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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 137 244
Rank change year-on-year -26 +107 -18
Contract jobs citing High Availability 336 284 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.70% 2.10% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.28% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 198 112
10th Percentile £350 £407 £265
25th Percentile £425 £464 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £647 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £745
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £56.18 - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +181.66% +11.13% -68.27%
75th Percentile £97.50 £26.84 -
90th Percentile - £27.54 -
England median hourly rate £56.63 £48.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +16.77% -16.81% -7.46%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -9 40 £475 -26.92% 10
South London -20 7 £661 +5.80%
East London +1 2 £511 +73.96% 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 17 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.57%) Confluence
4 5 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) Drupal
6 2 (0.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.60%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.30%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.30%) MTS
7 1 (0.30%) Mule
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.89%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.60%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.30%) BASE24
4 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.30%) Eikon
4 1 (0.30%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 122 (36.31%) Azure
2 106 (31.55%) AWS
3 42 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 41 (12.20%) GCP
5 29 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.04%) GitHub
7 23 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (5.06%) Serverless
10 15 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.87%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (2.98%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.98%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 43 (12.80%) DNS
2 35 (10.42%) Firewall
3 27 (8.04%) Network Security
4 25 (7.44%) DHCP
5 22 (6.55%) VPN
6 15 (4.46%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.46%) WAN
7 11 (3.27%) BGP
7 11 (3.27%) SSL
8 10 (2.98%) Kerberos
8 10 (2.98%) OSPF
9 9 (2.68%) HTTP
9 9 (2.68%) LAN
9 9 (2.68%) NAS
9 9 (2.68%) SAN
10 7 (2.08%) Internet
11 6 (1.79%) 5G
11 6 (1.79%) Multicast
11 6 (1.79%) VLAN
11 6 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.36%) Data Lake
4 16 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 14 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.68%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.79%) Metadata
9 6 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.49%) MySQL
11 4 (1.19%) Big Data
11 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.89%) KDB
12 3 (0.89%) Power BI
12 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (10.12%) Git
2 24 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.87%) GitLab
3 13 (3.87%) JIRA
4 7 (2.08%) JUnit
5 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.60%) Gradle
5 2 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.60%) Maven
5 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.30%) MLflow
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 93 (27.68%) Finance
2 76 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.80%) Banking
4 27 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.27%) Front Office
7 10 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.68%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.08%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.79%) Retail
11 4 (1.19%) Billing
11 4 (1.19%) Legal
12 3 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Publishing
13 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (13.69%) Architect
2 45 (13.39%) Senior
3 36 (10.71%) Developer
3 36 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (6.25%) DBA
5 18 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (5.06%) Lead
6 17 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (4.46%) Data Engineer
8 13 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (2.98%) SQL DBA
11 10 (2.98%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.68%) Java Developer
12 9 (2.68%) Java Engineer
12 9 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.38%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.44%) Kafka
2 24 (7.14%) REST
3 22 (6.55%) Spring
4 20 (5.95%) OAuth
5 19 (5.65%) LDAP
6 18 (5.36%) Spring Boot
7 16 (4.76%) SAML
8 14 (4.17%) .NET
9 10 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.68%) PySpark
11 8 (2.38%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.38%) Middleware
11 8 (2.38%) Node.js
11 8 (2.38%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.38%) RESTful
12 7 (2.08%) OpenID
13 6 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.49%) ARM Templates
14 5 (1.49%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 63 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (8.04%) Replication
3 19 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.06%) Data Centre
5 13 (3.87%) Clustering
6 12 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.98%) PKI
7 10 (2.98%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.49%) SCADA
11 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.07%) Windows
2 53 (15.77%) Linux
3 26 (7.74%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.27%) Unix
5 10 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.08%) VMS
7 5 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.19%) SUSE
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Android
10 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.30%) Debian
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Rocky
10 1 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.99%) CI/CD
2 118 (35.12%) DevOps
3 97 (28.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 52 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (14.29%) Agile
7 48 (14.29%) Migration
7 48 (14.29%) Observability
8 46 (13.69%) Containerisation
9 42 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 40 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
11 39 (11.61%) Microservices
12 35 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (9.23%) Analytics
14 30 (8.93%) Roadmaps
14 30 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (8.93%) Test Automation
15 27 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 81 (24.11%) Python
2 58 (17.26%) SQL
3 53 (15.77%) PowerShell
4 51 (15.18%) Java
5 25 (7.44%) Bash
6 12 (3.57%) Bicep
6 12 (3.57%) C#
6 12 (3.57%) Scala
6 12 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.38%) C++
7 8 (2.38%) Go
8 6 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.49%) C
9 5 (1.49%) Groovy
9 5 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.19%) Perl
10 4 (1.19%) Rust
11 3 (0.89%) Ruby
11 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.04%) Azure Certification
4 18 (5.36%) Degree
5 15 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 15 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.17%) CCNP
7 9 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.49%) CCNA
11 5 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.19%) MCITP
12 4 (1.19%) MCTS
13 3 (0.89%) CISSP
14 2 (0.60%) CISM
14 2 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.95%) Data Quality
1 20 (5.95%) GDPR
2 12 (3.57%) QA
3 10 (2.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.08%) GRC
4 7 (2.08%) SLA
5 6 (1.79%) NIST
6 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.19%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.19%) SEPA
8 3 (0.89%) DICOM
8 3 (0.89%) HL7
8 3 (0.89%) NCSC
9 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (17.56%) Active Directory
2 39 (11.61%) Docker
3 19 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.98%) vSphere
5 9 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.08%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.49%) Firmware
9 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.60%) HDFS
10 2 (0.60%) NFS
10 2 (0.60%) UAG
11 1 (0.30%) Ceph
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.30%) RACF
11 1 (0.30%) Samba
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (28.27%) Terraform
2 73 (21.73%) Kubernetes
3 29 (8.63%) Ansible
4 25 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.14%) Grafana
6 16 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (2.98%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (1.79%) Puppet
10 5 (1.49%) Argo
10 5 (1.49%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.19%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.19%) VxRail
12 3 (0.89%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.89%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 75 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.93%) Oracle
3 25 (7.44%) VMware
4 21 (6.25%) Databricks
5 20 (5.95%) Splunk
6 18 (5.36%) Cisco
7 15 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.98%) Okta
9 9 (2.68%) Ericsson
9 9 (2.68%) Nokia
10 8 (2.38%) IBM
11 7 (2.08%) Apple
12 6 (1.79%) F5
12 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.79%) SAP
12 6 (1.79%) Solace
13 5 (1.49%) Dell
13 5 (1.49%) Infoblox
13 5 (1.49%) Red Box
13 5 (1.49%) SolarWinds