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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 670 708
Rank change year-on-year +30 +38 +225
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 9 27 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.052% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.21% 0.46% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 63
10th Percentile £42,400 £45,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,313 £33,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £61,250 - £65,812
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -13.64%

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 4,252 5,842 8,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.74% 11.15% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 3,538 6,784
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,375 £101,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,065 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.56% +9.09% -2.62%

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 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 6 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 28 January 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 +31 9 £45,000 -14.29% 1
UK excluding London +27 9 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Midlands +12 6 £45,000 -
East Midlands -4 6 £45,000 -21.05%
South East +17 2 £57,500 +4.55% 1
East of England +19 1 £43,000 -21.82%

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 (77.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (77.78%) SaaS
3 6 (66.67%) iPaaS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DHCP
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
3 6 (66.67%) SAN
3 6 (66.67%) VLAN
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) IPv4
5 1 (11.11%) IPv6
5 1 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Law
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) IT Support
2 5 (55.56%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Veeam
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco