Failover Clustering Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 527 501
Rank change year-on-year +31 -26 +215
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 10 24 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.067% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.44% 0.76% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 54
10th Percentile £42,450 £33,199 £31,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £52,375 £57,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £61,250 - £58,244
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -17.39%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,288 3,170 4,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.45% 8.81% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,803 3,460
10th Percentile £30,150 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,561
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.56% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Failover Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK excluding London

Failover Clustering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands +24 6 £45,000 -
East Midlands - 6 £45,000 -
South East +22 2 £57,500 +4.55%
East of England +20 2 £48,000 -12.73%
Failover Clustering
UK

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (70.00%) SaaS
4 6 (60.00%) iPaaS
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 2 (20.00%) IaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (90.00%) DHCP
2 9 (90.00%) DNS
3 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (70.00%) SAN
5 6 (60.00%) VLAN
6 4 (40.00%) VPN
7 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (20.00%) WAN
8 1 (10.00%) IPv4
8 1 (10.00%) IPv6
8 1 (10.00%) LAN
8 1 (10.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Law
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Change Control
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) API Management
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (90.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Veeam
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler