Failover Clustering Contracts in the North of England

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Failover Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 201 243
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 -52
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.083% 0.018% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% 0.12% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £210 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +25.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £254 - £477
90th Percentile £297 - £498
England median daily rate £220 £525 £465
% change year-on-year -58.10% +12.90% +3.33%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

Failover Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 515 813 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.63% 14.94% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 571 825
10th Percentile £235 £319 £250
25th Percentile £394 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% +13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 46 20
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.25 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.84 £31.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.89% +56.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.94 £45.76 £22.69
90th Percentile £71.88 £50.83 £51.68
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the North of England

Failover Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the North of England

Failover Clustering
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 Failover Clustering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West - 3 £220 -
North East - 1 £300 - 2
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VoIP
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (75.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (75.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Autotask
1 4 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Datto
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos