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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 144 226
Rank change year-on-year -8 +82 -13
Contract jobs citing High Availability 362 270 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 2.00% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.17% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 195 118
10th Percentile £350 £413 £262
25th Percentile £425 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +8.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £642
90th Percentile £715 £775 £733
England median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
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 £26.73 £28.00
% change year-on-year +107.67% -4.55% -55.56%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -10 46 £470 -27.65% 19
South London -11 11 £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 (4.97%) Confluence
2 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.66%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.83%) JBoss
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Camunda
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.28%) Mule
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.55%) Eikon
4 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Temenos T24
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
Cloud Services
1 123 (33.98%) Azure
2 112 (30.94%) AWS
3 39 (10.77%) GCP
4 38 (10.50%) Entra ID
5 35 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (8.84%) GitHub
7 23 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (5.52%) Serverless
11 19 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (4.42%) Azure AKS
13 15 (4.14%) Amazon S3
13 15 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.31%) AWS KMS
15 12 (3.31%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (2.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.43%) Firewall
2 41 (11.33%) DNS
3 30 (8.29%) Network Security
4 24 (6.63%) VPN
5 23 (6.35%) DHCP
6 20 (5.52%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.70%) BGP
8 16 (4.42%) WAN
9 12 (3.31%) LAN
9 12 (3.31%) SSL
10 10 (2.76%) OSPF
10 10 (2.76%) SAN
11 9 (2.49%) 4G
11 9 (2.49%) HTTP
11 9 (2.49%) NAS
11 9 (2.49%) VLAN
11 9 (2.49%) Wireless
12 8 (2.21%) 5G
12 8 (2.21%) Internet
12 8 (2.21%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 34 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.70%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (4.14%) MySQL
7 11 (3.04%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.49%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.49%) Redis
8 9 (2.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.21%) Delta Lake
9 8 (2.21%) Power BI
10 7 (1.93%) Big Data
10 7 (1.93%) Metadata
10 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.38%) KDB
12 5 (1.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (8.84%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.01%) Git
3 21 (5.80%) GitLab
4 20 (5.52%) JIRA
5 5 (1.38%) JUnit
6 4 (1.10%) Maven
7 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.55%) Gradle
8 2 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Flyway
9 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 106 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 97 (26.80%) Finance
3 46 (12.71%) Banking
4 34 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.97%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.42%) Front Office
7 12 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.38%) Billing
9 5 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.38%) Legal
10 4 (1.10%) Retail
11 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.83%) Publishing
12 2 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.55%) Games
12 2 (0.55%) Law
12 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (14.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (14.09%) Senior
3 42 (11.60%) Architect
4 37 (10.22%) DBA
5 34 (9.39%) Developer
6 21 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (4.97%) Administrator
8 18 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.42%) Lead
9 16 (4.42%) Support Engineer
10 15 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.14%) SQL DBA
11 13 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.59%) Consultant
12 11 (3.04%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.76%) Applications Support
13 10 (2.76%) IT Support
13 10 (2.76%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (30.11%) Terraform
2 27 (7.46%) Kafka
2 27 (7.46%) REST
3 19 (5.25%) Spring
4 15 (4.14%) Spring Boot
5 13 (3.59%) .NET
5 13 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.04%) LDAP
7 10 (2.76%) OAuth
8 9 (2.49%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.49%) Middleware
9 8 (2.21%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.21%) RESTful
9 8 (2.21%) SOAP
10 7 (1.93%) Node.js
10 7 (1.93%) OpenID
11 6 (1.66%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.39%) Replication
3 27 (7.46%) Clustering
4 26 (7.18%) Data Centre
5 25 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (6.91%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.14%) PKI
8 12 (3.31%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.49%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.68%) Linux
1 64 (17.68%) Windows
2 22 (6.08%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.59%) Unix
4 11 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.04%) VMS
5 7 (1.93%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.10%) SUSE
8 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.55%) zOS
9 1 (0.28%) Android
9 1 (0.28%) Debian
9 1 (0.28%) MVS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.28%) Rocky
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (41.16%) CI/CD
2 129 (35.64%) DevOps
3 117 (32.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (24.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 69 (19.06%) Migration
6 63 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (15.75%) Root Cause Analysis
9 56 (15.47%) Observability
10 53 (14.64%) Agile
11 51 (14.09%) Containerisation
12 49 (13.54%) Performance Tuning
13 43 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (10.77%) Microservices
15 37 (10.22%) Test Automation
16 36 (9.94%) Incident Management
16 36 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
17 35 (9.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 32 (8.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (23.20%) Python
2 67 (18.51%) PowerShell
3 58 (16.02%) SQL
4 52 (14.36%) Java
5 29 (8.01%) Bash
6 19 (5.25%) Bicep
7 11 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.49%) C#
8 9 (2.49%) Go
9 7 (1.93%) C++
9 7 (1.93%) Groovy
10 6 (1.66%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.38%) Perl
12 4 (1.10%) C
12 4 (1.10%) Rust
12 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.83%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.55%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (29.56%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.69%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.29%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.08%) Degree
5 20 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.87%) CCNP
8 12 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.93%) CCNA
11 3 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.83%) MCITP
11 3 (0.83%) MCTS
12 2 (0.55%) CISM
12 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.55%) PMP
12 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.42%) Data Quality
1 16 (4.42%) QA
2 13 (3.59%) GDPR
3 8 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.21%) NIST
4 6 (1.66%) GRC
4 6 (1.66%) SEPA
5 5 (1.38%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) NCSC
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) DICOM
8 2 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.55%) HL7
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 62 (17.13%) Active Directory
2 45 (12.43%) Docker
3 33 (9.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.42%) vSphere
5 11 (3.04%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.93%) Firmware
8 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.55%) HDFS
9 2 (0.55%) KVM
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.55%) UAG
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) NFS
10 1 (0.28%) RACF
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (21.27%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.39%) Ansible
3 32 (8.84%) Grafana
3 32 (8.84%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (2.76%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (1.93%) Puppet
8 7 (1.93%) SCCM
9 6 (1.66%) Argo
9 6 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (1.66%) SCOM
10 5 (1.38%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.38%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.10%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (21.27%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.50%) VMware
3 30 (8.29%) Oracle
4 27 (7.46%) Cisco
5 22 (6.08%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.80%) Splunk
7 12 (3.31%) Databricks
7 12 (3.31%) IBM
8 10 (2.76%) Ericsson
8 10 (2.76%) Nokia
8 10 (2.76%) Remedy
9 8 (2.21%) SAP
10 7 (1.93%) Apple
10 7 (1.93%) BMC
10 7 (1.93%) Dell
10 7 (1.93%) F5
10 7 (1.93%) Google
10 7 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.93%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.66%) Fortinet