High Availability Contract Job Trends in Croydon

High Availability
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 7.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £550 £625 -
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 68 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.14% 89.47% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 45 50
10th Percentile £413 £287 £380
25th Percentile £490 £493 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £555 £505
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +9.90% -3.81%
75th Percentile £559 £633 £538
90th Percentile £698 £714 £567
South London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £17.87 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.30 - £19.50
75th Percentile £33.60 - £35.06
90th Percentile - - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £19.00 £15.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +19.95% -18.77% -62.64%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Croydon

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

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 Croydon region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
South Croydon - 1 £525 - 1
High Availability
South London

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (60.00%) MySQL
2 6 (60.00%) Redis
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DBA
2 5 (50.00%) Administrator
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Senior DBA
4 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Administrator
5 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (90.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (60.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 6 (60.00%) Secrets Management
3 6 (60.00%) Validation
4 5 (50.00%) Business Continuity
4 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Capacity Management
5 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Observability
5 4 (40.00%) Servant Leadership
6 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Groovy
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow