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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 217 296
Rank change year-on-year +13 +79 -22
Contract jobs citing High Availability 495 679 820
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.21% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.35% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 447 500
10th Percentile £305 £400 £404
25th Percentile £410 £467 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £630 £641 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 18
10th Percentile £23.80 £57.38 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £60.38 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +176.04% +8.29%
75th Percentile - £73.75 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £61.50 -
% change year-on-year +0.16% - -

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England +9 377 £550 - 158
UK excluding London +8 243 £490 -6.67% 94
Work from Home +30 175 £525 - 79
London -5 163 £550 -8.33% 64
South East +53 84 £490 -10.91% 28
North of England +27 48 £475 -9.52% 20
Scotland +23 38 £492 -5.38% 8
South West -12 32 £640 +16.36% 8
Midlands -7 24 £411 -17.80% 20
Yorkshire +24 21 £507 -8.85% 4
North West +10 17 £475 -9.52% 14
East of England -13 16 £375 -31.82% 14
East Midlands +17 12 £418 -7.11% 7
West Midlands -13 12 £400 -18.37% 13
North East +21 10 £388 - 2
Wales -2 4 £525 -
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 1

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 37 (7.47%) Confluence
2 16 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.82%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.62%) IIS
6 6 (1.21%) SAS
7 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.81%) Apache
8 4 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.61%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.40%) Ethereum
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 2007
11 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.20%) MetaMask
11 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (2.63%) Elite 3E
2 10 (2.02%) Teamcenter
3 9 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.61%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.61%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.61%) OPENHousing
8 2 (0.40%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.40%) Remedy AR System
9 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle AGIS
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 148 (29.90%) Azure
2 124 (25.05%) AWS
3 64 (12.93%) GCP
4 30 (6.06%) Serverless
5 28 (5.66%) GitHub
6 24 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 23 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.24%) SaaS
9 20 (4.04%) PaaS
10 18 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.23%) IaaS
12 15 (3.03%) OpenShift
13 14 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.83%) Entra ID
14 12 (2.42%) Nutanix
15 11 (2.22%) OCI
16 10 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.02%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 75 (15.15%) Firewall
2 46 (9.29%) VPN
3 29 (5.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 28 (5.66%) DNS
5 25 (5.05%) Wireless
6 23 (4.65%) WAN
7 21 (4.24%) DHCP
8 20 (4.04%) LAN
9 19 (3.84%) Network Security
9 19 (3.84%) SAN
10 15 (3.03%) BGP
10 15 (3.03%) HTTP
10 15 (3.03%) Wireshark
11 14 (2.83%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (2.83%) OSPF
11 14 (2.83%) SD-WAN
12 13 (2.63%) DMZ
12 13 (2.63%) TCP/IP
13 12 (2.42%) 3GPP
13 12 (2.42%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.35%) SQL Server
2 56 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (9.90%) Oracle Database
4 35 (7.07%) Relational Database
5 31 (6.26%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (5.05%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.24%) Apache Cassandra
8 17 (3.43%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.43%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (2.83%) Hadoop
11 13 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.42%) Big Data
12 12 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.42%) MySQL
13 11 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (2.02%) Couchbase
14 10 (2.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 76 (15.35%) Git
2 45 (9.09%) JIRA
3 36 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 25 (5.05%) JUnit
5 16 (3.23%) GitLab
6 8 (1.62%) Subversion
7 7 (1.41%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.41%) Gatling
8 5 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.81%) Mockito
9 4 (0.81%) ScalaTest
9 4 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 145 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.72%) Public Sector
3 57 (11.52%) Finance
4 47 (9.49%) Banking
5 39 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (3.43%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.62%) Retail
10 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.21%) Military
11 5 (1.01%) Front Office
11 5 (1.01%) Legal
11 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.01%) Marketing
11 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.81%) Law
13 3 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 78 (15.76%) Architect
2 70 (14.14%) Senior
3 66 (13.33%) Developer
4 54 (10.91%) DBA
5 50 (10.10%) Network Engineer
6 47 (9.49%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (7.07%) Java Developer
8 33 (6.67%) SQL DBA
9 30 (6.06%) Support Engineer
10 26 (5.25%) Administrator
10 26 (5.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (4.24%) Consultant
11 21 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.24%) Lead
12 19 (3.84%) Linux Engineer
13 18 (3.64%) Analyst
14 16 (3.23%) Data Engineer
15 15 (3.03%) Cisco Engineer
15 15 (3.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 15 (3.03%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.27%) Spring
2 34 (6.87%) REST
3 33 (6.67%) Kafka
4 31 (6.26%) .NET
5 30 (6.06%) Hibernate
5 30 (6.06%) JPA
5 30 (6.06%) React
6 28 (5.66%) Spring Boot
7 21 (4.24%) Middleware
8 18 (3.64%) SailPoint
9 17 (3.43%) RESTful
10 16 (3.23%) YAML
11 14 (2.83%) LDAP
12 13 (2.63%) Node.js
13 12 (2.42%) Web Services
14 11 (2.22%) Akka
15 9 (1.82%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.82%) Flash
15 9 (1.82%) SAP Basis
15 9 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.73%) Clustering
2 58 (11.72%) Replication
3 46 (9.29%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.63%) PKI
6 12 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.22%) Blog
7 11 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.41%) Derivative
10 7 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.01%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 104 (21.01%) Linux
2 97 (19.60%) Windows
3 49 (9.90%) Windows Server
4 28 (5.66%) Unix
5 27 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (3.23%) Solaris
7 9 (1.82%) AIX
8 8 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (1.01%) Android
12 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.20%) VMS
15 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (30.91%) DevOps
2 144 (29.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 113 (22.83%) Agile
4 87 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (16.57%) Migration
6 69 (13.94%) CI/CD
6 69 (13.94%) Microservices
7 60 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 55 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
9 52 (10.51%) Containerisation
10 51 (10.30%) Scrum
11 46 (9.29%) Unit Testing
12 42 (8.48%) Analytics
12 42 (8.48%) ETL
13 41 (8.28%) Mentoring
14 40 (8.08%) Computer Science
15 39 (7.88%) Capacity Management
15 39 (7.88%) ITIL
16 31 (6.26%) Cloud Security
16 31 (6.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 125 (25.25%) SQL
2 84 (16.97%) Python
3 83 (16.77%) Java
4 60 (12.12%) PowerShell
5 39 (7.88%) Bash
6 37 (7.47%) TypeScript
7 30 (6.06%) C#
8 13 (2.63%) Bicep
8 13 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.42%) C++
9 12 (2.42%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.42%) Perl
9 12 (2.42%) Scala
9 12 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.02%) Ruby
11 8 (1.62%) Go
12 6 (1.21%) C
13 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.01%) PHP
14 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (25.66%) Security Cleared
2 94 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.31%) Degree
4 50 (10.10%) DV Cleared
5 27 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.23%) CCNA
8 16 (3.23%) CCNP
9 15 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 11 (2.22%) MCSE
11 9 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.62%) MCITP
12 8 (1.62%) MCTS
12 8 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (1.41%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.41%) CCIE
13 7 (1.41%) RHCE
14 5 (1.01%) CCDP
14 5 (1.01%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.63%) SLA
2 8 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.41%) QA
4 5 (1.01%) GDPR
4 5 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 80 (16.16%) Docker
2 70 (14.14%) Active Directory
3 59 (11.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (3.64%) vSphere
6 17 (3.43%) Hyper-V
7 16 (3.23%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.82%) KVM
9 9 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (1.62%) Firmware
11 7 (1.41%) BitLocker
11 7 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (1.01%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.81%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.61%) NFS
14 3 (0.61%) XenApp
15 2 (0.40%) Ceph
15 2 (0.40%) GPFS
15 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 93 (18.79%) Kubernetes
2 67 (13.54%) Terraform
3 53 (10.71%) Ansible
4 21 (4.24%) Grafana
5 14 (2.83%) ITRS Geneos
5 14 (2.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 13 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 12 (2.42%) Data Guard
8 10 (2.02%) SCCM
9 9 (1.82%) Puppet
10 7 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.41%) BladeLogic
10 7 (1.41%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.41%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.01%) Kibana
12 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 86 (17.37%) Oracle
2 80 (16.16%) Microsoft
3 79 (15.96%) VMware
4 62 (12.53%) Cisco
5 32 (6.46%) Red Hat
6 31 (6.26%) ServiceNow
7 29 (5.86%) SAP
8 27 (5.45%) Juniper
9 24 (4.85%) Citrix
10 23 (4.65%) CyberArk
11 22 (4.44%) Google
12 20 (4.04%) Palo Alto
13 19 (3.84%) SolarWinds
14 18 (3.64%) BeyondTrust
15 17 (3.43%) Dell
16 15 (3.03%) Fortinet
16 15 (3.03%) Splunk
17 14 (2.83%) CheckPoint
18 13 (2.63%) Commvault
18 13 (2.63%) HP