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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 142 212
Rank change year-on-year -22 +70 +3
Contract jobs citing High Availability 360 256 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.91% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.06% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 181 126
10th Percentile £350 £420 £262
25th Percentile £425 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £642
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £63.90 - £22.26
25th Percentile £74.63 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +259.17% +11.13% -71.26%
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - £27.38 £54.28
England median hourly rate £55.50 £26.45 £42.90
% change year-on-year +109.83% -38.34% -31.90%

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 18,089 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,828 8,226 9,619
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 £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 300 251 180
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -14 50 £475 -26.92% 56
South London -6 11 £550 -12.00%
East London +1 3 £500 +70.21% 4
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.83%) JBoss
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.56%) Eikon
5 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.28%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 116 (32.22%) AWS
2 114 (31.67%) Azure
3 46 (12.78%) GCP
4 37 (10.28%) Entra ID
5 32 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (8.89%) GitHub
6 23 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (6.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 22 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (5.56%) Serverless
10 16 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.17%) Amazon S3
11 15 (4.17%) Azure AKS
12 13 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.33%) AWS KMS
13 12 (3.33%) OpenShift
14 9 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.94%) Firewall
2 41 (11.39%) DNS
3 28 (7.78%) Network Security
4 24 (6.67%) VPN
5 22 (6.11%) DHCP
6 19 (5.28%) TCP/IP
7 16 (4.44%) BGP
8 14 (3.89%) WAN
9 13 (3.61%) SSL
10 11 (3.06%) LAN
11 10 (2.78%) SAN
12 9 (2.50%) OSPF
12 9 (2.50%) VLAN
12 9 (2.50%) Wireless
13 8 (2.22%) 4G
13 8 (2.22%) Internet
13 8 (2.22%) Multicast
13 8 (2.22%) NAS
14 7 (1.94%) HTTP
15 6 (1.67%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.44%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.17%) MySQL
6 12 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (2.78%) Metadata
7 10 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.50%) Redis
8 9 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.22%) Power BI
10 6 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.39%) Big Data
11 5 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.22%) Git
3 23 (6.39%) GitLab
4 20 (5.56%) 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%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Flyway
9 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 108 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 99 (27.50%) Finance
3 53 (14.72%) Banking
4 35 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.83%) Front Office
7 16 (4.44%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.67%) Billing
10 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.39%) Legal
10 5 (1.39%) Retail
11 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.83%) Law
12 3 (0.83%) Publishing
13 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Games
13 2 (0.56%) Local Government
13 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 54 (15.00%) Senior
2 42 (11.67%) Architect
3 37 (10.28%) DBA
4 32 (8.89%) Developer
5 21 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (5.28%) Administrator
6 19 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (4.72%) Support Engineer
8 15 (4.17%) Lead
9 14 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.33%) Applications Support
12 11 (3.06%) Consultant
12 11 (3.06%) IT Support
12 11 (3.06%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.06%) SQL DBA
13 10 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (29.17%) Terraform
2 28 (7.78%) Kafka
3 26 (7.22%) REST
4 17 (4.72%) Spring
5 15 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.06%) LDAP
6 11 (3.06%) Middleware
7 10 (2.78%) .NET
7 10 (2.78%) OAuth
7 10 (2.78%) SOAP
8 8 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.22%) OpenID
9 7 (1.94%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.94%) RESTful
10 6 (1.67%) JDBC
10 6 (1.67%) SAML
10 6 (1.67%) YAML
11 5 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.11%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.83%) Replication
3 28 (7.78%) Data Centre
4 27 (7.50%) Clustering
4 27 (7.50%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (4.44%) PKI
7 15 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.50%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.50%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 67 (18.61%) Linux
2 62 (17.22%) Windows
3 18 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.44%) Unix
5 12 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.50%) VMS
7 7 (1.94%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (1.11%) SUSE
10 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.83%) zOS
11 2 (0.56%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.28%) Debian
12 1 (0.28%) MVS
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (40.83%) CI/CD
2 127 (35.28%) DevOps
3 109 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (23.61%) Disaster Recovery
5 74 (20.56%) Migration
6 66 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
9 58 (16.11%) Observability
10 56 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (15.28%) Containerisation
12 51 (14.17%) Agile
13 50 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
14 45 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (11.39%) Test Automation
16 39 (10.83%) Incident Management
17 37 (10.28%) Microservices
18 35 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 34 (9.44%) Platform Engineering
20 32 (8.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.22%) Python
2 63 (17.50%) PowerShell
3 56 (15.56%) SQL
4 50 (13.89%) Java
5 28 (7.78%) Bash
6 17 (4.72%) Bicep
7 10 (2.78%) Go
7 10 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.22%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.94%) C#
9 7 (1.94%) Groovy
9 7 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.67%) C++
10 6 (1.67%) Perl
11 4 (1.11%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.11%) C
11 4 (1.11%) Rust
11 4 (1.11%) Scala
11 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.56%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 105 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 92 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.78%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.28%) Degree
5 18 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.61%) CCNP
7 13 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.67%) CCNA
11 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.56%) CISM
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.56%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.00%) QA
2 16 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.89%) GDPR
4 9 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.50%) NIST
5 6 (1.67%) GRC
5 6 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
10 1 (0.28%) DICOM
10 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 57 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 46 (12.78%) Docker
3 34 (9.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.44%) vSphere
5 11 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.50%) Firmware
7 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.83%) NFS
9 2 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.56%) HDFS
9 2 (0.56%) KVM
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.56%) RACF
9 2 (0.56%) UAG
9 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) ACF2
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
Systems Management
1 77 (21.39%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.56%) Grafana
3 35 (9.72%) Prometheus
4 34 (9.44%) Ansible
5 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (2.78%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (2.22%) SCCM
9 7 (1.94%) Puppet
10 6 (1.67%) Argo
10 6 (1.67%) SCOM
10 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.11%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.11%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.11%) Kibana
12 4 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.83%) VMware
3 30 (8.33%) Oracle
4 26 (7.22%) Cisco
5 24 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 22 (6.11%) Splunk
7 14 (3.89%) IBM
8 10 (2.78%) Databricks
8 10 (2.78%) Google
8 10 (2.78%) Remedy
9 9 (2.50%) SAP
10 8 (2.22%) Ericsson
10 8 (2.22%) Nokia
10 8 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.94%) Apple
11 7 (1.94%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.94%) BMC
11 7 (1.94%) Dell
11 7 (1.94%) F5
11 7 (1.94%) Solace