High Availability Jobs in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 354 278
Rank change year-on-year +123 -76 -4
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 510 509 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 0.68% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.83% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 172 415 397
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,478 £33,650
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the UK excluding London

High Availability
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 High Availability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South East +149 226 £55,000 -4.35% 55
East of England +94 90 £52,500 -8.70% 29
North of England -32 73 £60,000 +4.35% 89
Midlands +21 54 £71,250 +50.00% 40
South West +111 51 £67,500 +17.39% 38
West Midlands +23 37 £75,000 +42.86% 30
North West -34 36 £67,500 +17.39% 50
North East +55 19 £57,000 -0.87% 8
Yorkshire +14 18 £60,000 +4.35% 32
East Midlands +30 15 £48,500 +7.78% 10
Scotland +90 12 £80,000 +52.38% 29
Wales +35 4 £57,375 +12.08% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £55,000 - 15
High Availability
UK

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 41 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.94%) IIS
3 14 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.98%) Apache
5 5 (0.98%) Confluence
6 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 3 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 163 (31.96%) AWS
2 122 (23.92%) Azure
3 66 (12.94%) Pulumi
4 48 (9.41%) GCP
5 30 (5.88%) SaaS
6 24 (4.71%) GitHub
7 20 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.14%) PaaS
10 15 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 14 (2.75%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.35%) Serverless
14 9 (1.76%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.76%) IaaS
14 9 (1.76%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
18 4 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 225 (44.12%) Broadband
2 40 (7.84%) SAN
3 34 (6.67%) Firewall
4 33 (6.47%) NAS
5 31 (6.08%) DNS
6 22 (4.31%) VPN
7 20 (3.92%) DHCP
7 20 (3.92%) Network Security
8 10 (1.96%) Wireless
9 9 (1.76%) FTP
9 9 (1.76%) WAN
10 8 (1.57%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.37%) LAN
11 7 (1.37%) SNMP
12 6 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.18%) SMTP
12 6 (1.18%) VSAN
13 5 (0.98%) IP Telephony
13 5 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (16.08%) NoSQL
2 72 (14.12%) RDBMS
2 72 (14.12%) Relational Database
3 54 (10.59%) SQL Server
4 28 (5.49%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.12%) Big Data
5 21 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.53%) MySQL
7 17 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.55%) Power BI
9 12 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.16%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.76%) Data Hub
11 9 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.76%) SQL CLR
11 9 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (12.75%) Jaeger
2 25 (4.90%) Git
2 25 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.96%) GitLab
4 9 (1.76%) JIRA
5 7 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.59%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Babel
7 2 (0.39%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.39%) Mocha
7 2 (0.39%) NUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.39%) webpack
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.20%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 246 (48.24%) Social Skills
2 86 (16.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (12.35%) Finance
4 40 (7.84%) Law
5 37 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.90%) Multimedia
7 21 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.94%) Legal
9 11 (2.16%) Banking
10 9 (1.76%) Advertising
10 9 (1.76%) Back Office
10 9 (1.76%) Electronics
11 8 (1.57%) Games
11 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.37%) Local Government
13 4 (0.78%) Marketing
13 4 (0.78%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.39%) Police
14 2 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 144 (28.24%) Lead
2 85 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 82 (16.08%) Senior
4 46 (9.02%) Support Engineer
4 46 (9.02%) Systems Engineer
5 43 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 29 (5.69%) Developer
8 28 (5.49%) Engineering Manager
9 27 (5.29%) Administrator
9 27 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support
9 27 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 24 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (4.31%) IT Engineer
12 21 (4.12%) Systems Administrator
13 20 (3.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (3.53%) Architect
14 18 (3.53%) IT Support
14 18 (3.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 16 (3.14%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (13.53%) Elastic Stack
2 65 (12.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (5.49%) Kafka
4 24 (4.71%) .NET
5 20 (3.92%) REST
6 18 (3.53%) Node.js
7 16 (3.14%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.55%) Hugging Face
8 13 (2.55%) LangChain
8 13 (2.55%) Middleware
8 13 (2.55%) PyTorch
8 13 (2.55%) TensorFlow
9 12 (2.35%) OAuth
9 12 (2.35%) SOAP
10 11 (2.16%) SAML
11 10 (1.96%) .NET Core
11 10 (1.96%) gRPC
12 9 (1.76%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.57%) Spring
14 7 (1.37%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.84%) Clustering
2 22 (4.31%) Public Cloud
3 21 (4.12%) Replication
4 20 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.94%) e-Learning
6 15 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.16%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.96%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.18%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.18%) PKI
11 5 (0.98%) Blackberry
11 5 (0.98%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 136 (26.67%) Linux
2 81 (15.88%) Windows
3 66 (12.94%) Unix
4 40 (7.84%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.37%) SUSE
7 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.59%) Android
8 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.39%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Solaris
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (49.41%) Mentoring
2 251 (49.22%) Roadmaps
3 226 (44.31%) Product Management
4 223 (43.73%) Computer Science
5 218 (42.75%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (31.18%) Broadcast Engineering
7 133 (26.08%) DevOps
8 104 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (19.61%) Agile
10 87 (17.06%) Containerisation
10 87 (17.06%) Task Automation
11 76 (14.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 73 (14.31%) Disaster Recovery
13 71 (13.92%) Cost Optimisation
14 69 (13.53%) Continuous Integration
15 68 (13.33%) CI/CD
16 67 (13.14%) Resource Management
17 65 (12.75%) Budget Control
17 65 (12.75%) GitOps
18 54 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 112 (21.96%) Python
2 96 (18.82%) Java
3 81 (15.88%) Bash
4 78 (15.29%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 73 (14.31%) SQL
7 66 (12.94%) Go
8 31 (6.08%) C#
9 18 (3.53%) T-SQL
10 16 (3.14%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.96%) C
12 8 (1.57%) C++
13 6 (1.18%) Bicep
14 5 (0.98%) Perl
14 5 (0.98%) PHP
15 2 (0.39%) RPG
15 2 (0.39%) RPG IV
15 2 (0.39%) Ruby
15 2 (0.39%) Rust
16 1 (0.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 243 (47.65%) Degree
2 201 (39.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 79 (15.49%) AWS Certification
4 68 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 42 (8.24%) DV Cleared
6 34 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.71%) Master's Degree
8 23 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (3.92%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.92%) CCNP
10 15 (2.94%) RHCSA
11 12 (2.35%) HND
12 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (1.37%) CCNA
15 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.39%) CCIE
17 2 (0.39%) CISSP
17 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.51%) GDPR
2 13 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.35%) QA
4 10 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.98%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
9 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 2 (0.39%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (19.80%) Docker
2 58 (11.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (10.20%) Active Directory
4 25 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 19 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (3.14%) vSphere
7 11 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.37%) NFS
9 6 (1.18%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.18%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.59%) Squid
11 2 (0.39%) HDFS
11 2 (0.39%) KVM
11 2 (0.39%) SRDF
11 2 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.39%) Xen
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 127 (24.90%) Kubernetes
2 105 (20.59%) Terraform
3 97 (19.02%) Ansible
4 85 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 67 (13.14%) Argo
6 65 (12.75%) Kustomize
7 21 (4.12%) Grafana
8 16 (3.14%) Puppet
9 13 (2.55%) vCenter Server
10 12 (2.35%) vMotion
11 10 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (1.18%) Nagios
12 6 (1.18%) PowerCLI
12 6 (1.18%) vRealize
13 5 (0.98%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.78%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.59%) SCCM
15 3 (0.59%) SCOM
15 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 88 (17.25%) Google
3 75 (14.71%) VMware
4 25 (4.90%) Cisco
5 19 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.33%) SAP
7 16 (3.14%) HP
7 16 (3.14%) Oracle
8 13 (2.55%) Citrix
8 13 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.55%) Veeam
9 11 (2.16%) IBM
10 7 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.18%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.18%) Databricks
11 6 (1.18%) Informatica
11 6 (1.18%) Nimble Storage
11 6 (1.18%) Symantec
12 5 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.98%) McAfee