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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 146 208
Rank change year-on-year -24 +62 -1
Contract jobs citing High Availability 351 254 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 1.89% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.04% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 181 139
10th Percentile £323 £413 £262
25th Percentile £425 £463 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £761
England median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £63.90 £24.50 £22.26
25th Percentile £74.63 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £26.23 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +262.25% +10.19% -71.26%
75th Percentile £97.50 £26.45 -
90th Percentile - £27.23 £54.28
England median hourly rate £41.11 £26.45 £42.90
% change year-on-year +55.43% -38.34% -31.90%

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 18,055 12,462 14,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,241 9,589
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £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 315 249 183
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.04 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -12 48 £495 -23.85% 54
South London -7 10 £550 -25.42%
East London 0 2 £545 +85.53% 3
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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 14 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.85%) 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%) CloudStack
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.57%) Eikon
4 2 (0.57%) 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
1 113 (32.19%) AWS
2 109 (31.05%) Azure
3 46 (13.11%) GCP
4 38 (10.83%) Entra ID
5 33 (9.40%) GitHub
6 31 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (6.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.13%) Serverless
11 15 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (3.99%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.70%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.42%) AWS KMS
14 12 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (2.85%) OpenShift
17 9 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.83%) DNS
2 36 (10.26%) Firewall
3 25 (7.12%) Network Security
4 23 (6.55%) DHCP
5 22 (6.27%) VPN
6 16 (4.56%) TCP/IP
7 15 (4.27%) BGP
8 13 (3.70%) WAN
9 12 (3.42%) SSL
10 11 (3.13%) LAN
11 10 (2.85%) SAN
12 9 (2.56%) Wireless
13 8 (2.28%) 4G
13 8 (2.28%) Internet
13 8 (2.28%) Multicast
13 8 (2.28%) NAS
13 8 (2.28%) OSPF
14 7 (1.99%) VLAN
14 7 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (1.71%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.69%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (4.27%) MySQL
6 14 (3.99%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.85%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.85%) Metadata
8 10 (2.85%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.56%) Redis
9 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (2.28%) Power BI
11 6 (1.71%) Big Data
11 6 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.71%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.42%) Apache Hive
12 5 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.41%) Git
3 24 (6.84%) GitLab
4 20 (5.70%) JIRA
5 5 (1.42%) JUnit
6 4 (1.14%) Maven
7 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
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%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 108 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.92%) Finance
3 53 (15.10%) Banking
4 35 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.27%) Front Office
7 14 (3.99%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.13%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.71%) Billing
10 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.71%) Retail
11 5 (1.42%) Legal
12 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.14%) Law
13 3 (0.85%) Local Government
13 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.57%) Publishing
15 1 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 53 (15.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (14.81%) Senior
3 44 (12.54%) Architect
4 37 (10.54%) DBA
5 29 (8.26%) Developer
6 19 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.13%) Administrator
7 18 (5.13%) Support Engineer
8 15 (4.27%) Lead
9 14 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.70%) Applications Support
10 13 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (3.13%) IT Support
11 11 (3.13%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.13%) SQL DBA
12 10 (2.85%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (2.85%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (27.64%) Terraform
2 26 (7.41%) Kafka
3 25 (7.12%) REST
4 16 (4.56%) Spring
5 14 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (3.99%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.42%) Middleware
6 12 (3.42%) SOAP
7 11 (3.13%) LDAP
8 9 (2.56%) .NET
8 9 (2.56%) OAuth
9 8 (2.28%) OpenID
9 8 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (1.99%) JDBC
10 7 (1.99%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.71%) JSON
11 6 (1.71%) RESTful
11 6 (1.71%) SAML
11 6 (1.71%) XML
11 6 (1.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.26%) Replication
3 27 (7.69%) Clustering
3 27 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 24 (6.84%) Data Centre
5 21 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (5.13%) PKI
7 16 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (3.42%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.85%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.28%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (2.28%) Fixed Income
10 8 (2.28%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 64 (18.23%) Linux
2 63 (17.95%) Windows
3 19 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.27%) Unix
5 9 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.99%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.99%) VMS
7 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.85%) zOS
10 2 (0.57%) SUSE
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) Android
11 1 (0.28%) Debian
11 1 (0.28%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (40.17%) CI/CD
2 119 (33.90%) DevOps
3 102 (29.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (24.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 70 (19.94%) Migration
6 66 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (17.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 56 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (15.38%) Observability
11 52 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
12 50 (14.25%) Containerisation
13 49 (13.96%) Agile
14 48 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (11.68%) Test Automation
16 38 (10.83%) Incident Management
17 36 (10.26%) Microservices
18 35 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 35 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
18 35 (9.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 75 (21.37%) Python
2 63 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 57 (16.24%) SQL
4 48 (13.68%) Java
5 27 (7.69%) Bash
6 17 (4.84%) Bicep
7 9 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.28%) Go
8 8 (2.28%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.99%) Groovy
10 6 (1.71%) C#
10 6 (1.71%) C++
10 6 (1.71%) Perl
10 6 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.42%) Scala
11 5 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.14%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.14%) C
12 4 (1.14%) Rust
13 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 100 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 88 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.98%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.13%) Degree
6 15 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.70%) CCNP
8 12 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.28%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.71%) CCNA
11 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.57%) CISM
13 2 (0.57%) CISSP
13 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.57%) PMP
13 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.13%) QA
2 16 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.99%) GDPR
4 9 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.56%) NIST
5 7 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.71%) GRC
6 6 (1.71%) SEPA
7 5 (1.42%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.14%) SLA
9 3 (0.85%) NCSC
10 2 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.57%) PSD2
11 1 (0.28%) DICOM
11 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 59 (16.81%) Active Directory
2 43 (12.25%) Docker
3 33 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.99%) vSphere
5 10 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.56%) Firmware
6 9 (2.56%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.14%) NFS
7 4 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.85%) HDFS
9 2 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.57%) KVM
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.57%) RACF
9 2 (0.57%) UAG
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) ACF2
10 1 (0.28%) Samba
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (19.94%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.26%) Grafana
3 32 (9.12%) Ansible
3 32 (9.12%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (2.28%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (2.28%) Puppet
6 8 (2.28%) SCCM
6 8 (2.28%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.71%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (1.71%) SCOM
7 6 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.42%) Argo
8 5 (1.42%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.42%) Kibana
9 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.14%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.14%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.54%) VMware
3 29 (8.26%) Oracle
4 26 (7.41%) Cisco
5 25 (7.12%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.98%) Splunk
7 16 (4.56%) IBM
8 11 (3.13%) SAP
9 10 (2.85%) Databricks
9 10 (2.85%) Google
10 8 (2.28%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.28%) Ericsson
10 8 (2.28%) Nokia
11 7 (1.99%) Apple
11 7 (1.99%) BMC
11 7 (1.99%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.99%) Remedy
11 7 (1.99%) Solace
12 6 (1.71%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.71%) SolarWinds