High Availability Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

High Availability
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +35
Contract jobs citing High Availability 14 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.46% 1.07% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 1.15% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £404 £322 -
25th Percentile £413 £323 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £350 £563
Median % change year-on-year +26.79% -37.78% -
75th Percentile £600 £388 £569
90th Percentile £607 £395 -
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 260 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.12% 92.86% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 192 343
10th Percentile £227 £201 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £599
90th Percentile £640 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 35
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.85 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.13 £18.40 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.32 £38.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +59.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £29.61 £60.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £33.44 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - -

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

High Availability job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Buckinghamshire

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -3 13 £438 +21.36% 11
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 6
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
2 2 (14.29%) CMS
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) OCI
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
1 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Citrix Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SAP Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
5 3 (21.43%) ERP
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Database Security
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) CCA
2 3 (21.43%) CESG Certified Professional
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Citrix
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
5 1 (7.14%) Dell
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk