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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 150 226
Rank change year-on-year -17 +76 -15
Contract jobs citing High Availability 356 263 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.98% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.15% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 190 117
10th Percentile £350 £413 £262
25th Percentile £425 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £644
90th Percentile £715 £775 £735
England median daily rate £500 £550 £523
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £63.90 - £22.26
25th Percentile £74.63 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +259.17% +11.13% -71.26%
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - £27.38 £54.28
England median hourly rate £55.50 £26.73 £28.00
% change year-on-year +107.67% -4.55% -55.56%

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 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 3 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 3 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 47 £475 -26.92% 25
South London -10 11 £550 -12.00% 2
East London +1 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 (5.06%) Confluence
2 14 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.84%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
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%) MTS
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 9 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.56%) Eikon
4 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 120 (33.71%) Azure
2 113 (31.74%) AWS
3 42 (11.80%) GCP
4 36 (10.11%) Entra ID
5 33 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (8.71%) GitHub
7 23 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (5.62%) Serverless
11 18 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.21%) Amazon S3
12 15 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (3.93%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.37%) AWS KMS
14 12 (3.37%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.64%) Firewall
2 41 (11.52%) DNS
3 29 (8.15%) Network Security
4 24 (6.74%) VPN
5 23 (6.46%) DHCP
6 20 (5.62%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.78%) BGP
8 16 (4.49%) WAN
9 12 (3.37%) LAN
9 12 (3.37%) SSL
10 10 (2.81%) OSPF
11 9 (2.53%) 4G
11 9 (2.53%) HTTP
11 9 (2.53%) SAN
11 9 (2.53%) VLAN
11 9 (2.53%) Wireless
12 8 (2.25%) 5G
12 8 (2.25%) LTE
12 8 (2.25%) Multicast
12 8 (2.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.55%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.21%) MySQL
6 12 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (2.81%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.53%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.53%) Redis
8 9 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.25%) Metadata
9 8 (2.25%) Power BI
10 7 (1.97%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.97%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.40%) Big Data
11 5 (1.40%) KDB
11 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (8.99%) Jenkins
2 28 (7.87%) Git
3 21 (5.90%) GitLab
4 20 (5.62%) 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%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
8 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 106 (29.78%) Social Skills
2 93 (26.12%) Finance
3 48 (13.48%) Banking
4 33 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.06%) Front Office
6 18 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.09%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.69%) Billing
10 5 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.40%) Legal
11 4 (1.12%) Retail
12 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.84%) Publishing
13 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Games
13 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (14.33%) Senior
3 42 (11.80%) Architect
4 35 (9.83%) Developer
5 34 (9.55%) DBA
6 21 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.06%) Administrator
8 18 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.93%) Lead
10 14 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.37%) Consultant
13 11 (3.09%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.09%) SQL DBA
14 10 (2.81%) Applications Support
14 10 (2.81%) IT Support
14 10 (2.81%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (30.06%) Terraform
2 28 (7.87%) Kafka
3 27 (7.58%) REST
4 19 (5.34%) Spring
5 15 (4.21%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (3.09%) .NET
7 11 (3.09%) LDAP
8 10 (2.81%) OAuth
9 9 (2.53%) Middleware
9 9 (2.53%) SOAP
10 8 (2.25%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.25%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.97%) Node.js
11 7 (1.97%) OpenID
11 7 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.97%) RESTful
12 6 (1.69%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.69%) SAML
12 6 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.11%) Replication
3 27 (7.58%) Data Centre
4 26 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (7.30%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.74%) Clustering
6 17 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (4.21%) PKI
9 12 (3.37%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (2.53%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.25%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.97%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.98%) Linux
2 60 (16.85%) Windows
3 18 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.65%) Unix
5 11 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.09%) VMS
6 7 (1.97%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.12%) SUSE
9 3 (0.84%) zOS
10 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) Android
11 1 (0.28%) Debian
11 1 (0.28%) MVS
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Rocky
11 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (41.85%) CI/CD
2 127 (35.67%) DevOps
3 115 (32.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (23.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 71 (19.94%) Migration
6 64 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 62 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (15.73%) Observability
9 56 (15.73%) Root Cause Analysis
10 51 (14.33%) Containerisation
11 50 (14.04%) Agile
12 45 (12.64%) Performance Tuning
12 45 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (10.67%) Microservices
13 38 (10.67%) Test Automation
14 36 (10.11%) Incident Management
15 35 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (9.83%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (8.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.31%) Python
2 65 (18.26%) PowerShell
3 53 (14.89%) SQL
4 52 (14.61%) Java
5 28 (7.87%) Bash
6 17 (4.78%) Bicep
7 11 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.53%) C#
8 9 (2.53%) Go
9 7 (1.97%) Groovy
10 6 (1.69%) C++
10 6 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.40%) Perl
12 4 (1.12%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.12%) C
12 4 (1.12%) Rust
12 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.56%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 87 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.87%) Azure Certification
4 20 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.62%) Degree
5 16 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.93%) CCNP
7 12 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.97%) CCNA
10 6 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.56%) CISM
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.56%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) VCAP
13 2 (0.56%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.06%) QA
2 17 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.65%) GDPR
4 9 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.53%) NIST
5 6 (1.69%) GRC
5 6 (1.69%) SEPA
6 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.12%) SLA
8 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.56%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) DICOM
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (15.73%) Active Directory
2 45 (12.64%) Docker
3 33 (9.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.49%) vSphere
5 11 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.97%) Firmware
8 4 (1.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.56%) HDFS
9 2 (0.56%) KVM
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.56%) RACF
9 2 (0.56%) UAG
9 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) ACF2
10 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) NFS
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
Systems Management
1 78 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.55%) Ansible
3 32 (8.99%) Grafana
3 32 (8.99%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (2.81%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (1.97%) Puppet
8 7 (1.97%) SCCM
9 6 (1.69%) Argo
9 6 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (1.69%) SCOM
10 5 (1.40%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.40%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.12%) PingFederate
11 4 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.67%) VMware
3 29 (8.15%) Oracle
4 27 (7.58%) Cisco
5 23 (6.46%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.90%) Splunk
7 12 (3.37%) Databricks
7 12 (3.37%) IBM
8 10 (2.81%) Ericsson
8 10 (2.81%) Nokia
8 10 (2.81%) Remedy
9 9 (2.53%) SAP
10 8 (2.25%) Google
11 7 (1.97%) Apple
11 7 (1.97%) BMC
11 7 (1.97%) Dell
11 7 (1.97%) F5
11 7 (1.97%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.97%) Solace
11 7 (1.97%) SolarWinds