High Availability Contracts

High Availability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 218 300
Rank change year-on-year +19 +82 -37
Contract jobs citing High Availability 515 723 815
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.21% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.34% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 480 493
10th Percentile £313 £400 £404
25th Percentile £432 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £660
90th Percentile £700 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £488
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.72% +9.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 17
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.71 £22.75
25th Percentile £28.00 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +8.29%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile £63.00 - £60.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England 0 379 £550 - 178
UK excluding London +23 240 £500 -5.66% 113
Work from Home +35 188 £525 - 94
London +4 182 £573 -4.58% 80
South East +53 69 £475 -13.64% 23
Scotland +36 53 £575 +11.22% 10
North of England +19 44 £469 -10.71% 30
South West +16 38 £575 +4.55% 13
North West +9 22 £485 -7.61% 21
Midlands -6 20 £500 +0.50% 19
West Midlands +9 16 £500 +1.01% 7
Yorkshire +14 12 £430 -21.82% 8
East of England -19 12 £602 +9.45% 18
North East +30 10 £388 - 1
Wales +4 5 £525 - 1
East Midlands +18 4 £550 +22.22% 12
Northern Ireland +10 3 - - 3

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 48 (9.32%) Confluence
2 18 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.55%) SAS
5 7 (1.36%) Apache
5 7 (1.36%) IIS
6 5 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.97%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.58%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.39%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.19%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.19%) MetaMask
10 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.14%) Elite 3E
2 10 (1.94%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.39%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.68%) Azure
2 141 (27.38%) AWS
3 64 (12.43%) GCP
4 30 (5.83%) GitHub
5 27 (5.24%) SaaS
5 27 (5.24%) Serverless
6 26 (5.05%) PaaS
7 25 (4.85%) IaaS
8 24 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.50%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (3.11%) OpenShift
13 15 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 15 (2.91%) Nutanix
14 11 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 87 (16.89%) Firewall
2 54 (10.49%) VPN
3 42 (8.16%) DNS
4 35 (6.80%) DHCP
5 31 (6.02%) LAN
6 29 (5.63%) WAN
7 27 (5.24%) SAN
8 26 (5.05%) Cisco Nexus
9 25 (4.85%) Wireless
10 24 (4.66%) Network Security
11 19 (3.69%) TCP/IP
12 18 (3.50%) DMZ
13 17 (3.30%) BGP
14 16 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (3.11%) OSPF
14 16 (3.11%) VLAN
15 15 (2.91%) HTTP
15 15 (2.91%) Wireshark
16 14 (2.72%) NAS
17 13 (2.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (13.98%) SQL Server
2 61 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (9.71%) Oracle Database
4 36 (6.99%) Relational Database
5 31 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 29 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (3.50%) NoSQL
9 17 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (3.11%) MySQL
11 15 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (2.14%) Data Lake
13 11 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (1.94%) DB2
15 9 (1.75%) Power BI
15 9 (1.75%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.75%) Redis
15 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 70 (13.59%) Git
2 58 (11.26%) JIRA
3 29 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 24 (4.66%) JUnit
5 14 (2.72%) GitLab
6 8 (1.55%) Subversion
6 8 (1.55%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.36%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.36%) Gatling
8 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.78%) Mockito
9 4 (0.78%) ScalaTest
9 4 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.19%) ERwin
12 1 (0.19%) Maven
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 133 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 79 (15.34%) Finance
3 74 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.51%) Banking
5 41 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 26 (5.05%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.52%) Marketing
10 10 (1.94%) Electronics
10 10 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.55%) Retail
12 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Military
13 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.78%) Front Office
14 4 (0.78%) Law
15 2 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 78 (15.15%) Architect
1 78 (15.15%) Senior
2 66 (12.82%) Developer
3 61 (11.84%) DBA
4 54 (10.49%) Network Engineer
5 43 (8.35%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.99%) SQL DBA
7 35 (6.80%) Java Developer
8 28 (5.44%) Administrator
9 25 (4.85%) Support Engineer
10 21 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (3.88%) Consultant
12 19 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.69%) Lead
13 18 (3.50%) Analyst
13 18 (3.50%) Linux Engineer
13 18 (3.50%) Senior DBA
14 13 (2.52%) Oracle DBA
14 13 (2.52%) Senior SQL DBA
15 12 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.77%) REST
2 38 (7.38%) Spring
3 32 (6.21%) Hibernate
3 32 (6.21%) JPA
4 30 (5.83%) Spring Boot
5 28 (5.44%) .NET
6 26 (5.05%) Kafka
6 26 (5.05%) LDAP
7 24 (4.66%) Middleware
7 24 (4.66%) React
8 23 (4.47%) SailPoint
9 16 (3.11%) RESTful
10 15 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
11 13 (2.52%) Flash
11 13 (2.52%) Node.js
12 12 (2.33%) YAML
13 11 (2.14%) Web Services
14 10 (1.94%) Akka
14 10 (1.94%) Spring Security
15 9 (1.75%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.62%) Clustering
2 60 (11.65%) Replication
3 51 (9.90%) Data Centre
4 19 (3.69%) PKI
5 18 (3.50%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.91%) Derivative
8 13 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.14%) Blog
9 11 (2.14%) NHS
10 10 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.94%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.55%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.97%) NVMe
13 5 (0.97%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 117 (22.72%) Linux
2 112 (21.75%) Windows
3 59 (11.46%) Windows Server
4 37 (7.18%) Unix
5 29 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (3.11%) Solaris
7 10 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
7 10 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.75%) AIX
8 9 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (0.97%) Android
11 4 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.19%) VMS
14 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (29.32%) DevOps
2 148 (28.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 126 (24.47%) Agile
4 90 (17.48%) Migration
5 81 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (13.98%) CI/CD
7 64 (12.43%) Scrum
8 61 (11.84%) Microservices
9 59 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
11 49 (9.51%) Capacity Management
12 48 (9.32%) Containerisation
13 46 (8.93%) ITIL
14 44 (8.54%) Cloud Security
15 43 (8.35%) Computer Science
15 43 (8.35%) Mentoring
16 41 (7.96%) Unit Testing
17 39 (7.57%) Change Management
18 34 (6.60%) Deployment Automation
19 32 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 126 (24.47%) SQL
2 88 (17.09%) Python
3 80 (15.53%) Java
4 75 (14.56%) PowerShell
5 37 (7.18%) Bash
6 31 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.44%) C#
8 18 (3.50%) Perl
9 13 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.33%) C++
10 12 (2.33%) Scala
10 12 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.75%) Ruby
12 8 (1.55%) Bicep
12 8 (1.55%) Go
13 6 (1.17%) C
14 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 135 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 110 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 57 (11.07%) Degree
4 44 (8.54%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (3.30%) CCNA
8 17 (3.30%) CCNP
9 14 (2.72%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.14%) MCSE
12 9 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.17%) CCIE
14 5 (0.97%) CCDP
14 5 (0.97%) JNCIA
14 5 (0.97%) JNCIS
14 5 (0.97%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.55%) GDPR
2 8 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (1.55%) SLA
3 4 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.39%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.39%) QA
6 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.19%) HL7
6 1 (0.19%) IFRS
6 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 82 (15.92%) Docker
2 73 (14.17%) Active Directory
3 59 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (3.69%) Hyper-V
6 17 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (3.30%) vSphere
7 11 (2.14%) Firmware
7 11 (2.14%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (2.14%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.55%) BitLocker
8 8 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.17%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.97%) KVM
10 5 (0.97%) NFS
10 5 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.78%) GPFS
12 3 (0.58%) XenApp
13 2 (0.39%) Ceph
13 2 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 92 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 65 (12.62%) Ansible
2 65 (12.62%) Terraform
3 23 (4.47%) Grafana
4 19 (3.69%) ITRS Geneos
5 16 (3.11%) vCenter Server
6 15 (2.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 13 (2.52%) Data Guard
7 13 (2.52%) Puppet
8 10 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.94%) SCCM
8 10 (1.94%) Tivoli
9 8 (1.55%) EMC NetWorker
9 8 (1.55%) Netcool
9 8 (1.55%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 7 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.36%) BladeLogic
11 6 (1.17%) vMotion
12 5 (0.97%) Kibana
Vendors
1 91 (17.67%) Oracle
2 83 (16.12%) VMware
3 82 (15.92%) Microsoft
4 62 (12.04%) Cisco
5 40 (7.77%) ServiceNow
6 37 (7.18%) SAP
7 31 (6.02%) CyberArk
8 28 (5.44%) Juniper
8 28 (5.44%) Red Hat
9 26 (5.05%) Citrix
10 23 (4.47%) SolarWinds
11 22 (4.27%) BeyondTrust
11 22 (4.27%) Palo Alto
12 19 (3.69%) Dell
12 19 (3.69%) Google
13 17 (3.30%) Atlassian
13 17 (3.30%) Fortinet
13 17 (3.30%) IBM
13 17 (3.30%) Splunk
14 16 (3.11%) EMC