High Availability Contracts in Berkshire

High Availability
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 68 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 30 38 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.54% 2.25% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.61% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 3
10th Percentile £401 £325 £357
25th Percentile £447 £330 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £567 £513 £575
90th Percentile £700 £600 -
South East median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +2.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,084 1,456 1,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.79% 86.15% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 768 989
10th Percentile £350 £314 £313
25th Percentile £420 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 77 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.00 £17.37
25th Percentile £17.40 £41.25 £37.85
Median hourly rate £32.05 £60.60 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.11% +3.15% +125.96%
75th Percentile £63.00 £70.39 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.45 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +96.08%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Berkshire

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing High Availability

High Availability
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +21 10 £500 - 1
Wokingham -15 9 £478 +19.38% 2
Windsor - 3 £505 - 2
Bracknell +3 2 £700 - 2
Maidenhead - 1 - - 5
Slough - 1 £475 - 7
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.33%) Serverless
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) IaaS
7 2 (6.67%) PaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DHCP
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Mocha
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Site Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) JDBC
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (6.67%) PySpark
1 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) Fastify
2 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.33%) Jest
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.33%) OpenID
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) Swagger
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Linux
1 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (3.33%) CentOS
3 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (23.33%) Business Continuity
5 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Load Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Release Management
6 6 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 6 (20.00%) Validation
6 6 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (10.00%) ETL
7 3 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) Go
5 2 (6.67%) Bicep
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.67%) Grafana
2 2 (6.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (6.67%) Puppet
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.33%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Virgin Media
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) 3PAR
3 2 (6.67%) Dell
3 2 (6.67%) HP
3 2 (6.67%) Veritas
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.33%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Pega
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk