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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 219 273
Rank change year-on-year -17 +54 +45
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 3 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.030% 0.057% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 0.89% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile - - £27,800
25th Percentile £42,500 - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £30,750
Median % change year-on-year - +46.34% -22.42%
75th Percentile £47,500 £52,250 £50,000
90th Percentile - £56,600 -
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

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 295 338 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.98% 6.46% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 225 244 653
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,500 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,900 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Failover Clustering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend 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
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 12 March 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
East Midlands -33 3 £45,000 -21.05%
Failover Clustering
England

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) iPaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Law
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) IT Support
1 3 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Veeam