High Availability Jobs in England

High Availability
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 345 288
Rank change year-on-year +71 -57 +4
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 486 650 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.76% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.89% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 369 549 700
10th Percentile £44,550 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +12.25%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £66,950
% change year-on-year +13.04% -14.12% +15.43%

All Process and 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 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in England

High Availability
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for High Availability in England

High Availability
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +127 218 £75,000 -3.23% 251
South East +87 96 £57,500 - 115
North of England +15 74 £55,000 -4.35% 68
North West +9 46 £50,890 -9.53% 45
Midlands +11 39 £55,000 +22.91% 42
East of England +54 29 £62,500 +8.70% 13
West Midlands -12 23 £70,000 +64.71% 32
South West +73 16 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Yorkshire +26 16 £52,500 -6.25% 15
East Midlands +40 14 £47,500 - 9
North East +48 12 £57,500 - 10
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 55 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.91%) IIS
4 8 (1.65%) Apache
5 7 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.23%) Confluence
7 5 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.82%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.62%) CMS
9 3 (0.62%) WordPress
10 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.21%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.21%) CICS
11 1 (0.21%) Drupal
11 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.21%) JBoss
11 1 (0.21%) Jetty
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.62%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.41%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 238 (48.97%) Azure
2 179 (36.83%) AWS
3 76 (15.64%) GCP
4 64 (13.17%) SaaS
5 46 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (8.85%) Entra ID
7 42 (8.64%) PaaS
8 40 (8.23%) Serverless
9 38 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (6.17%) GitHub
12 22 (4.53%) Amazon S3
12 22 (4.53%) IaaS
13 20 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (3.70%) Power Platform
15 17 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.88%) AWS KMS
17 13 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 84 (17.28%) Firewall
2 62 (12.76%) VPN
3 56 (11.52%) DNS
4 47 (9.67%) Network Security
5 44 (9.05%) DHCP
6 41 (8.44%) SAN
7 35 (7.20%) WAN
8 29 (5.97%) LAN
9 28 (5.76%) NAS
9 28 (5.76%) TCP/IP
10 25 (5.14%) BGP
11 21 (4.32%) OSPF
12 19 (3.91%) Wireless
13 16 (3.29%) MPLS
14 14 (2.88%) SD-WAN
15 12 (2.47%) VLAN
15 12 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (2.06%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (2.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 21 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (3.91%) MySQL
6 18 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.50%) Big Data
7 17 (3.50%) DynamoDB
8 16 (3.29%) Power BI
8 16 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.47%) Data Hub
9 12 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (2.47%) SQL CLR
10 11 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.06%) Metadata
11 10 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 64 (13.17%) Jenkins
2 36 (7.41%) Git
3 20 (4.12%) GitLab
4 9 (1.85%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.85%) Gradle
4 9 (1.85%) JIRA
4 9 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.44%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.44%) git-flow
6 7 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.62%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Babel
8 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 2 (0.41%) Mocha
8 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.41%) webpack
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 161 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.95%) Finance
3 75 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.73%) Banking
5 45 (9.26%) Telecoms
6 44 (9.05%) Law
7 21 (4.32%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.12%) Electronics
9 19 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.29%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.88%) Marketing
12 13 (2.67%) Back Office
13 12 (2.47%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.47%) Retail
14 11 (2.26%) Aerospace
14 11 (2.26%) Games
15 8 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.65%) Legal
16 7 (1.44%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 116 (23.87%) Senior
2 78 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 57 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (10.08%) Support Engineer
5 48 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 44 (9.05%) Developer
7 39 (8.02%) Lead
8 31 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (6.17%) Architect
10 28 (5.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 26 (5.35%) IT Support
11 26 (5.35%) Network Engineer
12 25 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (4.94%) IT Engineer
14 22 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support
14 22 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 21 (4.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.32%) IT Manager
16 20 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (13.79%) Kafka
2 33 (6.79%) .NET
3 32 (6.58%) Node.js
4 28 (5.76%) AngularJS
5 25 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (4.32%) Spring Boot
7 19 (3.91%) REST
8 17 (3.50%) Spring
9 16 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (3.09%) gRPC
11 14 (2.88%) RESTful
12 13 (2.67%) SAML
13 12 (2.47%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.47%) Middleware
14 11 (2.26%) Akka
14 11 (2.26%) YAML
15 10 (2.06%) .NET Framework
16 8 (1.65%) SOAP
17 7 (1.44%) OAuth
17 7 (1.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.70%) Clustering
2 50 (10.29%) Management Information System
3 39 (8.02%) Replication
4 35 (7.20%) Public Cloud
5 30 (6.17%) Cloud Native
6 25 (5.14%) Data Centre
7 21 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.67%) Private Cloud
11 12 (2.47%) Reference Data
12 11 (2.26%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.85%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.65%) Hedge funds
15 6 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (1.23%) Device Driver
15 6 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.23%) Operational Technology
15 6 (1.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 146 (30.04%) Windows
2 81 (16.67%) Linux
3 78 (16.05%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (4.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 9 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.65%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.65%) SUSE
9 7 (1.44%) Android
10 6 (1.23%) Unix
11 5 (1.03%) Solaris
11 5 (1.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.03%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.62%) Debian
13 3 (0.62%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.62%) VMS
14 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (35.60%) DevOps
2 171 (35.19%) CI/CD
3 138 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 103 (21.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 89 (18.31%) Software Engineering
7 87 (17.90%) ITIL
8 81 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 77 (15.84%) Computer Science
10 74 (15.23%) Agile
11 73 (15.02%) Incident Management
11 73 (15.02%) Microservices
12 72 (14.81%) Containerisation
13 66 (13.58%) Mentoring
14 55 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (10.91%) Analytics
16 49 (10.08%) Cost Optimisation
17 48 (9.88%) Performance Tuning
18 47 (9.67%) Migration
19 46 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.78%) Python
2 98 (20.16%) PowerShell
2 98 (20.16%) SQL
3 73 (15.02%) Java
4 53 (10.91%) C#
5 35 (7.20%) Bash
6 19 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.50%) JavaScript
8 16 (3.29%) T-SQL
9 15 (3.09%) C++
10 11 (2.26%) Perl
11 9 (1.85%) C
12 7 (1.44%) Go
12 7 (1.44%) PHP
13 6 (1.23%) Bicep
14 5 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.82%) Ruby
16 2 (0.41%) RPG
16 2 (0.41%) RPG IV
17 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (19.34%) Degree
2 67 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (7.20%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (6.79%) Azure Certification
5 33 (6.79%) SC Cleared
6 29 (5.97%) AWS Certification
7 28 (5.76%) CCNA
8 25 (5.14%) DV Cleared
9 23 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (3.91%) CCNP
11 18 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.47%) CISSP
13 10 (2.06%) PMI Certification
13 10 (2.06%) PMP
13 10 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (1.85%) HND
14 9 (1.85%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (1.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.05%) GDPR
2 22 (4.53%) QA
3 19 (3.91%) HIPAA
4 16 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (2.06%) SLA
8 6 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.82%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.82%) NIST
10 3 (0.62%) PMO
10 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.41%) NCSC
11 2 (0.41%) SEPA
12 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.21%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 94 (19.34%) Active Directory
2 90 (18.52%) Docker
3 78 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (7.61%) Hyper-V
5 22 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (3.91%) vSphere
7 12 (2.47%) DFS Replication
8 7 (1.44%) NFS
9 5 (1.03%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.03%) Firmware
9 5 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.03%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.82%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.62%) KVM
12 2 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.41%) SRDF
12 2 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 134 (27.57%) Kubernetes
2 129 (26.54%) Terraform
3 77 (15.84%) Ansible
4 31 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 28 (5.76%) Grafana
6 18 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
7 17 (3.50%) Puppet
8 16 (3.29%) FortiGate
8 16 (3.29%) vCenter Server
9 14 (2.88%) SCCM
10 13 (2.67%) Nagios
11 10 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (2.06%) vMotion
12 8 (1.65%) Progress Chef
13 7 (1.44%) vRealize
14 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (1.03%) PowerCLI
14 5 (1.03%) SCOM
15 4 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 189 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 110 (22.63%) VMware
3 39 (8.02%) Google
4 27 (5.56%) Cisco
5 24 (4.94%) SAP
6 23 (4.73%) SolarWinds
7 19 (3.91%) Citrix
8 15 (3.09%) Oracle
9 14 (2.88%) HP
10 13 (2.67%) Databricks
10 13 (2.67%) Palo Alto
10 13 (2.67%) Veeam
11 12 (2.47%) EMC
11 12 (2.47%) Fortinet
12 11 (2.26%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.26%) ServiceNow
13 10 (2.06%) Meraki
14 9 (1.85%) Salesforce
15 8 (1.65%) IBM
16 7 (1.44%) F5