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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 858 828
Rank change year-on-year +158 -30 +351
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 26 54 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.050% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% 0.56% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 18 40 59
10th Percentile £54,850 £28,200 £32,200
25th Percentile - £29,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -2.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £84,063 £60,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £90,250 £68,750 £64,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £36,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +94.44% -10.00% -25.58%

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 6,010 9,673 12,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 8.97% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,270 6,797 8,511
10th Percentile £33,088 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,263 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.60% +3.52%

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

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

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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 3 July 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 +141 25 £70,000 +55.56% 36
Work from Home +130 16 £70,000 +33.33% 15
UK excluding London +144 12 £70,000 +94.44% 20
London +105 12 £76,250 +15.09% 15
North of England +50 5 £70,000 +105.88% 3
Midlands +70 4 £63,500 +111.67% 6
West Midlands +65 3 £70,000 +133.33% 5
North West - 3 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +49 2 - -
East of England +32 2 £55,000 +83.33% 4
South East +73 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £57,000 - 1

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 16 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 13 (50.00%) SaaS
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
5 5 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (19.23%) OneDrive
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.69%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) SAN
2 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
2 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) BGP
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) Internet
4 1 (3.85%) MPLS
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) OSPF
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (80.77%) SQL Server
2 13 (50.00%) Data Hub
2 13 (50.00%) Metadata
2 13 (50.00%) Power BI
2 13 (50.00%) SQL CLR
2 13 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 13 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (73.08%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Back Office
3 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Senior
2 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 13 (50.00%) SaaS Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 13 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Architect
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.85%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 12 (46.15%) Clustering
3 5 (19.23%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Android
2 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
2 5 (19.23%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) High Availability
2 23 (88.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (73.08%) Migration
4 13 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (50.00%) Data Privacy
4 13 (50.00%) Fintech
4 13 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (50.00%) Refactoring
4 13 (50.00%) Statistics
4 13 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 13 (50.00%) Workflow
5 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Change Control
6 3 (11.54%) Release Management
7 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 2 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (23.08%) SCCM
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) SCOM
3 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 17 (65.38%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (3.85%) Draytek
5 1 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (3.85%) Ubiquiti