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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 765 646 752
Rank change year-on-year -119 +106 -45
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 27 29 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.059% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.58% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 24 23 28
10th Percentile £38,425 £42,500 £31,850
25th Percentile £41,875 £52,875 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +58.11% -1.61%
75th Percentile £59,688 - £48,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £88,750 £54,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £44,274
% change year-on-year -9.09% +24.23% -1.61%

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 5,229 4,973 6,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 10.06% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,654 2,887 3,908
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,420
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 19 September 2026.

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 19 September 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 -128 25 £50,000 -28.57% 18
UK excluding London -130 22 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Work from Home -47 13 £57,500 -17.86% 4
South East -43 8 £40,000 -30.43% 3
East Midlands -33 7 £50,000 +11.11%
Midlands -47 7 £50,000 +11.11% 1
London -76 5 £57,500 -17.86% 9
East of England -25 4 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North West -20 1 £52,500 -25.00% 1
North of England -72 1 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £62,500 - 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 14 (51.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (25.93%) IIS
3 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SmartSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 9 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
5 6 (22.22%) Cloudflare
6 3 (11.11%) SaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Mimecast
8 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.70%) GCP
8 1 (3.70%) IaaS
8 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) DHCP
3 8 (29.63%) Firewall
4 6 (22.22%) VPN
5 5 (18.52%) Wireless
6 4 (14.81%) LAN
6 4 (14.81%) VLAN
6 4 (14.81%) WAN
7 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
8 2 (7.41%) SAN
9 1 (3.70%) BGP
9 1 (3.70%) IPsec
9 1 (3.70%) Network Security
9 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
9 1 (3.70%) SNMP
9 1 (3.70%) SSL
9 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
9 1 (3.70%) VSAN
9 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Db2
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Fiddler
1 1 (3.70%) Flyway
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 4 (14.81%) Games
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) IT Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
1 10 (37.04%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) IT Support
3 7 (25.93%) Administrator
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) IT Support Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Network Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior IT Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior IT Support
3 7 (25.93%) Senior Support Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Support Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Network Administrator
4 6 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Systems Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (96.30%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) NHS
3 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) PKI
3 2 (7.41%) Robotics
4 1 (3.70%) CUDA
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Windows
2 25 (92.59%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.93%) Linux
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.41%) Android
6 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) High Availability
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (25.93%) Network Load Balancing
4 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
4 7 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (25.93%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (22.22%) Logistics
6 4 (14.81%) Project Management
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.11%) AI
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 3 (11.11%) Storage Management
8 2 (7.41%) Incident Response
8 2 (7.41%) Machine Learning
8 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.41%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) DBS Check
2 4 (14.81%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Hyper-V
2 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) Ceph
4 1 (3.70%) Docker
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Kibana
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco
2 2 (7.41%) Veeam
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) NVIDIA
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Thales