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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 162 189
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 +19
Contract jobs citing High Availability 357 235 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.75% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.90% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 170 138
10th Percentile £333 £384 £316
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £736 £796 £766
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile - £23.90 £22.64
25th Percentile £92.50 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% +9.24% -72.46%
75th Percentile £97.50 £26.50 -
90th Percentile - £27.40 £46.66
England median hourly rate £26.72 £27.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.04% -1.82% -56.35%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
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 £664 £663 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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
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 8 October 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 -6 49 £475 -26.92% 51
South London -5 11 £550 -25.42% 2
West London -20 5 £740 -1.33% 5
East London +2 2 £545 +85.53% 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 14 (3.92%) Confluence
1 14 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.84%) JBoss
5 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) Camunda
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%) Mule
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.56%) Eikon
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.56%) 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
1 114 (31.93%) AWS
2 108 (30.25%) Azure
3 48 (13.45%) GCP
4 34 (9.52%) GitHub
5 32 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (8.96%) Entra ID
6 26 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 25 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (5.60%) Serverless
11 16 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (4.48%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.64%) AWS KMS
13 12 (3.36%) OpenShift
14 11 (3.08%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.52%) DNS
1 34 (9.52%) Firewall
2 25 (7.00%) Network Security
3 20 (5.60%) DHCP
4 19 (5.32%) VPN
5 17 (4.76%) BGP
6 16 (4.48%) TCP/IP
7 12 (3.36%) WAN
8 10 (2.80%) 4G
8 10 (2.80%) LAN
9 9 (2.52%) Internet
9 9 (2.52%) Multicast
9 9 (2.52%) OSPF
9 9 (2.52%) SAN
9 9 (2.52%) Wireless
10 7 (1.96%) 5G
10 7 (1.96%) LTE
10 7 (1.96%) NAS
10 7 (1.96%) SSL
11 6 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 34 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.20%) MySQL
5 13 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.08%) Redis
7 10 (2.80%) Oracle Database
7 10 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (2.52%) Power BI
8 9 (2.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.96%) Big Data
10 7 (1.96%) Metadata
10 7 (1.96%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.68%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.68%) SAP HANA
12 5 (1.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.56%) GitLab
3 25 (7.00%) Git
4 16 (4.48%) JIRA
5 5 (1.40%) JUnit
6 4 (1.12%) Maven
7 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) Flyway
9 1 (0.28%) GCC
9 1 (0.28%) GDB
9 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 114 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 100 (28.01%) Finance
3 58 (16.25%) Banking
4 38 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.08%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.72%) Front Office
7 14 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.64%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.68%) Billing
10 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.40%) Legal
12 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.12%) Law
13 3 (0.84%) Local Government
13 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.84%) Retail
14 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 54 (15.13%) Senior
2 53 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (12.61%) Architect
4 38 (10.64%) DBA
5 26 (7.28%) Developer
6 19 (5.32%) Administrator
6 19 (5.32%) Support Engineer
7 18 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (4.20%) Applications Support
10 15 (4.20%) Lead
11 13 (3.64%) Network Engineer
12 12 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.36%) Consultant
12 12 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.08%) Applications Support Manager
13 11 (3.08%) IT Support
13 11 (3.08%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (27.73%) Terraform
2 27 (7.56%) Kafka
3 25 (7.00%) REST
4 15 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (4.20%) Spring
5 13 (3.64%) Middleware
5 13 (3.64%) SOAP
5 13 (3.64%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.52%) .NET
7 8 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (1.96%) JDBC
8 7 (1.96%) LDAP
9 6 (1.68%) JSON
9 6 (1.68%) RESTful
9 6 (1.68%) SAP Basis
9 6 (1.68%) XML
9 6 (1.68%) YAML
10 5 (1.40%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (1.40%) SAP PI
10 5 (1.40%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.36%) Replication
3 26 (7.28%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.28%) Onboarding
4 24 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.88%) Clustering
6 17 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.20%) PKI
8 13 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (3.08%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.08%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.52%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.24%) Enterprise Storage
12 8 (2.24%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 5 (1.40%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.21%) Linux
2 61 (17.09%) Windows
3 20 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.76%) Unix
5 7 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.40%) VMS
7 4 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.84%) zOS
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) MVS
10 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (40.90%) CI/CD
2 122 (34.17%) DevOps
3 108 (30.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (24.93%) Disaster Recovery
5 78 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (19.89%) Migration
6 71 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (15.97%) Root Cause Analysis
8 56 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
9 54 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (14.85%) Observability
11 52 (14.57%) Agile
12 51 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 49 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (11.48%) Test Automation
15 40 (11.20%) Incident Management
16 37 (10.36%) Performance Optimisation
17 36 (10.08%) Microservices
17 36 (10.08%) Roadmaps
18 35 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (21.85%) Python
2 63 (17.65%) SQL
3 61 (17.09%) PowerShell
4 43 (12.04%) Java
5 32 (8.96%) Bash
6 18 (5.04%) Bicep
7 9 (2.52%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.24%) Go
9 7 (1.96%) C++
9 7 (1.96%) Groovy
9 7 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.68%) Perl
10 6 (1.68%) Scala
11 5 (1.40%) C#
11 5 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.12%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.12%) C
12 4 (1.12%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 88 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.28%) Azure Certification
4 20 (5.60%) AWS Certification
5 19 (5.32%) Degree
6 16 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.92%) CCNP
8 13 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.24%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.68%) CCNA
11 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.56%) CCIE
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.32%) QA
3 9 (2.52%) GDPR
3 9 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.24%) NIST
5 7 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.68%) GRC
6 6 (1.68%) SEPA
7 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.12%) SLA
9 3 (0.84%) NCSC
10 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.56%) PSD2
11 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (14.85%) Active Directory
2 47 (13.17%) Docker
3 31 (8.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.36%) vSphere
5 8 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.96%) Firmware
6 7 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.12%) HDFS
7 4 (1.12%) NFS
7 4 (1.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.56%) KVM
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.56%) RACF
8 2 (0.56%) UAG
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.28%) ACF2
9 1 (0.28%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 72 (20.17%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.36%) Grafana
3 33 (9.24%) Ansible
4 30 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (2.24%) Puppet
7 8 (2.24%) SCCM
8 7 (1.96%) Kibana
9 6 (1.68%) Argo
9 6 (1.68%) SCOM
9 6 (1.68%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.40%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.12%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.12%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.84%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.84%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 71 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.80%) VMware
3 28 (7.84%) Oracle
4 26 (7.28%) Cisco
5 22 (6.16%) Splunk
6 19 (5.32%) IBM
6 19 (5.32%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.20%) Google
8 13 (3.64%) SAP
9 10 (2.80%) Databricks
10 9 (2.52%) Ericsson
10 9 (2.52%) Nokia
11 8 (2.24%) Bloomberg
11 8 (2.24%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.96%) Apple
12 7 (1.96%) BMC
12 7 (1.96%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.96%) Remedy
12 7 (1.96%) Solace
13 6 (1.68%) Red Hat