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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 142 236
Rank change year-on-year -18 +94 -14
Contract jobs citing High Availability 363 272 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.02% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.19% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 196 114
10th Percentile £350 £413 £300
25th Percentile £425 £474 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £634
90th Percentile £715 £775 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £61.40 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £84.75 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +220.42% +11.13% -69.84%
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - £27.38 £61.90
England median hourly rate £55.25 £27.00 £43.15
% change year-on-year +104.63% -37.43% -31.51%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -8 42 £475 -26.92% 16
South London -7 10 £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 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.68%) Confluence
3 14 (3.86%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.65%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.83%) JBoss
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) Camunda
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%) MTS
8 1 (0.28%) Mule
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.28%) Eikon
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
5 1 (0.28%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 124 (34.16%) Azure
2 108 (29.75%) AWS
3 38 (10.47%) Entra ID
3 38 (10.47%) GCP
4 37 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (9.09%) GitHub
6 26 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (5.23%) Serverless
8 19 (5.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (4.41%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (3.58%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.31%) OpenShift
14 11 (3.03%) AWS KMS
15 10 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.57%) DNS
2 36 (9.92%) Firewall
3 23 (6.34%) DHCP
3 23 (6.34%) Network Security
3 23 (6.34%) VPN
4 19 (5.23%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.86%) WAN
6 12 (3.31%) LAN
6 12 (3.31%) SSL
7 10 (2.75%) SAN
8 9 (2.48%) 4G
8 9 (2.48%) BGP
8 9 (2.48%) HTTP
8 9 (2.48%) NAS
8 9 (2.48%) Wireless
9 8 (2.20%) 5G
9 8 (2.20%) LTE
9 8 (2.20%) OSPF
10 7 (1.93%) Internet
10 7 (1.93%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.85%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (3.86%) MySQL
6 11 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.75%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.48%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.48%) Redis
8 9 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.20%) Power BI
10 7 (1.93%) Big Data
10 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.65%) Metadata
12 5 (1.38%) KDB
13 4 (1.10%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 32 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 31 (8.54%) Git
3 20 (5.51%) GitLab
4 19 (5.23%) 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%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 104 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.00%) Finance
3 50 (13.77%) Banking
4 35 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.96%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.86%) Front Office
8 11 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.75%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.38%) Retail
12 4 (1.10%) Billing
12 4 (1.10%) Legal
13 3 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Publishing
14 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (14.05%) Senior
2 49 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (11.85%) Architect
4 38 (10.47%) DBA
5 34 (9.37%) Developer
6 20 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (4.96%) Administrator
7 18 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.41%) Lead
9 16 (4.41%) SQL DBA
10 13 (3.58%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.03%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Applications Support
13 10 (2.75%) Consultant
14 9 (2.48%) Network Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (30.58%) Terraform
2 27 (7.44%) Kafka
3 26 (7.16%) REST
4 19 (5.23%) Spring
5 15 (4.13%) Spring Boot
6 14 (3.86%) .NET
7 13 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (3.03%) LDAP
9 10 (2.75%) OAuth
10 9 (2.48%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.48%) Middleware
11 8 (2.20%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.20%) RESTful
12 7 (1.93%) Node.js
12 7 (1.93%) OpenID
12 7 (1.93%) SOAP
13 6 (1.65%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.65%) SAML
13 6 (1.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.54%) Replication
3 28 (7.71%) Clustering
4 25 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (6.89%) Onboarding
5 21 (5.79%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.13%) PKI
8 14 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (3.31%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.48%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.36%) Linux
1 63 (17.36%) Windows
2 23 (6.34%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.58%) Unix
4 11 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.03%) VMS
5 7 (1.93%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.10%) SUSE
8 3 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.28%) Debian
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (40.22%) CI/CD
2 128 (35.26%) DevOps
3 116 (31.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (27.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 62 (17.08%) Migration
6 61 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (15.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 55 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (14.88%) Performance Tuning
10 52 (14.33%) Agile
10 52 (14.33%) Observability
11 50 (13.77%) Containerisation
12 40 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (10.74%) Microservices
14 38 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (9.92%) Test Automation
16 34 (9.37%) Incident Management
16 34 (9.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 34 (9.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (22.87%) Python
2 69 (19.01%) PowerShell
3 66 (18.18%) SQL
4 51 (14.05%) Java
5 30 (8.26%) Bash
6 19 (5.23%) Bicep
7 11 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.48%) C#
8 9 (2.48%) Go
9 8 (2.20%) C++
10 6 (1.65%) Groovy
10 6 (1.65%) Scala
10 6 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.38%) C
11 5 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.38%) Perl
12 4 (1.10%) Rust
13 3 (0.83%) Ruby
13 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.55%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 108 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.54%) Azure Certification
4 23 (6.34%) Degree
5 19 (5.23%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.86%) CCNP
8 12 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.20%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.93%) CCNA
12 4 (1.10%) MCITP
12 4 (1.10%) MCTS
13 3 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.55%) CISSP
14 2 (0.55%) VCAP
14 2 (0.55%) VCDX
14 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.23%) Data Quality
1 19 (5.23%) QA
2 12 (3.31%) GDPR
3 8 (2.20%) SLA
4 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.93%) NIST
5 6 (1.65%) GRC
5 6 (1.65%) SEPA
6 5 (1.38%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.83%) DICOM
7 3 (0.83%) HL7
7 3 (0.83%) NCSC
7 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 66 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 44 (12.12%) Docker
3 34 (9.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.41%) vSphere
5 11 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.75%) 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%) NFS
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%) RACF
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.82%) Ansible
3 31 (8.54%) Grafana
3 31 (8.54%) Prometheus
4 17 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft Clustering
6 11 (3.03%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (1.93%) Puppet
9 6 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.65%) Argo
9 6 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (1.38%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.38%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.38%) SCCM
10 5 (1.38%) SCOM
10 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.10%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.29%) VMware
3 31 (8.54%) Oracle
4 21 (5.79%) Splunk
5 19 (5.23%) Cisco
6 18 (4.96%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.86%) Databricks
8 11 (3.03%) IBM
9 10 (2.75%) Ericsson
9 10 (2.75%) Nokia
9 10 (2.75%) Remedy
10 7 (1.93%) Apple
10 7 (1.93%) BMC
10 7 (1.93%) F5
10 7 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.93%) SAP
11 6 (1.65%) Dell
11 6 (1.65%) Google
11 6 (1.65%) Solace
12 5 (1.38%) Red Box