High Availability Contracts in Hampshire

High Availability
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 61 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing High Availability 19 42 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.10% 2.43% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.97% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 8
10th Percentile £475 £525 £263
25th Percentile £500 £563 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £620 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +39.72% -23.82%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £630
90th Percentile £619 £788 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -54.17% -
75th Percentile - £28.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £88.00
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +2.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 771 1,412 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.29% 81.86% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 822 691
10th Percentile £325 £371 £256
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +12.10% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £674 £613
90th Percentile £660 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 150 106
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.93 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.44 £21.23
Median hourly rate £43.00 £57.35 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +6.70% +73.39%
75th Percentile £59.69 £71.04 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.38
South East median hourly rate £23.25 £54.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.43% +9.24% +118.91%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Hampshire

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Hampshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Hampshire

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Hampshire

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Basingstoke - 8 £600 - 7
Farnborough -4 5 £595 -4.03% 10
Eastleigh - 3 £500 -
Winchester +8 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £675 - 2
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2013
2 8 (42.11%) Office Communications Server
2 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
2 8 (42.11%) SharePoint Server
2 8 (42.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) DNS
2 8 (42.11%) DDNS
2 8 (42.11%) DHCP
2 8 (42.11%) SAN
2 8 (42.11%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Advertising
2 1 (5.26%) Marketing
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Exchange Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Exchange Support
2 8 (42.11%) Support Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Middleware
1 4 (21.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Replication
2 6 (31.58%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Architectural Design
1 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Content Management
1 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Content Management
1 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Search
1 8 (42.11%) ITIL
1 8 (42.11%) Migration
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
3 5 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (21.05%) Open Source
5 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) PowerShell
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) C#
4 4 (21.05%) Java
4 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) Brightmail
2 8 (42.11%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Kibana
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Criteo
3 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds