High Availability Job Trends in the North West

High Availability
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 151 167
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 +55
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 31 54 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.50% 1.04% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.15% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26 36 24
10th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £45,405
25th Percentile £47,688 £45,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,060 £76,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £65,875
England median annual salary £73,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +21.74% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the North West

High Availability
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the North West

High Availability
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +12 24 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Cheshire -10 5 £70,500 -5.37% 10
Lancashire +5 1 £60,000 +42.40% 7
Cumbria - 1 - - 5
High Availability
England

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) nginx
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) Azure AKS
3 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (16.13%) IaaS
4 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.68%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Storage
7 2 (6.45%) Datadog
7 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) VLAN
1 6 (19.35%) VoIP
1 6 (19.35%) VPN
2 5 (16.13%) DMZ
2 5 (16.13%) STUN
3 3 (9.68%) DNS
3 3 (9.68%) HTTP
3 3 (9.68%) SSL
4 2 (6.45%) DHCP
4 2 (6.45%) Firewall
4 2 (6.45%) LAN
4 2 (6.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.23%) IPsec
5 1 (3.23%) Junos
5 1 (3.23%) MPLS
5 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Applications Support
3 5 (16.13%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (12.90%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
2 4 (12.90%) RESTful
3 2 (6.45%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.45%) DPDK
3 2 (6.45%) eBPF
3 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.45%) React
4 1 (3.23%) CSS
4 1 (3.23%) CSS3
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) HTML5
4 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.23%) OpenID
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (22.58%) Driving Licence
3 3 (9.68%) AI Agents
3 3 (9.68%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) EMV
5 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
1 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
2 5 (16.13%) Debian
3 1 (3.23%) SUSE
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
1 16 (51.61%) DevOps
2 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
3 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (19.35%) Microservices
4 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Incident Response
5 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (16.13%) Software Licensing
5 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Clean Code
6 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.90%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Bicep
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) ABAP
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.45%) CCNA
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.23%) CCNP
2 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) JNCIA
2 1 (3.23%) MCSA
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (16.13%) ISO 9001
1 5 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Kamailio
1 5 (16.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Docker
3 2 (6.45%) KVM
3 2 (6.45%) QEMU
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
1 9 (29.03%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) Nagios
5 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Salesforce
3 3 (9.68%) Foundry
4 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.23%) Apple
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Fujitsu
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Hotjar
5 1 (3.23%) Juniper
5 1 (3.23%) Meraki
5 1 (3.23%) New Relic
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Ubiquiti