High Availability Contracts in London

High Availability
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 233 265
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 -55
Contract jobs citing High Availability 174 316 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 1.18% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.30% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 212 234
10th Percentile £300 £413 £451
25th Percentile £461 £474 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £775
90th Percentile £719 £700 £834
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 19
10th Percentile - £70.80 £23.33
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £75.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -68.27% +213.68% -67.02%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £52.00
England median hourly rate £44.80 £70.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -36.00% +192.76% +59.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

High Availability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,808 24,326 35,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 90.98% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,340 17,488 26,268
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.95 £63.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.53 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in London

High Availability
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Central London +5 14 £638 +2.00% 10
West London +20 10 £419 -32.96% 4
South London +13 5 £519 -17.00% 2
East London - 1 £520 -
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 25 (14.37%) Confluence
2 7 (4.02%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.45%) IIS
4 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.15%) SAS
5 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.15%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.57%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.57%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.57%) JBoss
6 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Fidessa
1 2 (1.15%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.57%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.57%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.57%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.93%) AWS
2 59 (33.91%) Azure
3 38 (21.84%) GCP
4 17 (9.77%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (8.62%) PaaS
6 14 (8.05%) SaaS
7 13 (7.47%) Nutanix
8 11 (6.32%) IaaS
9 10 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.75%) Rubrik
9 10 (5.75%) Serverless
10 9 (5.17%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.02%) NuGet
13 6 (3.45%) GitHub
13 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.24%) Firewall
2 21 (12.07%) DNS
3 17 (9.77%) DHCP
4 16 (9.20%) TCP/IP
5 15 (8.62%) SAN
6 14 (8.05%) NAS
6 14 (8.05%) VLAN
7 13 (7.47%) Network Security
8 12 (6.90%) BGP
8 12 (6.90%) HTTP
9 11 (6.32%) OSPF
10 10 (5.75%) VPN
10 10 (5.75%) WAN
11 9 (5.17%) Kerberos
11 9 (5.17%) LAN
12 8 (4.60%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (4.60%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (3.45%) Internet
14 5 (2.87%) HTTPS
14 5 (2.87%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.92%) Relational Database
2 16 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.62%) Apache Cassandra
4 12 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.02%) MySQL
8 7 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.45%) Redis
10 5 (2.87%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.30%) DB2
11 4 (2.30%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (22.41%) Git
2 25 (14.37%) JIRA
3 23 (13.22%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.32%) JUnit
5 8 (4.60%) Subversion
5 8 (4.60%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.02%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.02%) Gatling
7 4 (2.30%) Mockito
7 4 (2.30%) ScalaTest
8 3 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.72%) GitLab
8 3 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (17.24%) Finance
1 30 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.92%) Banking
3 11 (6.32%) Investment Banking
4 10 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Front Office
7 2 (1.15%) Back Office
7 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.15%) Marketing
7 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.57%) Advertising
8 1 (0.57%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.57%) French Language
8 1 (0.57%) German Language
8 1 (0.57%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (20.69%) Developer
2 26 (14.94%) Senior
3 19 (10.92%) Architect
4 17 (9.77%) Java Developer
4 17 (9.77%) Network Engineer
5 11 (6.32%) Analyst
6 10 (5.75%) Scala Developer
6 10 (5.75%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Administrator
8 8 (4.60%) Lead
8 8 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Consultant
9 7 (4.02%) DBA
10 6 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (2.87%) Citrix Analyst
11 5 (2.87%) Exchange Support
11 5 (2.87%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.79%) REST
2 21 (12.07%) Spring
3 20 (11.49%) .NET
3 20 (11.49%) Hibernate
3 20 (11.49%) JPA
4 17 (9.77%) Spring Boot
5 15 (8.62%) Kafka
5 15 (8.62%) RESTful
6 14 (8.05%) Middleware
7 13 (7.47%) FIX Protocol
7 13 (7.47%) LDAP
8 10 (5.75%) React
8 10 (5.75%) Spring Security
9 9 (5.17%) Akka
10 8 (4.60%) .NET Core
10 8 (4.60%) YAML
11 7 (4.02%) SOAP
12 6 (3.45%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.45%) Node.js
12 6 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Clustering
2 17 (9.77%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.47%) Derivative
4 12 (6.90%) Replication
5 10 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.02%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.30%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) PKI
9 3 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Wiki
10 2 (1.15%) CMDB
10 2 (1.15%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.15%) Thin Client
10 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (29.31%) Linux
2 36 (20.69%) Windows
3 22 (12.64%) Windows Server
4 17 (9.77%) Unix
5 8 (4.60%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.60%) Solaris
6 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (41.95%) DevOps
2 60 (34.48%) Disaster Recovery
3 53 (30.46%) Agile
4 41 (23.56%) Microservices
5 28 (16.09%) Scrum
6 27 (15.52%) Unit Testing
7 26 (14.94%) CI/CD
7 26 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (14.37%) Capacity Management
8 25 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (13.79%) TDD
10 22 (12.64%) ITIL
11 21 (12.07%) Low Latency
11 21 (12.07%) Migration
12 20 (11.49%) Containerisation
12 20 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (10.92%) Configuration Management
14 18 (10.34%) Analytics
14 18 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (9.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.76%) Python
2 47 (27.01%) Java
3 35 (20.11%) SQL
4 34 (19.54%) PowerShell
5 22 (12.64%) Bash
5 22 (12.64%) C#
6 10 (5.75%) Scala
7 9 (5.17%) C++
7 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.60%) Go
8 8 (4.60%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.02%) Bicep
10 4 (2.30%) Perl
11 3 (1.72%) Ruby
11 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Jython
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.09%) Degree
3 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.75%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.02%) CCNP
6 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.87%) CCDP
7 5 (2.87%) CCIE
8 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.72%) CCNA
9 3 (1.72%) MCITP
9 3 (1.72%) MCTS
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.15%) MCSE
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) GDPR
1 8 (4.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.72%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (27.01%) Docker
2 20 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.62%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.02%) Firmware
6 6 (3.45%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.72%) vSphere
8 2 (1.15%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.15%) KVM
8 2 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.57%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.57%) XenApp
9 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (29.89%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.82%) Terraform
3 27 (15.52%) Ansible
4 18 (10.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 13 (7.47%) Grafana
6 8 (4.60%) EMC NetWorker
6 8 (4.60%) Netcool
6 8 (4.60%) Tivoli
6 8 (4.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 7 (4.02%) BladeLogic
8 6 (3.45%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.45%) SCCM
9 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.30%) Puppet
10 3 (1.72%) Istio
10 3 (1.72%) Kibana
10 3 (1.72%) WSUS
11 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 28 (16.09%) Cisco
3 26 (14.94%) VMware
4 18 (10.34%) Dell
4 18 (10.34%) Oracle
5 16 (9.20%) Citrix
6 15 (8.62%) ServiceNow
7 14 (8.05%) CyberArk
8 13 (7.47%) Palo Alto
8 13 (7.47%) Splunk
9 12 (6.90%) HP
9 12 (6.90%) IBM
10 11 (6.32%) EMC
11 8 (4.60%) Dynatrace
11 8 (4.60%) Isilon
11 8 (4.60%) Qualys
11 8 (4.60%) Serena
12 7 (4.02%) Altiris
12 7 (4.02%) Google
12 7 (4.02%) Juniper