High Availability Contract Job Trends in the North East

High Availability
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -17 +32
Contract jobs citing High Availability 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.71% 0.98% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.06% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £555 - £335
25th Percentile £563 - £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.17%
75th Percentile £588 - £394
90th Percentile £595 - £500
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £23.80 £88.50
% change year-on-year +212.02% -73.11% +244.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 368 282 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.41% 92.16% 84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 137 148
10th Percentile £174 £320 £224
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £610 £575
90th Percentile £583 £727 £633
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 25 18
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.13 £11.79
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.25 £15.47
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -10.93% -41.90%
75th Percentile £54.69 £46.18 £48.11
90th Percentile £60.00 - £68.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

High Availability job vacancy trend in the North East

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing High Availability

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing High Availability

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Northumberland - 2 £550 - 1
Tyne and Wear -15 1 £600 - 7
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCDP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware