Failover Clustering Contracts

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 645 803
Rank change year-on-year +83 +158 -138
Contract jobs citing Failover Clustering 17 49 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.086% 0.068%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.54% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 47
10th Percentile £155 £388 £329
25th Percentile £190 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £531 £465
Median % change year-on-year -58.59% +14.25% +3.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £580
90th Percentile £623 £575 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -60.00% +29.41% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Daily rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Hourly rate trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +87 15 £220 -59.07% 11
UK excluding London +32 10 £220 -60.00% 8
London +98 5 £560 +1.82% 3
Work from Home +103 3 £560 +1.82% 4
North of England +32 3 £220 -60.00% 4
Midlands +18 3 £200 -46.67%
North West - 3 £220 -
West Midlands - 3 £200 -
South East +20 2 - - 2
South West +4 2 £350 -36.36% 2

Failover Clustering
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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) LAN
2 8 (47.06%) VLAN
2 8 (47.06%) VoIP
2 8 (47.06%) VPN
2 8 (47.06%) WAN
2 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) NAS
3 2 (11.76%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) Skype
3 2 (11.76%) SSH
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Support Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (47.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 6 (35.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Active Directory Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) CyberArk Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Wintel Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
1 2 (11.76%) OpenID
1 2 (11.76%) SailPoint
1 2 (11.76%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.88%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (35.29%) Driving Licence
3 4 (23.53%) PKI
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
4 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Windows Server
3 9 (52.94%) Windows 10
3 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (47.06%) Mac OS
4 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (23.53%) Linux
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
2 8 (47.06%) Mobile Device Management
3 6 (35.29%) Quality Management
4 2 (11.76%) Database Mirroring
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Key Management
4 2 (11.76%) Server Hardening
4 2 (11.76%) Use Case
4 2 (11.76%) User Experience
5 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
5 1 (5.88%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (5.88%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (5.88%) Due Diligence
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Runbook
5 1 (5.88%) Server Management
5 1 (5.88%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) MCSE
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 17 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (82.35%) Hyper-V
3 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) vSphere
5 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) SCCM
2 8 (47.06%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (35.29%) Autotask
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
6 1 (5.88%) Ansible
6 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
6 1 (5.88%) Nessus
6 1 (5.88%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (5.88%) SCOM
6 1 (5.88%) SCOrch
6 1 (5.88%) SCVMM
6 1 (5.88%) Terraform
6 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (70.59%) VMware
3 6 (35.29%) Apple
3 6 (35.29%) Datto
4 2 (11.76%) CyberArk
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.88%) BEA
5 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.88%) Juniper
5 1 (5.88%) NETGEAR
5 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.88%) Symantec
5 1 (5.88%) Varonis