High Availability Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

High Availability
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 44 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing High Availability 6 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.73% 0.29% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.34% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - £597
25th Percentile £153 £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% -19.23% -
75th Percentile - £538 £694
90th Percentile - - £713
East of England median daily rate £425 £473 £452
% change year-on-year -10.05% +4.54% -17.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 293 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.57% 85.42% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 137 290
10th Percentile £313 £310 £240
25th Percentile £413 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +24.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £597
90th Percentile £738 £675 £713
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 93 285
10th Percentile £16.35 £25.98 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £66.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.58% +32.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £67.75 £76.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £53.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -57.30% +39.03% +52.48%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing High Availability

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing High Availability

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. 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
Stevenage - 2 £155 - 1
High Availability
East of England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Server Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp