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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 148 205
Rank change year-on-year -19 +57 +13
Contract jobs citing High Availability 352 253 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.89% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.05% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 179 135
10th Percentile £320 £413 £262
25th Percentile £425 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £609 £700 £641
90th Percentile £700 £775 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £63.90 £24.50 £22.26
25th Percentile £74.63 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.23 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +262.25% +10.19% -71.26%
75th Percentile £97.50 £26.45 -
90th Percentile - £27.23 £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 17,877 12,367 14,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.52% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,164 9,655
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 309 250 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -9 48 £475 -26.92% 56
South London -6 10 £550 -25.42%
East London +2 2 £545 +85.53% 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 (5.11%) Confluence
2 14 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.85%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.57%) Eikon
4 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.57%) 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
1 112 (31.82%) AWS
2 109 (30.97%) Azure
3 44 (12.50%) GCP
4 38 (10.80%) Entra ID
5 32 (9.09%) GitHub
6 31 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (6.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (5.40%) Serverless
10 16 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.26%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.98%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.41%) AWS KMS
15 11 (3.13%) OpenShift
16 9 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.36%) DNS
1 40 (11.36%) Firewall
2 27 (7.67%) Network Security
3 23 (6.53%) DHCP
3 23 (6.53%) VPN
4 18 (5.11%) TCP/IP
5 15 (4.26%) BGP
6 14 (3.98%) WAN
7 12 (3.41%) SSL
8 11 (3.13%) LAN
9 10 (2.84%) SAN
10 9 (2.56%) VLAN
10 9 (2.56%) Wireless
11 8 (2.27%) 4G
11 8 (2.27%) Internet
11 8 (2.27%) Multicast
11 8 (2.27%) NAS
11 8 (2.27%) OSPF
12 6 (1.70%) 5G
12 6 (1.70%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (4.26%) MySQL
6 14 (3.98%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.84%) Metadata
8 10 (2.84%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.56%) Redis
9 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (2.27%) Power BI
11 6 (1.70%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.42%) Big Data
12 5 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.42%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.39%) Git
3 23 (6.53%) GitLab
4 20 (5.68%) JIRA
5 5 (1.42%) JUnit
6 4 (1.14%) Maven
7 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
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%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 107 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.27%) Finance
3 52 (14.77%) Banking
4 35 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.25%) Front Office
7 15 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.13%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.70%) Billing
11 5 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.42%) Legal
11 5 (1.42%) Retail
12 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.14%) Law
13 3 (0.85%) Local Government
14 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Games
14 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (15.34%) Senior
2 53 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (11.65%) Architect
4 37 (10.51%) DBA
5 29 (8.24%) Developer
6 21 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (5.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.11%) Administrator
8 18 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.26%) Lead
10 14 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.41%) Applications Support
11 12 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.13%) Consultant
12 11 (3.13%) IT Support
12 11 (3.13%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.13%) SQL DBA
13 10 (2.84%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (28.41%) Terraform
2 25 (7.10%) Kafka
3 22 (6.25%) REST
4 16 (4.55%) Spring
5 14 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (3.98%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.13%) LDAP
6 11 (3.13%) Middleware
7 10 (2.84%) SOAP
8 9 (2.56%) .NET
8 9 (2.56%) OAuth
9 8 (2.27%) OpenID
10 7 (1.99%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.99%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.70%) JDBC
11 6 (1.70%) RESTful
11 6 (1.70%) SAML
11 6 (1.70%) YAML
12 5 (1.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.80%) Replication
3 29 (8.24%) Clustering
4 27 (7.67%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.82%) Data Centre
6 22 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (4.83%) PKI
8 16 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (3.41%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.84%) Product Ownership
12 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
12 8 (2.27%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (2.27%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 64 (18.18%) Linux
1 64 (18.18%) Windows
2 19 (5.40%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.98%) Unix
4 11 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.56%) VMS
6 7 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.14%) SUSE
9 3 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.85%) zOS
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) Android
11 1 (0.28%) Debian
11 1 (0.28%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (40.34%) CI/CD
2 119 (33.81%) DevOps
3 104 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (23.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 71 (20.17%) Migration
6 65 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (16.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 56 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.63%) Observability
11 51 (14.49%) Containerisation
11 51 (14.49%) Performance Tuning
12 49 (13.92%) Agile
13 46 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (11.65%) Test Automation
15 38 (10.80%) Incident Management
16 35 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 35 (9.94%) Microservices
17 34 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
18 32 (9.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (21.31%) Python
2 63 (17.90%) PowerShell
3 56 (15.91%) SQL
4 49 (13.92%) Java
5 25 (7.10%) Bash
6 17 (4.83%) Bicep
7 9 (2.56%) Go
7 9 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.99%) Groovy
10 6 (1.70%) C#
10 6 (1.70%) C++
10 6 (1.70%) Perl
11 5 (1.42%) Scala
11 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.14%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.14%) C
12 4 (1.14%) Rust
13 2 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 101 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 88 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.24%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.40%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.11%) Degree
6 15 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.69%) CCNP
8 12 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.27%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.70%) CCNA
11 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.57%) CISM
13 2 (0.57%) CISSP
13 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.57%) PMP
13 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.11%) QA
2 16 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.98%) GDPR
4 9 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.56%) NIST
5 7 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.70%) GRC
6 6 (1.70%) SEPA
7 5 (1.42%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.14%) SLA
9 3 (0.85%) NCSC
10 2 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.57%) PSD2
11 1 (0.28%) DICOM
11 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (16.48%) Active Directory
2 43 (12.22%) Docker
3 34 (9.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.55%) vSphere
5 12 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.84%) Firmware
8 4 (1.14%) NFS
8 4 (1.14%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.57%) HDFS
9 2 (0.57%) KVM
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.57%) RACF
9 2 (0.57%) UAG
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) ACF2
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
Systems Management
1 70 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.51%) Grafana
3 33 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 32 (9.09%) Ansible
5 15 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (3.41%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (2.84%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (2.27%) SCCM
9 7 (1.99%) Puppet
10 6 (1.70%) SCOM
10 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.42%) Argo
11 5 (1.42%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (1.42%) Kibana
12 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.14%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.14%) PingFederate
12 4 (1.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.08%) VMware
3 29 (8.24%) Oracle
4 26 (7.39%) Cisco
5 24 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.97%) Splunk
7 14 (3.98%) IBM
8 10 (2.84%) Databricks
8 10 (2.84%) Google
9 9 (2.56%) SAP
10 8 (2.27%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.27%) Ericsson
10 8 (2.27%) Nokia
11 7 (1.99%) Apple
11 7 (1.99%) BMC
11 7 (1.99%) Dell
11 7 (1.99%) Remedy
11 7 (1.99%) Solace
12 6 (1.70%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.70%) F5