High Availability Contract Job Trends in South London

High Availability
London > South London

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing High Availability 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.28% 0.91% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.04% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile - - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £531
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile - - £561
90th Percentile - - £582
London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 193 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.38% 88.13% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 132 177
10th Percentile £332 £226 £188
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £594
90th Percentile £639 £785 £666
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 22
10th Percentile £54.42 £44.44 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £60.10 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £79.60 £49.13
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.76 £83.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £36.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -7.23% +22.17% -14.29%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in South London

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing High Availability

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing High Availability

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Merton - 3 £300 -
High Availability
London

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security
1 3 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle