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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 177 198
Rank change year-on-year +51 +21 +49
Contract jobs citing High Availability 252 242 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.97% 1.19% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.41% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 154 183
10th Percentile £313 £327 £381
25th Percentile £408 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -5.66% +8.72%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £684 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.31% -1.27% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £68.62 £41.44 £52.13
25th Percentile £70.30 - £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 - £72.50
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 11,601 17,153 20,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 84.38% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 10,226 14,391
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 2,053 1,276
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £10.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

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 15 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 15 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 +47 77 £475 -1.04% 97
South East +25 55 £500 +2.04% 182
North West +36 46 £475 -1.04% 50
Scotland +5 44 £500 -2.44% 26
South West +50 38 £550 -15.38% 38
Yorkshire +28 30 £525 +3.55% 33
Midlands +26 27 £521 +30.15% 49
West Midlands +27 24 £550 +37.50% 36
East of England +20 7 £473 -21.51% 33
Wales +3 6 £295 -43.81% 3
Northern Ireland -4 6 £325 - 20
East Midlands +6 3 £500 +25.00% 12
North East -11 1 £550 +41.94% 16
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 17 (6.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.97%) Apache Spark
5 8 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (2.78%) Apache
7 6 (2.38%) IIS
8 5 (1.98%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (1.19%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (1.19%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.40%) CMS
11 1 (0.40%) JBoss
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP PM
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) BASE24
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.57%) Azure
2 58 (23.02%) AWS
3 24 (9.52%) GCP
4 22 (8.73%) IaaS
5 20 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.54%) GitHub
7 17 (6.75%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 14 (5.56%) Serverless
10 12 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (3.57%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.38%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.98%) PaaS
13 5 (1.98%) Slack
14 4 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.87%) Firewall
2 26 (10.32%) DNS
3 25 (9.92%) Network Security
4 24 (9.52%) VPN
5 22 (8.73%) DHCP
6 18 (7.14%) SAN
7 16 (6.35%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.95%) BGP
8 15 (5.95%) OSPF
9 13 (5.16%) SSL
10 11 (4.37%) IPsec
11 10 (3.97%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (3.97%) LAN
11 10 (3.97%) VLAN
11 10 (3.97%) WAN
12 8 (3.17%) NAS
12 8 (3.17%) SD-WAN
13 6 (2.38%) Wireless
14 5 (1.98%) EIGRP
14 5 (1.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.75%) Oracle Database
3 15 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.57%) Big Data
7 7 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.78%) Flink
7 7 (2.78%) MySQL
8 6 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.98%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 30 (11.90%) JIRA
2 29 (11.51%) Git
3 25 (9.92%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.16%) GitLab
5 6 (2.38%) JUnit
5 6 (2.38%) Subversion
6 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.98%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.59%) Ant
7 4 (1.59%) Maven
8 3 (1.19%) DBeaver
9 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.40%) tSQLt
10 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.03%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (15.87%) Finance
4 29 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.94%) Banking
6 18 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.98%) Legal
8 4 (1.59%) Front Office
8 4 (1.59%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (15.87%) Architect
2 21 (8.33%) Administrator
3 20 (7.94%) Developer
3 20 (7.94%) Senior
4 17 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (5.56%) DBA
6 14 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 13 (5.16%) Lead
7 13 (5.16%) Network Engineer
7 13 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Infrastructure Architect
11 8 (3.17%) Database Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.75%) Kafka
2 15 (5.95%) Flash
3 7 (2.78%) .NET
3 7 (2.78%) JDBC
3 7 (2.78%) RESTful
4 6 (2.38%) Apache Beam
4 6 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.38%) Spark Streaming
4 6 (2.38%) Spring
5 5 (1.98%) LDAP
5 5 (1.98%) Middleware
5 5 (1.98%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.98%) REST
5 5 (1.98%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.98%) Swagger
6 4 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (1.59%) Node.js
6 4 (1.59%) Spring Batch
6 4 (1.59%) Spring Security
7 3 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.90%) Clustering
2 28 (11.11%) Replication
3 21 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.37%) Mainframe
5 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.17%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.98%) Equities
8 5 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.59%) Derivative
9 4 (1.59%) IoT
9 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.59%) SCADA
9 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (27.78%) Linux
2 65 (25.79%) Windows
3 37 (14.68%) Windows Server
4 32 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (10.71%) Unix
6 19 (7.54%) Solaris
7 14 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (4.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (3.97%) HPUX
10 9 (3.57%) AIX
10 9 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (3.17%) Ubuntu
12 6 (2.38%) Check Point GAiA
13 4 (1.59%) VMS
14 3 (1.19%) CentOS
14 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.54%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
3 61 (24.21%) DevOps
4 45 (17.86%) Agile
5 36 (14.29%) ITIL
6 35 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 34 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 34 (13.49%) Performance Tuning
8 30 (11.90%) Computer Science
8 30 (11.90%) Migration
9 26 (10.32%) Service Management
10 25 (9.92%) Validation
11 24 (9.52%) Task Automation
12 23 (9.13%) Containerisation
13 21 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (7.54%) Load Balancing
16 18 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (6.35%) Capacity Planning
17 16 (6.35%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.41%) Python
2 58 (23.02%) SQL
3 34 (13.49%) PowerShell
4 23 (9.13%) Bash
5 19 (7.54%) Perl
6 8 (3.17%) Java
7 6 (2.38%) Bicep
7 6 (2.38%) Erlang
7 6 (2.38%) Prolog
8 5 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.59%) C#
9 4 (1.59%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.19%) Groovy
11 2 (0.79%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.79%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.79%) JCL
11 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.79%) VBScript
12 1 (0.40%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 61 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.65%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.70%) Degree
4 21 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 17 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.95%) CCNA
8 14 (5.56%) Master's Degree
9 12 (4.76%) Azure Certification
9 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
10 10 (3.97%) CCNP
11 8 (3.17%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.78%) MCSE
13 6 (2.38%) CCSE
14 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (1.19%) CISSP
16 2 (0.79%) CCIE
16 2 (0.79%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.79%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.97%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.97%) SLA
2 7 (2.78%) GDPR
2 7 (2.78%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.19%) NCSC
5 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (20.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.32%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (7.94%) Docker
4 14 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.76%) vSphere
6 10 (3.97%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (3.57%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.19%) Brightmail
10 3 (1.19%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.79%) KVM
11 2 (0.79%) NFS
11 2 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.40%) GPFS
12 1 (0.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.40%) Microcode
12 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 34 (13.49%) Ansible
2 27 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.52%) vCenter Server
4 23 (9.13%) Terraform
5 14 (5.56%) Grafana
5 14 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (3.97%) Data Guard
8 9 (3.57%) WSUS
9 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (2.78%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (2.38%) Puppet
12 5 (1.98%) NetApp OnCommand
12 5 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.98%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.98%) vMotion
13 4 (1.59%) Kibana
13 4 (1.59%) logstash
13 4 (1.59%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 59 (23.41%) VMware
2 55 (21.83%) Microsoft
3 35 (13.89%) Cisco
4 29 (11.51%) Oracle
5 24 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 15 (5.95%) Splunk
7 12 (4.76%) Atlassian
7 12 (4.76%) IBM
8 11 (4.37%) HP
9 10 (3.97%) SolarWinds
10 9 (3.57%) Databricks
10 9 (3.57%) Dell
10 9 (3.57%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.57%) SAP
10 9 (3.57%) Sun
10 9 (3.57%) Veritas
11 8 (3.17%) Google
12 7 (2.78%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.78%) F5
12 7 (2.78%) Unisys