High Availability Contract Job Trends in the City of London

High Availability
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 70 114
Rank change year-on-year -32 +44 +7
Contract jobs citing High Availability 22 48 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.15% 2.62% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 2.87% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 10
10th Percentile £393 £425 £263
25th Percentile £413 £520 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £686
90th Percentile £879 £751 £774
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - -
Median hourly rate £57.77 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,709 1,675 2,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.10% 91.43% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,005 1,513
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £64.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the City of London

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the City of London

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing High Availability

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) BASE24
1 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Datadog
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) BGP
3 1 (4.55%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) IPsec
3 1 (4.55%) NAS
3 1 (4.55%) OSPF
3 1 (4.55%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.55%) CouchDB
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) Metadata
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (4.55%) OLTP
1 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
1 1 (4.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
6 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.55%) Games
7 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.55%) International Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 2 (9.09%) Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) Administrator
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Business Finance Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) LangChain
2 1 (4.55%) LangGraph
2 1 (4.55%) Loki
2 1 (4.55%) Memcached
2 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (4.55%) BYOD
3 1 (4.55%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) EMV
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) IPTV
3 1 (4.55%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.55%) New Media
3 1 (4.55%) Online Games
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) VMS
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) AI
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Low Latency
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
7 3 (13.64%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) COBOL
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CCNP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MCSA
2 1 (4.55%) MCSE
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
2 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (4.55%) VCAP
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.09%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) QRadar
5 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Databricks
1 4 (18.18%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.09%) Bloomberg
3 2 (9.09%) MarketAxess
3 2 (9.09%) Tradeweb
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) VMware