High Availability Contracts in Central London

High Availability
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 119 119
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 +50
Contract jobs citing High Availability 45 14 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.25% 0.57% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 0.63% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 43
10th Percentile £409 £333 £430
25th Percentile £463 £518 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £682 £734 £675
90th Percentile £714 £958 -
London median daily rate £600 £573 £600
% change year-on-year +4.80% -4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.45 - -
London median hourly rate £26.45 £23.80 £75.00
% change year-on-year +11.13% -68.27% +213.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Central London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Central London.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Central London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Central London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Central London

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +31 37 £575 -9.80% 7
City of Westminster - 3 £425 - 2
West End of London - 1 £425 - 2
Southwark - 1 - -
High Availability
London

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 10 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.67%) Apache
4 2 (4.44%) Confluence
4 2 (4.44%) nginx
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
4 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 5 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub
7 3 (6.67%) IaaS
7 3 (6.67%) PaaS
7 3 (6.67%) SaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Network Security
2 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) LAN
2 4 (8.89%) VPN
2 4 (8.89%) WAN
3 3 (6.67%) DNS
3 3 (6.67%) VLAN
3 3 (6.67%) Wireless
4 2 (4.44%) BGP
4 2 (4.44%) Internet
4 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.22%) DHCP
5 1 (2.22%) H.323
5 1 (2.22%) HTTP
5 1 (2.22%) MGCP
5 1 (2.22%) MPLS
5 1 (2.22%) OSPF
5 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) MySQL
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.67%) Tableau
4 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.44%) CockroachDB
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 4 (8.89%) GitLab
3 4 (8.89%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) Subversion
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.22%) Serena SBM
6 1 (2.22%) Snyk
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Banking
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Front Office
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Developer
2 7 (15.56%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Administrator
5 3 (6.67%) Angular Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Database Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) DBA
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) SharePoint Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Tableau Developer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 3 (6.67%) HTML
1 3 (6.67%) HTML5
1 3 (6.67%) REST
1 3 (6.67%) RxJS
1 3 (6.67%) SPFx
2 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.44%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (4.44%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.22%) PySpark
3 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Replication
2 3 (6.67%) Clustering
2 3 (6.67%) Credit Risk
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) CMDB
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Licensing
3 2 (4.44%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Unix
3 5 (11.11%) Windows
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (35.56%) DevOps
3 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (26.67%) Agile
5 10 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 9 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (17.78%) Configuration Management
8 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (15.56%) Task Automation
9 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
10 5 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (11.11%) Code Quality
10 5 (11.11%) ITIL
10 5 (11.11%) Low Latency
10 5 (11.11%) Migration
10 5 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (11.11%) Zero Trust
11 4 (8.89%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
2 11 (24.44%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) Java
3 6 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Bicep
4 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.44%) Groovy
5 2 (4.44%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.22%) Ruby
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
6 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Degree
3 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CCNA
5 2 (4.44%) CCNP
5 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CCSA
6 1 (2.22%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.22%) Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Ansible
2 15 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Control-M
5 2 (4.44%) Netcool
5 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.44%) Puppet
5 2 (4.44%) QRadar
5 2 (4.44%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (2.22%) Grafana
6 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) Cisco
3 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) Ab Initio
4 3 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.44%) Arista
5 2 (4.44%) BMC
5 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.44%) Forcepoint
5 2 (4.44%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) IBM
5 2 (4.44%) Meraki
5 2 (4.44%) Qualys
5 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.44%) Splunk
5 2 (4.44%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) ForeScout
6 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto