High Availability Contracts with Work from Home Options

High Availability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 172 208 274
Rank change year-on-year +36 +66 -2
Contract jobs citing High Availability 185 286 401
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 1.16% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.29% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 196 250
10th Percentile £300 £400 £385
25th Percentile £400 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £664 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -1.82% -3.55% +8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £63.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £67.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -8.06% +180.22% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

High Availability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High Availability trend for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing High Availability.

High Availability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing High Availability over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

High Availability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing High Availability.

High Availability hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (9.73%) Confluence
2 8 (4.32%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.62%) IIS
4 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.08%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.54%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.54%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 12 (6.49%) Elite 3E
2 7 (3.78%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.08%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.54%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.54%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.54%) Azure
2 56 (30.27%) AWS
3 24 (12.97%) GCP
4 20 (10.81%) Serverless
5 14 (7.57%) Amazon S3
5 14 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (6.49%) PaaS
7 11 (5.95%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (5.95%) IaaS
8 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.41%) SaaS
9 9 (4.86%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.32%) GitHub
11 7 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.24%) Azure API Management
12 6 (3.24%) Nutanix
12 6 (3.24%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.89%) Firewall
2 15 (8.11%) DNS
3 14 (7.57%) DHCP
4 12 (6.49%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.95%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (5.41%) BGP
6 10 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (5.41%) OSPF
7 9 (4.86%) MPLS
8 8 (4.32%) SAN
9 7 (3.78%) HTTP
9 7 (3.78%) Kerberos
9 7 (3.78%) LAN
9 7 (3.78%) Network Security
9 7 (3.78%) WAN
10 6 (3.24%) NAS
10 6 (3.24%) VLAN
11 5 (2.70%) EIGRP
11 5 (2.70%) SNMP
12 4 (2.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.16%) SQL Server
2 29 (15.68%) Oracle Database
3 17 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (8.65%) MongoDB
4 16 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.32%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.24%) PowerCenter
8 5 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.70%) Informix
8 5 (2.70%) MySQL
9 4 (2.16%) Big Data
9 4 (2.16%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.16%) Oracle ODI
9 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.62%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) Git
2 23 (12.43%) JIRA
3 19 (10.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.24%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.16%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.16%) GitLab
5 4 (2.16%) Subversion
6 3 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.54%) Gatling
8 1 (0.54%) JUnit
8 1 (0.54%) Mockito
8 1 (0.54%) ScalaTest
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.54%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.76%) Finance
3 25 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (6.49%) Banking
6 7 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.16%) Marketing
8 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Electronics
9 3 (1.62%) Legal
9 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.08%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.08%) French Language
10 2 (1.08%) German Language
10 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.08%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.08%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 42 (22.70%) Senior
2 36 (19.46%) DBA
3 32 (17.30%) Architect
4 22 (11.89%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (11.89%) SQL DBA
5 21 (11.35%) Developer
6 16 (8.65%) Support Engineer
7 13 (7.03%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.03%) Network Engineer
7 13 (7.03%) Senior DBA
8 12 (6.49%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Applications Support Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Senior Applications Support
8 12 (6.49%) Senior Support Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) Administrator
10 9 (4.86%) Oracle DBA
10 9 (4.86%) Senior SQL DBA
11 7 (3.78%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.19%) .NET
2 13 (7.03%) SailPoint
3 11 (5.95%) LDAP
3 11 (5.95%) Middleware
3 11 (5.95%) YAML
4 9 (4.86%) Node.js
5 8 (4.32%) React
6 7 (3.78%) AWS CDK
6 7 (3.78%) REST
7 6 (3.24%) SOAP
8 5 (2.70%) JSON
8 5 (2.70%) Kafka
9 4 (2.16%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.16%) OAuth
9 4 (2.16%) Spring
9 4 (2.16%) XML
10 3 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.62%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.62%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.54%) Replication
2 28 (15.14%) Data Centre
3 20 (10.81%) Clustering
4 8 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.78%) Blog
5 7 (3.78%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.78%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.16%) NHS
8 2 (1.08%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.54%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.49%) Windows
2 37 (20.00%) Linux
3 23 (12.43%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.86%) Solaris
6 7 (3.78%) Unix
7 6 (3.24%) AIX
7 6 (3.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.68%) DevOps
2 59 (31.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (24.86%) Migration
4 35 (18.92%) Agile
4 35 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (16.76%) CI/CD
6 29 (15.68%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (11.89%) ETL
9 19 (10.27%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (9.73%) Containerisation
11 15 (8.11%) Microservices
12 14 (7.57%) Analytics
12 14 (7.57%) Cloud Security
12 14 (7.57%) Roadmaps
12 14 (7.57%) Scrum
12 14 (7.57%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (7.03%) Application Security
13 13 (7.03%) Architectural Design
13 13 (7.03%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (40.00%) SQL
2 44 (23.78%) Python
3 34 (18.38%) PowerShell
4 22 (11.89%) Java
5 18 (9.73%) Bash
6 17 (9.19%) C#
7 13 (7.03%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.41%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.86%) Bicep
10 7 (3.78%) C++
11 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
11 6 (3.24%) Perl
11 6 (3.24%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.24%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.16%) Ruby
13 3 (1.62%) C
13 3 (1.62%) Go
13 3 (1.62%) PHP
14 2 (1.08%) Solidity
14 2 (1.08%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.65%) Degree
4 13 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.95%) CCNP
5 11 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.78%) CCNA
8 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.70%) CCDP
8 5 (2.70%) JNCIA
8 5 (2.70%) JNCIS
8 5 (2.70%) MCSE
9 3 (1.62%) MCITP
9 3 (1.62%) MCSA
9 3 (1.62%) MCTS
9 3 (1.62%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.08%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.08%) CCENT
11 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.24%) GDPR
1 6 (3.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.54%) HL7
4 1 (0.54%) IFRS
4 1 (0.54%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 31 (16.76%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.35%) Docker
3 14 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.32%) Firmware
6 7 (3.78%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (2.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.62%) vSphere
9 2 (1.08%) Ceph
9 2 (1.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (1.08%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.54%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.54%) XenApp
10 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (20.54%) Terraform
2 33 (17.84%) Ansible
3 26 (14.05%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.86%) Data Guard
4 9 (4.86%) Grafana
5 7 (3.78%) Puppet
6 6 (3.24%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (3.24%) Netcool
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (3.24%) Tivoli
6 6 (3.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.16%) BladeLogic
8 4 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.62%) Kibana
9 3 (1.62%) Nagios
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (1.08%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (24.32%) Oracle
2 29 (15.68%) Microsoft
3 28 (15.14%) VMware
4 23 (12.43%) Cisco
4 23 (12.43%) ServiceNow
5 19 (10.27%) CyberArk
6 12 (6.49%) BeyondTrust
6 12 (6.49%) Dell
7 11 (5.95%) Splunk
8 10 (5.41%) SAP
9 9 (4.86%) Commvault
9 9 (4.86%) IBM
9 9 (4.86%) Red Hat
10 8 (4.32%) Palo Alto
11 6 (3.24%) Citrix
11 6 (3.24%) EMC
11 6 (3.24%) Informatica
11 6 (3.24%) Isilon
11 6 (3.24%) Juniper
11 6 (3.24%) Qualys