High Availability Contracts in the South East

High Availability
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 107 136 181
Rank change year-on-year +29 +45 -22
Contract jobs citing High Availability 52 69 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.73% 1.24% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.46% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 20
10th Percentile £420 £335 £358
25th Percentile £469 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £628
90th Percentile £675 £606 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.67% -
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £26.73 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -49.10% -25.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the South East.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the South East

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +42 33 £500 +17.65% 64
Berkshire +31 30 £515 +37.33% 32
Hampshire +14 9 £575 -2.95% 45
West Sussex +4 6 £550 +15.79% 10
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £350 -37.78% 22
East Sussex -2 3 £450 -8.16% 10
Surrey +9 1 - - 29
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.77%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (5.77%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (5.77%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (5.77%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (5.77%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (5.77%) Skype for Business
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) AWS
3 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.54%) GitHub
5 5 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.77%) GCP
6 3 (5.77%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.85%) IaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.85%) Miro
7 2 (3.85%) PaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) DHCP
1 9 (17.31%) DNS
2 7 (13.46%) Firewall
3 5 (9.62%) VPN
4 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.77%) 4G
5 3 (5.77%) 5G
5 3 (5.77%) 5G NR
5 3 (5.77%) DDNS
5 3 (5.77%) LTE
5 3 (5.77%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (5.77%) SAN
6 2 (3.85%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (3.85%) LAN
6 2 (3.85%) SSL
6 2 (3.85%) WAN
6 2 (3.85%) Wireless
7 1 (1.92%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) Big Data
3 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
4 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (3.85%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (1.92%) MySQL
7 1 (1.92%) Power BI
7 1 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) DBeaver
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) DBA
2 7 (13.46%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) SQL DBA
4 5 (9.62%) Administrator
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Exchange Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Exchange Support
6 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Subject Matter Expert
6 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) JDBC
1 2 (3.85%) Kafka
1 2 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (1.92%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Replication
2 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.77%) NHS
4 3 (5.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 13 (25.00%) Windows
3 11 (21.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (19.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (9.62%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.85%) Solaris
8 2 (3.85%) Unix
8 2 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.00%) DevOps
3 12 (23.08%) ITIL
4 8 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (13.46%) Configuration Management
5 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.46%) Migration
5 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (11.54%) Database Migration
6 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (9.62%) Agile
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (9.62%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 5 (9.62%) Data Migration
7 5 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.62%) Open Source
7 5 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (9.62%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) Bicep
5 2 (3.85%) Perl
6 1 (1.92%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) MCSE
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) GDPR
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.77%) Brightmail
3 3 (5.77%) ISA Server
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.85%) vSphere
5 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Ansible
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 4 (7.69%) NetBackup
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.85%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (3.85%) Puppet
5 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.85%) SELinux
6 1 (1.92%) NSN NetAct
6 1 (1.92%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Red Hat
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.31%) VMware
4 6 (11.54%) Databricks
4 6 (11.54%) Veritas
5 5 (9.62%) HP
5 5 (9.62%) Oracle
5 5 (9.62%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.69%) 3PAR
6 4 (7.69%) Dell
6 4 (7.69%) SAP
7 3 (5.77%) Cisco
7 3 (5.77%) Virgin Media
8 2 (3.85%) Ericsson
8 2 (3.85%) F5
8 2 (3.85%) Google
8 2 (3.85%) Symantec
9 1 (1.92%) Nokia
9 1 (1.92%) Remedy
9 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow