High Availability Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

High Availability
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing High Availability 12 16 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.37% 2.30% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.69% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 7
10th Percentile £365 £363 £463
25th Percentile £419 £368 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -23.81% +3.70%
75th Percentile £533 £419 £569
90th Percentile £545 £488 £575
England median daily rate £500 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% -3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 746 594 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.97% 85.47% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 347 465
10th Percentile £190 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £631 £641 £700
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 30 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.09 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.09 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +7.60% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.13 £41.61 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.50 £64.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the East Midlands

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing High Availability

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Northamptonshire -12 7 £481 +20.31%
Derbyshire +3 4 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -7 1 - - 1
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) ETL
2 6 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 6 (50.00%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 6 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 6 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) F5