High Availability Contract Job Trends in West London

High Availability
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 34 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing High Availability 7 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.53% 2.19% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.46% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £419 £365
25th Percentile - £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -15.45% -0.45%
75th Percentile - £474 £613
90th Percentile - £475 £650
London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.56% -
London median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £86.41
% change year-on-year +9.24% -72.46% +245.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 244 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.28% 89.05% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 176 384
10th Percentile £204 £270 £250
25th Percentile £320 £383 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -13.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £645
90th Percentile £558 £632 £768
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 20
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.18 £39.19
25th Percentile - £22.28 £54.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.59 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -55.99% +265.79%
75th Percentile £33.93 £65.00 £88.13
90th Percentile £43.38 £72.20 £90.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.03% -6.25% +5.44%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in West London

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Hillingdon -7 5 - -
High Availability
London

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP MDG
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SNMP
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) B2B
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (28.57%) Service Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) BPMN
2 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (14.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds