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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 159 186
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 +25
Contract jobs citing High Availability 360 232 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.73% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.87% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 167 138
10th Percentile £350 £375 £316
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £650
90th Percentile £738 £797 £766
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile - £23.90 £22.64
25th Percentile £92.50 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% +9.24% -72.46%
75th Percentile £97.50 £26.50 -
90th Percentile - £27.40 £46.66
England median hourly rate £26.72 £27.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.04% -1.82% -56.35%

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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
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 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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
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 9 October 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 -3 49 £475 -26.92% 50
South London -8 11 £550 -25.42% 2
West London -18 5 £740 -1.33% 7
East London +2 2 £545 +85.53% 2
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 14 (3.89%) Confluence
1 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.83%) JBoss
6 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Camunda
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) CloudStack
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%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.56%) Eikon
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
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
1 118 (32.78%) AWS
2 112 (31.11%) Azure
3 53 (14.72%) GCP
4 34 (9.44%) GitHub
5 32 (8.89%) Entra ID
6 31 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 25 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (5.28%) Serverless
13 16 (4.44%) Amazon S3
14 15 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.61%) AWS KMS
16 12 (3.33%) OpenShift
17 11 (3.06%) Azure AKS
18 10 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.00%) DNS
2 34 (9.44%) Firewall
3 25 (6.94%) Network Security
4 21 (5.83%) BGP
5 20 (5.56%) DHCP
6 19 (5.28%) VPN
7 16 (4.44%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.61%) Internet
8 13 (3.61%) Multicast
8 13 (3.61%) OSPF
9 12 (3.33%) WAN
10 10 (2.78%) 4G
10 10 (2.78%) LAN
11 9 (2.50%) SAN
11 9 (2.50%) Wireless
12 7 (1.94%) NAS
12 7 (1.94%) SSL
13 6 (1.67%) LTE
13 6 (1.67%) VLAN
13 6 (1.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
1 34 (9.44%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.17%) MySQL
5 13 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (3.06%) Redis
7 10 (2.78%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.78%) Oracle Database
7 10 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (2.50%) Power BI
8 9 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.94%) Big Data
10 7 (1.94%) Metadata
10 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.67%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.67%) SAP HANA
12 5 (1.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (11.67%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.50%) GitLab
3 24 (6.67%) Git
4 16 (4.44%) JIRA
5 5 (1.39%) JUnit
6 4 (1.11%) Maven
7 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Flyway
9 1 (0.28%) GCC
9 1 (0.28%) GDB
9 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 113 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 101 (28.06%) Finance
3 59 (16.39%) Banking
4 38 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.67%) Front Office
7 13 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 13 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Billing
9 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.39%) Legal
11 4 (1.11%) Law
12 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.83%) Local Government
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.83%) Retail
13 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.28%) Advertising
14 1 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 55 (15.28%) Senior
2 53 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (12.78%) Architect
4 38 (10.56%) DBA
5 26 (7.22%) Developer
6 19 (5.28%) Administrator
6 19 (5.28%) Support Engineer
7 18 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.00%) Lead
8 16 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (4.17%) Applications Support
9 15 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (3.61%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.33%) Consultant
11 12 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.06%) Applications Support Manager
12 11 (3.06%) SQL DBA
12 11 (3.06%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (26.94%) Terraform
2 27 (7.50%) Kafka
3 25 (6.94%) REST
4 15 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (4.17%) Spring
5 13 (3.61%) Middleware
5 13 (3.61%) SOAP
5 13 (3.61%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.50%) .NET
7 7 (1.94%) JDBC
7 7 (1.94%) LDAP
7 7 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (1.67%) JSON
8 6 (1.67%) RESTful
8 6 (1.67%) SAP Basis
8 6 (1.67%) XML
8 6 (1.67%) YAML
9 5 (1.39%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (1.39%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.28%) Replication
3 28 (7.78%) Data Centre
4 25 (6.94%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (5.83%) Clustering
7 17 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (4.17%) PKI
9 13 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (3.33%) Algorithms
10 12 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.50%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.06%) Linux
2 61 (16.94%) Windows
3 20 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.72%) Unix
5 7 (1.94%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.39%) VMS
7 4 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.83%) zOS
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) MVS
10 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (39.72%) CI/CD
2 120 (33.33%) DevOps
3 111 (30.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 79 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (19.72%) Migration
8 57 (15.83%) Root Cause Analysis
9 56 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
10 54 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (14.44%) Agile
11 52 (14.44%) Observability
12 51 (14.17%) Containerisation
12 51 (14.17%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (11.39%) Test Automation
14 39 (10.83%) Incident Management
15 36 (10.00%) Microservices
15 36 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
15 36 (10.00%) Roadmaps
16 35 (9.72%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 81 (22.50%) Python
2 62 (17.22%) SQL
3 61 (16.94%) PowerShell
4 43 (11.94%) Java
5 32 (8.89%) Bash
6 18 (5.00%) Bicep
7 9 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.22%) Go
9 7 (1.94%) C++
9 7 (1.94%) Groovy
9 7 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.67%) Perl
10 6 (1.67%) Scala
11 5 (1.39%) C#
11 5 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.11%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.11%) C
12 4 (1.11%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 89 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 20 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 19 (5.28%) Degree
6 16 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.89%) CCNP
8 13 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.22%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.67%) CCNA
11 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.56%) CCIE
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.28%) Data Quality
1 19 (5.28%) QA
2 9 (2.50%) GDPR
2 9 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.22%) NIST
4 7 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.67%) GRC
5 6 (1.67%) SEPA
6 5 (1.39%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.11%) SLA
8 3 (0.83%) NCSC
9 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.56%) PSD2
10 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (14.72%) Active Directory
2 47 (13.06%) Docker
3 31 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.33%) vSphere
5 8 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.94%) Firmware
6 7 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.11%) HDFS
7 4 (1.11%) NFS
7 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.56%) KVM
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.56%) RACF
8 2 (0.56%) UAG
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.28%) ACF2
9 1 (0.28%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 71 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.00%) Ansible
2 36 (10.00%) Grafana
3 29 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (2.22%) Puppet
6 8 (2.22%) SCCM
7 7 (1.94%) Kibana
8 6 (1.67%) Argo
8 6 (1.67%) SCOM
8 6 (1.67%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.11%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.11%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.83%) Nagios
11 3 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 75 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.72%) VMware
3 32 (8.89%) Oracle
4 25 (6.94%) Cisco
5 22 (6.11%) Splunk
6 19 (5.28%) IBM
6 19 (5.28%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.17%) Google
8 13 (3.61%) SAP
9 12 (3.33%) Bloomberg
10 9 (2.50%) Databricks
11 8 (2.22%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.22%) Ericsson
11 8 (2.22%) Nokia
12 7 (1.94%) Apple
12 7 (1.94%) BMC
12 7 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.94%) Remedy
12 7 (1.94%) Solace
13 6 (1.67%) Cloudera