Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 665 974 1025
Rank change year-on-year +309 +51 -323
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 71 100 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.081% 0.065%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.88% 0.52% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 63 73 70
10th Percentile £31,125 £33,200 £38,400
25th Percentile £34,500 £44,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £54,000 £61,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,064 19,313 21,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 15.55% 16.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,417 11,499 13,875
10th Percentile £36,191 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.70% +4.55% +5.77%

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 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 13 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 5 December 2023. 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 +312 66 £47,500 -17.39% 18
UK excluding London +228 63 £47,500 -13.64% 13
North of England +146 26 £34,500 -37.27% 9
Yorkshire +116 26 £34,500 -40.00% 4
Work from Home +221 21 £54,000 -6.09% 9
South West +92 13 £54,000 -6.09% 1
Midlands +124 12 £47,500 +9.20% 4
West Midlands +126 9 £47,500 +16.56% 4
South East +148 8 £50,000 +5.26%
London +224 3 £55,000 -35.29% 5
East of England +124 3 - -
East Midlands +36 3 £60,000 +37.93%
Wales - 1 £57,500 -

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 12 (16.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.63%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.41%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (66.20%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (60.56%) Azure
3 12 (16.90%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.04%) Rubrik
5 3 (4.23%) AWS
6 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.62%) SAN
2 17 (23.94%) DHCP
3 16 (22.54%) DNS
3 16 (22.54%) NAS
3 16 (22.54%) VPN
3 16 (22.54%) Wireless
4 12 (16.90%) Skype
5 7 (9.86%) TCP/IP
6 5 (7.04%) Firewall
7 4 (5.63%) Internet
8 3 (4.23%) WAN
9 2 (2.82%) BGP
9 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.82%) MPLS
9 2 (2.82%) OSPF
9 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (1.41%) LAN
10 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (23.94%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 34 (47.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.39%) Finance
3 16 (22.54%) Military
4 11 (15.49%) Retail
5 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (28.17%) Senior
3 17 (23.94%) DBA
4 16 (22.54%) SQL DBA
5 15 (21.13%) Wintel Engineer
6 14 (19.72%) IT Engineer
6 14 (19.72%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) IT Support
8 7 (9.86%) Support Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Administrator
9 6 (8.45%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Senior DBA
10 5 (7.04%) Senior SQL DBA
11 4 (5.63%) Server Engineer
12 3 (4.23%) Oracle DBA
12 3 (4.23%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) .NET
1 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (87.32%) Clustering
2 17 (23.94%) PKI
3 16 (22.54%) Fat Client
3 16 (22.54%) Thin Client
4 11 (15.49%) Data Centre
5 9 (12.68%) Replication
6 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (85.92%) Windows
2 43 (60.56%) Windows Server
3 34 (47.89%) Windows Server 2012
3 34 (47.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (23.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (21.13%) Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Unix
7 1 (1.41%) VMS
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (39.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (35.21%) High Availability
4 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (30.99%) Database Mirroring
6 17 (23.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 16 (22.54%) Incident Management
7 16 (22.54%) Key Management
8 15 (21.13%) Patch Management
8 15 (21.13%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (18.31%) ITIL
10 11 (15.49%) Customer Experience
11 7 (9.86%) Change Management
11 7 (9.86%) Server Management
12 6 (8.45%) Database Optimisation
12 6 (8.45%) Problem Management
13 5 (7.04%) Customer Service
14 4 (5.63%) Performance Monitoring
15 3 (4.23%) Mentoring
15 3 (4.23%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) SQL
2 19 (26.76%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
4 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.41%) C#
5 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.94%) Azure Certification
3 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
4 14 (19.72%) DV Cleared
5 12 (16.90%) Degree
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.82%) MCSA
7 2 (2.82%) MCSE
7 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.41%) MCP
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (32.39%) SLA
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (73.24%) Active Directory
2 50 (70.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (64.79%) Hyper-V
4 20 (28.17%) vSphere
5 16 (22.54%) Firmware
5 16 (22.54%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (22.54%) VMware NSX
6 4 (5.63%) XenApp
7 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (45.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 25 (35.21%) Microsoft Clustering
3 19 (26.76%) SCOM
4 17 (23.94%) SCCM
5 16 (22.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (19.72%) FortiGate
7 5 (7.04%) SCVMM
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.41%) Foglight
9 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (87.32%) Microsoft
2 53 (74.65%) VMware
3 20 (28.17%) Citrix
4 17 (23.94%) Veeam
5 16 (22.54%) Commvault
6 15 (21.13%) Cisco
7 14 (19.72%) Aruba
7 14 (19.72%) Barracuda Networks
7 14 (19.72%) Kaseya
8 5 (7.04%) IBM
9 4 (5.63%) Oracle
10 3 (4.23%) Computacenter
10 3 (4.23%) Dell
11 2 (2.82%) EqualLogic
11 2 (2.82%) NetApp
11 2 (2.82%) ScienceLogic
12 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
12 1 (1.41%) IDERA