High Availability Contract Job Trends in Reading

High Availability
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +35 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing High Availability 15 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.50% 1.10% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 1.26% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 3
10th Percentile £446 £484 -
25th Percentile £475 £498 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £575
90th Percentile £585 £582 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.60 £88.50
% change year-on-year - -30.40% -

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 548 956 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.49% 87.31% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 531 657
10th Percentile £346 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.31 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -5.89% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.96 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.35 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -40.51% -5.34% +22.36%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Reading

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing High Availability

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Reading over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Reading

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing High Availability

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco ICM
1 1 (6.67%) CTI
1 1 (6.67%) VoIP
1 1 (6.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Mocha
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Database Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Junior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Fastify
2 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Jest
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Swagger
2 1 (6.67%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (73.33%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 9 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Load Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Performance Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
4 9 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (60.00%) Test Scripting
4 9 (60.00%) Validation
4 9 (60.00%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCIE
3 1 (6.67%) CCIE Collaboration
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) OCP
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Avaya
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Genesys
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Pega
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk