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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 138 224
Rank change year-on-year -23 +86 -8
Contract jobs citing High Availability 358 277 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 2.06% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.23% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 197 114
10th Percentile £350 £413 £300
25th Percentile £425 £475 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +8.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £634
90th Percentile £718 £775 £743
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £61.40 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £84.75 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +220.42% +11.13% -69.84%
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - £27.38 £61.90
England median hourly rate £55.25 £27.00 £43.15
% change year-on-year +104.63% -37.43% -31.51%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -6 42 £475 -26.92% 13
South London -11 10 £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 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.75%) Confluence
3 14 (3.91%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.68%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) JBoss
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Camunda
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%) Mule
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.28%) Eikon
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
5 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.28%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 120 (33.52%) Azure
2 108 (30.17%) AWS
3 39 (10.89%) GCP
4 38 (10.61%) Entra ID
5 33 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (8.38%) GitHub
7 26 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (4.47%) Serverless
12 14 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (3.63%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.63%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.35%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.07%) AWS KMS
16 10 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (2.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.73%) DNS
2 36 (10.06%) Firewall
3 23 (6.42%) DHCP
3 23 (6.42%) Network Security
3 23 (6.42%) VPN
4 19 (5.31%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.91%) WAN
6 12 (3.35%) LAN
6 12 (3.35%) SSL
7 10 (2.79%) SAN
8 9 (2.51%) BGP
8 9 (2.51%) HTTP
8 9 (2.51%) NAS
8 9 (2.51%) Wireless
9 8 (2.23%) 4G
9 8 (2.23%) OSPF
10 7 (1.96%) 5G
10 7 (1.96%) Internet
10 7 (1.96%) LTE
10 7 (1.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.57%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.75%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (3.91%) MySQL
6 11 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.79%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
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%) Power BI
10 7 (1.96%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.68%) Big Data
11 6 (1.68%) Metadata
12 5 (1.40%) KDB
13 4 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (8.66%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.10%) Git
3 19 (5.31%) JIRA
4 18 (5.03%) GitLab
5 5 (1.40%) JUnit
6 4 (1.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.56%) Gradle
7 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.28%) Flyway
8 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.28%) MLflow
8 1 (0.28%) Mockito
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 98 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.54%) Finance
3 49 (13.69%) Banking
4 35 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.75%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.91%) Front Office
8 10 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.79%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.68%) Retail
10 4 (1.12%) Billing
10 4 (1.12%) Legal
11 3 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Publishing
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (14.25%) Senior
2 45 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (12.29%) Architect
4 39 (10.89%) DBA
5 34 (9.50%) Developer
6 19 (5.31%) Administrator
6 19 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (4.75%) SQL DBA
9 16 (4.47%) Lead
10 13 (3.63%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.51%) Applications Support
13 9 (2.51%) Consultant
13 9 (2.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.26%) Kafka
1 26 (7.26%) REST
2 19 (5.31%) Spring
3 15 (4.19%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.91%) .NET
5 13 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.07%) LDAP
7 10 (2.79%) OAuth
8 9 (2.51%) Middleware
9 8 (2.23%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.23%) RESTful
10 7 (1.96%) Node.js
10 7 (1.96%) OpenID
10 7 (1.96%) SOAP
11 6 (1.68%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.68%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.68%) SAML
12 5 (1.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.66%) Replication
3 27 (7.54%) Clustering
4 25 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (6.98%) Onboarding
5 21 (5.87%) Data Centre
6 18 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (3.91%) PKI
8 12 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.35%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (2.51%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.96%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.40%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.60%) Linux
2 62 (17.32%) Windows
3 22 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.63%) Unix
5 11 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.23%) VMS
7 7 (1.96%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.12%) SUSE
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.28%) Debian
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Rocky
12 1 (0.28%) Solaris
12 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (39.66%) CI/CD
2 124 (34.64%) DevOps
3 112 (31.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (26.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 61 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (17.04%) Migration
6 57 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (15.08%) Performance Tuning
8 53 (14.80%) Observability
9 52 (14.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 50 (13.97%) Agile
10 50 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 47 (13.13%) Containerisation
12 39 (10.89%) Microservices
12 39 (10.89%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (9.50%) Incident Management
14 34 (9.50%) Roadmaps
15 33 (9.22%) Test Automation
15 33 (9.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.35%) Python
2 68 (18.99%) SQL
3 64 (17.88%) PowerShell
4 51 (14.25%) Java
5 27 (7.54%) Bash
6 16 (4.47%) Bicep
7 11 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.51%) C#
8 9 (2.51%) Go
9 8 (2.23%) C++
10 6 (1.68%) Groovy
10 6 (1.68%) Scala
10 6 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.40%) C
11 5 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.40%) Perl
12 4 (1.12%) Rust
13 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.84%) Ruby
13 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.38%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.15%) Degree
5 19 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.91%) CCNP
8 12 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.23%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.96%) CCNA
13 4 (1.12%) MCITP
13 4 (1.12%) MCTS
14 3 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.56%) CISSP
15 2 (0.56%) VCAP
15 2 (0.56%) VCDX
15 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.75%) QA
3 12 (3.35%) GDPR
4 8 (2.23%) SLA
5 7 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.96%) NIST
6 6 (1.68%) GRC
6 6 (1.68%) SEPA
7 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.84%) DICOM
8 3 (0.84%) HL7
8 3 (0.84%) NCSC
8 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.56%) PSD2
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 65 (18.16%) Active Directory
2 41 (11.45%) Docker
3 33 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.19%) vSphere
5 11 (3.07%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.68%) Firmware
8 4 (1.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.56%) HDFS
9 2 (0.56%) KVM
9 2 (0.56%) NFS
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%) RACF
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 107 (29.89%) Terraform
2 73 (20.39%) Kubernetes
3 31 (8.66%) Ansible
3 31 (8.66%) Prometheus
4 29 (8.10%) Grafana
5 16 (4.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (3.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (2.79%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (1.96%) Puppet
10 6 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (1.68%) Argo
10 6 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.40%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (1.40%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.40%) SCCM
11 5 (1.40%) SCOM
11 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.12%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 78 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.17%) VMware
3 31 (8.66%) Oracle
4 22 (6.15%) Splunk
5 19 (5.31%) Cisco
5 19 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.63%) Databricks
7 10 (2.79%) IBM
7 10 (2.79%) Remedy
8 9 (2.51%) Ericsson
8 9 (2.51%) Nokia
9 8 (2.23%) F5
10 7 (1.96%) Apple
10 7 (1.96%) BMC
10 7 (1.96%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.68%) Dell
11 6 (1.68%) Google
11 6 (1.68%) SAP
11 6 (1.68%) Solace
11 6 (1.68%) SolarWinds