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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 137 234
Rank change year-on-year -33 +97 -11
Contract jobs citing High Availability 332 280 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 2.06% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.23% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 196 121
10th Percentile £346 £401 £300
25th Percentile £425 £474 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £647 £706 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £56.18 - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +181.66% +11.13% -68.27%
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - £27.38 -
England median hourly rate £57.77 £27.00 £43.15
% change year-on-year +113.94% -37.43% -37.46%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -17 43 £475 -26.92% 13
South London -21 7 £661 +5.80% 1
East London 0 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 18 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.52%) Confluence
2 15 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.81%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.90%) JBoss
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.60%) Drupal
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.60%) WordPress
6 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.30%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.30%) Mule
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.90%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.60%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.30%) Eikon
5 1 (0.30%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 113 (34.04%) Azure
2 102 (30.72%) AWS
3 42 (12.65%) GCP
4 33 (9.94%) Entra ID
5 31 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (8.73%) GitHub
7 25 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (4.82%) Serverless
10 15 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (3.92%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (3.31%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.01%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.54%) Firewall
2 34 (10.24%) DNS
3 24 (7.23%) Network Security
4 23 (6.93%) VPN
5 17 (5.12%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.82%) DHCP
7 13 (3.92%) WAN
8 12 (3.61%) SSL
9 9 (2.71%) BGP
9 9 (2.71%) HTTP
9 9 (2.71%) LAN
10 8 (2.41%) 5G
10 8 (2.41%) NAS
10 8 (2.41%) OSPF
10 8 (2.41%) SAN
11 7 (2.11%) Internet
11 7 (2.11%) LTE
11 7 (2.11%) Multicast
12 6 (1.81%) 4G
12 6 (1.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.94%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.12%) Data Lake
4 15 (4.52%) Delta Lake
5 14 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.31%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.81%) Metadata
9 6 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.51%) Big Data
10 5 (1.51%) MySQL
11 4 (1.20%) Power BI
12 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.90%) KDB
Development Applications
1 33 (9.94%) Git
2 26 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.12%) JIRA
4 14 (4.22%) GitLab
5 7 (2.11%) JUnit
6 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.60%) Gradle
6 2 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.60%) Maven
6 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.30%) MLflow
7 1 (0.30%) Mockito
7 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.30%) Subversion
7 1 (0.30%) Toad
General
1 92 (27.71%) Finance
2 78 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.65%) Banking
4 27 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.42%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.61%) Front Office
7 10 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.71%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.81%) Retail
11 4 (1.20%) Billing
11 4 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Publishing
13 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (13.55%) Architect
1 45 (13.55%) Senior
2 37 (11.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (10.54%) Developer
4 25 (7.53%) DBA
5 18 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (4.52%) Lead
8 14 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.22%) Data Engineer
9 13 (3.92%) SQL DBA
10 12 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.61%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.71%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.41%) Consultant
13 8 (2.41%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (2.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.23%) Kafka
1 24 (7.23%) REST
2 21 (6.33%) Spring
3 17 (5.12%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.22%) .NET
5 11 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (3.01%) OAuth
7 9 (2.71%) LDAP
7 9 (2.71%) Middleware
8 8 (2.41%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.41%) Node.js
8 8 (2.41%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.41%) PySpark
9 7 (2.11%) OpenID
9 7 (2.11%) RESTful
10 6 (1.81%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.81%) SAML
11 5 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.02%) Replication
4 19 (5.72%) Data Centre
4 19 (5.72%) Onboarding
5 18 (5.42%) Clustering
6 16 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (3.61%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.01%) PKI
9 10 (3.01%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.81%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (16.87%) Linux
2 49 (14.76%) Windows
3 16 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.31%) Unix
5 8 (2.41%) VMS
6 7 (2.11%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.51%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.20%) SUSE
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Android
10 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.30%) Debian
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Rocky
10 1 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (40.06%) CI/CD
2 121 (36.45%) DevOps
3 96 (28.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (24.40%) Disaster Recovery
5 55 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (16.27%) Migration
7 52 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (15.06%) Observability
9 47 (14.16%) Containerisation
10 46 (13.86%) Agile
11 44 (13.25%) Performance Tuning
12 40 (12.05%) Microservices
13 38 (11.45%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (11.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 34 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (9.64%) Analytics
16 30 (9.04%) Test Automation
17 29 (8.73%) Roadmaps
17 29 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
18 25 (7.53%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 82 (24.70%) Python
2 61 (18.37%) SQL
3 50 (15.06%) PowerShell
4 49 (14.76%) Java
5 26 (7.83%) Bash
6 14 (4.22%) Bicep
7 11 (3.31%) C#
7 11 (3.31%) Scala
7 11 (3.31%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.41%) C++
8 8 (2.41%) Go
9 6 (1.81%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.51%) C
10 5 (1.51%) Groovy
10 5 (1.51%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.20%) Perl
11 4 (1.20%) Rust
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
12 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 76 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.73%) Azure Certification
4 20 (6.02%) Degree
5 15 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.22%) CCNP
7 13 (3.92%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.01%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.51%) CCNA
12 5 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.20%) MCITP
13 4 (1.20%) MCTS
14 3 (0.90%) CISSP
15 2 (0.60%) CISM
15 2 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.72%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.92%) QA
3 9 (2.71%) GDPR
4 7 (2.11%) GRC
4 7 (2.11%) SLA
5 6 (1.81%) NIST
6 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.20%) SEPA
8 3 (0.90%) DICOM
8 3 (0.90%) HL7
8 3 (0.90%) NCSC
8 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 55 (16.57%) Active Directory
2 42 (12.65%) Docker
3 25 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.31%) vSphere
5 10 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.11%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.51%) Firmware
8 5 (1.51%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.60%) HDFS
9 2 (0.60%) KVM
9 2 (0.60%) NFS
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.60%) UAG
10 1 (0.30%) Ceph
10 1 (0.30%) RACF
10 1 (0.30%) Samba
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (28.61%) Terraform
2 77 (23.19%) Kubernetes
3 28 (8.43%) Ansible
4 26 (7.83%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.53%) Grafana
6 11 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.31%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Clustering
8 7 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (2.11%) Puppet
9 6 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.51%) Argo
10 5 (1.51%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.20%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.20%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.20%) SCOM
11 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.20%) VxRail
12 3 (0.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.64%) Oracle
2 32 (9.64%) VMware
3 20 (6.02%) Splunk
4 18 (5.42%) Databricks
5 17 (5.12%) Cisco
6 16 (4.82%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.71%) Ericsson
7 9 (2.71%) IBM
7 9 (2.71%) Nokia
8 7 (2.11%) Apple
8 7 (2.11%) F5
8 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.81%) Remedy
10 5 (1.51%) Dell
10 5 (1.51%) Infoblox
10 5 (1.51%) Red Box
10 5 (1.51%) Solace
10 5 (1.51%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto