High Availability Contract Job Trends in Somerset

High Availability
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.32% 2.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 2.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £423 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 £638 -
90th Percentile £561 - -
South West median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 129 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.10% 93.48% 75.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 85 88
10th Percentile £285 £255 £153
25th Percentile £378 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.39% -1.25%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £591
90th Percentile £630 £775 £608
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 11 28
10th Percentile £32.50 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.47 £22.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -44.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £48.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% -22.76%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Somerset

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Somerset over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in Somerset

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 April 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
Taunton - 9 £438 - 1
High Availability
South West

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 8 (80.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) GIS
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MSI
1 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Site Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Architect
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
1 9 (90.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (10.00%) ATL
2 1 (10.00%) Blazor
2 1 (10.00%) COM
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (10.00%) GeoJSON
2 1 (10.00%) MFC
2 1 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (60.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
1 7 (70.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
1 7 (70.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (70.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Graceful Degradation
2 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (60.00%) Runbook
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) VMware