Failover Clustering Job Trends in the Midlands

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 - 221
Rank change year-on-year - - +122
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 7 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% - 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.52% - 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £51,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.89%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £57,188
90th Percentile £70,000 - £62,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £44,274 £45,000
% change year-on-year +58.11% -1.61% -18.18%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

Failover Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 461 594 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.22% 5.90% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 288 349 490
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,900 £30,542
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the Midlands

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Failover Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the Midlands

Failover Clustering
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
East Midlands - 4 £45,000 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £70,000 - 1
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) SaaS
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (57.14%) iPaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Data Hub
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) SQL CLR
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Law
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) IT Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) IT Support
3 3 (42.86%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Associate Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Clustering
2 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 2 (28.57%) Fintech
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
3 2 (28.57%) Statistics
3 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Availability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Veeam
3 3 (42.86%) VMware