High Availability Contracts with Work from Home Options

High Availability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 209 279
Rank change year-on-year +26 +70 -8
Contract jobs citing High Availability 175 286 422
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 1.18% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.32% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 196 268
10th Percentile £300 £400 £385
25th Percentile £400 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £662
90th Percentile £700 £664 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.18% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £63.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

High Availability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High Availability trend for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing High Availability.

High Availability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing High Availability over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

High Availability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing High Availability.

High Availability hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (8.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.57%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.71%) IIS
3 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.14%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.14%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.57%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.57%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 13 (7.43%) Elite 3E
2 7 (4.00%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.71%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (1.71%) NEC Housing
3 3 (1.71%) OPENHousing
4 2 (1.14%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (42.29%) Azure
2 54 (30.86%) AWS
3 23 (13.14%) GCP
4 19 (10.86%) Serverless
5 14 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 14 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.14%) PaaS
9 8 (4.57%) GitHub
9 8 (4.57%) IaaS
9 8 (4.57%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.00%) SaaS
11 6 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.86%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.86%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.00%) Firewall
2 13 (7.43%) DNS
3 12 (6.86%) DHCP
4 11 (6.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (5.71%) BGP
5 10 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (5.71%) OSPF
5 10 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.14%) MPLS
7 7 (4.00%) HTTP
7 7 (4.00%) Network Security
8 6 (3.43%) SAN
8 6 (3.43%) WAN
9 5 (2.86%) EIGRP
9 5 (2.86%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.86%) LAN
9 5 (2.86%) NAS
9 5 (2.86%) SNMP
9 5 (2.86%) VLAN
10 4 (2.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.14%) SQL Server
2 28 (16.00%) Oracle Database
3 17 (9.71%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 14 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.43%) PowerCenter
7 5 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.86%) Informix
7 5 (2.86%) MySQL
7 5 (2.86%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.29%) Couchbase
8 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.29%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.71%) Big Data
9 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (13.14%) Git
2 20 (11.43%) JIRA
3 18 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.29%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.29%) GitLab
5 4 (2.29%) Subversion
6 3 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.57%) Gatling
8 1 (0.57%) JUnit
8 1 (0.57%) Mockito
8 1 (0.57%) ScalaTest
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.00%) Finance
3 21 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (6.86%) Banking
6 7 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Legal
8 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.14%) French Language
10 2 (1.14%) German Language
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.14%) Korean Language
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (21.71%) Senior
2 32 (18.29%) DBA
3 31 (17.71%) Architect
4 22 (12.57%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (10.29%) Developer
5 18 (10.29%) SQL DBA
6 16 (9.14%) Support Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Applications Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.43%) Applications Support Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Network Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Senior Applications Support
7 13 (7.43%) Senior Support Engineer
8 12 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Senior DBA
10 9 (5.14%) Administrator
10 9 (5.14%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (4.00%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.00%) .NET
2 12 (6.86%) SailPoint
3 11 (6.29%) YAML
4 10 (5.71%) Middleware
5 9 (5.14%) Node.js
6 8 (4.57%) LDAP
6 8 (4.57%) React
7 7 (4.00%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.86%) REST
8 5 (2.86%) SOAP
9 4 (2.29%) JSON
9 4 (2.29%) Kafka
10 3 (1.71%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.71%) AWS SAM
10 3 (1.71%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.71%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.71%) JPA
10 3 (1.71%) Spring
10 3 (1.71%) Web Services
11 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.14%) Replication
2 30 (17.14%) Data Centre
3 18 (10.29%) Clustering
4 7 (4.00%) Blog
4 7 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.57%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.71%) Windows
2 35 (20.00%) Linux
3 19 (10.86%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.57%) Solaris
6 7 (4.00%) AIX
7 6 (3.43%) Unix
8 5 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.57%) DevOps
2 57 (32.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 48 (27.43%) Migration
4 33 (18.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (16.57%) Agile
5 29 (16.57%) CI/CD
6 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (14.86%) ETL
7 26 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (10.29%) Deployment Automation
9 17 (9.71%) Analytics
10 16 (9.14%) Containerisation
11 15 (8.57%) Roadmaps
12 14 (8.00%) Cloud Security
13 13 (7.43%) Architectural Design
13 13 (7.43%) Data Modelling
13 13 (7.43%) Kanban
13 13 (7.43%) Microservices
14 12 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (6.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.57%) SQL
2 40 (22.86%) Python
3 29 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 20 (11.43%) Java
5 16 (9.14%) Bash
6 14 (8.00%) C#
7 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.71%) PL/SQL
9 9 (5.14%) Bicep
10 7 (4.00%) C++
11 6 (3.43%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.29%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.29%) Perl
12 4 (2.29%) Ruby
13 3 (1.71%) C
13 3 (1.71%) Go
13 3 (1.71%) PHP
13 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.14%) Solidity
14 2 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) Degree
4 12 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.29%) CCNP
6 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.43%) CCNA
9 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.86%) CCDP
9 5 (2.86%) JNCIA
9 5 (2.86%) JNCIS
9 5 (2.86%) MCSE
10 3 (1.71%) MCITP
10 3 (1.71%) MCTS
10 3 (1.71%) SAP Certification
11 2 (1.14%) MCSA
12 1 (0.57%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.57%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.57%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.86%) GDPR
2 5 (2.86%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.57%) IFRS
4 1 (0.57%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 26 (14.86%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.71%) Docker
3 12 (6.86%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.00%) Firmware
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.71%) vSphere
7 2 (1.14%) Ceph
7 2 (1.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.57%) XenApp
8 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (21.14%) Terraform
2 32 (18.29%) Ansible
3 24 (13.71%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.14%) Data Guard
4 9 (5.14%) Grafana
5 7 (4.00%) Puppet
6 6 (3.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (2.86%) Netcool
7 5 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.86%) Tivoli
7 5 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (2.29%) BladeLogic
8 4 (2.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.71%) Kibana
9 3 (1.71%) Nagios
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (1.14%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.14%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 42 (24.00%) Oracle
2 26 (14.86%) Microsoft
3 25 (14.29%) VMware
4 22 (12.57%) ServiceNow
5 21 (12.00%) Cisco
6 17 (9.71%) CyberArk
7 12 (6.86%) BeyondTrust
8 11 (6.29%) Dell
9 10 (5.71%) Splunk
10 9 (5.14%) IBM
11 8 (4.57%) Commvault
11 8 (4.57%) Palo Alto
11 8 (4.57%) Red Hat
11 8 (4.57%) SAP
12 6 (3.43%) Citrix
12 6 (3.43%) Informatica
12 6 (3.43%) Juniper
13 5 (2.86%) EMC
13 5 (2.86%) HP
13 5 (2.86%) Serena