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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 145 226
Rank change year-on-year -20 +81 -1
Contract jobs citing High Availability 359 268 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 2.00% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.17% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 195 118
10th Percentile £350 £413 £262
25th Percentile £425 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +8.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £700 £642
90th Percentile £715 £775 £733
England median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £63.90 - £22.26
25th Percentile £74.63 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +259.17% +11.13% -71.26%
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - £27.38 £54.28
England median hourly rate £55.50 £26.73 £28.00
% change year-on-year +107.67% -4.55% -55.56%

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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -10 46 £470 -27.65% 26
South London -13 11 £550 -12.00% 2
East London +1 3 £500 +70.21% 5
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 18 (5.01%) Confluence
2 15 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.84%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Camunda
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.28%) MTS
7 1 (0.28%) Mule
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.56%) Eikon
4 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.28%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 122 (33.98%) Azure
2 113 (31.48%) AWS
3 41 (11.42%) GCP
4 37 (10.31%) Entra ID
5 34 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (8.64%) GitHub
7 23 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (5.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (5.57%) Serverless
11 18 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.18%) Amazon S3
12 15 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (3.90%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.34%) AWS KMS
14 12 (3.34%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.53%) Firewall
2 41 (11.42%) DNS
3 29 (8.08%) Network Security
4 24 (6.69%) VPN
5 23 (6.41%) DHCP
6 20 (5.57%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.74%) BGP
8 16 (4.46%) WAN
9 12 (3.34%) LAN
9 12 (3.34%) SSL
10 10 (2.79%) OSPF
11 9 (2.51%) 4G
11 9 (2.51%) HTTP
11 9 (2.51%) SAN
11 9 (2.51%) VLAN
11 9 (2.51%) Wireless
12 8 (2.23%) 5G
12 8 (2.23%) LTE
12 8 (2.23%) Multicast
12 8 (2.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.58%) SQL Server
2 35 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (4.74%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.18%) MySQL
6 12 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (2.79%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.51%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.51%) Redis
8 9 (2.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.23%) Metadata
9 8 (2.23%) Power BI
10 7 (1.95%) Big Data
10 7 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.95%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.39%) KDB
11 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (8.91%) Jenkins
2 28 (7.80%) Git
3 21 (5.85%) GitLab
4 20 (5.57%) JIRA
5 5 (1.39%) JUnit
6 4 (1.11%) Maven
7 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
8 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 106 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 96 (26.74%) Finance
3 46 (12.81%) Banking
4 34 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.19%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.01%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.46%) Front Office
8 12 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.79%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.67%) Billing
11 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.39%) Legal
12 4 (1.11%) Retail
13 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.84%) Publishing
14 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Games
14 2 (0.56%) Law
14 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (14.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (14.21%) Senior
3 41 (11.42%) Architect
4 37 (10.31%) DBA
5 34 (9.47%) Developer
6 21 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.01%) Administrator
8 18 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.46%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.18%) SQL DBA
11 14 (3.90%) Lead
11 14 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.34%) Consultant
14 11 (3.06%) Network Engineer
15 10 (2.79%) Applications Support
15 10 (2.79%) IT Support
15 10 (2.79%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (29.81%) Terraform
2 28 (7.80%) REST
3 27 (7.52%) Kafka
4 19 (5.29%) Spring
5 15 (4.18%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (3.34%) .NET
8 11 (3.06%) LDAP
9 10 (2.79%) OAuth
10 9 (2.51%) Middleware
10 9 (2.51%) SOAP
11 8 (2.23%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.23%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.23%) RESTful
12 7 (1.95%) Node.js
12 7 (1.95%) OpenID
13 6 (1.67%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.67%) SAML
13 6 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.75%) Replication
3 27 (7.52%) Clustering
4 26 (7.24%) Data Centre
4 26 (7.24%) Onboarding
5 25 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (4.18%) PKI
9 12 (3.34%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.51%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.95%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.83%) Linux
2 63 (17.55%) Windows
3 22 (6.13%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.62%) Unix
5 11 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.06%) VMS
6 7 (1.95%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.11%) SUSE
9 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) zOS
10 1 (0.28%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) Debian
10 1 (0.28%) MVS
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (41.50%) CI/CD
2 128 (35.65%) DevOps
3 115 (32.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (24.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 70 (19.50%) Migration
6 63 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 61 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (15.88%) Root Cause Analysis
9 56 (15.60%) Observability
10 52 (14.48%) Agile
11 51 (14.21%) Containerisation
12 49 (13.65%) Performance Tuning
13 45 (12.53%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (10.86%) Microservices
15 36 (10.03%) Incident Management
15 36 (10.03%) Test Automation
16 35 (9.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 35 (9.75%) Platform Engineering
17 31 (8.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.12%) Python
2 66 (18.38%) PowerShell
3 56 (15.60%) SQL
4 52 (14.48%) Java
5 28 (7.80%) Bash
6 17 (4.74%) Bicep
7 11 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.51%) C#
8 9 (2.51%) Go
9 7 (1.95%) Groovy
10 6 (1.67%) C++
10 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.39%) Perl
12 4 (1.11%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.11%) C
12 4 (1.11%) Rust
12 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.56%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 90 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.80%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.85%) Degree
5 20 (5.57%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.90%) CCNP
8 12 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.95%) CCNA
11 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.84%) MCITP
12 3 (0.84%) MCTS
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) VCDX
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.74%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.46%) QA
3 13 (3.62%) GDPR
4 9 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.51%) NIST
5 6 (1.67%) GRC
5 6 (1.67%) SEPA
6 5 (1.39%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.11%) SLA
8 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.56%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) DICOM
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (16.99%) Active Directory
2 45 (12.53%) Docker
3 33 (9.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.46%) vSphere
5 11 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.95%) Firmware
8 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.56%) HDFS
9 2 (0.56%) KVM
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.56%) UAG
9 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) NFS
10 1 (0.28%) RACF
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.47%) Ansible
3 32 (8.91%) Grafana
3 32 (8.91%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.34%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (2.79%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (1.95%) Puppet
8 7 (1.95%) SCCM
9 6 (1.67%) Argo
9 6 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (1.67%) SCOM
10 5 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.39%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.11%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.11%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.58%) VMware
3 29 (8.08%) Oracle
4 27 (7.52%) Cisco
5 23 (6.41%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.85%) Splunk
7 12 (3.34%) Databricks
7 12 (3.34%) IBM
8 10 (2.79%) Ericsson
8 10 (2.79%) Nokia
8 10 (2.79%) Remedy
9 9 (2.51%) SAP
10 8 (2.23%) Google
11 7 (1.95%) Apple
11 7 (1.95%) BMC
11 7 (1.95%) Dell
11 7 (1.95%) F5
11 7 (1.95%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.95%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.67%) Solace