Failover Clustering Jobs

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 845 1157
Rank change year-on-year -3 +312 -298
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 57 101 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.58% 0.73% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 41 61 71
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,875 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -24.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £39,820 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.57% -24.15% +26.51%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,899 13,744 31,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 14.50% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,032 8,785 14,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +5.45%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Salary trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +25 55 £42,500 -5.56% 8
UK excluding London -71 47 £38,000 -4.57% 6
North of England +21 20 £38,000 +18.01% 2
London +104 10 £66,250 -5.36% 1
Yorkshire +46 10 £42,500 +31.99%
North East -2 10 £32,000 -46.67% 2
West Midlands -15 10 £30,000 -24.32%
Midlands -25 10 £30,000 -40.00%
East of England -14 8 £30,000 -33.33%
South West -24 6 £45,000 +15.38% 3
Work from Home +24 5 £54,000 -10.00% 3
Wales - 2 £42,500 -
South East -16 1 £29,000 -31.76% 1

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) IIS
4 1 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (56.14%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) AWS
4 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.02%) Google Workspace
6 4 (7.02%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.51%) SaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.75%) Serverless
9 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (45.61%) Firewall
2 20 (35.09%) WAN
3 14 (24.56%) TCP/IP
4 12 (21.05%) VPN
5 11 (19.30%) LAN
5 11 (19.30%) VLAN
5 11 (19.30%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (15.79%) BGP
6 9 (15.79%) MPLS
6 9 (15.79%) OSPF
6 9 (15.79%) SD-WAN
7 8 (14.04%) DHCP
7 8 (14.04%) DNS
7 8 (14.04%) VoIP
7 8 (14.04%) VSAN
8 5 (8.77%) Wireless
9 4 (7.02%) SAN
10 3 (5.26%) Ethernet
10 3 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (5.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (17.54%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Games
2 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Retail
4 3 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.51%) Finance
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Administrator
1 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Support Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (14.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) IT Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) Systems Administrator
4 8 (14.04%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) AWS Architect
5 5 (8.77%) IT Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (8.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) DBA
6 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) .NET
1 2 (3.51%) XML
2 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 50 (87.72%) Clustering
2 8 (14.04%) Driving Licence
2 8 (14.04%) Operational Technology
3 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.77%) Client/Server
4 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (8.77%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.02%) Replication
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.75%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.75%) PKI
7 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (73.68%) Windows
2 32 (56.14%) Windows Server
3 19 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 12 (21.05%) Linux
4 12 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (19.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (14.04%) Mac OS
6 8 (14.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (8.77%) CentOS
7 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (33.33%) High Availability
3 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 8 (14.04%) Line Management
5 8 (14.04%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (12.28%) Quality Management
7 6 (10.53%) Load Balancing
8 5 (8.77%) API Management
8 5 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (8.77%) Business Continuity
8 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (8.77%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (8.77%) Patch Management
8 5 (8.77%) Performance Monitoring
8 5 (8.77%) Process Improvement
8 5 (8.77%) Service Management
8 5 (8.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) PowerShell
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) C#
3 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.75%) Bash
4 1 (1.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Degree
2 8 (14.04%) A+ Certification
3 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) RHCE
4 5 (8.77%) RHCSA
5 3 (5.26%) HNC
5 3 (5.26%) HND
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.75%) MCP
6 1 (1.75%) MCSA
6 1 (1.75%) MCSE
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (77.19%) Active Directory
2 37 (64.91%) Hyper-V
2 37 (64.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.26%) vSphere
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.75%) Firmware
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (22.81%) SCCM
3 11 (19.30%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (17.54%) Autotask
5 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (10.53%) Ansible
7 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
7 5 (8.77%) Puppet
8 4 (7.02%) FortiGate
8 4 (7.02%) SCOM
8 4 (7.02%) WSUS
9 2 (3.51%) Foglight
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (1.75%) Grafana
10 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.75%) Rancher
10 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (84.21%) VMware
2 45 (78.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (17.54%) Datto
4 9 (15.79%) Apple
5 7 (12.28%) Dell
5 7 (12.28%) NetApp
6 6 (10.53%) Draytek
7 5 (8.77%) EqualLogic
7 5 (8.77%) Nimble Storage
7 5 (8.77%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.77%) Sophos
7 5 (8.77%) Veeam
8 4 (7.02%) Remedy
9 3 (5.26%) Aruba
9 3 (5.26%) Cisco
9 3 (5.26%) Commvault
9 3 (5.26%) Sage
9 3 (5.26%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (5.26%) Webroot
10 2 (3.51%) Meraki