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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 139 257
Rank change year-on-year -21 +118 -39
Contract jobs citing High Availability 327 258 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.06% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.23% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 184 101
10th Percentile £350 £401 £300
25th Percentile £425 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £636 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
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 £55.50 £70.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year -20.71% +20.07% -12.99%

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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 37 £581 -7.00% 11
South London -8 9 £300 -52.00%
East London -3 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 23 (7.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.45%) Confluence
4 4 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.61%) Drupal
6 2 (0.61%) WordPress
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.31%) MTS
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.61%) BASE24
4 2 (0.61%) DELMIA
4 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (38.23%) Azure
2 115 (35.17%) AWS
3 40 (12.23%) Entra ID
4 39 (11.93%) GCP
5 33 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.17%) GitHub
7 28 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (5.81%) Serverless
10 17 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (4.89%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 10 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.15%) DNS
2 33 (10.09%) Firewall
3 28 (8.56%) DHCP
4 27 (8.26%) Network Security
5 19 (5.81%) VPN
6 16 (4.89%) WAN
7 14 (4.28%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.98%) Kerberos
9 9 (2.75%) HTTP
9 9 (2.75%) LAN
9 9 (2.75%) SSL
10 8 (2.45%) BGP
11 7 (2.14%) NAS
11 7 (2.14%) OSPF
11 7 (2.14%) SAN
11 7 (2.14%) VLAN
12 6 (1.83%) Internet
13 5 (1.53%) BIG-IP
13 5 (1.53%) HTTPS
13 5 (1.53%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.50%) Data Lake
4 17 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (5.20%) Delta Lake
5 14 (4.28%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.45%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.83%) Metadata
9 6 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.22%) MySQL
10 4 (1.22%) Power BI
11 3 (0.92%) Big Data
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.61%) KDB
12 2 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 32 (9.79%) Git
2 19 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.98%) JIRA
4 12 (3.67%) GitLab
5 5 (1.53%) JUnit
6 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.61%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Gradle
7 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) MLflow
7 1 (0.31%) Mockito
7 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 82 (25.08%) Finance
3 41 (12.54%) Banking
4 25 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.28%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.83%) Front Office
8 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.53%) Retail
10 4 (1.22%) Law
11 3 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.92%) Games
11 3 (0.92%) Legal
11 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (13.76%) Architect
2 39 (11.93%) Senior
3 34 (10.40%) Developer
4 32 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (7.34%) DBA
6 21 (6.42%) Lead
7 18 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (4.89%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Administrator
11 12 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.06%) SQL DBA
14 9 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.34%) Kafka
2 23 (7.03%) OAuth
3 22 (6.73%) LDAP
3 22 (6.73%) REST
4 20 (6.12%) Spring
5 19 (5.81%) SAML
6 18 (5.50%) Spring Boot
7 13 (3.98%) .NET
8 10 (3.06%) PySpark
8 10 (3.06%) RESTful
9 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.45%) Node.js
9 8 (2.45%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.14%) OpenID
11 6 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.53%) ARM Templates
12 5 (1.53%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.53%) Middleware
12 5 (1.53%) XML
13 4 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.56%) Replication
3 21 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.20%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.98%) Clustering
7 11 (3.36%) BYOD
8 10 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.45%) PKI
9 8 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.53%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.53%) SCADA
11 4 (1.22%) EMV
11 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.22%) NHS
11 4 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.68%) Windows
2 43 (13.15%) Linux
3 27 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.45%) Unix
6 7 (2.14%) VMS
7 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.22%) SUSE
7 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.61%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.31%) Debian
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Rocky
9 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (38.23%) CI/CD
2 118 (36.09%) DevOps
3 98 (29.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 55 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (14.98%) Migration
7 45 (13.76%) Containerisation
8 43 (13.15%) Agile
8 43 (13.15%) Performance Tuning
9 39 (11.93%) Microservices
10 37 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (11.31%) Observability
10 37 (11.31%) Root Cause Analysis
11 32 (9.79%) Analytics
11 32 (9.79%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (9.48%) Roadmaps
13 30 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (8.26%) RBAC
14 27 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (8.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.63%) Python
2 65 (19.88%) SQL
3 62 (18.96%) PowerShell
4 43 (13.15%) Java
5 23 (7.03%) Bash
6 13 (3.98%) Scala
7 11 (3.36%) Bicep
7 11 (3.36%) C#
8 10 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.83%) C++
9 6 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.53%) C
10 5 (1.53%) Go
10 5 (1.53%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.22%) Groovy
11 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.92%) Perl
12 3 (0.92%) Ruby
12 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 73 (22.32%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.87%) Azure Certification
4 26 (7.95%) Degree
5 18 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.67%) CCNP
8 9 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.75%) MCSE
9 8 (2.45%) MCSA
10 7 (2.14%) CCNA
10 7 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.22%) MCITP
12 4 (1.22%) MCTS
13 3 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.34%) GDPR
2 19 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.67%) QA
5 10 (3.06%) SLA
6 6 (1.83%) GRC
7 5 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.22%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.22%) NIST
8 4 (1.22%) SEPA
9 3 (0.92%) DICOM
9 3 (0.92%) HL7
9 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.92%) NCSC
10 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (18.04%) Active Directory
2 37 (11.31%) Docker
3 15 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.14%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.83%) vSphere
7 5 (1.53%) Firmware
7 5 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.31%) HDFS
10 1 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.31%) RACF
10 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (27.83%) Terraform
2 64 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.26%) Ansible
4 26 (7.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (5.20%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (4.89%) Grafana
6 16 (4.89%) Prometheus
7 14 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.14%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.53%) Argo
9 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (1.22%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.22%) PingFederate
10 4 (1.22%) Puppet
10 4 (1.22%) VxRail
11 3 (0.92%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.92%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 77 (23.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.09%) Oracle
3 23 (7.03%) Databricks
4 19 (5.81%) VMware
5 13 (3.98%) Cisco
5 13 (3.98%) Okta
5 13 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.98%) Splunk
6 8 (2.45%) Ericsson
6 8 (2.45%) Nokia
7 6 (1.83%) F5
7 6 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.53%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.53%) SAP
9 4 (1.22%) Apple
9 4 (1.22%) Dell
9 4 (1.22%) Huawei
9 4 (1.22%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.22%) Red Box