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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 135 230
Rank change year-on-year -33 +95 -17
Contract jobs citing High Availability 350 285 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.74% 2.10% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.27% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 201 112
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 £688 £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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
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 £660 £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 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -23 41 £475 -26.92% 22
South London -12 11 £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 19 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.86%) Confluence
3 15 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.71%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) JBoss
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) 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 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.57%) 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
1 118 (33.71%) Azure
2 106 (30.29%) AWS
3 38 (10.86%) Entra ID
3 38 (10.86%) GCP
4 34 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (8.86%) GitHub
6 27 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (4.57%) Serverless
12 14 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (3.71%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.71%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (3.14%) OpenShift
15 10 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.86%) AWS KMS
15 10 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 41 (11.71%) DNS
2 36 (10.29%) Firewall
3 23 (6.57%) DHCP
3 23 (6.57%) Network Security
3 23 (6.57%) VPN
4 18 (5.14%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.00%) WAN
6 11 (3.14%) LAN
6 11 (3.14%) SSL
7 9 (2.57%) BGP
7 9 (2.57%) HTTP
7 9 (2.57%) SAN
8 8 (2.29%) 4G
8 8 (2.29%) NAS
8 8 (2.29%) OSPF
8 8 (2.29%) Wireless
9 7 (2.00%) Internet
9 7 (2.00%) LTE
9 7 (2.00%) Multicast
9 7 (2.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.43%) MySQL
7 11 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.14%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.57%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.29%) Redis
9 8 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (2.00%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.00%) Power BI
11 6 (1.71%) Big Data
11 6 (1.71%) Metadata
12 4 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (8.57%) Git
1 30 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 19 (5.43%) JIRA
3 18 (5.14%) GitLab
4 5 (1.43%) JUnit
5 4 (1.14%) Maven
6 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.57%) Gradle
6 2 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.29%) Flyway
7 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.29%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.29%) MLflow
7 1 (0.29%) Mockito
7 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 93 (26.57%) Finance
2 91 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 48 (13.71%) Banking
4 34 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.57%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.71%) Front Office
8 10 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.71%) Retail
11 4 (1.14%) Billing
11 4 (1.14%) 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 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (14.86%) Senior
2 44 (12.57%) Architect
3 43 (12.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (10.57%) DBA
5 34 (9.71%) Developer
6 18 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (4.86%) Administrator
7 17 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (4.57%) Lead
8 16 (4.57%) SQL DBA
9 12 (3.43%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.43%) Data Engineer
9 12 (3.43%) Support Engineer
10 9 (2.57%) Consultant
10 9 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.57%) Technical Architect
11 8 (2.29%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.14%) Kafka
2 24 (6.86%) REST
3 19 (5.43%) Spring
4 15 (4.29%) Spring Boot
5 14 (4.00%) .NET
6 12 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (2.86%) LDAP
7 10 (2.86%) OAuth
8 9 (2.57%) Middleware
9 8 (2.29%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.29%) RESTful
10 7 (2.00%) Node.js
10 7 (2.00%) OpenID
11 6 (1.71%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.71%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.71%) SAML
11 6 (1.71%) SOAP
12 5 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.57%) Replication
3 25 (7.14%) Clustering
4 24 (6.86%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (5.71%) Data Centre
7 17 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (3.43%) PKI
9 12 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.57%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.00%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 61 (17.43%) Linux
2 60 (17.14%) Windows
3 21 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.43%) Unix
5 11 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.29%) VMS
7 7 (2.00%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.14%) SUSE
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.29%) Android
11 1 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.29%) Debian
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.29%) Rocky
11 1 (0.29%) Solaris
11 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (40.29%) CI/CD
2 125 (35.71%) DevOps
3 108 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (26.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 59 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (16.29%) Migration
7 54 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (15.14%) Performance Tuning
9 51 (14.57%) Observability
10 49 (14.00%) Agile
10 49 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 47 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 47 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (11.14%) Microservices
13 38 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 31 (8.86%) Incident Management
16 31 (8.86%) Roadmaps
16 31 (8.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (22.29%) Python
2 67 (19.14%) SQL
3 61 (17.43%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.29%) Java
5 26 (7.43%) Bash
6 16 (4.57%) Bicep
7 11 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.57%) C#
9 8 (2.29%) C++
9 8 (2.29%) Go
10 7 (2.00%) Scala
11 6 (1.71%) Groovy
11 6 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.43%) C
12 5 (1.43%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.43%) Perl
13 4 (1.14%) Rust
14 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.86%) Ruby
14 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 91 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.29%) Degree
5 20 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.00%) CCNP
8 11 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.57%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.00%) CCNA
12 4 (1.14%) MCITP
12 4 (1.14%) MCTS
13 3 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.57%) VCAP
14 2 (0.57%) VCDX
14 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.57%) QA
3 11 (3.14%) GDPR
4 8 (2.29%) SLA
5 6 (1.71%) GRC
5 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.71%) NIST
5 6 (1.71%) SEPA
6 5 (1.43%) 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 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.57%) PSD2
8 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 43 (12.29%) Docker
3 32 (9.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.29%) vSphere
5 10 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.71%) Firmware
8 4 (1.14%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.57%) HDFS
9 2 (0.57%) KVM
9 2 (0.57%) NFS
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.57%) UAG
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.29%) Ceph
10 1 (0.29%) RACF
10 1 (0.29%) Samba
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (30.00%) Terraform
2 74 (21.14%) Kubernetes
3 28 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 27 (7.71%) Ansible
5 26 (7.43%) Grafana
6 14 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (2.86%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (2.00%) Puppet
11 6 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.71%) Argo
12 5 (1.43%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.43%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.43%) SCCM
12 5 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.14%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.14%) PingFederate
13 4 (1.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 75 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.14%) VMware
3 30 (8.57%) Oracle
4 19 (5.43%) Splunk
5 18 (5.14%) Cisco
5 18 (5.14%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.00%) Databricks
7 10 (2.86%) IBM
8 9 (2.57%) Ericsson
8 9 (2.57%) Nokia
8 9 (2.57%) Remedy
9 8 (2.29%) F5
10 7 (2.00%) Apple
10 7 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.71%) BMC
11 6 (1.71%) Dell
11 6 (1.71%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.43%) Google
12 5 (1.43%) Infoblox
12 5 (1.43%) SAP