High Availability Job Trends in England

High Availability
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 219 304
Rank change year-on-year -41 +85 +6
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 466 644 603
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 1.45% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.57% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 333 385 538
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £108,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -14.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,536 40,950 58,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.41% 92.48% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29,120 20,127 46,241
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,300 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in England

High Availability
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for High Availability in England

High Availability
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
London +12 242 £95,000 +24.18% 84
North of England -22 84 £61,250 +16.67% 42
South East -41 57 £60,000 -14.29% 84
Midlands -12 36 £55,500 +16.84% 25
North West -7 33 £65,000 +27.73% 20
South West -16 28 £64,500 +7.50% 13
West Midlands +19 27 £62,500 +13.64% 17
Yorkshire -20 26 £62,500 +19.05% 19
North East +1 25 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East of England -8 16 £85,000 +30.77% 20
East Midlands -42 9 £52,500 +10.53% 8
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.07%) Apache
6 4 (0.86%) Confluence
6 4 (0.86%) IIS
6 4 (0.86%) nginx
7 2 (0.43%) JBoss
7 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Site Server
8 1 (0.21%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Maximo
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 209 (44.85%) Azure
2 193 (41.42%) AWS
3 70 (15.02%) GCP
4 53 (11.37%) GitHub
5 51 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (9.01%) Serverless
7 34 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (5.36%) Datadog
10 24 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (4.51%) Entra ID
13 20 (4.29%) Amazon S3
14 19 (4.08%) Pulumi
15 17 (3.65%) SaaS
16 16 (3.43%) Nutanix
16 16 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 104 (22.32%) Firewall
2 56 (12.02%) WAN
3 54 (11.59%) VPN
4 50 (10.73%) DNS
5 46 (9.87%) LAN
6 33 (7.08%) TCP/IP
7 30 (6.44%) DHCP
8 29 (6.22%) Network Security
9 26 (5.58%) SD-WAN
9 26 (5.58%) VLAN
10 24 (5.15%) Broadband
10 24 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (4.29%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (4.29%) Wireless
12 19 (4.08%) HTTP
13 17 (3.65%) BGP
14 15 (3.22%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (3.00%) VoIP
16 13 (2.79%) Remote Desktop
17 12 (2.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.52%) NoSQL
2 27 (5.79%) Relational Database
3 25 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 21 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (4.51%) RDBMS
5 19 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.43%) MySQL
7 14 (3.00%) Oracle Database
8 13 (2.79%) BigQuery
8 13 (2.79%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.36%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.93%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.29%) Redis
14 5 (1.07%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.07%) Big Data
14 5 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (9.87%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.36%) Git
3 21 (4.51%) Jaeger
4 19 (4.08%) GitLab
5 14 (3.00%) CircleCI
6 11 (2.36%) JIRA
7 10 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.86%) Vite
9 3 (0.64%) MLflow
9 3 (0.64%) Snyk
10 2 (0.43%) JMeter
10 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.43%) Subversion
11 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.21%) Maven
11 1 (0.21%) Postman
11 1 (0.21%) Selenium
11 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 135 (28.97%) Finance
3 38 (8.15%) Telecoms
4 31 (6.65%) Banking
5 27 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.94%) Financial Institution
7 22 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.65%) Law
10 14 (3.00%) Retail
11 11 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.50%) Legal
13 7 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.29%) Electronics
14 6 (1.29%) Games
14 6 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.29%) Marketing
15 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 107 (22.96%) Senior
2 52 (11.16%) Network Engineer
3 50 (10.73%) Lead
4 45 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 45 (9.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (9.23%) Developer
6 41 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 30 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
8 29 (6.22%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (4.72%) Cisco Engineer
11 22 (4.72%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 22 (4.72%) WAN Engineer
12 20 (4.29%) Administrator
12 20 (4.29%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.86%) DBA
13 18 (3.86%) Linux Engineer
14 17 (3.65%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.43%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.44%) Elastic Stack
1 44 (9.44%) Kafka
2 35 (7.51%) RESTful
3 26 (5.58%) .NET
4 25 (5.36%) OAuth
5 23 (4.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
7 20 (4.29%) Spring
8 19 (4.08%) React
8 19 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.86%) gRPC
10 16 (3.43%) JMS
10 16 (3.43%) REST
11 14 (3.00%) OAuth2
12 12 (2.58%) .NET Framework
12 12 (2.58%) Middleware
13 11 (2.36%) SAML
14 10 (2.15%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (2.15%) Akka
14 10 (2.15%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 72 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.87%) Data Centre
3 38 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (3.86%) Replication
7 15 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.00%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.58%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.58%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.36%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.36%) Security Posture
11 10 (2.15%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.93%) Clustering
12 9 (1.93%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.93%) Web3
13 8 (1.72%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 96 (20.60%) Linux
2 56 (12.02%) Windows
3 43 (9.23%) Unix
3 43 (9.23%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.93%) Android
5 7 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.50%) VMS
6 5 (1.07%) AIX
7 4 (0.86%) CentOS
7 4 (0.86%) Debian
7 4 (0.86%) SUSE
8 3 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.21%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (39.06%) DevOps
2 148 (31.76%) CI/CD
3 128 (27.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (24.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 101 (21.67%) Containerisation
6 88 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (17.81%) Mentoring
8 78 (16.74%) Agile
9 74 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (15.24%) Microservices
11 69 (14.81%) Computer Science
12 62 (13.30%) ITIL
13 60 (12.88%) Roadmaps
14 59 (12.66%) Software Engineering
15 56 (12.02%) Observability
16 51 (10.94%) Analytics
16 51 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
17 50 (10.73%) AI
17 50 (10.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 47 (10.09%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 144 (30.90%) Python
2 82 (17.60%) SQL
3 81 (17.38%) Bash
4 65 (13.95%) Go
5 61 (13.09%) Java
6 48 (10.30%) PowerShell
7 44 (9.44%) JavaScript
8 28 (6.01%) C#
9 14 (3.00%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.36%) C++
11 9 (1.93%) Scala
12 7 (1.50%) Bicep
12 7 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.29%) Ruby
14 5 (1.07%) PHP
14 5 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.86%) Korn
15 4 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.86%) Perl
16 2 (0.43%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 84 (18.03%) Degree
2 60 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 48 (10.30%) CCNP
5 45 (9.66%) AWS Certification
6 35 (7.51%) SC Cleared
7 30 (6.44%) Azure Certification
8 25 (5.36%) CCNA
9 24 (5.15%) CCIE
10 22 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (4.08%) DV Cleared
12 15 (3.22%) Master's Degree
13 14 (3.00%) CCSA
13 14 (3.00%) CCSE
14 11 (2.36%) PMI Certification
15 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.93%) PMP
17 6 (1.29%) CISSP
17 6 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.08%) GDPR
2 19 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.65%) PCI DSS
4 16 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.00%) QA
6 12 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (2.58%) SLA
7 11 (2.36%) NIST
8 9 (1.93%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.21%) Basel III
10 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (21.67%) Docker
2 55 (11.80%) Active Directory
3 33 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (6.44%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.50%) vSphere
8 3 (0.64%) KVM
8 3 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.43%) NFS
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.43%) QEMU
9 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.21%) Ceph
10 1 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.21%) Lustre
10 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Squid
10 1 (0.21%) XenApp
10 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 137 (29.40%) Kubernetes
2 126 (27.04%) Terraform
3 77 (16.52%) Prometheus
4 75 (16.09%) Ansible
5 47 (10.09%) Grafana
6 25 (5.36%) Argo
7 19 (4.08%) Kustomize
8 17 (3.65%) FortiGate
9 12 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.29%) Kibana
11 5 (1.07%) SCCM
12 4 (0.86%) Nagios
12 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.64%) logstash
13 3 (0.64%) Netcool
13 3 (0.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (17.81%) Cisco
2 80 (17.17%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.73%) Google
4 34 (7.30%) VMware
5 24 (5.15%) Fortinet
5 24 (5.15%) Palo Alto
6 22 (4.72%) Dell
7 21 (4.51%) SAP
8 19 (4.08%) Oracle
9 18 (3.86%) CheckPoint
10 14 (3.00%) Databricks
11 13 (2.79%) IBM
11 13 (2.79%) Meraki
11 13 (2.79%) SolarWinds
12 12 (2.58%) Nimble Storage
13 11 (2.36%) Dell Compellent
13 11 (2.36%) HP
14 10 (2.15%) Juniper
14 10 (2.15%) Splunk
14 10 (2.15%) Zscaler