High Availability Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

High Availability
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 3.27% 1.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 1.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £285 £406 -
25th Percentile £318 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £438 -
75th Percentile £516 £466 -
90th Percentile £556 £479 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 115 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 82.24% 87.12% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 82 212
10th Percentile £170 £200 £250
25th Percentile £220 £376 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £586 £588
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £12.63 - £16.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £27.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.04
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.43 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.56% +9.22% +51.95%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in West Sussex

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in West Sussex over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in West Sussex

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 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
Worthing -1 3 £500 +5.26%
Burgess Hill -4 2 £285 -28.75% 2
Crawley - 2 £400 - 3
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Junos
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) OSPF
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) RAD
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Edge Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) SAP