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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 80 129
Rank change year-on-year +2 +49 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing High Availability 36 45 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.18% 1.99% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.34% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 3
10th Percentile £399 £328 £357
25th Percentile £447 £335 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £700 £570 -
South East median daily rate £503 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.64% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,511 1,923 2,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.35% 84.86% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,090 1,699
10th Percentile £300 £265 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.10% +4.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £520
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.53% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 103 84
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.90 £16.30
25th Percentile £15.12 £24.25 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.05 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +16.09% +156.41%
75th Percentile £40.65 £68.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £85.99 £74.94
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +80.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing High Availability

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing High Availability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing High Availability

High Availability
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +12 31 £500 +11.11% 16
Oxfordshire -8 3 £550 +29.41% 1
Buckinghamshire +2 2 £525 +16.67% 5
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 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 15 (41.67%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) GCP
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) IaaS
7 2 (5.56%) OCI
7 2 (5.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.78%) Datadog
8 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.78%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) NAS
2 1 (2.78%) VLAN
2 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.56%) Couchbase
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Redis
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Mocha
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Backup Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) HP Storage Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Storage Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) JDBC
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 2 (5.56%) PySpark
2 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) ADO
3 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) Jest
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.78%) OpenID
3 1 (2.78%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) Replication
3 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) Smart Meter
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.33%) VMS
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) CentOS
4 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 13 (36.11%) DevOps
4 8 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (19.44%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (19.44%) Business Continuity
5 7 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (19.44%) Validation
6 6 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Load Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Release Management
6 6 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
6 6 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 6 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
7 5 (13.89%) Agile
8 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Python
2 16 (44.44%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) Bicep
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Data Guard
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) NetBackup
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Dell
3 3 (8.33%) IBM
3 3 (8.33%) NetApp
3 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
4 2 (5.56%) 3PAR
4 2 (5.56%) Confluent
4 2 (5.56%) HP
4 2 (5.56%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.56%) Veritas
4 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Isilon
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) Pega
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Veeam