High Availability Contract Job Trends in London

High Availability
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 130 236
Rank change year-on-year -20 +106 -14
Contract jobs citing High Availability 305 273 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.69% 2.23% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.42% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 185 120
10th Percentile £368 £400 £300
25th Percentile £426 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £666
90th Percentile £750 £750 £716
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £56.09 £24.46 -
25th Percentile £56.51 £25.45 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +151.42% +11.13% -68.27%
75th Percentile £81.94 £26.84 -
90th Percentile £91.28 £27.54 -
England median hourly rate £56.63 £27.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +109.75% -56.17% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in London

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in London

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

High Availability
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing High Availability in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Central London -20 29 £581 -3.13% 28
South London -16 9 £300 -36.51% 7
West London -28 3 £375 -38.78% 11
East London -6 2 £511 +94.67% 10
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.31%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) Drupal
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.66%) WordPress
6 1 (0.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) MTS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 6 (1.97%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.64%) BASE24
4 4 (1.31%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.66%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (40.33%) Azure
2 101 (33.11%) AWS
3 36 (11.80%) Entra ID
3 36 (11.80%) GCP
4 33 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (9.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (8.85%) GitHub
7 23 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (5.25%) Serverless
10 15 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.95%) Azure AKS
15 7 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.30%) SaaS
16 6 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.79%) DNS
2 31 (10.16%) Firewall
3 25 (8.20%) DHCP
3 25 (8.20%) Network Security
4 17 (5.57%) VPN
5 16 (5.25%) WAN
6 15 (4.92%) Kerberos
7 11 (3.61%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.28%) LAN
9 9 (2.95%) HTTP
9 9 (2.95%) SSL
10 8 (2.62%) BGP
10 8 (2.62%) OSPF
11 7 (2.30%) NAS
11 7 (2.30%) SAN
11 7 (2.30%) VLAN
12 6 (1.97%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.64%) 5G
13 5 (1.64%) Unified Communications
13 5 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (5.57%) Data Lake
4 17 (5.57%) Delta Lake
5 16 (5.25%) Oracle Database
6 8 (2.62%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (1.64%) Metadata
9 5 (1.64%) NonStop SQL
9 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.31%) OLTP
11 3 (0.98%) Big Data
11 3 (0.98%) MySQL
11 3 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (10.16%) Git
2 15 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.61%) JIRA
4 4 (1.31%) GitLab
5 3 (0.98%) JUnit
5 3 (0.98%) MLflow
5 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.33%) Mockito
7 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 75 (24.59%) Finance
3 37 (12.13%) Banking
4 22 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.62%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.64%) Retail
11 4 (1.31%) Games
11 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.31%) Legal
11 4 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.98%) Front Office
12 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (12.79%) Architect
2 35 (11.48%) Senior
3 31 (10.16%) Developer
4 24 (7.87%) DBA
5 22 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (5.90%) Data Engineer
6 18 (5.90%) Lead
7 15 (4.92%) Administrator
8 13 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (4.26%) SQL DBA
9 12 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (3.93%) Java Engineer
9 12 (3.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 11 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.61%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (2.62%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (2.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.62%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.21%) Kafka
1 22 (7.21%) LDAP
1 22 (7.21%) OAuth
1 22 (7.21%) Spring
2 20 (6.56%) Spring Boot
3 19 (6.23%) REST
4 18 (5.90%) SAML
5 14 (4.59%) RESTful
6 10 (3.28%) PySpark
7 9 (2.95%) .NET
7 9 (2.95%) Node.js
8 8 (2.62%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.97%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.97%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.64%) ARM Templates
10 5 (1.64%) Middleware
10 5 (1.64%) OpenID
10 5 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.18%) Replication
3 21 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.57%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.26%) Clustering
6 11 (3.61%) BYOD
7 10 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.28%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.30%) EMV
9 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.97%) Tandem
11 5 (1.64%) PKI
12 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.79%) Windows
2 37 (12.13%) Linux
3 25 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.62%) Unix
5 7 (2.30%) VMS
6 4 (1.31%) SUSE
6 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.66%) Solaris
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.33%) Debian
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Rocky
8 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (35.74%) CI/CD
2 108 (35.41%) DevOps
3 87 (28.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (26.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 50 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (15.74%) Performance Tuning
7 45 (14.75%) Migration
8 44 (14.43%) Agile
9 42 (13.77%) Containerisation
10 39 (12.79%) Observability
11 37 (12.13%) Microservices
12 34 (11.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (10.82%) Analytics
14 29 (9.51%) Roadmaps
15 27 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (8.85%) RBAC
16 26 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
18 24 (7.87%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (20.98%) Python
1 64 (20.98%) SQL
2 55 (18.03%) PowerShell
3 41 (13.44%) Java
4 14 (4.59%) Bash
5 12 (3.93%) Scala
6 11 (3.61%) C#
7 9 (2.95%) Bicep
7 9 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.62%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.97%) C
9 6 (1.97%) Go
10 5 (1.64%) C++
10 5 (1.64%) COBOL
10 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.31%) Perl
11 4 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.98%) Groovy
12 3 (0.98%) Ruby
13 2 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.51%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.89%) Degree
5 17 (5.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.25%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.93%) CCNP
8 9 (2.95%) MCSE
9 8 (2.62%) CCNA
9 8 (2.62%) MCSA
10 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.64%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.31%) MCITP
12 4 (1.31%) MCTS
13 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.98%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.20%) GDPR
2 19 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (3.28%) QA
4 10 (3.28%) SLA
5 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.64%) GRC
6 5 (1.64%) ISO 8583
7 4 (1.31%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.31%) NCSC
7 4 (1.31%) SEPA
8 3 (0.98%) DICOM
8 3 (0.98%) HL7
9 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) NIST
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (17.70%) Active Directory
2 35 (11.48%) Docker
3 12 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.97%) vSphere
7 5 (1.64%) Firmware
7 5 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.33%) HDFS
10 1 (0.33%) NFS
10 1 (0.33%) RACF
10 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (26.89%) Terraform
2 63 (20.66%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (7.54%) Ansible
5 18 (5.90%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (5.25%) Grafana
7 14 (4.59%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.30%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (1.31%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.31%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.31%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.31%) VxRail
12 3 (0.98%) Argo
12 3 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.66%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 70 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.49%) Oracle
3 23 (7.54%) Databricks
4 16 (5.25%) VMware
5 14 (4.59%) Okta
6 13 (4.26%) Splunk
7 12 (3.93%) Cisco
8 11 (3.61%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.30%) Ericsson
9 7 (2.30%) Nokia
10 6 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.97%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.64%) F5
11 5 (1.64%) HP
12 4 (1.31%) Dell
12 4 (1.31%) Huawei
12 4 (1.31%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.31%) Ping Identity
12 4 (1.31%) Red Box
12 4 (1.31%) SAP