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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 132 248
Rank change year-on-year -31 +116 -35
Contract jobs citing High Availability 317 253 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.70% 2.07% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.24% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 177 113
10th Percentile £366 £400 £300
25th Percentile £426 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £712
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 £56.63 £48.50 £44.80
% change year-on-year +16.77% +8.26% -33.13%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 31 £563 -10.00% 27
South London -13 9 £300 -52.00%
East London -4 2 £511 +73.96% 3
West London -27 1 £375 -38.78% 3
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 22 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.52%) Confluence
4 4 (1.26%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.63%) Drupal
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.63%) WordPress
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) MTS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.52%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 4 (1.26%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.95%) BASE24
3 3 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.63%) DELMIA
4 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (38.49%) Azure
2 110 (34.70%) AWS
3 37 (11.67%) Entra ID
3 37 (11.67%) GCP
4 32 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (9.15%) GitHub
6 28 (8.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (5.68%) Serverless
9 17 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 16 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.84%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.25%) DNS
2 32 (10.09%) Firewall
3 27 (8.52%) DHCP
3 27 (8.52%) Network Security
4 18 (5.68%) VPN
5 16 (5.05%) WAN
6 14 (4.42%) TCP/IP
7 13 (4.10%) Kerberos
8 10 (3.15%) LAN
9 9 (2.84%) HTTP
9 9 (2.84%) SSL
10 8 (2.52%) BGP
10 8 (2.52%) NAS
10 8 (2.52%) OSPF
10 8 (2.52%) SAN
11 7 (2.21%) VLAN
12 6 (1.89%) Internet
12 6 (1.89%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.58%) 5G
13 5 (1.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.83%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (5.36%) Data Lake
4 17 (5.36%) Delta Lake
5 16 (5.05%) Oracle Database
6 8 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.58%) Metadata
9 5 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.26%) Power BI
10 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.95%) MySQL
11 3 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.63%) KDB
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 31 (9.78%) Git
2 17 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.10%) JIRA
4 10 (3.15%) GitLab
5 3 (0.95%) JUnit
6 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.32%) MLflow
7 1 (0.32%) Mockito
7 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.92%) Finance
3 40 (12.62%) Banking
4 26 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.58%) Front Office
9 5 (1.58%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.58%) Retail
10 4 (1.26%) Law
10 4 (1.26%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.95%) Games
11 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (13.56%) Architect
2 37 (11.67%) Senior
3 31 (9.78%) Developer
4 30 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (7.26%) DBA
6 21 (6.62%) Lead
7 17 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (5.05%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.73%) Administrator
10 13 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) SQL DBA
12 11 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Oracle DBA
14 9 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.57%) Kafka
2 23 (7.26%) OAuth
3 22 (6.94%) LDAP
4 19 (5.99%) REST
4 19 (5.99%) SAML
5 18 (5.68%) Spring
6 16 (5.05%) Spring Boot
7 13 (4.10%) .NET
8 10 (3.15%) PySpark
9 9 (2.84%) RESTful
10 8 (2.52%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.52%) Node.js
10 8 (2.52%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.21%) OpenID
12 6 (1.89%) AWS CDK
12 6 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.58%) ARM Templates
13 5 (1.58%) Middleware
14 4 (1.26%) Django
14 4 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 63 (19.87%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.52%) Replication
3 20 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.10%) Clustering
7 11 (3.47%) BYOD
8 10 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.52%) PKI
9 8 (2.52%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.58%) EMV
13 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.26%) NHS
13 4 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.26%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.51%) Windows
2 42 (13.25%) Linux
3 27 (8.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.52%) Unix
6 7 (2.21%) VMS
7 4 (1.26%) SUSE
7 4 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.63%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.32%) Debian
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.32%) Rocky
10 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (37.54%) CI/CD
2 114 (35.96%) DevOps
3 98 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (27.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 53 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (14.51%) Migration
7 44 (13.88%) Agile
7 44 (13.88%) Containerisation
7 44 (13.88%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (11.99%) Observability
8 38 (11.99%) Root Cause Analysis
9 36 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (11.36%) Microservices
10 33 (10.41%) Analytics
11 30 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (9.15%) Roadmaps
13 28 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (8.20%) RBAC
14 26 (8.20%) Test Automation
15 25 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (22.08%) Python
2 64 (20.19%) SQL
3 59 (18.61%) PowerShell
4 39 (12.30%) Java
5 20 (6.31%) Bash
6 13 (4.10%) Scala
7 12 (3.79%) C#
8 10 (3.15%) Bicep
8 10 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.89%) C
9 6 (1.89%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.58%) C++
10 5 (1.58%) Go
10 5 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.26%) Groovy
11 4 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.95%) COBOL
12 3 (0.95%) Perl
12 3 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 71 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.15%) Azure Certification
4 26 (8.20%) Degree
5 18 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.42%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.79%) CCNP
9 9 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.84%) MCSE
10 8 (2.52%) MCSA
11 7 (2.21%) CCNA
12 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.26%) MCITP
14 4 (1.26%) MCTS
15 3 (0.95%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.57%) GDPR
2 19 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.47%) QA
5 10 (3.15%) SLA
6 6 (1.89%) GRC
7 5 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.26%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.26%) NCSC
8 4 (1.26%) SEPA
9 3 (0.95%) DICOM
9 3 (0.95%) HL7
9 3 (0.95%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.95%) NIST
10 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 57 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 38 (11.99%) Docker
3 15 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.89%) vSphere
7 5 (1.58%) Firmware
7 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.32%) NFS
10 1 (0.32%) RACF
10 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 90 (28.39%) Terraform
2 63 (19.87%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (7.89%) Ansible
5 17 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (5.05%) Grafana
6 16 (5.05%) Prometheus
7 13 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.21%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (1.26%) Argo
10 4 (1.26%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.26%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.26%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.26%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.26%) VxRail
11 3 (0.95%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.95%) Puppet
12 2 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 74 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.09%) Oracle
3 23 (7.26%) Databricks
4 19 (5.99%) VMware
5 14 (4.42%) Cisco
6 13 (4.10%) Okta
6 13 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.47%) Splunk
8 8 (2.52%) Ericsson
8 8 (2.52%) Nokia
9 6 (1.89%) F5
9 6 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.58%) Infoblox
10 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.26%) Dell
11 4 (1.26%) Huawei
11 4 (1.26%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.26%) Red Box
11 4 (1.26%) SAP
12 3 (0.95%) Solace