High Availability Job Trends in Berkshire

High Availability
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 109 129
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 +42
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 7 11 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.36% 0.67% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.73% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,000 £39,067
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +23.81% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68,165 £78,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £81,000 -
South East median annual salary £61,250 £69,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.23% +31.43% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,611 1,514 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.28% 92.71% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 744 653 1,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £94,750 £88,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

High Availability job vacancy trend in Berkshire

High Availability
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing High Availability

High Availability
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Reading +25 4 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Wokingham - 2 £62,500 - 2
Slough -26 1 £66,410 - 19
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DBA
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) NHS DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) NHS
3 2 (28.57%) Clustering
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Change Control
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
1 1 (14.29%) Coaching
1 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (14.29%) Facilities Management
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile First
1 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
1 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
1 1 (14.29%) TDD
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) HND
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Argo
2 2 (28.57%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft