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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 162 197
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +15
Contract jobs citing High Availability 361 237 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.76% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.90% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 170 139
10th Percentile £350 £387 £281
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £645
90th Percentile £735 £796 £752
England median daily rate £507 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -5.45%
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 £26.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% -3.64% -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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £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 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 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 3 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 -9 50 £475 -26.92% 46
South London -5 11 £550 -25.42% 2
West London -29 4 £740 -1.33% 9
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 (3.88%) Confluence
2 13 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.83%) JBoss
6 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
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%) MTS
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.55%) Eikon
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
1 119 (32.96%) AWS
2 107 (29.64%) Azure
3 47 (13.02%) GCP
4 33 (9.14%) GitHub
5 32 (8.86%) Entra ID
6 31 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 24 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (4.99%) Serverless
13 17 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (4.16%) Amazon S3
15 13 (3.60%) AWS KMS
16 12 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (3.32%) OpenShift
17 11 (3.05%) Azure AKS
18 10 (2.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 9 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.25%) DNS
2 34 (9.42%) Firewall
3 25 (6.93%) Network Security
4 23 (6.37%) DHCP
5 20 (5.54%) VPN
6 16 (4.43%) BGP
6 16 (4.43%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.60%) WAN
8 11 (3.05%) LAN
9 10 (2.77%) SAN
10 9 (2.49%) Internet
10 9 (2.49%) Multicast
10 9 (2.49%) Wireless
11 8 (2.22%) 4G
11 8 (2.22%) NAS
11 8 (2.22%) OSPF
12 7 (1.94%) SSL
12 7 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.66%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (1.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
1 35 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (4.43%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.43%) MySQL
5 12 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (3.05%) Redis
7 10 (2.77%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.77%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.22%) Power BI
10 6 (1.66%) Big Data
10 6 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.66%) Metadata
10 6 (1.66%) SAP HANA
11 5 (1.39%) Apache Hive
11 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.48%) Git
3 26 (7.20%) GitLab
4 17 (4.71%) JIRA
5 5 (1.39%) JUnit
6 4 (1.11%) Maven
7 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.55%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
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%) Subversion
General
1 113 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.15%) Finance
3 57 (15.79%) Banking
4 37 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.65%) Front Office
7 13 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.66%) Billing
9 6 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.39%) Legal
11 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.11%) Law
12 3 (0.83%) Local Government
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.83%) Retail
13 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.28%) Advertising
14 1 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 55 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (14.68%) Senior
3 46 (12.74%) Architect
4 39 (10.80%) DBA
5 29 (8.03%) Developer
6 19 (5.26%) Administrator
6 19 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 17 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (4.16%) Lead
9 14 (3.88%) Applications Support
9 14 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.60%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.05%) Consultant
12 11 (3.05%) IT Support
12 11 (3.05%) Senior DBA
12 11 (3.05%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (27.42%) Terraform
2 28 (7.76%) Kafka
3 24 (6.65%) REST
4 15 (4.16%) Spring
5 14 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (3.60%) Middleware
6 13 (3.60%) SOAP
6 13 (3.60%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.49%) .NET
8 8 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.94%) JDBC
9 7 (1.94%) LDAP
10 6 (1.66%) JSON
10 6 (1.66%) RESTful
10 6 (1.66%) SAP Basis
10 6 (1.66%) XML
10 6 (1.66%) YAML
11 5 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
11 5 (1.39%) SAP PI
11 5 (1.39%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.62%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.97%) Replication
3 26 (7.20%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.20%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.82%) Clustering
6 18 (4.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (4.43%) PKI
9 12 (3.32%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (3.05%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.77%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Storage
12 9 (2.49%) Virtual Team
13 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.01%) Linux
2 62 (17.17%) Windows
3 21 (5.82%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.71%) Unix
5 8 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.94%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.39%) VMS
8 4 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.83%) zOS
10 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) Android
11 1 (0.28%) MVS
11 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (40.44%) CI/CD
2 121 (33.52%) DevOps
3 107 (29.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (25.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 77 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (19.11%) Migration
6 69 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 56 (15.51%) Performance Tuning
9 53 (14.68%) Agile
9 53 (14.68%) Observability
10 50 (13.85%) Containerisation
11 49 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
12 41 (11.36%) Test Automation
13 40 (11.08%) Incident Management
14 37 (10.25%) Microservices
15 36 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 35 (9.70%) Performance Optimisation
16 35 (9.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 77 (21.33%) Python
2 62 (17.17%) SQL
3 61 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 43 (11.91%) Java
5 30 (8.31%) Bash
6 17 (4.71%) Bicep
7 9 (2.49%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.49%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.22%) Go
9 7 (1.94%) C++
9 7 (1.94%) Groovy
9 7 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.66%) C#
10 6 (1.66%) Perl
10 6 (1.66%) Scala
11 5 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.11%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.11%) C
12 4 (1.11%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 20 (5.54%) AWS Certification
5 19 (5.26%) Degree
6 16 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.88%) CCNP
8 13 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.22%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.66%) CCNA
11 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.55%) CCIE
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.55%) PMP
12 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.26%) QA
2 18 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.49%) GDPR
3 9 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.22%) NIST
5 7 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.66%) GRC
6 6 (1.66%) SEPA
7 5 (1.39%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.11%) SLA
9 3 (0.83%) NCSC
10 2 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.55%) PSD2
11 1 (0.28%) DICOM
11 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 54 (14.96%) Active Directory
2 47 (13.02%) Docker
3 32 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.32%) vSphere
5 8 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.94%) Firmware
6 7 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.11%) NFS
7 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.83%) HDFS
9 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.55%) KVM
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.55%) RACF
9 2 (0.55%) UAG
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) ACF2
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
Systems Management
1 72 (19.94%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.25%) Grafana
3 32 (8.86%) Ansible
4 31 (8.59%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (2.22%) Puppet
7 8 (2.22%) SCCM
8 6 (1.66%) Argo
8 6 (1.66%) Kibana
8 6 (1.66%) SCOM
8 6 (1.66%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.11%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.11%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.83%) Nagios
11 3 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 70 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.97%) VMware
3 28 (7.76%) Oracle
4 26 (7.20%) Cisco
5 22 (6.09%) Splunk
6 21 (5.82%) ServiceNow
7 18 (4.99%) IBM
8 14 (3.88%) Google
9 13 (3.60%) SAP
10 10 (2.77%) Databricks
11 8 (2.22%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.94%) Apple
12 7 (1.94%) BMC
12 7 (1.94%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.94%) Ericsson
12 7 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.94%) Nokia
12 7 (1.94%) Remedy
12 7 (1.94%) Solace
13 6 (1.66%) SolarWinds