High Availability Contracts in the West Midlands

High Availability
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 94 92 157
Rank change year-on-year -2 +65 -47
Contract jobs citing High Availability 12 37 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 1.64% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.86% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 16
10th Percentile £283 £331 £400
25th Percentile £359 £409 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -18.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £591 £576 £675
90th Percentile £600 £650 £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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the West Midlands

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +7 8 £488 -2.50% 9
Solihull -17 2 - -
Warwickshire +2 1 £325 -30.48% 2
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) DMZ
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DBA
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (16.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (25.00%) Change Control
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Statistics
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Offensive Security
3 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) BC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CASP
3 2 (16.67%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (16.67%) GCED
3 2 (16.67%) GIAC
3 2 (16.67%) GSEC
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Juniper
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix
4 2 (16.67%) LogRhythm
4 2 (16.67%) McAfee
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) TippingPoint
4 2 (16.67%) Trend Micro
5 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
5 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet