High Availability Job Trends in Cheshire

High Availability
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 57 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 +32
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 4 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.31% 0.53% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.59% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £57,800 - £50,000
25th Percentile £62,000 £64,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £74,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +35.45% -31.25%
75th Percentile £80,500 £84,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,600 - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -6.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,091 508 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.28% 89.28% 82.53%
Number of salaries quoted 434 255 393
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in Cheshire

High Availability
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for High Availability in Cheshire

High Availability
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Knutsford -11 3 £86,000 +15.44%
Crewe - 1 £55,000 - 2
High Availability
North West

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) DPDK
1 2 (50.00%) eBPF
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) KVM
1 2 (50.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft