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 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 196 212 304
Rank change year-on-year +16 +92 -36
Contract jobs citing High Availability 497 703 814
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.23% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.37% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 465 490
10th Percentile £313 £400 £404
25th Percentile £414 £465 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.93% +9.31%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £674
90th Percentile £700 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £488
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.72% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 18
10th Percentile £23.80 £58.50 -
25th Percentile £36.40 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £67.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +180.22% +8.29%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile £63.00 - -
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 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 +8 370 £550 - 211
UK excluding London +11 243 £500 -5.66% 143
Work from Home +38 185 £507 -3.43% 121
London -15 161 £550 -8.33% 82
South East +64 83 £495 -10.00% 40
North of England +29 46 £478 -9.05% 40
Scotland +34 44 £497 -4.42% 9
South West -10 32 £650 +18.18% 15
Midlands -12 23 £400 -19.60% 27
Yorkshire +19 19 £507 -7.82% 12
North West +6 17 £475 -9.52% 25
West Midlands -4 12 £400 -18.37% 17
East Midlands +20 11 £411 -8.67% 10
East of England -16 11 £602 +9.45% 12
North East +22 10 £388 - 3
Wales +4 5 £525 -
Northern Ireland +5 3 - - 2

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 40 (8.05%) Confluence
2 17 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.61%) SAS
6 7 (1.41%) IIS
7 5 (1.01%) Apache
8 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.80%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.60%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.40%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.40%) JBoss
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.20%) MetaMask
Applications
1 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.41%) Elite 3E
2 10 (2.01%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.40%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.40%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.20%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 151 (30.38%) Azure
2 126 (25.35%) AWS
3 65 (13.08%) GCP
4 31 (6.24%) Serverless
5 28 (5.63%) GitHub
6 25 (5.03%) SaaS
7 24 (4.83%) PaaS
8 22 (4.43%) Amazon S3
8 22 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.43%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (4.23%) IaaS
10 18 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.22%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.82%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.62%) Nutanix
15 11 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (14.08%) Firewall
2 44 (8.85%) VPN
3 32 (6.44%) DNS
4 29 (5.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 26 (5.23%) DHCP
6 24 (4.83%) WAN
6 24 (4.83%) Wireless
7 23 (4.63%) LAN
7 23 (4.63%) SAN
8 18 (3.62%) Network Security
9 15 (3.02%) HTTP
9 15 (3.02%) TCP/IP
9 15 (3.02%) Wireshark
10 14 (2.82%) BGP
10 14 (2.82%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (2.62%) DMZ
11 13 (2.62%) OSPF
12 12 (2.41%) 3GPP
12 12 (2.41%) LTE
12 12 (2.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (16.10%) SQL Server
2 59 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (9.86%) Oracle Database
4 35 (7.04%) Relational Database
5 31 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (5.43%) MongoDB
7 22 (4.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 20 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 17 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (3.22%) Data Lake
11 15 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.62%) Hadoop
12 13 (2.62%) MySQL
13 11 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (2.01%) Big Data
14 10 (2.01%) Couchbase
14 10 (2.01%) DB2
14 10 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (15.29%) Git
2 46 (9.26%) JIRA
3 35 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 25 (5.03%) JUnit
5 15 (3.02%) GitLab
6 8 (1.61%) Subversion
7 7 (1.41%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.41%) Gatling
8 6 (1.21%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.80%) Mockito
10 4 (0.80%) ScalaTest
10 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.20%) tSQLt
13 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.48%) Finance
3 61 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 51 (10.26%) Banking
5 36 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.43%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.81%) Marketing
11 8 (1.61%) Retail
12 6 (1.21%) Electronics
12 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.21%) Military
13 5 (1.01%) Front Office
13 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.80%) Law
14 4 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (16.10%) Architect
2 72 (14.49%) Senior
3 70 (14.08%) Developer
4 58 (11.67%) DBA
5 48 (9.66%) Solutions Architect
6 46 (9.26%) Network Engineer
7 37 (7.44%) SQL DBA
8 36 (7.24%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.84%) Support Engineer
10 28 (5.63%) Administrator
11 22 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (4.23%) Consultant
12 21 (4.23%) Lead
13 20 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (4.02%) Linux Engineer
14 17 (3.42%) Analyst
15 15 (3.02%) Cisco Engineer
15 15 (3.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Juniper Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.44%) REST
1 37 (7.44%) Spring
2 34 (6.84%) .NET
3 32 (6.44%) Kafka
4 30 (6.04%) Hibernate
4 30 (6.04%) JPA
4 30 (6.04%) React
5 29 (5.84%) Spring Boot
6 23 (4.63%) Middleware
7 19 (3.82%) LDAP
7 19 (3.82%) SailPoint
8 17 (3.42%) RESTful
9 16 (3.22%) YAML
10 13 (2.62%) Node.js
11 12 (2.41%) Web Services
12 11 (2.21%) Akka
12 11 (2.21%) Flash
13 9 (1.81%) AWS CDK
14 8 (1.61%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.08%) Clustering
2 59 (11.87%) Replication
3 44 (8.85%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.62%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.62%) PKI
6 12 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.21%) Blog
7 11 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.81%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.61%) Derivative
11 7 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.41%) NHS
12 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.01%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 104 (20.93%) Linux
2 103 (20.72%) Windows
3 57 (11.47%) Windows Server
4 29 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (5.84%) Unix
5 16 (3.22%) Solaris
6 8 (1.61%) AIX
6 8 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (1.01%) Android
8 5 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (30.78%) DevOps
2 137 (27.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 117 (23.54%) Agile
4 83 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (16.30%) Migration
6 70 (14.08%) Microservices
7 66 (13.28%) CI/CD
8 59 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (11.47%) Performance Tuning
10 53 (10.66%) Scrum
11 50 (10.06%) Containerisation
12 47 (9.46%) Unit Testing
13 42 (8.45%) Computer Science
13 42 (8.45%) Mentoring
14 41 (8.25%) Capacity Management
15 39 (7.85%) ETL
16 37 (7.44%) Analytics
16 37 (7.44%) ITIL
17 31 (6.24%) Cloud Security
18 30 (6.04%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (26.56%) SQL
2 86 (17.30%) Java
2 86 (17.30%) Python
3 66 (13.28%) PowerShell
4 37 (7.44%) TypeScript
5 35 (7.04%) Bash
6 33 (6.64%) C#
7 15 (3.02%) Perl
8 13 (2.62%) Bicep
8 13 (2.62%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.41%) C++
9 12 (2.41%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.41%) Scala
9 12 (2.41%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.01%) Ruby
11 8 (1.61%) Go
12 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.21%) C
14 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.27%) Degree
4 49 (9.86%) DV Cleared
5 28 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.22%) CCNA
8 16 (3.22%) CCNP
9 15 (3.02%) Azure Certification
10 11 (2.21%) MCSE
11 10 (2.01%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.61%) MCITP
12 8 (1.61%) MCTS
12 8 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.21%) CCIE
13 6 (1.21%) RHCE
14 5 (1.01%) CCDP
14 5 (1.01%) JNCIA
14 5 (1.01%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.21%) SLA
2 8 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.41%) QA
4 6 (1.21%) GDPR
4 6 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 82 (16.50%) Docker
2 75 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 59 (11.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (3.42%) Hyper-V
5 17 (3.42%) vSphere
6 15 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.82%) VMware NSX
8 9 (1.81%) Firmware
8 9 (1.81%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (1.61%) KVM
10 7 (1.41%) BitLocker
10 7 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.01%) NFS
11 5 (1.01%) Terminal Services
11 5 (1.01%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (0.80%) GPFS
13 3 (0.60%) XenApp
14 2 (0.40%) Ceph
14 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 92 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 65 (13.08%) Terraform
3 55 (11.07%) Ansible
4 21 (4.23%) Grafana
5 15 (3.02%) ITRS Geneos
6 14 (2.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 14 (2.82%) vCenter Server
7 12 (2.41%) Data Guard
8 11 (2.21%) Puppet
9 9 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.81%) SCCM
10 7 (1.41%) BladeLogic
10 7 (1.41%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.41%) Tivoli
11 6 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (1.21%) Netcool
11 6 (1.21%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 89 (17.91%) Oracle
2 84 (16.90%) Microsoft
3 81 (16.30%) VMware
4 58 (11.67%) Cisco
5 32 (6.44%) Red Hat
5 32 (6.44%) SAP
6 31 (6.24%) ServiceNow
7 27 (5.43%) Juniper
8 25 (5.03%) Citrix
8 25 (5.03%) CyberArk
9 23 (4.63%) Google
10 19 (3.82%) SolarWinds
11 18 (3.62%) BeyondTrust
12 17 (3.42%) Dell
13 16 (3.22%) Splunk
14 15 (3.02%) Fortinet
14 15 (3.02%) IBM
15 14 (2.82%) CheckPoint
15 14 (2.82%) EMC
15 14 (2.82%) Palo Alto