High Availability Contracts in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 140 180 201
Rank change year-on-year +40 +21 +56
Contract jobs citing High Availability 237 240 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.86% 1.16% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.36% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 148 194
10th Percentile £322 £325 £400
25th Percentile £413 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £594 £606 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £734
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £68.62 £37.30 £48.00
25th Percentile £70.30 £51.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £74.35 £61.60 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £77.15 - £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.73 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -56.62% -12.00% +192.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +48 74 £475 +1.33% 69
South East +29 52 £505 +6.32% 117
North West +39 44 £475 -2.06% 46
Scotland +1 42 £500 -13.04% 17
South West +44 37 £550 -4.35% 21
Yorkshire +24 28 £513 +19.19% 15
Midlands +24 21 £541 +8.24% 43
West Midlands +15 17 £550 +10.00% 32
Northern Ireland -3 8 £325 - 9
Wales +2 6 £295 -43.81% 3
East of England +23 5 £473 -21.51% 14
East Midlands +11 4 £488 -11.36% 10
North East -9 1 £550 +41.94% 10
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (8.86%) Confluence
2 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.06%) SharePoint
4 9 (3.80%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.95%) Apache
6 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (2.11%) IIS
7 5 (2.11%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (1.27%) Office Communications Server
8 3 (1.27%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.42%) CMS
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) BASE24
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.38%) Azure
2 54 (22.78%) AWS
3 23 (9.70%) GCP
4 20 (8.44%) IaaS
5 19 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (6.75%) GitHub
7 15 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.91%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.91%) Entra ID
9 11 (4.64%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.22%) Serverless
11 8 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.53%) OneDrive
13 5 (2.11%) PaaS
13 5 (2.11%) Slack
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.19%) Firewall
2 24 (10.13%) DNS
3 23 (9.70%) Network Security
4 21 (8.86%) DHCP
5 20 (8.44%) VPN
6 18 (7.59%) SAN
7 14 (5.91%) TCP/IP
8 12 (5.06%) BGP
8 12 (5.06%) OSPF
9 11 (4.64%) SSL
10 10 (4.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (3.80%) IPsec
11 9 (3.80%) LAN
11 9 (3.80%) WAN
12 8 (3.38%) NAS
12 8 (3.38%) SD-WAN
12 8 (3.38%) VLAN
13 6 (2.53%) Wireless
14 5 (2.11%) 5G
14 5 (2.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.81%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.49%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.49%) Oracle Database
4 8 (3.38%) Big Data
4 8 (3.38%) Flink
5 7 (2.95%) MySQL
6 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.11%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (11.81%) JIRA
2 26 (10.97%) Git
3 23 (9.70%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.06%) GitLab
5 6 (2.53%) Subversion
6 5 (2.11%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.11%) Jasmine
6 5 (2.11%) JUnit
7 4 (1.69%) Ant
7 4 (1.69%) Maven
8 3 (1.27%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.42%) tSQLt
General
1 72 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (17.30%) Finance
4 28 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.02%) Banking
6 16 (6.75%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.11%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Front Office
8 4 (1.69%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.27%) Law
10 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Electronics
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (14.77%) Architect
2 22 (9.28%) Developer
3 21 (8.86%) Administrator
3 21 (8.86%) Senior
4 15 (6.33%) DBA
4 15 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (5.91%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 12 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.06%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.64%) Lead
7 11 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.22%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.22%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
9 9 (3.80%) SQL DBA
10 8 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.75%) Kafka
2 15 (6.33%) Flash
3 7 (2.95%) .NET
3 7 (2.95%) RESTful
4 6 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.53%) JDBC
5 5 (2.11%) Apache Beam
5 5 (2.11%) LDAP
5 5 (2.11%) Middleware
5 5 (2.11%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.11%) REST
5 5 (2.11%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (2.11%) Spring
5 5 (2.11%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.11%) Swagger
6 4 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (1.69%) Node.js
6 4 (1.69%) Spring Batch
6 4 (1.69%) Spring Security
7 3 (1.27%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.66%) Clustering
2 27 (11.39%) Replication
3 21 (8.86%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.64%) Mainframe
5 9 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.95%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.95%) Equities
8 6 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.69%) Derivative
10 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.69%) Linux
2 59 (24.89%) Windows
3 35 (14.77%) Windows Server
4 32 (13.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (10.55%) Unix
6 19 (8.02%) Solaris
7 13 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (4.22%) HPUX
8 10 (4.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (3.80%) AIX
10 8 (3.38%) Ubuntu
10 8 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.69%) Check Point GAiA
11 4 (1.69%) VMS
12 3 (1.27%) CentOS
12 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (26.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 57 (24.05%) DevOps
4 44 (18.57%) Agile
5 34 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (13.92%) Performance Tuning
7 31 (13.08%) ITIL
8 30 (12.66%) CI/CD
9 29 (12.24%) Computer Science
10 27 (11.39%) Migration
11 26 (10.97%) Service Management
12 24 (10.13%) Task Automation
13 23 (9.70%) Containerisation
14 21 (8.86%) Validation
15 19 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (8.02%) Load Balancing
16 18 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (7.59%) Data Pipeline
17 17 (7.17%) Project Delivery
18 16 (6.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.36%) Python
2 51 (21.52%) SQL
3 31 (13.08%) PowerShell
4 23 (9.70%) Bash
5 17 (7.17%) Perl
6 9 (3.80%) Java
7 5 (2.11%) Bicep
7 5 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.69%) C#
8 4 (1.69%) Erlang
8 4 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.69%) Prolog
8 4 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.27%) Groovy
10 2 (0.84%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.84%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.84%) JCL
11 1 (0.42%) C++
11 1 (0.42%) COBOL
11 1 (0.42%) REXX
Qualifications
1 57 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.08%) Degree
4 21 (8.86%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (7.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 17 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (6.33%) CCNA
9 14 (5.91%) Master's Degree
10 12 (5.06%) Azure Certification
11 11 (4.64%) DV Cleared
12 10 (4.22%) CCNP
13 7 (2.95%) MCSE
14 5 (2.11%) AWS Certification
15 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (1.69%) CCSE
16 3 (1.27%) CISSP
17 2 (0.84%) CCIE
17 2 (0.84%) IBM Certification
17 2 (0.84%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.53%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.53%) SLA
2 5 (2.11%) GDPR
2 5 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (2.11%) QA
3 3 (1.27%) NCSC
4 2 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.42%) HL7
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (20.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (10.55%) VMware ESXi
3 23 (9.70%) Active Directory
4 22 (9.28%) Docker
5 14 (5.91%) VMware NSX
6 13 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (5.06%) vSphere
8 10 (4.22%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (3.38%) Hyper-V
10 5 (2.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (1.27%) Brightmail
11 3 (1.27%) ISA Server
11 3 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.84%) KVM
12 2 (0.84%) NFS
12 2 (0.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.42%) GPFS
13 1 (0.42%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 1 (0.42%) Samba
13 1 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 33 (13.92%) Ansible
2 29 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.70%) vCenter Server
4 22 (9.28%) Terraform
5 14 (5.91%) Grafana
5 14 (5.91%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (4.22%) Data Guard
8 9 (3.80%) WSUS
9 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (2.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (2.53%) Puppet
12 5 (2.11%) FortiGate
12 5 (2.11%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.69%) logstash
13 4 (1.69%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.69%) Oracle Flashback
13 4 (1.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 56 (23.63%) VMware
2 51 (21.52%) Microsoft
3 34 (14.35%) Cisco
4 24 (10.13%) Oracle
5 23 (9.70%) Red Hat
6 13 (5.49%) Splunk
7 12 (5.06%) Atlassian
7 12 (5.06%) IBM
8 11 (4.64%) HP
9 9 (3.80%) Dell
9 9 (3.80%) SolarWinds
9 9 (3.80%) Sun
9 9 (3.80%) Veritas
10 8 (3.38%) Google
10 8 (3.38%) SAP
11 7 (2.95%) Databricks
11 7 (2.95%) F5
11 7 (2.95%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.95%) Unisys
12 6 (2.53%) Dynatrace