High Availability Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

High Availability
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing High Availability 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.54% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.36% 0.74%
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% -55.35%
75th Percentile £566 - £245
90th Percentile £571 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 276 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.98% 91.39% 84.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 145 153
10th Percentile £210 £296 £235
25th Percentile £335 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £478
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.67% +0.63%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £633 £685
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 44 184
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £24.49 £21.46 £20.14
90th Percentile £34.92 £37.78 £36.55
East of England median hourly rate £20.69 £50.00 £38.06
% change year-on-year -58.62% +31.37% +23.95%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Cambridge -5 2 £550 +30.95% 2
High Availability
East of England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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