High Availability Contracts in Bristol

High Availability
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 50 79
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 14 28 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.01% 3.02% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 3.66% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +15.91% -13.73%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £575
90th Percentile £644 £725 -
South West median daily rate £550 £623 £550
% change year-on-year -11.65% +13.18% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.74 - -
25th Percentile £75.60 - -
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
75th Percentile £79.35 - -
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £61.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 765 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.82% 82.52% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 430 651
10th Percentile £235 £263 £310
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £645
90th Percentile £650 £719 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 154 121
10th Percentile £12.82 £52.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £65.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.25 £74.86 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Bristol

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Bristol

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) 3GPP
2 3 (21.43%) 4G
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) LTE
2 3 (21.43%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) WAN
2 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
3 2 (14.29%) BGP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
3 2 (14.29%) HSRP
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) OSPF
3 2 (14.29%) VRRP
3 2 (14.29%) WLAN
4 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux DevOps Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Network Design Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Network Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GitOps
4 3 (21.43%) Network Design
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bash
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Grafana
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Kibana
3 3 (21.43%) logstash
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (7.14%) Data Guard
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (7.14%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Actix
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Ericsson
2 3 (21.43%) Nokia
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) Brocade
4 1 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) SAP