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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 132 229
Rank change year-on-year -35 +97 -10
Contract jobs citing High Availability 347 287 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.11% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.29% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 202 112
10th Percentile £350 £406 £300
25th Percentile £425 £475 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £697 £628
90th Percentile £725 £775 £748
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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £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 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -24 42 £470 -27.65% 27
South London -10 13 £550 -12.00% 2
East London +2 2 £511 +73.96% 4
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 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.90%) Confluence
3 15 (4.32%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.73%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.86%) JBoss
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) CICS
7 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.29%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.29%) MTS
7 1 (0.29%) Mule
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.15%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.58%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Eikon
5 1 (0.29%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.29%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 117 (33.72%) Azure
2 105 (30.26%) AWS
3 39 (11.24%) GCP
4 37 (10.66%) Entra ID
5 33 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (8.93%) GitHub
7 27 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (4.61%) Serverless
12 14 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (3.75%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.75%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (2.88%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.53%) DNS
2 37 (10.66%) Firewall
3 24 (6.92%) Network Security
3 24 (6.92%) VPN
4 22 (6.34%) DHCP
5 19 (5.48%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.03%) WAN
7 12 (3.46%) SSL
8 11 (3.17%) LAN
9 10 (2.88%) BGP
10 9 (2.59%) HTTP
10 9 (2.59%) OSPF
10 9 (2.59%) SAN
11 8 (2.31%) 4G
11 8 (2.31%) NAS
11 8 (2.31%) Wireless
12 7 (2.02%) Internet
12 7 (2.02%) LTE
12 7 (2.02%) Multicast
12 7 (2.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.75%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (3.17%) Delta Lake
5 11 (3.17%) MySQL
6 9 (2.59%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.02%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.02%) Power BI
8 7 (2.02%) Redis
9 6 (1.73%) Metadata
10 5 (1.44%) Big Data
11 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (8.65%) Git
2 29 (8.36%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.48%) JIRA
4 17 (4.90%) GitLab
5 5 (1.44%) JUnit
6 4 (1.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.58%) Gradle
7 2 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) Flyway
8 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.29%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) Mockito
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 94 (27.09%) Finance
2 88 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 48 (13.83%) Banking
4 32 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.61%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.75%) Front Office
8 10 (2.88%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.73%) Retail
11 4 (1.15%) Billing
11 4 (1.15%) Legal
12 3 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Publishing
13 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (15.27%) Senior
2 45 (12.97%) Architect
3 41 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (10.09%) DBA
4 35 (10.09%) Developer
5 18 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (4.61%) Administrator
7 16 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (4.61%) Lead
7 16 (4.61%) SQL DBA
8 12 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.46%) Data Engineer
8 12 (3.46%) Support Engineer
9 10 (2.88%) Technical Architect
10 9 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.31%) Applications Support
11 8 (2.31%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.92%) Kafka
1 24 (6.92%) REST
2 19 (5.48%) Spring
3 15 (4.32%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.03%) .NET
5 11 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (2.88%) LDAP
6 10 (2.88%) OAuth
7 9 (2.59%) Middleware
8 8 (2.31%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.31%) RESTful
9 7 (2.02%) Node.js
9 7 (2.02%) OpenID
10 6 (1.73%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.73%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.73%) SAML
10 6 (1.73%) SOAP
11 5 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.36%) Replication
3 24 (6.92%) Clustering
3 24 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.92%) Onboarding
4 21 (6.05%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (3.46%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (3.17%) PKI
9 10 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.88%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.02%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.29%) Linux
1 60 (17.29%) Windows
2 21 (6.05%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.46%) Unix
4 11 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.31%) VMS
6 7 (2.02%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.44%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.15%) SUSE
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.29%) Debian
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (40.06%) CI/CD
2 123 (35.45%) DevOps
3 104 (29.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (26.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 58 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (16.43%) Migration
7 52 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (14.70%) Performance Tuning
9 50 (14.41%) Observability
10 48 (13.83%) Agile
10 48 (13.83%) Root Cause Analysis
11 47 (13.54%) Containerisation
12 45 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (11.24%) Microservices
14 36 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (9.51%) Test Automation
16 30 (8.65%) Incident Management
17 29 (8.36%) Roadmaps
17 29 (8.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (22.77%) Python
2 67 (19.31%) SQL
3 60 (17.29%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.41%) Java
5 26 (7.49%) Bash
6 16 (4.61%) Bicep
7 11 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.59%) C#
9 8 (2.31%) C++
9 8 (2.31%) Go
10 7 (2.02%) Scala
11 6 (1.73%) Groovy
11 6 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.44%) C
12 5 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.44%) Perl
13 4 (1.15%) Rust
14 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.86%) Ruby
14 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 89 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.65%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.05%) Degree
5 20 (5.76%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (4.32%) CCNP
8 11 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.31%) DV Cleared
12 7 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (2.02%) CCNA
13 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.15%) MCITP
13 4 (1.15%) MCTS
13 4 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.86%) CISSP
15 2 (0.58%) CISM
15 2 (0.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.61%) QA
3 11 (3.17%) GDPR
4 8 (2.31%) SLA
5 6 (1.73%) GRC
5 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.73%) NIST
5 6 (1.73%) SEPA
6 5 (1.44%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.86%) DICOM
7 3 (0.86%) HL7
7 3 (0.86%) NCSC
7 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.58%) PSD2
8 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 62 (17.87%) Active Directory
2 44 (12.68%) Docker
3 32 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.32%) vSphere
5 10 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.73%) Firmware
7 4 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.58%) HDFS
8 2 (0.58%) KVM
8 2 (0.58%) NFS
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.58%) UAG
8 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.29%) Ceph
9 1 (0.29%) RACF
9 1 (0.29%) Samba
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 103 (29.68%) Terraform
2 74 (21.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (8.07%) Ansible
4 27 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.20%) Grafana
6 13 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (3.17%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (2.88%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (2.02%) Puppet
11 6 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.73%) Argo
12 5 (1.44%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.44%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.44%) SCCM
13 4 (1.15%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.15%) PingFederate
13 4 (1.15%) SCOM
13 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.24%) VMware
3 29 (8.36%) Oracle
4 19 (5.48%) Splunk
5 18 (5.19%) Cisco
5 18 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.03%) Databricks
7 10 (2.88%) IBM
8 9 (2.59%) Ericsson
8 9 (2.59%) Nokia
8 9 (2.59%) Remedy
9 7 (2.02%) Apple
9 7 (2.02%) F5
10 6 (1.73%) BMC
10 6 (1.73%) Dell
10 6 (1.73%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.73%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.44%) Infoblox
11 5 (1.44%) SAP
11 5 (1.44%) Solace