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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 146 231
Rank change year-on-year -15 +85 -8
Contract jobs citing High Availability 368 270 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.01% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.17% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 195 116
10th Percentile £350 £413 £293
25th Percentile £425 £463 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +8.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £644
90th Percentile £715 £775 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
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 £661 £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 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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% 22
South London -11 11 £550 -12.00% 1
East London +2 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 (4.89%) Confluence
2 15 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.26%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.63%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) JBoss
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.27%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.27%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.27%) MTS
8 1 (0.27%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.54%) Eikon
4 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.27%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 125 (33.97%) Azure
2 113 (30.71%) AWS
3 39 (10.60%) GCP
4 38 (10.33%) Entra ID
5 35 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (8.97%) GitHub
7 24 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (5.43%) Serverless
12 19 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.62%) Azure AKS
14 15 (4.08%) Amazon S3
14 15 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (3.26%) AWS KMS
16 12 (3.26%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (2.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.23%) Firewall
2 41 (11.14%) DNS
3 31 (8.42%) Network Security
4 24 (6.52%) VPN
5 23 (6.25%) DHCP
6 20 (5.43%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.62%) BGP
8 16 (4.35%) WAN
9 12 (3.26%) LAN
9 12 (3.26%) SSL
10 10 (2.72%) OSPF
10 10 (2.72%) SAN
11 9 (2.45%) 4G
11 9 (2.45%) HTTP
11 9 (2.45%) NAS
11 9 (2.45%) VLAN
11 9 (2.45%) Wireless
12 8 (2.17%) 5G
12 8 (2.17%) LTE
12 8 (2.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.14%) SQL Server
2 34 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (4.08%) MySQL
7 11 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.45%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.45%) Redis
8 9 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.17%) Delta Lake
9 8 (2.17%) Power BI
10 7 (1.90%) Big Data
10 7 (1.90%) Metadata
10 7 (1.90%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.36%) KDB
11 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 30 (8.15%) Git
3 21 (5.71%) GitLab
4 20 (5.43%) JIRA
5 5 (1.36%) JUnit
6 4 (1.09%) Maven
7 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.54%) Gradle
8 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.27%) Flyway
9 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Mockito
9 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 108 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 101 (27.45%) Finance
3 48 (13.04%) Banking
4 35 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.89%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.35%) Front Office
8 12 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.72%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.36%) Billing
11 5 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.36%) Legal
12 4 (1.09%) Retail
13 3 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
14 2 (0.54%) Games
14 2 (0.54%) Law
14 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
1 52 (14.13%) Senior
2 43 (11.68%) Architect
3 40 (10.87%) DBA
4 34 (9.24%) Developer
5 21 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (5.16%) Administrator
8 18 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (4.62%) SQL DBA
10 16 (4.35%) Lead
10 16 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (4.35%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.53%) Consultant
12 11 (2.99%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.72%) Applications Support
13 10 (2.72%) IT Support
13 10 (2.72%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (30.43%) Terraform
2 27 (7.34%) Kafka
2 27 (7.34%) REST
3 19 (5.16%) Spring
4 15 (4.08%) Spring Boot
5 13 (3.53%) .NET
5 13 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.99%) LDAP
7 10 (2.72%) OAuth
8 9 (2.45%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.45%) Middleware
9 8 (2.17%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.17%) RESTful
9 8 (2.17%) SOAP
10 7 (1.90%) Node.js
10 7 (1.90%) OpenID
11 6 (1.63%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.63%) SAML
11 6 (1.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.24%) Replication
3 27 (7.34%) Clustering
4 26 (7.07%) Data Centre
4 26 (7.07%) Onboarding
5 25 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (4.08%) PKI
9 12 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.45%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.90%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.63%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 5 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 65 (17.66%) Linux
1 65 (17.66%) Windows
2 23 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.53%) Unix
4 11 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.99%) VMS
5 7 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.09%) SUSE
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.54%) zOS
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) MVS
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.27%) Rocky
9 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (41.03%) CI/CD
2 132 (35.87%) DevOps
3 119 (32.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (25.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 72 (19.57%) Migration
6 63 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (15.49%) Root Cause Analysis
8 56 (15.22%) Observability
9 54 (14.67%) Agile
10 53 (14.40%) Performance Tuning
11 52 (14.13%) Containerisation
12 45 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (10.60%) Microservices
14 37 (10.05%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (10.05%) Test Automation
15 36 (9.78%) Incident Management
16 35 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 32 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (23.10%) Python
2 69 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 62 (16.85%) SQL
4 52 (14.13%) Java
5 30 (8.15%) Bash
6 20 (5.43%) Bicep
7 11 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.45%) C#
8 9 (2.45%) Go
9 7 (1.90%) C++
9 7 (1.90%) Groovy
10 6 (1.63%) Perl
10 6 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.36%) C
11 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.09%) Rust
12 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.82%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.82%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 109 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 94 (25.54%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.98%) Degree
5 20 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.80%) CCNP
8 12 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.90%) CCNA
12 4 (1.09%) MCITP
12 4 (1.09%) MCTS
13 3 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.54%) VCAP
14 2 (0.54%) VCDX
14 2 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.62%) QA
2 16 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.53%) GDPR
4 8 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.17%) NIST
5 6 (1.63%) GRC
5 6 (1.63%) SEPA
6 5 (1.36%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.09%) SLA
8 3 (0.82%) NCSC
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.54%) DICOM
9 2 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.54%) HL7
9 2 (0.54%) PSD2
10 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 46 (12.50%) Docker
3 33 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.35%) vSphere
5 11 (2.99%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.90%) Firmware
8 4 (1.09%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.54%) HDFS
9 2 (0.54%) KVM
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.54%) UAG
9 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) NFS
10 1 (0.27%) RACF
10 1 (0.27%) Samba
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (21.20%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.51%) Ansible
3 32 (8.70%) Grafana
3 32 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.26%) Microsoft Clustering
6 11 (2.99%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (1.90%) Puppet
8 7 (1.90%) SCCM
9 6 (1.63%) Argo
9 6 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (1.63%) SCOM
10 5 (1.36%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.36%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.09%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.60%) VMware
3 30 (8.15%) Oracle
4 27 (7.34%) Cisco
5 22 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.98%) Splunk
6 12 (3.26%) Databricks
6 12 (3.26%) IBM
7 10 (2.72%) Ericsson
7 10 (2.72%) Nokia
7 10 (2.72%) Remedy
8 8 (2.17%) SAP
9 7 (1.90%) Apple
9 7 (1.90%) BMC
9 7 (1.90%) Dell
9 7 (1.90%) F5
9 7 (1.90%) Google
9 7 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.90%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.63%) Fortinet