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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 722 681
Rank change year-on-year +72 -41 +360
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 26 37 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.053% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.56% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 27 51
10th Percentile - £35,600 £32,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,238 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £44,274 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -1.61% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £48,625 £51,250
90th Percentile - £54,350 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £44,274 £45,000
% change year-on-year +24.23% -1.61% -10.00%

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 5,041 6,642 8,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.32% 9.51% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,107 4,029 6,941
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -10.43% -3.40% +8.23%

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 17 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 11 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 17 October 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 +83 26 £57,500 +29.87% 3
Work from Home +59 17 £70,000 +56.82% 3
UK excluding London +54 17 £55,000 +24.23% 3
London +62 8 £70,000 -36.36% 1
Midlands +59 8 £45,000 - 1
East Midlands - 6 £45,000 -
South East +25 3 £57,500 +21.05% 2
East of England +9 3 £55,000 -
North West +3 3 £70,000 +58.11%
North of England -2 3 £70,000 +58.11%
West Midlands +54 2 £70,000 +55.56% 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 19 (73.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.69%) IIS
4 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) Azure
2 19 (73.08%) SaaS
3 13 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (23.08%) iPaaS
6 3 (11.54%) AWS
6 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
6 3 (11.54%) IaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) Firewall
2 10 (38.46%) SAN
3 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 8 (30.77%) DNS
3 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 6 (23.08%) VLAN
5 5 (19.23%) VPN
6 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
6 3 (11.54%) WAN
7 1 (3.85%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 13 (50.00%) Data Hub
2 13 (50.00%) Metadata
2 13 (50.00%) Power BI
2 13 (50.00%) SQL CLR
2 13 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 13 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (50.00%) Back Office
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Senior
2 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 13 (50.00%) SaaS Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 13 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) IT Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) IT Support
4 5 (19.23%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Middleware
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Basis
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (3.85%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 12 (46.15%) Clustering
3 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (11.54%) Replication
5 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (76.92%) High Availability
3 14 (53.85%) Migration
4 13 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (50.00%) Data Privacy
4 13 (50.00%) Fintech
4 13 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (50.00%) Refactoring
4 13 (50.00%) Statistics
4 13 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 13 (50.00%) Workflow
5 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 3 (11.54%) Change Control
8 2 (7.69%) Analytics
8 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 2 (7.69%) Knowledge Management
8 2 (7.69%) Log Analytics
8 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 2 (7.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CCNA
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (42.31%) Active Directory
3 10 (38.46%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (53.85%) VMware
3 6 (23.08%) Veeam
4 3 (11.54%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) Zscaler