High Availability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability 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 376 271 274
Rank change year-on-year -105 +3 +37
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 720 1,273 2,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.31% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.37% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 592 758 1,069
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,288 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +11.11% +1.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing High Availability.

Salary trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability 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 -80 637 £57,500 -11.54% 177
UK excluding London -72 512 £57,500 +4.55% 109
Work from Home -22 326 £57,500 -14.81% 106
London -55 178 £77,500 +3.33% 73
North of England -38 147 £57,500 +13.88% 28
South East +30 121 £56,250 -6.25% 30
Midlands -21 99 £47,500 -17.39% 24
West Midlands -4 71 £52,500 -12.50% 16
North West -58 71 £57,500 +4.55% 17
Yorkshire +29 62 £57,500 +59.72% 8
South West -66 52 £57,500 +27.78% 10
Scotland -89 47 £52,500 -24.40% 6
East of England -7 38 £57,500 -30.30% 13
East Midlands -20 28 £45,000 -4.87% 8
North East -2 14 £57,500 +20.62% 3
Wales +1 10 £51,193 -19.32%

High Availability
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 66 (9.17%) IIS
2 28 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (3.33%) SharePoint
5 21 (2.92%) Apache
6 11 (1.53%) JBoss
7 10 (1.39%) nginx
8 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.69%) CMS
9 5 (0.69%) Drupal
10 4 (0.56%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.56%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.28%) Confluence
12 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.97%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.83%) SAP PLM
3 5 (0.69%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.42%) Maximo
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 398 (55.28%) Azure
2 205 (28.47%) AWS
3 99 (13.75%) Power Platform
4 95 (13.19%) GCP
5 55 (7.64%) SaaS
6 53 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 39 (5.42%) GitHub
9 27 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (2.64%) Google Docs
11 17 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.36%) Entra ID
11 17 (2.36%) Lucidchart
11 17 (2.36%) Miro
11 17 (2.36%) Serverless
11 17 (2.36%) Slack
12 14 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (15.83%) Firewall
2 79 (10.97%) WAN
3 78 (10.83%) Broadband
4 53 (7.36%) DNS
5 51 (7.08%) VPN
6 39 (5.42%) SAN
7 32 (4.44%) LAN
8 30 (4.17%) MPLS
9 27 (3.75%) TCP/IP
10 26 (3.61%) SD-WAN
11 25 (3.47%) BGP
12 23 (3.19%) OSPF
13 21 (2.92%) DHCP
13 21 (2.92%) Network Security
14 20 (2.78%) Wireless
15 17 (2.36%) WLAN
16 16 (2.22%) SNMP
17 15 (2.08%) Internet
18 13 (1.81%) SSL
19 12 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (32.22%) SQL Server
2 93 (12.92%) Power BI
3 83 (11.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (7.78%) NoSQL
5 40 (5.56%) MySQL
6 37 (5.14%) Relational Database
7 35 (4.86%) Big Data
8 29 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (3.75%) Hadoop
10 26 (3.61%) MongoDB
11 25 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (2.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (2.36%) Redis
14 17 (2.36%) Scylla
15 15 (2.08%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.67%) Data Lake
16 12 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (1.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 70 (9.72%) Git
2 53 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.19%) TeamCity
4 20 (2.78%) GitLab
5 14 (1.94%) JIRA
6 13 (1.81%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.69%) Subversion
10 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.42%) Android Studio
11 3 (0.42%) Selenium
12 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.28%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.28%) JMeter
12 2 (0.28%) JUnit
12 2 (0.28%) Maven
13 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 301 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 136 (18.89%) Finance
3 83 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (3.75%) Banking
6 26 (3.61%) Music Industry
7 23 (3.19%) Legal
8 22 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.50%) Law
11 16 (2.22%) Retail
12 13 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.53%) Front Office
13 11 (1.53%) Police
14 10 (1.39%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.83%) Games
16 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 110 (15.28%) DBA
2 102 (14.17%) Senior
3 90 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 74 (10.28%) Architect
5 70 (9.72%) Developer
6 58 (8.06%) Systems Engineer
7 54 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 50 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (6.94%) Lead
9 38 (5.28%) Administrator
10 37 (5.14%) Support Engineer
11 32 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.31%) .NET Developer
13 30 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
13 30 (4.17%) C# Developer
14 29 (4.03%) Analyst
15 24 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
16 23 (3.19%) Network Engineer
17 20 (2.78%) IT Engineer
18 19 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.00%) HTML
2 63 (8.75%) .NET
3 54 (7.50%) HTML5
4 45 (6.25%) RESTful
5 42 (5.83%) .NET Core
5 42 (5.83%) CSS
6 38 (5.28%) ASP.NET
6 38 (5.28%) Kafka
7 34 (4.72%) ASP.NET Web API
8 27 (3.75%) AngularJS
9 26 (3.61%) ASP.NET MVC
9 26 (3.61%) LINQ
10 25 (3.47%) REST
11 21 (2.92%) GraphQL
12 19 (2.64%) WebRTC
13 18 (2.50%) CSS3
13 18 (2.50%) YAML
14 17 (2.36%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (2.36%) React
Miscellaneous
1 119 (16.53%) Clustering
2 69 (9.58%) Data Centre
3 59 (8.19%) Replication
4 45 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 39 (5.42%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 35 (4.86%) Algorithms
8 34 (4.72%) Data Structures
8 34 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.50%) AS400
11 17 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (2.22%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.94%) Driving Licence
13 14 (1.94%) PKI
14 12 (1.67%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.53%) PMI
16 10 (1.39%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 152 (21.11%) Windows
2 113 (15.69%) Linux
3 84 (11.67%) VMS
4 78 (10.83%) Windows Server
5 31 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (2.50%) Unix
7 15 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
8 14 (1.94%) Solaris
9 13 (1.81%) CentOS
10 11 (1.53%) Windows 10
11 9 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.83%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.83%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.69%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.56%) AIX
15 4 (0.56%) Android
16 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (34.58%) Problem-Solving
2 224 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 164 (22.78%) Performance Tuning
4 157 (21.81%) DevOps
5 136 (18.89%) CI/CD
6 134 (18.61%) Agile
7 100 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (13.75%) Collaborative Working
9 96 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 93 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 93 (12.92%) Migration
11 91 (12.64%) Computer Science
12 84 (11.67%) Containerisation
13 74 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
14 70 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 62 (8.61%) Software Engineering
16 58 (8.06%) Business Continuity
16 58 (8.06%) Capacity Planning
16 58 (8.06%) Microservices
17 57 (7.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 243 (33.75%) SQL
2 119 (16.53%) Python
3 109 (15.14%) T-SQL
4 94 (13.06%) Java
5 89 (12.36%) C#
5 89 (12.36%) PowerShell
6 72 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 64 (8.89%) Bash
8 42 (5.83%) Go
9 26 (3.61%) Scala
10 24 (3.33%) PHP
11 16 (2.22%) C++
12 15 (2.08%) Perl
13 10 (1.39%) RPG
14 9 (1.25%) Rust
15 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.97%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.83%) C
16 6 (0.83%) VBA
17 5 (0.69%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 122 (16.94%) Degree
2 98 (13.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (10.83%) Security Cleared
4 55 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (5.69%) SC Cleared
6 30 (4.17%) Master's Degree
7 29 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.61%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.94%) CCNA
10 12 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.53%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.39%) CCNP
13 9 (1.25%) CCIE
13 9 (1.25%) RHCE
14 7 (0.97%) CCDP
14 7 (0.97%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.56%) QA
2 29 (4.03%) SLA
3 17 (2.36%) GDPR
4 8 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 102 (14.17%) Virtual Machines
2 94 (13.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (12.78%) Active Directory
4 90 (12.50%) Docker
5 45 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (4.17%) VMware NSX
7 28 (3.89%) Hyper-V
8 24 (3.33%) Firmware
9 17 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (1.39%) vSphere
12 5 (0.69%) XenApp
12 5 (0.69%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.56%) KVM
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.28%) Ceph
14 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.28%) NFS
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 134 (18.61%) Kubernetes
2 96 (13.33%) Terraform
3 85 (11.81%) Ansible
4 33 (4.58%) Grafana
5 28 (3.89%) Puppet
6 27 (3.75%) Nagios
7 24 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
8 20 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
8 20 (2.78%) SCOM
9 18 (2.50%) Prometheus
10 17 (2.36%) vCenter Server
11 15 (2.08%) HAProxy
12 14 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (1.81%) Progress Chef
14 12 (1.67%) Graphite
14 12 (1.67%) SCCM
15 11 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (1.39%) WSUS
17 9 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (1.25%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 291 (40.42%) Microsoft
2 129 (17.92%) VMware
3 63 (8.75%) Oracle
4 49 (6.81%) Cisco
5 39 (5.42%) Google
6 38 (5.28%) IBM
7 34 (4.72%) Red Hat
8 32 (4.44%) Dell
9 26 (3.61%) Veeam
10 17 (2.36%) SAP
11 16 (2.22%) HP
11 16 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.22%) SolarWinds
11 16 (2.22%) Splunk
12 14 (1.94%) Citrix
13 13 (1.81%) NetApp
13 13 (1.81%) New Relic
14 12 (1.67%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.67%) Serena
15 11 (1.53%) BeyondTrust