High Availability Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

High Availability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 125 171 215
Rank change year-on-year +46 +44 +78
Contract jobs citing High Availability 206 185 301
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.08% 1.21% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.37% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 114 210
10th Percentile £350 £300 £400
25th Percentile £450 £391 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £751 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £64.65
25th Percentile £67.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile - - £69.15
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

High Availability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High Availability trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing High Availability.

High Availability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing High Availability over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

High Availability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing High Availability.

High Availability hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (9.22%) Confluence
2 8 (3.88%) Apache
2 8 (3.88%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.94%) nginx
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.97%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.97%) Camunda
6 2 (0.97%) CMS
6 2 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.49%) BASE24
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.04%) AWS
2 57 (27.67%) Azure
3 36 (17.48%) Serverless
4 29 (14.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (13.59%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (13.11%) Amazon S3
6 27 (13.11%) GCP
7 22 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.31%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (5.34%) GitHub
10 9 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.37%) IaaS
11 8 (3.88%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.40%) PaaS
12 7 (3.40%) SaaS
13 6 (2.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.08%) Firewall
2 16 (7.77%) HTTP
2 16 (7.77%) VPN
3 15 (7.28%) DNS
4 14 (6.80%) Network Security
5 12 (5.83%) TCP/IP
6 11 (5.34%) DHCP
7 9 (4.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (3.40%) LAN
8 7 (3.40%) WAN
9 5 (2.43%) Wireless
10 4 (1.94%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.94%) VLAN
11 3 (1.46%) 4G
11 3 (1.46%) MPLS
11 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.46%) SSL
12 2 (0.97%) BGP
12 2 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (0.97%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.68%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.19%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.25%) MySQL
4 16 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.40%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.43%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.94%) Big Data
11 4 (1.94%) Flink
11 4 (1.94%) Redis
12 2 (0.97%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.97%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (16.50%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.17%) Git
2 23 (11.17%) JIRA
3 14 (6.80%) GitLab
4 6 (2.91%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.91%) Jasmine
4 6 (2.91%) JUnit
5 5 (2.43%) Ant
5 5 (2.43%) Maven
5 5 (2.43%) Subversion
5 5 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.97%) MSTest
7 2 (0.97%) NUnit
7 2 (0.97%) Postman
7 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.49%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.49%) Mocha
8 1 (0.49%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (18.45%) Public Sector
4 34 (16.50%) Finance
5 20 (9.71%) Banking
6 10 (4.85%) Front Office
7 8 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.43%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Billing
11 1 (0.49%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) German Language
11 1 (0.49%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.49%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (19.42%) Architect
1 40 (19.42%) Developer
2 31 (15.05%) Senior
3 18 (8.74%) AWS Architect
4 16 (7.77%) DBA
5 15 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (6.80%) Lead
7 10 (4.85%) SQL DBA
7 10 (4.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 9 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.37%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.37%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.37%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (3.88%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.88%) Site Engineer
9 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.88%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.31%) RESTful
2 11 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.85%) .NET
3 10 (4.85%) Flash
3 10 (4.85%) Spring
4 9 (4.37%) OpenAPI
4 9 (4.37%) REST
4 9 (4.37%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.37%) Swagger
5 8 (3.88%) Kafka
6 6 (2.91%) Middleware
6 6 (2.91%) OAuth
7 5 (2.43%) PySpark
7 5 (2.43%) Spring Batch
7 5 (2.43%) Spring Security
7 5 (2.43%) XML
8 4 (1.94%) Node.js
8 4 (1.94%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.94%) Pandas
8 4 (1.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.22%) Clustering
2 14 (6.80%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.34%) Private Cloud
4 10 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.37%) Replication
5 9 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.40%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.43%) Derivative
8 5 (2.43%) Equities
8 5 (2.43%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.21%) Linux
2 34 (16.50%) Windows
3 27 (13.11%) Unix
4 16 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (7.28%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.91%) Solaris
7 5 (2.43%) AIX
8 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (32.04%) DevOps
1 66 (32.04%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (26.70%) CI/CD
2 55 (26.70%) Containerisation
3 37 (17.96%) Agile
3 37 (17.96%) Disaster Recovery
4 30 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (14.56%) Performance Tuning
5 24 (11.65%) Migration
6 21 (10.19%) Open Source
6 21 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
7 20 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (9.71%) Task Automation
8 19 (9.22%) SDLC
8 19 (9.22%) Software Engineering
9 18 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (8.74%) ITIL
9 18 (8.74%) Microservices
10 17 (8.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (32.04%) Python
2 48 (23.30%) SQL
3 25 (12.14%) PowerShell
4 23 (11.17%) Bash
5 21 (10.19%) Java
6 11 (5.34%) C#
7 10 (4.85%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.91%) Bicep
9 6 (2.91%) Go
10 5 (2.43%) Groovy
10 5 (2.43%) Perl
11 3 (1.46%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.46%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (1.46%) C++
11 3 (1.46%) Jython
11 3 (1.46%) Ruby
12 2 (0.97%) Korn
12 2 (0.97%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.19%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (7.28%) CCNA
6 15 (7.28%) Degree
7 10 (4.85%) Master's Degree
7 10 (4.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.40%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.43%) CCNP
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.46%) CISSP
10 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.46%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.97%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.34%) GDPR
2 5 (2.43%) QA
3 4 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (1.94%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.46%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.97%) SLA
6 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (20.39%) Docker
2 25 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.34%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (5.34%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.85%) Active Directory
6 6 (2.91%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.46%) vSphere
8 1 (0.49%) Ceph
8 1 (0.49%) Firmware
8 1 (0.49%) NFS
8 1 (0.49%) Samba
8 1 (0.49%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 45 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 39 (18.93%) Terraform
3 35 (16.99%) Ansible
4 10 (4.85%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.85%) vCenter Server
5 8 (3.88%) Grafana
6 6 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.43%) Puppet
8 4 (1.94%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.94%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.46%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.46%) Istio
9 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.46%) Nagios
9 3 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.97%) Argo
10 2 (0.97%) CloudHub
10 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.97%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (14.56%) VMware
2 24 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.22%) Cisco
4 17 (8.25%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.28%) Oracle
6 14 (6.80%) Splunk
7 11 (5.34%) Atlassian
8 10 (4.85%) Google
9 9 (4.37%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.88%) Databricks
11 7 (3.40%) Dynatrace
11 7 (3.40%) HP
12 6 (2.91%) IBM
13 5 (2.43%) Dell
14 4 (1.94%) 3PAR
14 4 (1.94%) AppDynamics
14 4 (1.94%) SAP
14 4 (1.94%) Veritas
15 3 (1.46%) CheckPoint
15 3 (1.46%) IBM Sterling