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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 115 178
Rank change year-on-year +13 +63 -36
Contract jobs citing High Availability 62 87 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.83% 1.56% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.88% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 39 17
10th Percentile £411 £400 £263
25th Percentile £475 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £575
90th Percentile £676 £688 £633
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 3
10th Percentile - £26.25 -
25th Percentile - £56.65 -
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 £48.50 £58.30 £63.00
% change year-on-year -16.81% -7.46% +163.49%

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 3,043 4,616 5,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.00% 82.72% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,707 3,573
10th Percentile £250 £263 £261
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 424 242
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.29 £22.02
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +118.91%
75th Percentile £53.63 £70.00 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.38 £74.98
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +13 34 £500 +11.11% 27
Berkshire +16 32 £500 +8.11% 14
Hampshire +2 18 £575 -7.26% 26
West Sussex -4 6 £463 -2.63% 3
East Sussex -2 3 £450 -8.16% 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £423 - 6
Surrey +5 1 - - 20
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 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (11.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (11.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (11.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (11.29%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (11.29%) Office Communications Server
3 7 (11.29%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (11.29%) Skype for Business
4 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.23%) Confluence
4 2 (3.23%) JBoss
5 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.61%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) Azure
2 22 (35.48%) AWS
3 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.90%) GitHub
4 6 (9.68%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.45%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.84%) IaaS
7 3 (4.84%) PaaS
7 3 (4.84%) Serverless
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.23%) Miro
9 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.58%) DNS
2 13 (20.97%) DHCP
3 9 (14.52%) SAN
4 7 (11.29%) DDNS
4 7 (11.29%) VPN
5 6 (9.68%) Firewall
6 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.61%) MPLS
7 1 (1.61%) NAS
7 1 (1.61%) VLAN
7 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Big Data
1 6 (9.68%) NoSQL
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
1 9 (14.52%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.29%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) DBeaver
3 2 (3.23%) GitLab
3 2 (3.23%) IntelliJ
3 2 (3.23%) JUnit
3 2 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (12.90%) Exchange Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Exchange Support
3 7 (11.29%) Support Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) DBA
4 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) SQL DBA
6 4 (6.45%) Administrator
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Middleware
2 4 (6.45%) React
3 2 (3.23%) JDBC
3 2 (3.23%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) PySpark
3 2 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (1.61%) ADO
4 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.61%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Replication
2 8 (12.90%) Private Cloud
3 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Windows
2 16 (25.81%) Linux
3 10 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (14.52%) Windows Server
5 7 (11.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (9.68%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (4.84%) VMS
9 2 (3.23%) Solaris
9 2 (3.23%) Unix
10 1 (1.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.42%) DevOps
3 15 (24.19%) ITIL
4 14 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.97%) Migration
6 12 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (17.74%) Configuration Management
8 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (14.52%) Open Source
8 9 (14.52%) Validation
9 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (11.29%) Architectural Design
10 7 (11.29%) Content Management
10 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (11.29%) Enterprise Content Management
10 7 (11.29%) Enterprise Search
10 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
11 6 (9.68%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Python
2 21 (33.87%) SQL
3 17 (27.42%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.29%) Java
5 4 (6.45%) C#
5 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.84%) Bicep
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
7 2 (3.23%) Perl
8 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (43.55%) Security Cleared
2 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.45%) Degree
6 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CISSP
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 5 (8.06%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) Brightmail
2 7 (11.29%) ISA Server
3 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.84%) vSphere
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) Ansible
2 8 (12.90%) Terraform
3 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (8.06%) NetBackup
5 3 (4.84%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.23%) Data Guard
6 2 (3.23%) Kibana
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.23%) SELinux
7 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.61%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.19%) Red Hat
3 9 (14.52%) VMware
4 7 (11.29%) Veritas
5 6 (9.68%) Databricks
5 6 (9.68%) Dell
6 5 (8.06%) 3PAR
6 5 (8.06%) HP
6 5 (8.06%) Oracle
7 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
7 3 (4.84%) Virgin Media
8 2 (3.23%) Google
8 2 (3.23%) NetApp
8 2 (3.23%) SAP
8 2 (3.23%) Splunk
8 2 (3.23%) Symantec
9 1 (1.61%) Cisco
9 1 (1.61%) IBM
9 1 (1.61%) Isilon
9 1 (1.61%) Veeam