Failover Clustering Jobs

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Failover Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 657 821 896
Rank change year-on-year +164 +75 +232
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 27 64 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.065% 0.087%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.64% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 54
10th Percentile £52,000 £27,300 £32,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £29,375 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £74,688 £54,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £35,125 £39,639
% change year-on-year +56.58% -11.39% -33.94%

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 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Salary trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +153 26 £70,000 +66.67% 14
Work from Home +187 15 £70,000 +29.63% 8
UK excluding London +168 15 £55,000 +56.58% 8
London +105 11 £82,500 +26.92% 7
North of England +68 5 £70,000 +117.05% 1
Midlands +52 4 £63,500 +106.50% 2
South East +115 3 £55,000 +89.66% 3
East of England +53 3 £55,000 +83.33%
West Midlands +41 3 £70,000 +127.64% 2
North West - 3 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire +60 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £57,000 -

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 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (14.81%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 8 (29.63%) SaaS
3 7 (25.93%) AWS
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
4 5 (18.52%) OneDrive
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (14.81%) Datadog
5 4 (14.81%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) Firewall
2 6 (22.22%) DNS
3 4 (14.81%) DHCP
3 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (14.81%) VPN
4 2 (7.41%) VSAN
4 2 (7.41%) WAN
5 1 (3.70%) BGP
5 1 (3.70%) Internet
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) MPLS
5 1 (3.70%) OSPF
5 1 (3.70%) SAN
5 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (81.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (29.63%) Data Hub
2 8 (29.63%) Metadata
2 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 8 (29.63%) SQL CLR
2 8 (29.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 8 (29.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Back Office
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 8 (29.63%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Developer
2 8 (29.63%) SaaS Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior SQL Developer
2 8 (29.63%) SQL Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (18.52%) IT Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Associate Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (14.81%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) Clustering
2 10 (37.04%) Data Centre
3 8 (29.63%) Private Cloud
4 7 (25.93%) Replication
5 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
6 5 (18.52%) Hedge funds
7 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Android
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (18.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) High Availability
1 19 (70.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (48.15%) Migration
3 10 (37.04%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (29.63%) Data Privacy
4 8 (29.63%) Fintech
4 8 (29.63%) Refactoring
4 8 (29.63%) Statistics
4 8 (29.63%) Wealth Management
4 8 (29.63%) Workflow
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) PowerShell
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) T-SQL
4 4 (14.81%) Bash
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (7.41%) CCNA
3 2 (7.41%) CCNP
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.41%) MCP
3 2 (7.41%) MCSA
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Hyper-V
2 11 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Docker
4 3 (11.11%) VMware NSX
4 3 (11.11%) vSphere
5 2 (7.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (7.41%) Firmware
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (22.22%) SCCM
4 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.11%) WSUS
6 2 (7.41%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
6 2 (7.41%) vRealize
6 2 (7.41%) VxRail
7 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
7 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) VMware
2 17 (62.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) Dell
5 2 (7.41%) EMC
5 2 (7.41%) Isilon
5 2 (7.41%) McAfee
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.70%) Draytek
6 1 (3.70%) NetApp
6 1 (3.70%) Ubiquiti