High Availability Contracts in the Midlands

High Availability
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 105 171
Rank change year-on-year -7 +66 -51
Contract jobs citing High Availability 23 53 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 1.62% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.83% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 21
10th Percentile £350 £359 £375
25th Percentile - £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% -13.48% +27.78%
75th Percentile £455 £569 £675
90th Percentile £592 £640 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +192.76% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the Midlands

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands -2 12 £400 -18.37% 16
East Midlands +17 11 £411 -8.67% 8
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (4.35%) Ethereum
1 1 (4.35%) MetaMask
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (8.70%) LAN
3 2 (8.70%) Network Security
3 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
3 2 (8.70%) WAN
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) DMZ
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (21.74%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) DBA
2 8 (34.78%) SQL DBA
3 7 (30.43%) Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Designer
5 3 (13.04%) Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Blockchain Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Blockchain Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared DBA
7 1 (4.35%) ETL Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Juniper Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Payments Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) CSS3
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (4.35%) Truffle
2 1 (4.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (8.70%) Taxonomies
4 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
2 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
2 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
4 3 (13.04%) Change Control
4 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (13.04%) ETL
4 3 (13.04%) IT Strategy
4 3 (13.04%) Microservices
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.04%) Statistics
4 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Debt
4 3 (13.04%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.35%) Solidity
2 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) MCITP
2 5 (21.74%) MCTS
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) BC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) CASP
4 2 (8.70%) CCNP
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.70%) GCED
4 2 (8.70%) GIAC
4 2 (8.70%) GSEC
5 1 (4.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Juniper
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Citrix
4 2 (8.70%) LogRhythm
4 2 (8.70%) McAfee
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) TippingPoint
4 2 (8.70%) Trend Micro
5 1 (4.35%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat