High Availability Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

High Availability
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing High Availability 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.95% 0.61% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.67% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £528 - £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £420 £240
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +75.00% -63.08%
75th Percentile £566 - £245
90th Percentile £571 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £420 £240
% change year-on-year +30.95% +75.00% -55.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 149 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.73% 90.85% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 93 108
10th Percentile £265 £296 £235
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £471
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +3.55% -0.79%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £670 £633
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £478
% change year-on-year +1.06% -1.67% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 25
10th Percentile - £15.85 £15.51
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -8.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £33.75 £57.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £44.15 £62.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Cambridge

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Stealthwatch
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) jetNEXUS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Thales
1 1 (50.00%) VMware