) Node.js
12 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.86%) Clustering
2 27 (10.84%) Replication
3 18 (7.23%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.22%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.61%) PKI
5 9 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.81%) Blog
7 5 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.01%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.20%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.80%) NHS
9 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.69%) Linux
2 42 (16.87%) Windows
3 23 (9.24%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.42%) Solaris
6 9 (3.61%) Unix
7 7 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.01%) AIX
9 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.80%) VMS
11 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.92%) Disaster Recovery
2 53 (21.29%) DevOps
3 51 (20.48%) Agile
4 34 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (11.65%) Roadmaps
7 28 (11.24%) Scrum
8 26 (10.44%) Microservices
9 25 (10.04%) Containerisation
9 25 (10.04%) Mentoring
9 25 (10.04%) Performance Tuning
10 24 (9.64%) Migration
11 20 (8.03%) Analytics
11 20 (8.03%) CI/CD
11 20 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (8.03%) Project Delivery
12 19 (7.63%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (6.83%) ETL
13 17 (6.83%) ITIL
13 17 (6.83%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.68%) SQL
2 35 (14.06%) Java
3 31 (12.45%) Python
4 24 (9.64%) PowerShell
5 22 (8.84%) Bash
5 22 (8.84%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.81%) Ruby
7 6 (2.41%) C#
7 6 (2.41%) Perl
7 6 (2.41%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.61%) PHP
8 4 (1.61%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.20%) C
9 3 (1.20%) C++
10 2 (0.80%) VBScript
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.40%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 97 (38.96%) Security Cleared
2 68 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 40 (16.06%) DV Cleared
4 24 (9.64%) Degree
5 10 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.61%) CCNA
7 7 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.81%) RHCE
8 6 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (2.01%) CCNP
9 5 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.01%) MCITP
9 5 (2.01%) MCSE
9 5 (2.01%) MCTS
9 5 (2.01%) SAP Certification
10 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.21%) SLA
2 4 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.20%) QA
4 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.80%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (20.08%) Active Directory
2 40 (16.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (15.26%) Docker
4 14 (5.62%) vSphere
5 13 (5.22%) VMware NSX
6 12 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (4.02%) Hyper-V
9 7 (2.81%) KVM
10 5 (2.01%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (2.01%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (1.61%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (1.61%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.20%) XenApp
13 2 (0.80%) Ceph
13 2 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.40%) Firmware
14 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (16.87%) Kubernetes
2 38 (15.26%) Terraform
3 26 (10.44%) Ansible
4 10 (4.02%) Grafana
4 10 (4.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 10 (4.02%) vCenter Server
5 6 (2.41%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.01%) Data Guard
6 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.61%) Puppet
7 4 (1.61%) vMotion
8 3 (1.20%) Nagios
8 3 (1.20%) SCCM
9 2 (0.80%) Pacemaker
9 2 (0.80%) Podman
9 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (20.08%) VMware
2 47 (18.88%) Oracle
3 46 (18.47%) Microsoft
4 35 (14.06%) Cisco
5 29 (11.65%) Red Hat
6 19 (7.63%) Juniper
7 16 (6.43%) SAP
8 15 (6.02%) SolarWinds
9 13 (5.22%) Fortinet
10 12 (4.82%) Actix
10 12 (4.82%) Blue Coat
10 12 (4.82%) CheckPoint
10 12 (4.82%) Ericsson
10 12 (4.82%) Huawei
10 12 (4.82%) Nokia
11 11 (4.42%) F5
11 11 (4.42%) Palo Alto
12 10 (4.02%) Atlassian
12 10 (4.02%) Google
13 8 (3.21%) Citrix