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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 851 1131
Rank change year-on-year -5 +280 -297
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 58 101 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.10% 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.71% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 42 62 72
10th Percentile £28,550 £32,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £29,188 £37,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,875 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% -16.88% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,375 £62,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £93,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -27.27% +27.17%

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 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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 28 May 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 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +33 56 £42,500 -10.76% 11
UK excluding London -53 48 £36,000 -10.00% 9
North of England +38 21 £36,000 +11.80% 2
Yorkshire +66 11 £42,500 +31.99% 1
London +141 10 £66,250 -5.36% 1
West Midlands +4 10 £30,000 -24.32%
Midlands -20 10 £30,000 -41.46%
North East - 10 £32,000 - 1
East of England -12 8 £30,000 -33.33%
South West -22 6 £45,000 +15.38% 6
Work from Home +39 5 £54,000 -4.00% 4
Wales - 2 £42,500 -
South East -3 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 13 (22.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.45%) IIS
4 1 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (67.24%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (56.90%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) AWS
4 7 (12.07%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.90%) Google Workspace
6 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.72%) Serverless
9 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.83%) Firewall
2 20 (34.48%) WAN
3 14 (24.14%) TCP/IP
4 13 (22.41%) VPN
5 11 (18.97%) LAN
5 11 (18.97%) VLAN
5 11 (18.97%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (15.52%) BGP
6 9 (15.52%) DHCP
6 9 (15.52%) DNS
6 9 (15.52%) MPLS
6 9 (15.52%) OSPF
6 9 (15.52%) SD-WAN
7 8 (13.79%) VoIP
7 8 (13.79%) VSAN
8 6 (10.34%) Wireless
9 4 (6.90%) SAN
10 3 (5.17%) Ethernet
10 3 (5.17%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (5.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Git
1 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Games
4 6 (10.34%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Administrator
3 10 (17.24%) Support Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) IT Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (13.79%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Architect
6 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.62%) IT Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (8.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.90%) DBA
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) .NET
1 2 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 51 (87.93%) Clustering
2 8 (13.79%) Driving Licence
2 8 (13.79%) Operational Technology
3 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.62%) Client/Server
4 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.90%) Replication
6 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.72%) PKI
7 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (74.14%) Windows
2 33 (56.90%) Windows Server
3 19 (32.76%) Windows 10
4 13 (22.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (20.69%) Linux
5 12 (20.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (15.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (13.79%) Mac OS
8 5 (8.62%) CentOS
8 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (34.48%) High Availability
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
4 9 (15.52%) Decision-Making
5 8 (13.79%) Line Management
5 8 (13.79%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (12.07%) Quality Management
7 6 (10.34%) Load Balancing
8 5 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (8.62%) Business Continuity
8 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
8 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (8.62%) Patch Management
8 5 (8.62%) Performance Monitoring
8 5 (8.62%) Process Improvement
8 5 (8.62%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 5 (8.62%) Service Management
8 5 (8.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) PowerShell
2 15 (25.86%) SQL
3 2 (3.45%) C#
3 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.72%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) A+ Certification
3 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) RHCE
4 5 (8.62%) RHCSA
5 3 (5.17%) HNC
5 3 (5.17%) HND
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.72%) MCP
7 1 (1.72%) MCSA
7 1 (1.72%) MCSE
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (77.59%) Active Directory
2 38 (65.52%) Hyper-V
2 38 (65.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (25.86%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.17%) vSphere
5 2 (3.45%) Firmware
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (22.41%) SCCM
3 11 (18.97%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (17.24%) Autotask
5 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (10.34%) Ansible
7 5 (8.62%) FortiGate
7 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
7 5 (8.62%) Puppet
7 5 (8.62%) SCOM
8 4 (6.90%) WSUS
9 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (3.45%) Foglight
11 1 (1.72%) Grafana
11 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.72%) Rancher
11 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (84.48%) VMware
2 46 (79.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (17.24%) Datto
4 9 (15.52%) Apple
5 7 (12.07%) Dell
5 7 (12.07%) NetApp
6 6 (10.34%) Draytek
6 6 (10.34%) Veeam
7 5 (8.62%) EqualLogic
7 5 (8.62%) Nimble Storage
7 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.62%) Sophos
8 4 (6.90%) Aruba
8 4 (6.90%) Cisco
8 4 (6.90%) Commvault
8 4 (6.90%) Remedy
9 3 (5.17%) Sage
9 3 (5.17%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (5.17%) Webroot
10 2 (3.45%) IDERA