Failover Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 410 473
Rank change year-on-year +50 +63 +11
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 18 13 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.060% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 0.44% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 30
10th Percentile £371 £479 £419
25th Percentile £427 £491 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £458 £581 £586
90th Percentile £480 £588 £676
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.60
25th Percentile - - £29.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - £57.00
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,282 2,966 4,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.80% 13.69% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,573 2,023 3,048
10th Percentile £250 £275 £255
25th Percentile £393 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +9.47%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £612
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 119 100
10th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £13.81
25th Percentile £24.18 £23.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £47.83 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.94% +122.47% +7.50%
75th Percentile £55.63 £74.69 £43.86
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -27.27% +130.03% +3.96%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
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 Failover Clustering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 West - 8 £470 - 4
Scotland - 8 £438 -
North of England +32 1 £300 -42.86%
South East +20 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £300 -
Failover Clustering
UK

Failover Clustering
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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DHCP
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
1 8 (44.44%) NAS
1 8 (44.44%) SAN
1 8 (44.44%) Skype
1 8 (44.44%) SNMP
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
3 1 (5.56%) VoIP
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 5 (27.78%) Military
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Electronics
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 4 (22.22%) Marketing
2 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Wintel Support
5 3 (16.67%) Wintel Support Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) IT Support
7 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
1 1 (5.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (94.44%) Clustering
2 9 (50.00%) PKI
3 8 (44.44%) Fat Client
3 8 (44.44%) Thin Client
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Linux
3 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Database Mirroring
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 8 (44.44%) Key Management
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 5 (27.78%) Patch Management
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (22.22%) Programme Management
5 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Information Security
7 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.56%) Quality Management
7 1 (5.56%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
3 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (44.44%) VMware NSX
4 8 (44.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) SCCM
2 9 (50.00%) Ansible
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (44.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Autotask
4 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) Nessus
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Aruba
4 1 (5.56%) Datto
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) Sophos