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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 214 245
Rank change year-on-year +76 +31 +17
Contract jobs citing High Availability 555 390 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.16% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.36% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 266 312
10th Percentile £363 £319 £375
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £605 £675
90th Percentile £750 £688 £711
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 8
10th Percentile - - £58.50
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £60.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £43.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.43% -31.51% +163.49%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.60 £77.89
90th Percentile £78.96 - £89.09
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £58.30 £63.00
% change year-on-year -29.67% -7.46% +163.49%

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 25,197 28,779 40,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.72% 85.84% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,128 18,858 28,367
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 1,701 1,412
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.16 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +98 288 £575 +4.55% 283
North of England +29 86 £450 -5.26% 62
South East +9 77 £503 -8.64% 97
Midlands +13 46 £491 +22.66% 39
North West +30 45 £450 -8.16% 43
Yorkshire +2 39 £450 +12.50% 12
West Midlands +22 36 £550 +37.50% 30
South West +23 34 £550 -11.29% 23
East of England +6 13 £483 +28.67% 15
East Midlands -9 10 £481 +20.31% 8
North East -5 2 £550 +15.79% 7
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 30 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.24%) Apache
3 17 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.70%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.16%) Skype for Business
6 11 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2007
6 11 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (1.98%) Office Communications Server
6 11 (1.98%) SharePoint Server
7 9 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.62%) Confluence
8 6 (1.08%) JBoss
9 5 (0.90%) Camunda
9 5 (0.90%) CICS
9 5 (0.90%) nginx
10 4 (0.72%) IIS
11 3 (0.54%) CMS
11 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.36%) BASE24
3 2 (0.36%) Kondor
3 2 (0.36%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.18%) Eikon
4 1 (0.18%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 193 (34.77%) AWS
2 154 (27.75%) Azure
3 66 (11.89%) GCP
4 63 (11.35%) Serverless
5 57 (10.27%) Amazon S3
6 47 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (7.57%) GitHub
8 30 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
9 28 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (3.96%) Entra ID
12 21 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.88%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (2.34%) IaaS
17 12 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 98 (17.66%) Firewall
2 71 (12.79%) DNS
2 71 (12.79%) VPN
3 50 (9.01%) Network Security
4 46 (8.29%) TCP/IP
5 44 (7.93%) DHCP
6 35 (6.31%) BGP
6 35 (6.31%) OSPF
7 30 (5.41%) WAN
8 26 (4.68%) SAN
9 25 (4.50%) SSL
9 25 (4.50%) VLAN
10 21 (3.78%) LAN
11 14 (2.52%) Wireless
12 13 (2.34%) Multicast
12 13 (2.34%) Wireshark
13 12 (2.16%) NAS
14 11 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (1.98%) DDNS
14 11 (1.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.19%) SQL Server
2 46 (8.29%) NoSQL
3 39 (7.03%) Relational Database
4 34 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (5.23%) MongoDB
7 25 (4.50%) Oracle Database
8 22 (3.96%) MySQL
9 17 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.80%) Big Data
12 9 (1.62%) DB2
12 9 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.62%) Flink
12 9 (1.62%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.26%) Oracle Database 12c
14 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.08%) Power BI
15 5 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (10.27%) Jenkins
2 34 (6.13%) GitLab
3 32 (5.77%) Git
4 23 (4.14%) JIRA
5 9 (1.62%) JUnit
6 7 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.08%) GCC
7 6 (1.08%) GDB
7 6 (1.08%) Gradle
7 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.72%) Maven
8 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.54%) git-flow
9 3 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 170 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 102 (18.38%) Finance
3 84 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.93%) Banking
6 24 (4.32%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.24%) Front Office
8 17 (3.06%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.62%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.08%) International Banking
11 6 (1.08%) Legal
12 5 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
13 4 (0.72%) Law
13 4 (0.72%) Local Government
13 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.72%) Marketing
14 3 (0.54%) Advertising
14 3 (0.54%) French Language
Job Titles
1 85 (15.32%) Architect
2 70 (12.61%) Senior
3 54 (9.73%) Developer
4 46 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (5.77%) DBA
6 30 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (4.86%) Lead
8 27 (4.86%) Support Engineer
9 26 (4.68%) Administrator
10 25 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (4.50%) Network Engineer
11 22 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (3.24%) AWS Architect
12 18 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (3.24%) Consultant
13 15 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (2.52%) Site Engineer
15 13 (2.34%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.57%) Kafka
2 32 (5.77%) Middleware
3 31 (5.59%) REST
4 24 (4.32%) Spring
5 23 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (4.14%) RESTful
6 17 (3.06%) Spring Boot
7 16 (2.88%) HTML
8 15 (2.70%) .NET
8 15 (2.70%) OAuth
9 13 (2.34%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (2.16%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.16%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.98%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (1.98%) React
12 10 (1.80%) ARM Templates
12 10 (1.80%) XML
13 9 (1.62%) Flash
13 9 (1.62%) JDBC
13 9 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.11%) Replication
3 41 (7.39%) Data Centre
4 28 (5.05%) Clustering
5 27 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.42%) PKI
7 19 (3.42%) Private Cloud
7 19 (3.42%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.70%) Mainframe
9 13 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (2.16%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.44%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.44%) Derivative
12 8 (1.44%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 113 (20.36%) Linux
2 78 (14.05%) Windows
3 30 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 30 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.32%) Unix
5 11 (1.98%) CentOS
5 11 (1.98%) Solaris
5 11 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (1.44%) VMS
6 8 (1.44%) zOS
7 7 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.08%) Check Point GAiA
9 5 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.72%) HPUX
10 4 (0.72%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.36%) AIX
12 2 (0.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (29.19%) DevOps
1 162 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
2 143 (25.77%) CI/CD
3 98 (17.66%) Disaster Recovery
4 97 (17.48%) Containerisation
5 94 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (14.59%) Agile
7 67 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
8 58 (10.45%) ITIL
9 56 (10.09%) Microservices
10 50 (9.01%) Computer Science
11 49 (8.83%) Mentoring
11 49 (8.83%) Migration
12 48 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 40 (7.21%) Task Automation
14 39 (7.03%) Infrastructure Automation
15 38 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (6.49%) Analytics
16 36 (6.49%) Root Cause Analysis
17 33 (5.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 178 (32.07%) Python
2 105 (18.92%) SQL
3 70 (12.61%) Java
4 62 (11.17%) PowerShell
5 48 (8.65%) Bash
6 21 (3.78%) C#
6 21 (3.78%) Go
7 19 (3.42%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.88%) Perl
9 14 (2.52%) C++
10 13 (2.34%) Bicep
11 12 (2.16%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.90%) REXX
13 5 (0.90%) Ruby
14 4 (0.72%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.72%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (0.72%) COBOL
14 4 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 145 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 107 (19.28%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.01%) Degree
4 48 (8.65%) AWS Certification
5 35 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (6.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (5.95%) DV Cleared
8 27 (4.86%) CCNP
9 20 (3.60%) Azure Certification
10 17 (3.06%) Master's Degree
11 16 (2.88%) CCNA
12 12 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.80%) CCIE
15 8 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.44%) CCSE
16 7 (1.26%) VCAP
17 6 (1.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.32%) GDPR
2 16 (2.88%) QA
3 14 (2.52%) SLA
4 13 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.44%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (0.90%) NCSC
9 3 (0.54%) MiFID
9 3 (0.54%) NIST
9 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.36%) Basel III
10 2 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 80 (14.41%) Docker
2 57 (10.27%) Active Directory
3 52 (9.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (3.60%) vSphere
6 17 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (2.52%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.98%) Brightmail
8 11 (1.98%) Hyper-V
8 11 (1.98%) ISA Server
9 10 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 6 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.90%) NFS
12 4 (0.72%) RACF
13 3 (0.54%) Firmware
13 3 (0.54%) vCloud
13 3 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.36%) KVM
14 2 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 118 (21.26%) Terraform
2 113 (20.36%) Kubernetes
3 97 (17.48%) Ansible
4 39 (7.03%) Grafana
4 39 (7.03%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.68%) FortiGate
6 20 (3.60%) vCenter Server
7 19 (3.42%) Puppet
8 14 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
8 14 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (2.16%) Kibana
9 12 (2.16%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.98%) Rancher
11 9 (1.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 9 (1.62%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (1.44%) Data Guard
13 6 (1.08%) logstash
13 6 (1.08%) Nagios
14 5 (0.90%) OpenView
14 5 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 92 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.35%) VMware
3 58 (10.45%) Cisco
4 47 (8.47%) Oracle
5 33 (5.95%) Red Hat
6 30 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 28 (5.05%) F5
8 26 (4.68%) Splunk
9 21 (3.78%) IBM
10 20 (3.60%) Google
11 18 (3.24%) CheckPoint
12 16 (2.88%) SAP
13 15 (2.70%) Juniper
13 15 (2.70%) SolarWinds
14 14 (2.52%) Palo Alto
15 10 (1.80%) Databricks
15 10 (1.80%) HP
16 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
17 7 (1.26%) Citrix
17 7 (1.26%) NetApp