High Availability Job Trends in the Thames Valley

High Availability
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 138 212
Rank change year-on-year -2 +74 -5
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 32 25 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.62% 0.90% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.97% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 21 22 16
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -2.13% +18.47%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £87,500 - -
South East median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.52% - +9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,775 2,590 5,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.26% 93.43% 84.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 1,201 4,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,670 £50,001
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +15.34% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the Thames Valley

High Availability
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Buckinghamshire -12 19 £62,500 +8.70% 11
Berkshire +10 11 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Oxfordshire -17 2 £63,750 +22.60% 9
High Availability
South East

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (15.63%) Figma
4 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) IaaS
4 5 (15.63%) PaaS
5 4 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 4 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 8 (25.00%) DNS
2 8 (25.00%) SAN
3 6 (18.75%) iSCSI
3 6 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (9.38%) DHCP
4 3 (9.38%) VLAN
4 3 (9.38%) VPN
5 2 (6.25%) NAS
5 2 (6.25%) Network Security
5 2 (6.25%) PBX
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.25%) Wireless
6 1 (3.13%) Intranet
6 1 (3.13%) Junos
6 1 (3.13%) LAN
6 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) MySQL
3 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Browser DevTools
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Law
4 3 (9.38%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.13%) Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (3.13%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) React
1 6 (18.75%) REST
2 5 (15.63%) Django
2 5 (15.63%) Twisted
2 5 (15.63%) Web Services
2 5 (15.63%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) JSON Schema
3 1 (3.13%) LDAP
3 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (15.63%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.25%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) PMI
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Windows
4 2 (6.25%) CentOS
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) ITIL
2 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 6 (18.75%) Time Management
4 6 (18.75%) User Experience
5 5 (15.63%) Asynchronous Programming
5 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
5 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
5 5 (15.63%) SBOM
5 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
5 5 (15.63%) UX Design
6 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
7 3 (9.38%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) Korn
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) C
6 2 (6.25%) Java
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) RHCE
3 2 (6.25%) RHCSA
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) MCSE
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 5 (15.63%) SLA
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
2 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (18.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (9.38%) vSphere
5 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.25%) Samba
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Argo
3 1 (3.13%) Control-M
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Graylog
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Dell
2 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.38%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) D-Link
4 2 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) BMC
5 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.13%) Juniper
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) SAP