High Availability Contracts in England

High Availability
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 148 233 235
Rank change year-on-year +85 +2 +52
Contract jobs citing High Availability 466 376 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.91% 1.01% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.17% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 262 375
10th Percentile £371 £300 £400
25th Percentile £463 £391 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 15
10th Percentile £24.90 £23.80 £60.00
25th Percentile £26.11 £25.90 £63.00
Median hourly rate £26.73 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.10% -25.00% +192.76%
75th Percentile £61.38 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.73 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -56.62% -12.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in England

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in England

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in England

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in England

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in England

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +88 276 £600 +4.80% 251
North of England +48 74 £475 +1.33% 69
South East +29 52 £505 +6.32% 117
North West +39 44 £475 -2.06% 46
South West +44 37 £550 -4.35% 21
Yorkshire +24 28 £513 +19.19% 15
Midlands +24 21 £541 +8.24% 42
West Midlands +15 17 £550 +10.00% 32
East of England +23 5 £473 -21.51% 14
East Midlands +11 4 £488 -11.36% 9
North East -9 1 £550 +41.94% 10
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (6.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (6.44%) Confluence
3 25 (5.36%) SharePoint
4 20 (4.29%) Apache
5 16 (3.43%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.72%) nginx
6 8 (1.72%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.29%) IIS
8 5 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.86%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.64%) Camunda
10 3 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.64%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.43%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.21%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) BASE24
1 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 143 (30.69%) AWS
2 132 (28.33%) Azure
3 56 (12.02%) GCP
4 48 (10.30%) Serverless
5 40 (8.58%) Amazon S3
6 38 (8.15%) GitHub
6 38 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (7.94%) Entra ID
8 36 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.08%) IaaS
14 13 (2.79%) OneDrive
14 13 (2.79%) Power Platform
15 12 (2.58%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (2.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.88%) Firewall
2 50 (10.73%) DNS
3 37 (7.94%) VPN
4 36 (7.73%) Network Security
5 31 (6.65%) TCP/IP
6 28 (6.01%) DHCP
7 25 (5.36%) WAN
8 20 (4.29%) BGP
8 20 (4.29%) LAN
8 20 (4.29%) SAN
9 18 (3.86%) HTTP
9 18 (3.86%) OSPF
10 16 (3.43%) 5G
11 15 (3.22%) 4G
11 15 (3.22%) VLAN
12 12 (2.58%) 5G NR
12 12 (2.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 12 (2.58%) LTE
12 12 (2.58%) Radio Access Network
12 12 (2.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.44%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (6.65%) MongoDB
4 29 (6.22%) MySQL
5 22 (4.72%) Oracle Database
6 20 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 17 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.58%) Big Data
9 10 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.50%) Oracle Database 12c
13 6 (1.29%) Flink
14 5 (1.07%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.07%) Oracle Database 11g
14 5 (1.07%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (12.02%) Jenkins
2 37 (7.94%) Git
3 34 (7.30%) JIRA
4 29 (6.22%) GitLab
5 18 (3.86%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.22%) JUnit
7 13 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.58%) Subversion
9 10 (2.15%) Jasmine
10 7 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.29%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.29%) Gradle
12 5 (1.07%) Maven
13 4 (0.86%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.86%) DBeaver
13 4 (0.86%) GCC
13 4 (0.86%) GDB
14 3 (0.64%) git-flow
14 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 126 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.24%) Finance
3 66 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.09%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.30%) Telecoms
6 32 (6.87%) Banking
7 18 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.58%) Front Office
9 9 (1.93%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.72%) Legal
11 7 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.86%) Local Government
13 3 (0.64%) Law
13 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.64%) Military
13 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Electronics
14 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (15.67%) Architect
2 63 (13.52%) Developer
2 63 (13.52%) Senior
3 39 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (6.87%) Administrator
5 31 (6.65%) DBA
6 25 (5.36%) AWS Architect
7 24 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (4.94%) Lead
9 21 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.29%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (3.86%) SQL DBA
11 18 (3.86%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.43%) Network Engineer
12 16 (3.43%) Senior Developer
13 15 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.79%) Kafka
2 26 (5.58%) Spring
3 25 (5.36%) REST
4 24 (5.15%) Spring Boot
5 19 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (4.08%) RESTful
6 14 (3.00%) Flash
7 13 (2.79%) HTML
7 13 (2.79%) Middleware
7 13 (2.79%) OpenAPI
7 13 (2.79%) Swagger
8 12 (2.58%) .NET
9 11 (2.36%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.15%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (1.93%) ARM Templates
11 9 (1.93%) LDAP
11 9 (1.93%) Spring Batch
11 9 (1.93%) Spring Security
12 7 (1.50%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.29%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.66%) Clustering
2 38 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 36 (7.73%) Replication
4 25 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (3.00%) PKI
8 13 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 11 (2.36%) Private Cloud
11 10 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.93%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.29%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.29%) Mainframe
14 5 (1.07%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 123 (26.39%) Linux
2 74 (15.88%) Windows
3 48 (10.30%) Windows Server
4 40 (8.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (7.51%) Unix
6 21 (4.51%) Solaris
7 15 (3.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (2.15%) CentOS
8 10 (2.15%) Ubuntu
8 10 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.50%) VMS
10 6 (1.29%) HPUX
11 4 (0.86%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.64%) AIX
12 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (30.90%) DevOps
2 136 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (25.54%) CI/CD
4 102 (21.89%) Disaster Recovery
5 81 (17.38%) Containerisation
6 69 (14.81%) Agile
7 65 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (12.23%) Performance Tuning
9 48 (10.30%) Migration
10 45 (9.66%) Task Automation
11 41 (8.80%) Mentoring
12 39 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (8.15%) Cloud Security
13 38 (8.15%) ITIL
14 32 (6.87%) Computer Science
14 32 (6.87%) Configuration Management
14 32 (6.87%) Microservices
14 32 (6.87%) Performance Optimisation
15 30 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (6.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 150 (32.19%) Python
2 91 (19.53%) SQL
3 66 (14.16%) PowerShell
4 60 (12.88%) Bash
5 47 (10.09%) Java
6 24 (5.15%) Perl
7 20 (4.29%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.86%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.58%) Bicep
9 12 (2.58%) C#
10 11 (2.36%) Groovy
11 9 (1.93%) C++
12 6 (1.29%) Go
12 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.29%) Ruby
13 5 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.86%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.86%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.64%) C
Qualifications
1 128 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 99 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.23%) Degree
4 32 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 29 (6.22%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (5.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.15%) DV Cleared
8 22 (4.72%) CCNA
9 19 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (3.86%) CCNP
11 17 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (3.43%) Azure Certification
13 14 (3.00%) Master's Degree
14 12 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.72%) MCSE
16 6 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (1.29%) CCSE
17 5 (1.07%) CISSP
18 4 (0.86%) VCAP
19 3 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.79%) GDPR
2 12 (2.58%) QA
3 9 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.72%) SLA
5 7 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 5 (1.07%) NCSC
8 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.43%) NIST
11 1 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.21%) GxP
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 73 (15.67%) Docker
2 61 (13.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (12.02%) Active Directory
4 39 (8.37%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (4.51%) vSphere
7 17 (3.65%) VMware NSX
8 9 (1.93%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (1.72%) Hyper-V
10 7 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 6 (1.29%) NFS
12 4 (0.86%) Veritas File System
12 4 (0.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 3 (0.64%) Brightmail
13 3 (0.64%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.64%) KVM
13 3 (0.64%) vCloud
13 3 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 109 (23.39%) Ansible
2 97 (20.82%) Kubernetes
3 94 (20.17%) Terraform
4 26 (5.58%) vCenter Server
5 24 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 23 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (4.29%) Grafana
8 18 (3.86%) Puppet
9 14 (3.00%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.15%) QRadar
10 10 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
10 10 (2.15%) Tivoli
11 9 (1.93%) FortiGate
11 9 (1.93%) Kibana
11 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (1.93%) Nagios
11 9 (1.93%) WSUS
12 8 (1.72%) Rancher
13 7 (1.50%) Data Guard
13 7 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 83 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 77 (16.52%) VMware
3 49 (10.52%) Cisco
4 41 (8.80%) Oracle
5 39 (8.37%) Red Hat
6 28 (6.01%) Splunk
7 20 (4.29%) Google
7 20 (4.29%) IBM
8 14 (3.00%) HP
8 14 (3.00%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.79%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.58%) SolarWinds
11 11 (2.36%) CheckPoint
11 11 (2.36%) Fortinet
11 11 (2.36%) Qualys
12 10 (2.15%) Citrix
12 10 (2.15%) CyberArk
12 10 (2.15%) EMC
13 9 (1.93%) Databricks
14 8 (1.72%) SaltStack