High Availability Contracts in Leeds

High Availability
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 50 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +20
Contract jobs citing High Availability 20 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.54% 2.00% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.38% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £307 - -
25th Percentile £373 £288 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -28.89% +0.45%
75th Percentile £600 - £713
90th Percentile £625 - £763
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +25.00% -28.89% +1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 517 631 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 91.50% 84.13% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 409 714
10th Percentile £307 £300 £363
25th Percentile £385 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.62% +5.61%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £608 £650 £712
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 27 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.28% -35.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £50.48 £18.33 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £33.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +64.00% -27.03% -7.50%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (35.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) GCP
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) SSL
2 4 (20.00%) NAS
2 4 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Flink
1 7 (35.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) DBeaver
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Banking
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DBA
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) Kafka
2 7 (35.00%) Apache Beam
2 7 (35.00%) JDBC
2 7 (35.00%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (25.00%) LDAP
3 5 (25.00%) REST
4 4 (20.00%) Middleware
5 1 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) HPUX
2 2 (10.00%) Solaris
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (35.00%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (35.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Key Management
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
8 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (10.00%) Planning and Forecasting
9 1 (5.00%) Big Data Analytics
9 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (5.00%) Interface Catalogue
9 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
9 1 (5.00%) Open Source
9 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Groovy
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCSA
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) Grafana
2 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Confluent
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) Sun
3 2 (10.00%) Unisys
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto