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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 283 280
Rank change year-on-year -83 -3 +28
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 739 1,280 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.26% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.32% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 610 792 1,044
10th Percentile £36,700 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +9.24% -0.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,125 £101,250 £92,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -60 642 £57,500 -11.54% 184
UK excluding London -51 524 £55,000 - 125
Work from Home -29 340 £57,500 -14.81% 101
London -69 182 £77,500 +3.33% 67
North of England -22 147 £57,500 +15.00% 37
South East +30 120 £55,000 -2.22% 28
Midlands -14 104 £44,750 -25.42% 28
West Midlands +15 80 £47,000 -21.67% 13
North West -51 70 £57,500 +4.55% 25
Yorkshire +50 63 £57,500 +43.75% 10
Scotland -97 59 £52,500 -24.40% 6
South West -66 50 £57,500 +27.78% 14
East of England +14 36 £57,500 -30.30% 13
East Midlands -27 24 £40,000 -30.43% 15
North East 0 14 £57,500 +20.62% 2
Wales +5 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 74 (10.01%) IIS
2 34 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 27 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (3.52%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.44%) Apache
6 8 (1.08%) JBoss
6 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.95%) nginx
8 5 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.68%) Drupal
9 4 (0.54%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.41%) GlassFish
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) Confluence
11 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.95%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.81%) SAP PLM
3 5 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.41%) Maximo
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 406 (54.94%) Azure
2 216 (29.23%) AWS
3 108 (14.61%) GCP
4 101 (13.67%) Power Platform
5 63 (8.53%) SaaS
6 54 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (6.22%) Amazon S3
8 39 (5.28%) GitHub
9 31 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
10 25 (3.38%) Google Docs
11 23 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (3.11%) Lucidchart
11 23 (3.11%) Miro
11 23 (3.11%) Slack
12 19 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.57%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.30%) Serverless
14 14 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.89%) IaaS
15 13 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 113 (15.29%) Firewall
2 86 (11.64%) WAN
3 78 (10.55%) Broadband
4 57 (7.71%) DNS
5 50 (6.77%) VPN
6 37 (5.01%) SAN
7 31 (4.19%) LAN
8 28 (3.79%) MPLS
9 25 (3.38%) DHCP
10 24 (3.25%) SD-WAN
10 24 (3.25%) TCP/IP
11 23 (3.11%) BGP
12 21 (2.84%) Network Security
12 21 (2.84%) OSPF
12 21 (2.84%) Wireless
13 17 (2.30%) SNMP
13 17 (2.30%) WLAN
14 16 (2.17%) Internet
15 13 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (1.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (32.61%) SQL Server
2 95 (12.86%) Power BI
3 87 (11.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (7.85%) NoSQL
5 42 (5.68%) Big Data
6 41 (5.55%) MySQL
7 39 (5.28%) Relational Database
8 36 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (4.47%) Hadoop
10 27 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 27 (3.65%) MongoDB
10 27 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.11%) Redis
11 23 (3.11%) Scylla
12 21 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (2.03%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.49%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (9.20%) Git
2 50 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.84%) TeamCity
4 20 (2.71%) GitLab
5 14 (1.89%) JIRA
6 13 (1.76%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.81%) Subversion
10 5 (0.68%) Selenium
11 4 (0.54%) Maven
11 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.41%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
14 1 (0.14%) JMeter
14 1 (0.14%) JUnit
14 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 318 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 145 (19.62%) Finance
3 79 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (3.92%) Banking
6 26 (3.52%) Music Industry
7 23 (3.11%) Legal
7 23 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 21 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.17%) Retail
10 15 (2.03%) Law
11 13 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.49%) Front Office
12 11 (1.49%) Police
13 10 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.08%) Games
15 7 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (15.29%) DBA
2 104 (14.07%) Senior
3 91 (12.31%) SQL DBA
4 71 (9.61%) Architect
5 70 (9.47%) Developer
6 67 (9.07%) Systems Engineer
7 57 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (6.90%) Lead
9 48 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.68%) Administrator
11 39 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 33 (4.47%) Support Engineer
13 31 (4.19%) .NET Developer
14 30 (4.06%) Analyst
14 30 (4.06%) C# .NET Developer
14 30 (4.06%) C# Developer
15 26 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
16 24 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (3.25%) Principal Software Engineer
17 22 (2.98%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.61%) HTML
2 63 (8.53%) .NET
3 52 (7.04%) HTML5
4 48 (6.50%) Kafka
5 47 (6.36%) RESTful
6 41 (5.55%) .NET Core
6 41 (5.55%) CSS
7 38 (5.14%) ASP.NET
8 34 (4.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 31 (4.19%) REST
10 27 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 27 (3.65%) GraphQL
11 26 (3.52%) ASP.NET MVC
11 26 (3.52%) LINQ
12 23 (3.11%) WebRTC
13 19 (2.57%) YAML
14 17 (2.30%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (2.30%) Web Services
15 16 (2.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 127 (17.19%) Clustering
2 74 (10.01%) Data Centre
3 62 (8.39%) Replication
4 49 (6.63%) Public Cloud
5 43 (5.82%) Algorithms
5 43 (5.82%) Data Structures
6 40 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (4.87%) Cloud Native
8 35 (4.74%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.57%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.44%) AS400
12 17 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.89%) Driving Licence
15 13 (1.76%) Product Ownership
16 12 (1.62%) PKI
16 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.49%) PMI
18 10 (1.35%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 153 (20.70%) Windows
2 111 (15.02%) Linux
3 84 (11.37%) VMS
4 80 (10.83%) Windows Server
5 31 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.57%) Unix
7 15 (2.03%) Oracle Linux
8 14 (1.89%) CentOS
8 14 (1.89%) Solaris
9 10 (1.35%) Windows 10
9 10 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.08%) Android
11 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.81%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.68%) AIX
13 5 (0.68%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.68%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
2 231 (31.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 167 (22.60%) Performance Tuning
4 155 (20.97%) DevOps
5 138 (18.67%) CI/CD
6 131 (17.73%) Agile
7 100 (13.53%) Collaborative Working
8 98 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
8 98 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (13.13%) Migration
10 89 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 85 (11.50%) Containerisation
11 85 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
12 84 (11.37%) Computer Science
13 72 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 69 (9.34%) Software Engineering
15 65 (8.80%) Capacity Planning
16 62 (8.39%) Business Continuity
16 62 (8.39%) ITIL
17 60 (8.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 248 (33.56%) SQL
2 122 (16.51%) Python
3 109 (14.75%) T-SQL
4 104 (14.07%) Java
5 91 (12.31%) C#
6 87 (11.77%) PowerShell
7 72 (9.74%) JavaScript
8 70 (9.47%) Bash
9 47 (6.36%) Go
10 31 (4.19%) Scala
11 27 (3.65%) PHP
12 18 (2.44%) Perl
13 15 (2.03%) C++
14 10 (1.35%) RPG
15 9 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.08%) Rust
17 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
18 6 (0.81%) C
18 6 (0.81%) VBA
19 5 (0.68%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 118 (15.97%) Degree
2 97 (13.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 86 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 49 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 28 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (3.79%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.65%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.76%) CCNA
9 12 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.49%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.22%) CCIE
11 9 (1.22%) CCNP
12 8 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.95%) CCDP
13 7 (0.95%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 7 (0.95%) RHCE
14 6 (0.81%) MCSE
14 6 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.28%) QA
2 32 (4.33%) SLA
3 15 (2.03%) GDPR
4 8 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 7 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.27%) NCSC
9 2 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (14.34%) Virtual Machines
2 102 (13.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (12.99%) Active Directory
4 91 (12.31%) Docker
5 44 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (5.14%) VMware NSX
7 30 (4.06%) Hyper-V
8 26 (3.52%) Firmware
9 15 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (1.08%) vSphere
11 6 (0.81%) XenApp
11 6 (0.81%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.41%) KVM
14 2 (0.27%) Ceph
14 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 137 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 93 (12.58%) Terraform
3 82 (11.10%) Ansible
4 31 (4.19%) Grafana
5 26 (3.52%) Nagios
6 25 (3.38%) Puppet
7 22 (2.98%) SCOM
8 20 (2.71%) Microsoft Clustering
9 19 (2.57%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (2.30%) vCenter Server
11 16 (2.17%) Prometheus
12 15 (2.03%) HAProxy
13 13 (1.76%) Graphite
13 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (1.76%) SCCM
14 11 (1.49%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.35%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.22%) Data Guard
16 9 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (1.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 300 (40.60%) Microsoft
2 140 (18.94%) VMware
3 62 (8.39%) Oracle
4 50 (6.77%) Cisco
5 46 (6.22%) Google
6 41 (5.55%) IBM
7 40 (5.41%) Dell
8 30 (4.06%) Veeam
9 29 (3.92%) Red Hat
10 18 (2.44%) SAP
11 17 (2.30%) Citrix
11 17 (2.30%) SolarWinds
12 16 (2.17%) HP
12 16 (2.17%) ServiceNow
13 15 (2.03%) NetApp
14 13 (1.76%) Commvault
15 12 (1.62%) CheckPoint
15 12 (1.62%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.62%) Serena
15 12 (1.62%) Splunk