Failover Clustering Job Trends

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 632 841
Rank change year-on-year -89 +209 -30
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 16 26 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.057% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.48% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 39
10th Percentile £37,750 £54,850 £27,900
25th Percentile £40,000 - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +64.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £84,063 £60,625
90th Percentile - £90,250 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +105.88% -15.00%

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 5,182 5,462 9,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 11.99% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,778 3,200 6,823
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -9.28%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 8 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 27 June 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
England -89 16 £50,000 -28.57% 6
UK excluding London -48 15 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Work from Home -2 9 £57,500 -17.86% 4
South East -19 9 £40,000 - 3
East of England -14 4 £60,000 +9.09%
East Midlands -23 2 £47,500 -16.67%
Midlands -33 2 £47,500 -25.20%
London -40 1 £57,500 -24.59% 1

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (37.50%) IIS
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (25.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) LAN
3 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 4 (25.00%) Wireless
4 3 (18.75%) VPN
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.25%) BGP
6 1 (6.25%) IPsec
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) SAN
6 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.25%) SNMP
6 1 (6.25%) SSL
6 1 (6.25%) VLAN
6 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Aviation
2 1 (6.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) IT Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior
4 5 (31.25%) IT Support
4 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Senior IT Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Senior IT Support
4 5 (31.25%) Senior Support Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Administrator
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Network Administrator
6 2 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Clustering
2 3 (18.75%) NHS
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Project Delivery
3 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (37.50%) High Availability
3 6 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (31.25%) Network Load Balancing
5 4 (25.00%) Logistics
5 4 (25.00%) Project Management
5 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
7 2 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
8 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
8 1 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
8 1 (6.25%) Preventative Maintenance
8 1 (6.25%) Runbook
8 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
8 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (6.25%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 10 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Veeam