High Availability Contracts in the Thames Valley

High Availability
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 69 111 131
Rank change year-on-year +42 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing High Availability 33 34 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.18% 1.27% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.45% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 10
10th Percentile £400 £335 £315
25th Percentile £475 £349 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -15.33%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £561
90th Percentile £700 £573 £725
South East median daily rate £505 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +6.32% -13.64% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +2.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +31 30 £515 +37.33% 32
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £350 -37.78% 22
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) GitHub
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.06%) IaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.06%) Miro
7 2 (6.06%) PaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DHCP
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) BIG-IP
2 2 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (6.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Big Data
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle Database
3 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
5 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) DBeaver
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Architect
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) DBA
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (6.06%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.03%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) JDBC
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Windows Server
3 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (15.15%) Ubuntu
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
3 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (18.18%) ITIL
4 6 (18.18%) Migration
5 5 (15.15%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (15.15%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 5 (15.15%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (15.15%) Open Source
5 5 (15.15%) Server Building
6 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Data Security
6 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
6 4 (12.12%) Load Balancing
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) SQL
3 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Bicep
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Terraform
3 4 (12.12%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.06%) Data Guard
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 7 (21.21%) VMware
3 6 (18.18%) Databricks
4 5 (15.15%) HP
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (15.15%) Oracle
5 4 (12.12%) 3PAR
5 4 (12.12%) Dell
5 4 (12.12%) Veritas
6 3 (9.09%) Virgin Media
7 2 (6.06%) F5
7 2 (6.06%) Google
7 2 (6.06%) SAP
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco
8 1 (3.03%) Remedy