High Availability Jobs

High Availability
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 378 272
Rank change year-on-year +250 -106 0
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 1,332 713 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.38% 0.65% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 0.79% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 361 579 745
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,500 £97,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,882 90,813 88,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.69% 82.65% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,914 62,635 53,651
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing High Availability.

Salary trend for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing High Availability within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +249 1,292 £65,000 +13.04% 886
Work from Home +259 980 £67,500 +17.39% 583
UK excluding London +127 511 £57,500 - 656
London +250 489 £72,500 -6.45% 448
South East +152 220 £55,000 -4.35% 278
East of England +88 90 £52,500 -8.70% 55
North of England +10 73 £60,000 +4.35% 91
Midlands +39 56 £70,000 +47.37% 61
South West +116 52 £67,500 +17.39% 87
West Midlands +30 38 £73,750 +40.48% 31
North West -12 35 £67,500 +17.39% 56
North East +58 19 £57,000 -0.87% 9
Yorkshire +29 19 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Scotland +93 17 £80,000 +45.45% 50
East Midlands +39 16 £53,000 +17.78% 30
Wales +35 3 £65,000 +26.97% 21
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £55,000 - 15

High Availability
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 64 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.50%) IIS
4 14 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.60%) Apache
5 8 (0.60%) nginx
6 7 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.53%) Confluence
7 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.075%) Camunda
9 1 (0.075%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.075%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.075%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.075%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.075%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 444 (33.33%) AWS
2 255 (19.14%) Azure
3 216 (16.22%) Pulumi
4 95 (7.13%) GCP
5 55 (4.13%) SaaS
6 41 (3.08%) Serverless
7 38 (2.85%) GitHub
7 38 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
10 34 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (2.03%) PaaS
12 26 (1.95%) Amazon S3
12 26 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (1.95%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 18 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (1.35%) IaaS
14 17 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 773 (58.03%) Broadband
2 68 (5.11%) Firewall
3 54 (4.05%) VPN
4 44 (3.30%) Network Security
4 44 (3.30%) SAN
5 38 (2.85%) DNS
6 34 (2.55%) NAS
7 28 (2.10%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.95%) WAN
9 24 (1.80%) DHCP
10 22 (1.65%) BGP
11 21 (1.58%) LAN
11 21 (1.58%) OSPF
12 17 (1.28%) MPLS
13 14 (1.05%) Wireless
14 12 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.83%) FTP
16 10 (0.75%) VLAN
17 7 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (0.53%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (18.39%) NoSQL
2 227 (17.04%) Relational Database
3 224 (16.82%) RDBMS
4 84 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 29 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (1.88%) MySQL
8 24 (1.80%) Big Data
9 23 (1.73%) Data Hub
9 23 (1.73%) SQL CLR
10 22 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.65%) Power BI
11 18 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.28%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 15 (1.13%) Metadata
14 14 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
15 12 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 215 (16.14%) Jaeger
2 48 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.33%) GitLab
4 29 (2.18%) Git
5 12 (0.90%) JIRA
6 9 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.23%) JUnit
9 3 (0.23%) Maven
9 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.15%) Gradle
10 2 (0.15%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.15%) NUnit
10 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.075%) Mocha
11 1 (0.075%) MSBuild
General
1 756 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 256 (19.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 203 (15.24%) Finance
4 88 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.23%) Multimedia
6 69 (5.18%) Banking
7 51 (3.83%) Law
8 39 (2.93%) Telecoms
9 29 (2.18%) Marketing
10 26 (1.95%) Electronics
11 25 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 23 (1.73%) Back Office
14 15 (1.13%) Legal
15 14 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.98%) Advertising
17 10 (0.75%) Games
18 8 (0.60%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 495 (37.16%) Lead
2 299 (22.45%) Team Leader
3 157 (11.79%) Systems Engineer
4 139 (10.44%) Senior
5 99 (7.43%) Engineering Manager
6 69 (5.18%) Software Engineer
7 62 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 62 (4.65%) Support Engineer
8 51 (3.83%) Developer
9 47 (3.53%) Architect
10 41 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (2.78%) IT Support
12 36 (2.70%) Administrator
13 33 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.03%) Azure Engineer
14 27 (2.03%) Infrastructure Support
14 27 (2.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 27 (2.03%) IT Manager
14 27 (2.03%) Systems Administrator
15 26 (1.95%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (17.94%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (16.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 72 (5.41%) Kafka
4 43 (3.23%) .NET
5 35 (2.63%) REST
6 33 (2.48%) AngularJS
7 27 (2.03%) Spring
8 23 (1.73%) Node.js
9 21 (1.58%) gRPC
10 19 (1.43%) Middleware
11 18 (1.35%) .NET Core
11 18 (1.35%) RESTful
12 17 (1.28%) Spring Boot
13 16 (1.20%) .NET Framework
13 16 (1.20%) SOAP
14 15 (1.13%) PyTorch
14 15 (1.13%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.05%) Hugging Face
16 13 (0.98%) Entity Framework
16 13 (0.98%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.28%) Clustering
2 45 (3.38%) Cloud Native
3 38 (2.85%) Public Cloud
4 32 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.33%) Replication
6 30 (2.25%) Private Cloud
7 27 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 23 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.20%) e-Learning
11 15 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.05%) Reference Data
13 11 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 9 (0.68%) Blockchain
14 9 (0.68%) Hedge funds
14 9 (0.68%) Product Ownership
14 9 (0.68%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.68%) Web3
15 8 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 319 (23.95%) Linux
2 228 (17.12%) Unix
3 123 (9.23%) Windows
4 77 (5.78%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.60%) Android
9 8 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.60%) Solaris
9 8 (0.60%) SUSE
10 7 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.30%) AIX
12 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.23%) Debian
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (62.99%) Mentoring
2 819 (61.49%) Roadmaps
3 786 (59.01%) Product Management
4 717 (53.83%) Problem-Solving
5 644 (48.35%) Computer Science
6 557 (41.82%) Broadcast Engineering
7 392 (29.43%) DevOps
8 309 (23.20%) Agile
9 308 (23.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 279 (20.95%) Containerisation
11 269 (20.20%) Cost Optimisation
12 246 (18.47%) Performance Optimisation
12 246 (18.47%) Task Automation
13 243 (18.24%) Resource Management
14 233 (17.49%) Continuous Integration
15 216 (16.22%) GitOps
16 215 (16.14%) Budget Control
17 176 (13.21%) CI/CD
18 118 (8.86%) Software Engineering
19 114 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 314 (23.57%) Python
2 294 (22.07%) Java
3 268 (20.12%) Bash
4 235 (17.64%) JavaScript
5 230 (17.27%) Go
6 132 (9.91%) SQL
7 103 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 66 (4.95%) C#
9 28 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.58%) C++
11 20 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.28%) C
13 12 (0.90%) Perl
14 6 (0.45%) Bicep
14 6 (0.45%) PHP
15 5 (0.38%) Ruby
15 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.30%) RPG
16 4 (0.30%) RPG IV
17 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 667 (50.08%) Degree
2 621 (46.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 245 (18.39%) AWS Certification
4 93 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 58 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (3.98%) SC Cleared
7 43 (3.23%) CCNP
7 43 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 39 (2.93%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.63%) CCNA
10 32 (2.40%) Master's Degree
11 27 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.35%) CISSP
12 18 (1.35%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.35%) PMP
13 16 (1.20%) RHCSA
14 15 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.90%) HND
17 10 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.65%) GDPR
2 34 (2.55%) QA
3 24 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 16 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 16 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.13%) SLA
8 9 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.53%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.38%) NIST
11 5 (0.38%) SEPA
12 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.15%) NCSC
14 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.075%) NEBOSH
14 1 (0.075%) PMO
System Software
1 309 (23.20%) Docker
2 89 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 34 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 28 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.35%) vSphere
8 7 (0.53%) NFS
9 6 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.45%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.30%) KVM
10 4 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.15%) HDFS
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.15%) SRDF
11 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 359 (26.95%) Kubernetes
2 337 (25.30%) Terraform
3 278 (20.87%) Ansible
4 268 (20.12%) Prometheus
5 218 (16.37%) Argo
6 215 (16.14%) Kustomize
7 56 (4.20%) Grafana
8 23 (1.73%) Failover Clustering
9 22 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (1.50%) Nagios
11 17 (1.28%) Puppet
11 17 (1.28%) SCCM
12 15 (1.13%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.90%) vMotion
14 9 (0.68%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.60%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.45%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.45%) SCOM
16 6 (0.45%) vRealize
17 5 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 262 (19.67%) Google
2 177 (13.29%) Microsoft
3 112 (8.41%) VMware
4 44 (3.30%) SAP
5 36 (2.70%) Cisco
6 30 (2.25%) Oracle
6 30 (2.25%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.43%) Citrix
8 16 (1.20%) SolarWinds
9 15 (1.13%) HP
9 15 (1.13%) IBM
10 13 (0.98%) Databricks
10 13 (0.98%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.90%) EMC
11 12 (0.90%) Veeam
12 11 (0.83%) F5
13 10 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.75%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.68%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.60%) Splunk