High Availability Contracts in the City of London

High Availability
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 125 154
Rank change year-on-year +36 +29 +1
Contract jobs citing High Availability 38 25 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.79% 0.90% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.00% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 32
10th Percentile £425 £444 -
25th Percentile £518 £471 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £620
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -12.10% +3.33%
75th Percentile £685 £634 £763
90th Percentile £771 £692 £985
Central London median daily rate £575 £540 £640
% change year-on-year +6.48% -15.63% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the City of London

High Availability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for High Availability in the City of London

High Availability
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for High Availability in the City of London

High Availability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for High Availability in the City of London

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (13.16%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) Datadog
6 1 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.63%) npm
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Network Security
2 5 (13.16%) DHCP
2 5 (13.16%) DNS
2 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.53%) Firewall
4 3 (7.89%) 4G
4 3 (7.89%) BGP
4 3 (7.89%) Kerberos
4 3 (7.89%) OSPF
4 3 (7.89%) VPN
4 3 (7.89%) WAN
4 3 (7.89%) Wireless
5 2 (5.26%) HTTP
5 2 (5.26%) HTTPS
5 2 (5.26%) Internet
5 2 (5.26%) LAN
6 1 (2.63%) Extranet
6 1 (2.63%) LTE
6 1 (2.63%) SAN
6 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) CockroachDB
2 2 (5.26%) MySQL
2 2 (5.26%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.63%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.63%) Dremio
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.63%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.68%) GitLab
3 5 (13.16%) JIRA
4 4 (10.53%) Git
5 3 (7.89%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.63%) Gerrit
7 1 (2.63%) Gradle
7 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Investment Banking
5 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) International Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Network Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.26%) Django
1 2 (5.26%) HTML
1 2 (5.26%) HTML5
1 2 (5.26%) JMS
1 2 (5.26%) Kafka
1 2 (5.26%) LDAP
1 2 (5.26%) REST
1 2 (5.26%) RESTful
1 2 (5.26%) RxJS
1 2 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.63%) JDBC
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) Node.js
2 1 (2.63%) Spring
2 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Replication
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Clustering
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.63%) AIX
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Solaris
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) DevOps
2 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
6 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.16%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (10.53%) Clean Code
7 4 (10.53%) Cloud Security
7 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.53%) Microservices
7 4 (10.53%) Migration
8 3 (7.89%) Security Operations
8 3 (7.89%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Java
3 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) Go
4 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) CCNA
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Ansible
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.05%) Terraform
3 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
5 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.26%) Salt
5 2 (5.26%) SCOM
5 2 (5.26%) SCOrch
5 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.63%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.63%) Kibana
6 1 (2.63%) Netcool
6 1 (2.63%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) CyberArk
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) xMatters
3 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.63%) Arista
4 1 (2.63%) Confluent
4 1 (2.63%) EMC
4 1 (2.63%) F5
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Isilon
4 1 (2.63%) Meraki
4 1 (2.63%) MobileIron
4 1 (2.63%) New Relic
4 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Sybase