High Availability Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

High Availability England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	176	164	192
Rank change year-on-year	-12	+28
Contract jobs citing High Availability	306	322	290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.47%	1.51%	1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.70%	1.77%	1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	236	254	209
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£363	£306
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£640	£606	£580
UK excluding London median daily rate	£390	£400	£390
% change year-on-year	-2.50%	+2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	1
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£42.50	£34.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-41.17%	+25.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£24.95	£28.00	£19.50
% change year-on-year	-10.89%	+43.58%

High Availability is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17979	18242	19175
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.61%	85.33%	82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	12883	13341	13612
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£630	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	188	156	254
Median hourly rate	£26.50	£21.00	£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+26.19%	-4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.25	£46.00	£55.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing High Availability as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing High Availability in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing High Availability in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-4	52	£511	+7.63%	21
West End of London	-	5	£538	-
Canary Wharf	+4	3	£550	+46.66%
Croydon	0	2	£463	+8.82%
Harrow	-	2	-	-
Docklands, London	0	1	£650	+51.16%
Paddington	-	1	£425	-
Hammersmith	-	1	£300	-
Heathrow	-	1	£425	-
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-	1
High Availability England

High Availability
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing High Availability also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for High Availability.

1	275 (44.28%)	Agile Software Development
2	239 (38.49%)	Java
3	179 (28.82%)	TDD
4	168 (27.05%)	Linux
5	146 (23.51%)	DevOps
6	138 (22.22%)	Scrum
7	136 (21.90%)	Amazon AWS
8	133 (21.42%)	Open Source
9	127 (20.45%)	SQL
10	117 (18.84%)	Finance
11	114 (18.36%)	Microservices
12	113 (18.20%)	SQL Server
13	108 (17.39%)	JavaScript
13	108 (17.39%)	Python
13	108 (17.39%)	Low Latency

14	106 (17.07%)	Web Services
15	102 (16.43%)	Git (software)
16	99 (15.94%)	Continuous Integration
17	96 (15.46%)	BDD
18	95 (15.30%)	Unix
19	89 (14.33%)	Kanban
19	89 (14.33%)	RESTful
20	86 (13.85%)	E-Commerce
20	86 (13.85%)	Ruby
21	83 (13.37%)	Windows
22	81 (13.04%)	Node.js
23	80 (12.88%)	Test Automation
24	79 (12.72%)	NoSQL
25	77 (12.40%)	Microsoft
26	75 (12.08%)	Microsoft Azure

High Availability
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	32 (5.15%)	WebSphere
2	29 (4.67%)	Elasticsearch
3	25 (4.03%)	Confluence
4	22 (3.54%)	Cloud Foundry
5	21 (3.38%)	Apache
6	16 (2.58%)	IIS
7	14 (2.25%)	Apache Spark
7	14 (2.25%)	JBoss
8	13 (2.09%)	OpenStack
9	12 (1.93%)	Tomcat
10	9 (1.45%)	WebSphere Application Server
11	8 (1.29%)	SharePoint
12	7 (1.13%)	Mule
12	7 (1.13%)	Oracle SOA Suite
13	6 (0.97%)	Apache Solr
13	6 (0.97%)	Skype for Business
14	5 (0.81%)	CMS
14	5 (0.81%)	MS Exchange
15	4 (0.64%)	Oracle Workflow
15	4 (0.64%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	3 (0.48%)	Microsoft Office
1	3 (0.48%)	Microsoft Project
2	1 (0.16%)	HipChat
2	1 (0.16%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	6 (0.97%)	Fredhopper
1	6 (0.97%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	3 (0.48%)	Dynamics CRM
3	1 (0.16%)	Oracle EBS
3	1 (0.16%)	Oracle Retail
3	1 (0.16%)	Remedy ITSM
3	1 (0.16%)	RMDS

Cloud Services
1	136 (21.90%)	Amazon AWS
2	75 (12.08%)	Microsoft Azure
3	37 (5.96%)	Amazon EC2
4	31 (4.99%)	PaaS
5	21 (3.38%)	Cloud Computing
6	18 (2.90%)	GitHub
7	17 (2.74%)	IaaS
8	15 (2.42%)	Datadog
9	14 (2.25%)	Office 365
10	11 (1.77%)	Amazon S3
11	10 (1.61%)	AWS CloudFormation
12	8 (1.29%)	SaaS
13	7 (1.13%)	Amazon ELB
13	7 (1.13%)	Virtual Private Cloud
14	5 (0.81%)	OpenShift
15	4 (0.64%)	AWS Lambda
15	4 (0.64%)	Azure Active Directory
16	3 (0.48%)	Amazon Kinesis
16	3 (0.48%)	Bluemix
16	3 (0.48%)	IBM Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	57 (9.18%)	Firewall
2	48 (7.73%)	TCP/IP
3	43 (6.92%)	LAN
3	43 (6.92%)	WAN
4	37 (5.96%)	DNS
5	33 (5.31%)	HTTP
6	28 (4.51%)	Internet
7	25 (4.03%)	Cisco ASA
8	22 (3.54%)	Cisco Nexus
8	22 (3.54%)	DHCP
8	22 (3.54%)	Network Security
8	22 (3.54%)	VPN
9	21 (3.38%)	Wireless
10	19 (3.06%)	SAN
11	18 (2.90%)	Cisco IOS
11	18 (2.90%)	SSL
12	16 (2.58%)	MPLS
13	14 (2.25%)	Cisco Wireless
13	14 (2.25%)	Wi-Fi
13	14 (2.25%)	WLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	113 (18.20%)	SQL Server
2	79 (12.72%)	NoSQL
3	52 (8.37%)	Hadoop
4	51 (8.21%)	PostgreSQL
5	45 (7.25%)	MongoDB
6	41 (6.60%)	Relational Database
7	33 (5.31%)	Big Data
8	25 (4.03%)	RDBMS
9	24 (3.86%)	MySQL
10	23 (3.70%)	Redis
11	22 (3.54%)	Amazon DynamoDB
12	19 (3.06%)	SQL Server Integration Services
13	13 (2.09%)	Amazon RDS
13	13 (2.09%)	Apache Cassandra
14	12 (1.93%)	SQL Server 2008
14	12 (1.93%)	SQL Server 2012
15	11 (1.77%)	Oracle Database
16	10 (1.61%)	Endeca
16	10 (1.61%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
17	8 (1.29%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	102 (16.43%)	Git (software)
2	72 (11.59%)	Jenkins
3	51 (8.21%)	JIRA
4	45 (7.25%)	Cucumber
5	37 (5.96%)	TeamCity
6	35 (5.64%)	Subversion
7	27 (4.35%)	Octopus Deploy
8	18 (2.90%)	Maven
9	17 (2.74%)	WebDriver
10	13 (2.09%)	git-flow
11	12 (1.93%)	VSS/SourceSafe
12	9 (1.45%)	Gradle
12	9 (1.45%)	JUnit
12	9 (1.45%)	Team Foundation Server
13	8 (1.29%)	Ant
13	8 (1.29%)	Hudson
14	7 (1.13%)	gulp
14	7 (1.13%)	Mockito
15	6 (0.97%)	Bitbucket
16	5 (0.81%)	Grunt

General
1	117 (18.84%)	Finance
2	65 (10.47%)	Banking
3	28 (4.51%)	Retail
4	26 (4.19%)	Investment Banking
5	24 (3.86%)	Front Office
6	17 (2.74%)	Games
7	15 (2.42%)	Telecoms
8	14 (2.25%)	Marketing
9	11 (1.77%)	Financial Institution
10	8 (1.29%)	Legal
11	7 (1.13%)	Law
12	6 (0.97%)	Electronics
12	6 (0.97%)	Manufacturing
13	5 (0.81%)	Multimedia
14	4 (0.64%)	Back Office
15	2 (0.32%)	Advertising
15	2 (0.32%)	Publishing
15	2 (0.32%)	Retail Banking
16	1 (0.16%)	Corporate Banking
16	1 (0.16%)	French Language

Job Titles
1	227 (36.55%)	Developer
2	82 (13.20%)	Java Developer
3	75 (12.08%)	Architect
4	54 (8.70%)	DevOps Engineer
5	46 (7.41%)	Senior Developer
6	32 (5.15%)	AWS Engineer
7	29 (4.67%)	Network Engineer
8	26 (4.19%)	Scala Developer
9	24 (3.86%)	C++ Developer
10	21 (3.38%)	Agile Developer
10	21 (3.38%)	C# Developer
10	21 (3.38%)	JavaScript Developer
10	21 (3.38%)	Software Engineer
11	20 (3.22%)	Data Engineer
11	20 (3.22%)	Technical Architect
12	19 (3.06%)	Cloud Engineer
12	19 (3.06%)	Solutions Architect
13	18 (2.90%)	Electronic Trading Developer
14	17 (2.74%)	Linux Engineer
14	17 (2.74%)	Perl Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	106 (17.07%)	Web Services
2	89 (14.33%)	RESTful
3	81 (13.04%)	Node.js
4	74 (11.92%)	AngularJS
5	66 (10.63%)	HTML
6	62 (9.98%)	.NET
7	57 (9.18%)	CSS
8	52 (8.37%)	REST
9	49 (7.89%)	JSON
10	41 (6.60%)	ASP.NET
11	38 (6.12%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	38 (6.12%)	J2EE
11	38 (6.12%)	Spring
11	38 (6.12%)	XML
12	37 (5.96%)	HTML5
13	33 (5.31%)	CSS3
13	33 (5.31%)	React
14	31 (4.99%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	28 (4.51%)	jQuery
16	26 (4.19%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	51 (8.21%)	Data Centre
2	49 (7.89%)	User Experience
3	36 (5.80%)	Clustering
3	36 (5.80%)	Public Cloud
4	35 (5.64%)	Analytical Skills
5	31 (4.99%)	iPad
6	27 (4.35%)	Greenfield Project
7	25 (4.03%)	Data Structures
8	24 (3.86%)	Fintech
9	21 (3.38%)	Management Information System
9	21 (3.38%)	Replication
10	20 (3.22%)	Blog
11	19 (3.06%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	19 (3.06%)	iPhone
12	18 (2.90%)	Fixed Income
13	17 (2.74%)	Algorithms
13	17 (2.74%)	Computer Science
13	17 (2.74%)	Virtual Team
14	14 (2.25%)	Mainframe
15	13 (2.09%)	BYOD

Operating Systems
1	168 (27.05%)	Linux
2	95 (15.30%)	Unix
3	83 (13.37%)	Windows
4	43 (6.92%)	Windows Server
5	29 (4.67%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	20 (3.22%)	Windows Server 2008
7	18 (2.90%)	Windows Server 2012
8	16 (2.58%)	CentOS
9	15 (2.42%)	Solaris
10	14 (2.25%)	Apple iOS
11	9 (1.45%)	AIX
11	9 (1.45%)	Windows Server 2003
12	5 (0.81%)	Ubuntu
12	5 (0.81%)	Windows 10
13	4 (0.64%)	Oracle Linux
13	4 (0.64%)	Windows 7
13	4 (0.64%)	Windows 8
14	3 (0.48%)	SUSE
15	2 (0.32%)	Mac OS X
15	2 (0.32%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	275 (44.28%)	Agile Software Development
2	179 (28.82%)	TDD
3	146 (23.51%)	DevOps
4	138 (22.22%)	Scrum
5	133 (21.42%)	Open Source
6	114 (18.36%)	Microservices
7	108 (17.39%)	Low Latency
8	99 (15.94%)	Continuous Integration
9	96 (15.46%)	BDD
10	89 (14.33%)	Kanban
11	86 (13.85%)	E-Commerce
12	80 (12.88%)	Test Automation
13	71 (11.43%)	Continuous Delivery
14	63 (10.14%)	Software Engineering
15	58 (9.34%)	Configuration Management
16	57 (9.18%)	OO
17	52 (8.37%)	MVC
18	50 (8.05%)	Continuous Improvement
18	50 (8.05%)	SOA
19	48 (7.73%)	Migration

Programming Languages
1	239 (38.49%)	Java
2	127 (20.45%)	SQL
3	108 (17.39%)	JavaScript
3	108 (17.39%)	Python
4	86 (13.85%)	Ruby
5	57 (9.18%)	C#
6	55 (8.86%)	Scala
7	38 (6.12%)	C++
8	36 (5.80%)	Perl
9	35 (5.64%)	PowerShell
10	29 (4.67%)	Bash Shell
11	24 (3.86%)	Go
12	18 (2.90%)	Shell Script
13	17 (2.74%)	Groovy
14	14 (2.25%)	Apple Swift
14	14 (2.25%)	Objective-C
15	8 (1.29%)	PL/SQL
15	8 (1.29%)	T-SQL
16	5 (0.81%)	C
16	5 (0.81%)	ES6

Qualifications
1	52 (8.37%)	Security Cleared
2	42 (6.76%)	SC Cleared
3	40 (6.44%)	Degree
4	28 (4.51%)	Cisco Certification
5	25 (4.03%)	CCNP
6	14 (2.25%)	CCIE
7	11 (1.77%)	Microsoft Certification
8	10 (1.61%)	Computer Science Degree
9	7 (1.13%)	DV Cleared
10	6 (0.97%)	CCNA
11	4 (0.64%)	BPSS Clearance
11	4 (0.64%)	MCSE
12	3 (0.48%)	IBM Certification
12	3 (0.48%)	ITIL Certification
12	3 (0.48%)	MCITP
12	3 (0.48%)	PRINCE2 Certification
13	2 (0.32%)	CISSP
13	2 (0.32%)	PMI Certification
13	2 (0.32%)	PMP
13	2 (0.32%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	54 (8.70%)	QA
2	16 (2.58%)	SLA
3	9 (1.45%)	PCI DSS
4	4 (0.64%)	MiFID
5	3 (0.48%)	Data Quality
6	2 (0.32%)	COBIT
6	2 (0.32%)	EMIR
6	2 (0.32%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.16%)	Cyber Essentials
7	1 (0.16%)	ISAE 3402
7	1 (0.16%)	SEPA

System Software
1	52 (8.37%)	Active Directory
2	48 (7.73%)	Docker
3	38 (6.12%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	15 (2.42%)	Oracle RAC
5	12 (1.93%)	Hyper-V
6	7 (1.13%)	Virtual Desktop
7	6 (0.97%)	GFS2
7	6 (0.97%)	GlusterFS
7	6 (0.97%)	HDFS
7	6 (0.97%)	OCFS2
7	6 (0.97%)	VMware ESXi
7	6 (0.97%)	vSphere
7	6 (0.97%)	XenApp
8	5 (0.81%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	5 (0.81%)	NFS
9	4 (0.64%)	Microsoft App-V
9	4 (0.64%)	XenDesktop
10	3 (0.48%)	DFS Replication
10	3 (0.48%)	Virtual Machines
11	2 (0.32%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	71 (11.43%)	Ansible
2	65 (10.47%)	Opscode Chef
3	59 (9.50%)	Puppet
4	25 (4.03%)	Kubernetes
5	23 (3.70%)	Terraform
6	20 (3.22%)	Salt
6	20 (3.22%)	SCCM
7	17 (2.74%)	Nagios
8	15 (2.42%)	SCOM
9	14 (2.25%)	Kibana
9	14 (2.25%)	logstash
10	10 (1.61%)	Failover Clustering
11	8 (1.29%)	Graphite
12	7 (1.13%)	Cisco Prime
12	7 (1.13%)	Grafana
13	6 (0.97%)	CFEngine
13	6 (0.97%)	Hadoop YARN
13	6 (0.97%)	SELinux
14	5 (0.81%)	Cacti
14	5 (0.81%)	SolarWinds Orion

Vendors
1	77 (12.40%)	Microsoft
2	71 (11.43%)	Oracle
3	56 (9.02%)	Cisco
4	50 (8.05%)	VMware
5	43 (6.92%)	Citrix
6	37 (5.96%)	HP
7	35 (5.64%)	IBM
8	28 (4.51%)	Red Hat
9	19 (3.06%)	Reuters
10	18 (2.90%)	ATG
11	13 (2.09%)	Dell
12	12 (1.93%)	Bloomberg
12	12 (1.93%)	Splunk
13	11 (1.77%)	Juniper
13	11 (1.77%)	Palo Alto
13	11 (1.77%)	TIBCO
14	9 (1.45%)	AppDynamics
14	9 (1.45%)	F5
14	9 (1.45%)	Hortonworks
15	8 (1.29%)	Cloudera