High Availability Job Trends in the UK excluding London

High Availability
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 282 383
Rank change year-on-year +33 +101 -144
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 543 311 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.90% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.03% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 404 185 234
10th Percentile £40,860 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,050 £89,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.77%

All Process & 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 54,267 30,278 46,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 87.43% 78.66%
Number of salaries quoted 38,117 16,567 29,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

High Availability job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

High Availability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing High Availability

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 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 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
North of England +59 175 £50,000 -9.09% 53
South East -1 153 £60,000 +9.09% 54
North West +41 85 £50,000 -2.81% 31
Midlands -9 69 £60,000 -14.29% 21
East of England +12 61 £65,000 +52.94% 19
North East -17 50 £47,500 -13.64% 3
South West -69 45 £61,250 +12.54% 19
West Midlands -21 42 £57,500 -20.69% 18
Yorkshire -21 40 £45,000 -33.33% 19
East Midlands -2 27 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Scotland +11 16 £50,500 -36.88% 10
Northern Ireland - 14 £34,500 - 8
Wales -44 11 £72,500 +45.73% 3
High Availability
UK

High Availability
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 38 (7.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.87%) Apache
4 20 (3.68%) IIS
5 14 (2.58%) nginx
6 11 (2.03%) Confluence
7 6 (1.10%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.92%) JBoss
8 5 (0.92%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.37%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.18%) Site Server
10 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 255 (46.96%) Azure
2 122 (22.47%) AWS
3 62 (11.42%) IaaS
4 60 (11.05%) Entra ID
5 57 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (6.08%) Azure AKS
6 33 (6.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 32 (5.89%) GitHub
8 31 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 31 (5.71%) Azure Storage
8 31 (5.71%) GCP
9 26 (4.79%) SaaS
10 22 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (2.76%) Power Platform
13 14 (2.58%) Serverless
14 12 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.21%) PaaS
15 11 (2.03%) Nutanix
16 10 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 124 (22.84%) DNS
2 120 (22.10%) Firewall
3 74 (13.63%) VPN
4 70 (12.89%) DHCP
5 41 (7.55%) TCP/IP
5 41 (7.55%) WAN
6 40 (7.37%) Network Security
7 32 (5.89%) LAN
8 30 (5.52%) VLAN
9 25 (4.60%) VoIP
10 20 (3.68%) SAN
10 20 (3.68%) SD-WAN
11 19 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
11 19 (3.50%) SSL
12 18 (3.31%) Wireless
13 16 (2.95%) BGP
14 12 (2.21%) HTTP
14 12 (2.21%) MPLS
15 11 (2.03%) MQTT
16 10 (1.84%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.99%) SQL Server
2 55 (10.13%) MySQL
3 30 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.47%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.47%) Power BI
8 7 (1.29%) SAP BW
9 6 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.92%) Redis
10 5 (0.92%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.74%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (5.71%) Git
2 20 (3.68%) JIRA
3 11 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.47%) GitLab
5 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.92%) JUnit
7 4 (0.74%) Selenium
8 3 (0.55%) MLflow
8 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.55%) Subversion
9 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.37%) JMeter
9 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
10 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 152 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 79 (14.55%) Law
3 73 (13.44%) Finance
4 61 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 30 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.16%) Legal
7 28 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.42%) Retail
9 23 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (3.68%) Aerospace
11 14 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.03%) Music Industry
13 9 (1.66%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.10%) Electronics
15 5 (0.92%) Automotive
15 5 (0.92%) Games
16 4 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (15.47%) Senior
2 64 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 54 (9.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (9.02%) Network Engineer
5 45 (8.29%) Administrator
6 43 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
6 43 (7.92%) Lead
7 41 (7.55%) DBA
8 34 (6.26%) Developer
9 29 (5.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 26 (4.79%) Support Engineer
11 25 (4.60%) Data Manager
11 25 (4.60%) Database Engineer
12 24 (4.42%) Data Centre Manager
13 23 (4.24%) Analyst
14 21 (3.87%) IT Engineer
15 20 (3.68%) Architect
16 19 (3.50%) Senior Network Engineer
17 17 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (3.13%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.26%) .NET
2 18 (3.31%) ASP.NET
2 18 (3.31%) RESTful
3 17 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 16 (2.95%) ASP.NET Web API
4 16 (2.95%) Entity Framework
4 16 (2.95%) REST
4 16 (2.95%) Web Services
5 15 (2.76%) .NET Core
5 15 (2.76%) Kafka
5 15 (2.76%) React
6 14 (2.58%) AngularJS
7 13 (2.39%) Vue
8 12 (2.21%) Middleware
9 11 (2.03%) LINQ
10 10 (1.84%) CSS
10 10 (1.84%) HTML
10 10 (1.84%) Spring
10 10 (1.84%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.66%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 76 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 63 (11.60%) Replication
3 41 (7.55%) Clustering
4 33 (6.08%) Cloud Native
5 32 (5.89%) Driving Licence
6 24 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.76%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.58%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.03%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 11 (2.03%) Social Media
12 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Storage
13 9 (1.66%) IoT
13 9 (1.66%) IVR
14 8 (1.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (25.60%) Linux
2 127 (23.39%) Windows
3 112 (20.63%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (1.66%) Debian
7 8 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.47%) Unix
7 8 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.29%) VMS
9 6 (1.10%) CentOS
9 6 (1.10%) Solaris
10 4 (0.74%) AIX
10 4 (0.74%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (32.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 157 (28.91%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (22.84%) Disaster Recovery
4 117 (21.55%) DevOps
5 105 (19.34%) CI/CD
6 104 (19.15%) Agile
7 100 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 87 (16.02%) Mentoring
9 80 (14.73%) Business Continuity
10 76 (14.00%) Containerisation
10 76 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 73 (13.44%) ITIL
12 72 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 59 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (9.94%) Performance Tuning
14 54 (9.94%) Roadmaps
15 53 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
16 52 (9.58%) AI
17 49 (9.02%) Load Balancing
18 46 (8.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 127 (23.39%) SQL
2 119 (21.92%) PowerShell
3 68 (12.52%) Python
4 42 (7.73%) Bash
5 36 (6.63%) Shell Script
6 34 (6.26%) C#
7 25 (4.60%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.60%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.58%) Go
9 12 (2.21%) Java
10 10 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.66%) Perl
12 7 (1.29%) ABAP
12 7 (1.29%) Bicep
12 7 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.29%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (1.10%) Korn
14 4 (0.74%) PHP
15 3 (0.55%) Ruby
15 3 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 81 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.50%) Azure Certification
3 55 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.66%) Degree
5 35 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 33 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.42%) CCNP
9 23 (4.24%) CCNA
10 16 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.21%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (1.47%) CCIE
15 6 (1.10%) HNC
15 6 (1.10%) HND
16 5 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.92%) MCSE
17 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.79%) SLA
3 21 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (3.68%) GDPR
5 19 (3.50%) QA
6 17 (3.13%) ISO 14000
7 16 (2.95%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.21%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.66%) NCSC
10 8 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.92%) NIST
14 4 (0.74%) GRC
15 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.55%) WCAG
16 2 (0.37%) IFRS
16 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.18%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 102 (18.78%) Active Directory
2 79 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (9.58%) Hyper-V
4 49 (9.02%) Docker
5 18 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.84%) VMware NSX
7 10 (1.84%) vSphere
8 9 (1.66%) Firmware
9 8 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 7 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.92%) Squid
12 4 (0.74%) KVM
13 3 (0.55%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.37%) Samba
14 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.18%) Ceph
15 1 (0.18%) GPFS
15 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 89 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 69 (12.71%) Terraform
3 52 (9.58%) Ansible
4 38 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.68%) Grafana
6 16 (2.95%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (2.03%) Puppet
9 10 (1.84%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.47%) Nagios
11 7 (1.29%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.29%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.92%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.92%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.74%) Galera Cluster
14 4 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 4 (0.74%) Podman
14 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 172 (31.68%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.97%) VMware
3 56 (10.31%) Cisco
4 26 (4.79%) Oracle
5 25 (4.60%) Dell
6 21 (3.87%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.50%) Fortinet
8 16 (2.95%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.95%) Veeam
9 14 (2.58%) Splunk
10 12 (2.21%) HP
11 11 (2.03%) SolarWinds
12 10 (1.84%) SAP
13 9 (1.66%) Aruba
13 9 (1.66%) Avaya
13 9 (1.66%) Dell Compellent
13 9 (1.66%) Genesys
13 9 (1.66%) Nimble Storage
14 8 (1.47%) F5
15 7 (1.29%) Atlassian