High Availability Contracts in Reading

High Availability
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing High Availability 4 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 1.09% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.21% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £499 £314 £353
25th Percentile £534 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +63.33% -21.05% -16.48%
75th Percentile £684 £416 £569
90th Percentile £716 £511 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £515 £375 £463
% change year-on-year +37.33% -18.92% -22.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.60 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in Reading

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Reading.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware