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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 136 254
Rank change year-on-year -19 +118 -31
Contract jobs citing High Availability 322 253 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 2.06% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.23% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 179 106
10th Percentile £361 £400 £300
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £672
90th Percentile £750 £750 £733
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £56.18 £26.09 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +181.66% +11.13% -68.27%
75th Percentile £97.50 £27.23 -
90th Percentile - £27.69 -
England median hourly rate £57.77 £70.00 £44.80
% change year-on-year -17.48% +56.25% -34.60%

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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -16 34 £563 -10.00% 22
South London -9 9 £300 -52.00%
East London -5 2 £511 +73.96% 4
West London -28 1 £375 -38.78% 6
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 23 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.48%) Confluence
4 4 (1.24%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.62%) Drupal
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.62%) WordPress
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) CICS
6 1 (0.31%) MTS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 4 (1.24%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.62%) BASE24
4 2 (0.62%) DELMIA
4 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (37.89%) Azure
2 111 (34.47%) AWS
3 39 (12.11%) Entra ID
4 37 (11.49%) GCP
5 33 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.32%) GitHub
7 28 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (5.59%) Serverless
10 17 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (4.97%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.80%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.04%) DNS
2 33 (10.25%) Firewall
3 27 (8.39%) DHCP
3 27 (8.39%) Network Security
4 18 (5.59%) VPN
5 16 (4.97%) WAN
6 14 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 13 (4.04%) Kerberos
8 10 (3.11%) LAN
9 9 (2.80%) HTTP
9 9 (2.80%) SSL
10 8 (2.48%) BGP
10 8 (2.48%) NAS
10 8 (2.48%) OSPF
10 8 (2.48%) SAN
11 7 (2.17%) VLAN
12 6 (1.86%) Internet
12 6 (1.86%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.55%) HTTPS
13 5 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (5.28%) Data Lake
3 17 (5.28%) Delta Lake
4 16 (4.97%) Oracle Database
5 8 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.86%) Metadata
7 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.24%) Power BI
9 3 (0.93%) MySQL
9 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.62%) KDB
10 2 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (9.63%) Git
2 18 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.04%) JIRA
4 11 (3.42%) GitLab
5 3 (0.93%) JUnit
6 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.62%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.31%) MLflow
7 1 (0.31%) Mockito
7 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 82 (25.47%) Finance
3 42 (13.04%) Banking
4 26 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.86%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Front Office
9 5 (1.55%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.55%) Retail
10 4 (1.24%) Law
10 4 (1.24%) Legal
11 3 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.93%) Games
11 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (13.66%) Architect
2 37 (11.49%) Senior
3 32 (9.94%) Developer
3 32 (9.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (6.52%) DBA
4 21 (6.52%) Lead
5 17 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (4.97%) Data Engineer
7 15 (4.66%) Administrator
8 13 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.42%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 10 (3.11%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (3.11%) SQL DBA
12 9 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Java Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.45%) Kafka
2 23 (7.14%) OAuth
3 22 (6.83%) LDAP
4 20 (6.21%) REST
5 19 (5.90%) SAML
6 18 (5.59%) Spring
7 16 (4.97%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.35%) .NET
9 10 (3.11%) PySpark
10 9 (2.80%) RESTful
11 8 (2.48%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.48%) Node.js
11 8 (2.48%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.17%) OpenID
13 6 (1.86%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.55%) ARM Templates
14 5 (1.55%) Middleware
14 5 (1.55%) XML
15 4 (1.24%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 64 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.70%) Replication
3 20 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.28%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.66%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.04%) Clustering
7 11 (3.42%) BYOD
8 10 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.48%) PKI
9 8 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.24%) EMV
11 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.24%) NHS
11 4 (1.24%) SCADA
11 4 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.91%) Windows
2 43 (13.35%) Linux
3 27 (8.39%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.48%) Unix
6 7 (2.17%) VMS
7 4 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.24%) SUSE
7 4 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.62%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.31%) Debian
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Rocky
9 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (37.89%) CI/CD
2 118 (36.65%) DevOps
3 99 (30.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (27.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 55 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (14.91%) Migration
7 44 (13.66%) Agile
7 44 (13.66%) Containerisation
8 42 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (11.80%) Observability
9 38 (11.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 37 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (11.49%) Microservices
11 33 (10.25%) Analytics
12 31 (9.63%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (9.01%) Roadmaps
13 29 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (8.39%) RBAC
14 27 (8.39%) Test Automation
15 26 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.36%) Python
2 63 (19.57%) SQL
3 62 (19.25%) PowerShell
4 40 (12.42%) Java
5 20 (6.21%) Bash
6 13 (4.04%) Scala
7 12 (3.73%) C#
8 11 (3.42%) Bicep
9 10 (3.11%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.86%) C++
10 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.55%) C
11 5 (1.55%) Go
11 5 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.24%) Groovy
12 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.93%) Perl
13 3 (0.93%) Ruby
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 73 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.01%) Azure Certification
4 26 (8.07%) Degree
5 18 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.35%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.73%) CCNP
9 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.80%) MCSE
10 8 (2.48%) MCSA
11 7 (2.17%) CCNA
12 6 (1.86%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.24%) MCITP
14 4 (1.24%) MCTS
15 3 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.45%) GDPR
2 19 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.42%) QA
5 10 (3.11%) SLA
6 6 (1.86%) GRC
7 5 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.24%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.24%) NCSC
8 4 (1.24%) SEPA
9 3 (0.93%) DICOM
9 3 (0.93%) HL7
9 3 (0.93%) NIST
10 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.62%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (18.01%) Active Directory
2 38 (11.80%) Docker
3 15 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.86%) vSphere
7 5 (1.55%) Firmware
7 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.31%) RACF
10 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (28.26%) Terraform
2 64 (19.88%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 26 (8.07%) Ansible
4 17 (5.28%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (4.97%) Grafana
5 16 (4.97%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.17%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.55%) Argo
8 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.24%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.24%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.24%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.24%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.24%) VxRail
10 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.93%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 75 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.25%) Oracle
3 23 (7.14%) Databricks
4 19 (5.90%) VMware
5 14 (4.35%) Cisco
6 13 (4.04%) Okta
6 13 (4.04%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.73%) Splunk
8 8 (2.48%) Ericsson
8 8 (2.48%) Nokia
9 6 (1.86%) F5
9 6 (1.86%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.55%) Infoblox
10 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.24%) Apple
11 4 (1.24%) Dell
11 4 (1.24%) Huawei
11 4 (1.24%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.24%) Red Box
11 4 (1.24%) SAP