High Availability Contract Job Trends in the East of England

High Availability
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +31
Contract jobs citing High Availability 12 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.87% 0.62% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.77% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 16
10th Percentile £203 - £313
25th Percentile £364 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +97.08% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £388 £622
90th Percentile - £515 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,231 1,176 1,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.59% 81.33% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 462 869
10th Percentile £200 £213 £224
25th Percentile £375 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £559 £619
90th Percentile £682 £638 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 277 374
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.00 £13.61
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £29.17 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.01% +45.85% -4.76%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £77.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the East of England

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the East of England

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Essex 0 5 - - 1
Bedfordshire -5 4 £289 -23.00% 7
Hertfordshire - 2 £700 - 8
Cambridgeshire -3 1 - -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) dbt
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) BGP
2 2 (16.67%) OSPF
2 2 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (8.33%) Fault Management
6 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (25.00%) VCAP
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) StreamSets
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) IBM
5 1 (8.33%) SAP
5 1 (8.33%) Vertica