Failover Clustering Jobs

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Failover Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 781 925
Rank change year-on-year +93 +144 +164
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 23 80 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.091% 0.078%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% 0.86% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 14 64 50
10th Percentile £45,000 £29,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £45,313 £31,125 £38,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £54,036 £62,500
90th Percentile £58,900 £67,500 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £41,500 £40,445
% change year-on-year +32.53% +2.61% -19.11%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,342 9,313 16,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 10.65% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,521 7,176 10,180
10th Percentile £38,890 £32,500 £35,493
25th Percentile £50,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £91,000 £82,500 £88,283
90th Percentile £113,750 £101,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £56,480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.39% -4.27%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Salary trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 15 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 March 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
England +72 23 £55,000 +10.00% 9
UK excluding London +101 17 £55,000 +32.53% 6
Work from Home +127 10 £51,250 -5.09% 8
South East +83 6 £55,000 +1.85%
London +67 6 £63,750 -1.92% 5
East of England +29 4 £55,000 +83.33% 1
Midlands +40 3 £45,000 +46.34% 2
South West +75 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +46 2 - -
North of England +35 2 - -
West Midlands +3 2 £45,000 +46.34% 2
East Midlands - 1 £57,000 -

Failover Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (21.74%) IIS
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (17.39%) Datadog
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) DNS
3 8 (34.78%) VPN
4 7 (30.43%) DHCP
4 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (21.74%) SAN
6 3 (13.04%) WAN
7 2 (8.70%) LAN
7 2 (8.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (8.70%) VSAN
8 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (4.35%) Internet
8 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (4.35%) IPv6
8 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
8 1 (4.35%) NAS
8 1 (4.35%) Network Security
8 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Retail
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure Manager
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) IT Manager
3 5 (21.74%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Network Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Project Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Clustering
2 15 (65.22%) Data Centre
3 9 (39.13%) Replication
4 7 (30.43%) Management Information System
5 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
6 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Linux
3 10 (43.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Android
5 2 (8.70%) CentOS
5 2 (8.70%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (8.70%) Unix
6 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) High Availability
2 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (21.74%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
6 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Observability
6 4 (17.39%) Server Management
7 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
7 3 (13.04%) Security Monitoring
8 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
8 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
8 2 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) MCSA
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.70%) CCNA
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (8.70%) MCP
4 2 (8.70%) MCSE
4 2 (8.70%) RHCE
4 2 (8.70%) RHCSA
4 2 (8.70%) VCAP
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE
5 1 (4.35%) CISM
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
1 16 (69.57%) Hyper-V
2 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (26.09%) Docker
4 4 (17.39%) VMware NSX
4 4 (17.39%) vSphere
5 2 (8.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (8.70%) Firmware
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.35%) pfSense
6 1 (4.35%) Terminal Server
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) SCCM
4 3 (13.04%) SCOM
4 3 (13.04%) WSUS
5 2 (8.70%) Ansible
5 2 (8.70%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (8.70%) PowerCLI
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.70%) vRealize
5 2 (8.70%) VxRail
6 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
1 15 (65.22%) VMware
2 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) Dell
5 2 (8.70%) EMC
5 2 (8.70%) Isilon
5 2 (8.70%) McAfee
5 2 (8.70%) NetApp
5 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.35%) Databricks
6 1 (4.35%) Draytek
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) HP
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) RedGate
6 1 (4.35%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (4.35%) WatchGuard