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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 754 701
Rank change year-on-year +108 -53 +380
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 27 38 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.049% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.51% 0.53% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 21 28 54
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,850 £32,200
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,500 £32,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £44,274 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.11% -1.61% -18.18%
75th Percentile - £48,500 £52,406
90th Percentile £88,750 £54,200 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £44,274 £45,000
% change year-on-year +24.23% -1.61% -14.29%

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 5,311 7,222 9,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 9.29% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,127 4,375 7,361
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.29% -7.62% +4.35%

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

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +98 26 £70,000 +58.11% 8
Work from Home +69 17 £70,000 +58.11% 3
UK excluding London +77 14 £55,000 +24.23% 7
London +69 11 £70,000 -36.36%
Midlands - 6 £45,074 - 5
North of England +42 3 £70,000 +58.11%
North West +3 3 £70,000 +58.11%
East of England -3 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £45,000 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £70,000 - 1
South East +45 2 £57,500 +27.78% 2

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 17 (62.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) SaaS
3 13 (48.15%) Power Platform
4 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (14.81%) OneDrive
7 3 (11.11%) IaaS
7 3 (11.11%) iPaaS
8 2 (7.41%) AWS
8 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.70%) GitHub
9 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) Firewall
2 7 (25.93%) SAN
3 4 (14.81%) DHCP
3 4 (14.81%) DNS
3 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (14.81%) VPN
4 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 3 (11.11%) VLAN
4 3 (11.11%) WAN
5 1 (3.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (74.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (48.15%) Data Hub
2 13 (48.15%) Metadata
2 13 (48.15%) Power BI
2 13 (48.15%) SQL CLR
2 13 (48.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 13 (48.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 13 (48.15%) Back Office
3 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Senior
2 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Developer
2 13 (48.15%) SaaS Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Senior Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 13 (48.15%) Senior SQL Developer
2 13 (48.15%) SQL Developer
3 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) IT Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) IT Support
7 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.70%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Clustering
1 13 (48.15%) Private Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Hedge funds
3 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.41%) Replication
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Android
4 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (85.19%) High Availability
3 18 (66.67%) Migration
4 13 (48.15%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (48.15%) Data Privacy
4 13 (48.15%) Fintech
4 13 (48.15%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (48.15%) Refactoring
4 13 (48.15%) Statistics
4 13 (48.15%) Wealth Management
4 13 (48.15%) Workflow
5 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (11.11%) Change Control
7 3 (11.11%) Release Management
7 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Management
8 2 (7.41%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 13 (48.15%) T-SQL
3 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (40.74%) Hyper-V
3 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) SCCM
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (55.56%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (11.11%) Veeam
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Zscaler