High Availability Job Trends

High Availability
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 249 355
Rank change year-on-year -22 +106 -71
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 595 519 750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.24% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.34% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 412 406 624
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,764 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £105,250 £98,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,318 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.54% +2.40% -7.60%

All Process & 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 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

High Availability job vacancy trend in the UK

High Availability
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing High Availability over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Top 17 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 21 April 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 -31 533 £70,000 +7.69% 292
UK excluding London -44 298 £60,000 +6.54% 237
London +13 262 £90,000 +20.00% 102
Work from Home +1 181 £77,500 +19.23% 135
North of England -34 100 £55,000 - 58
South East -76 62 £62,500 +8.70% 75
North West -28 46 £65,000 +27.73% 30
Midlands -27 41 £56,750 +3.18% 27
East of England -33 32 £85,000 +30.77% 32
North East -20 30 £47,500 -17.39% 12
West Midlands -20 27 £62,500 -10.71% 19
South West -45 27 £70,000 +27.27% 25
Yorkshire -50 24 £62,500 +19.05% 16
Northern Ireland -24 18 £31,500 -42.73% 8
Scotland -17 14 £57,500 +2.10% 10
East Midlands -57 14 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Wales -28 5 £75,000 +47.42% 3

High Availability
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 31 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.34%) Confluence
4 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.01%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) SAS
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.34%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Site Server
9 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 263 (44.20%) Azure
2 225 (37.82%) AWS
3 79 (13.28%) GCP
4 57 (9.58%) GitHub
5 56 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (9.41%) Serverless
6 41 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (6.72%) Datadog
8 39 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (5.55%) Nutanix
11 29 (4.87%) Azure AKS
11 29 (4.87%) Entra ID
12 28 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (4.03%) IaaS
16 23 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (3.19%) Amazon S3
17 19 (3.19%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 144 (24.20%) Firewall
2 100 (16.81%) DNS
3 72 (12.10%) WAN
4 67 (11.26%) VPN
5 58 (9.75%) DHCP
6 55 (9.24%) LAN
7 49 (8.24%) Network Security
8 38 (6.39%) Remote Desktop
8 38 (6.39%) TCP/IP
9 37 (6.22%) VLAN
10 28 (4.71%) SD-WAN
11 27 (4.54%) Broadband
12 24 (4.03%) HTTP
13 22 (3.70%) BGP
14 19 (3.19%) Wireless
15 17 (2.86%) SAN
16 15 (2.52%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (2.35%) HSRP
17 14 (2.35%) VoIP
17 14 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.59%) NoSQL
2 54 (9.08%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.19%) RDBMS
7 18 (3.03%) MySQL
8 16 (2.69%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.18%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.85%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.85%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.18%) SAP BW
13 7 (1.18%) SAP HANA
13 7 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.01%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 58 (9.75%) Jenkins
2 31 (5.21%) Git
3 25 (4.20%) GitLab
4 23 (3.87%) CircleCI
5 19 (3.19%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.69%) JIRA
7 6 (1.01%) MLflow
8 5 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.67%) Maven
10 3 (0.50%) Gradle
11 2 (0.34%) Subversion
12 1 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.17%) Gatling
12 1 (0.17%) GCC
12 1 (0.17%) GDB
12 1 (0.17%) Postman
12 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.17%) Yeoman
General
1 196 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 152 (25.55%) Finance
3 50 (8.40%) Banking
4 46 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.73%) Telecoms
5 38 (6.39%) Law
6 24 (4.03%) Legal
7 22 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 20 (3.36%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.52%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.02%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.85%) Retail
13 10 (1.68%) Games
14 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.18%) Front Office
16 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 127 (21.34%) Senior
2 80 (13.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 61 (10.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 61 (10.25%) Network Engineer
4 55 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (9.08%) Lead
6 46 (7.73%) Developer
7 38 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (6.05%) Linux Engineer
9 29 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (4.54%) Architect
11 26 (4.37%) DBA
12 23 (3.87%) Software Engineer
12 23 (3.87%) Support Engineer
13 21 (3.53%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) Senior Network Engineer
15 17 (2.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
2 44 (7.39%) Kafka
3 38 (6.39%) RESTful
4 32 (5.38%) .NET
5 27 (4.54%) REST
6 23 (3.87%) gRPC
6 23 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (3.03%) web3js
8 17 (2.86%) OAuth
9 15 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (2.52%) WebSockets
10 14 (2.35%) .NET Framework
10 14 (2.35%) React
11 13 (2.18%) SAML
12 12 (2.02%) PySpark
13 10 (1.68%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.51%) ARM Templates
15 8 (1.34%) HTML
15 8 (1.34%) JSON
16 7 (1.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.25%) Data Centre
3 40 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (5.21%) Public Cloud
6 23 (3.87%) Replication
7 19 (3.19%) Blockchain
8 18 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 18 (3.03%) Web3
9 17 (2.86%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.02%) Hedge funds
12 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.02%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.85%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.68%) PKI
14 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.51%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 123 (20.67%) Linux
2 100 (16.81%) Windows
3 87 (14.62%) Windows Server
4 34 (5.71%) Unix
5 26 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.02%) CentOS
7 10 (1.68%) Android
8 9 (1.51%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.34%) VMS
10 7 (1.18%) Debian
11 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.67%) AIX
12 4 (0.67%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.50%) SUSE
14 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.34%) Solaris
14 2 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.17%) Rocky
15 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (36.13%) DevOps
2 161 (27.06%) CI/CD
2 161 (27.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (24.03%) Containerisation
4 140 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 115 (19.33%) ITIL
6 106 (17.82%) Mentoring
7 102 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (15.97%) Agile
9 89 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (12.94%) Microservices
11 76 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 76 (12.77%) Roadmaps
12 74 (12.44%) Analytics
13 73 (12.27%) Software Engineering
14 71 (11.93%) Business Continuity
15 66 (11.09%) Observability
16 65 (10.92%) Computer Science
16 65 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
17 54 (9.08%) AI
Programming Languages
1 179 (30.08%) Python
2 105 (17.65%) Bash
3 102 (17.14%) SQL
4 79 (13.28%) Go
4 79 (13.28%) PowerShell
5 47 (7.90%) JavaScript
6 46 (7.73%) Java
7 37 (6.22%) C#
8 14 (2.35%) C++
9 13 (2.18%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.85%) Bicep
10 11 (1.85%) Scala
11 10 (1.68%) Korn
11 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.18%) Perl
12 7 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.01%) ABAP
13 6 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.01%) Ruby
14 5 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (14.96%) Degree
2 55 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 50 (8.40%) Cisco Certification
5 43 (7.23%) CCNP
6 39 (6.55%) Azure Certification
7 32 (5.38%) AWS Certification
8 30 (5.04%) CCIE
9 29 (4.87%) SC Cleared
10 23 (3.87%) CCNA
11 22 (3.70%) DV Cleared
12 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (2.35%) CCSA
13 14 (2.35%) CCSE
13 14 (2.35%) Master's Degree
13 14 (2.35%) PMI Certification
14 12 (2.02%) CISSP
15 9 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.51%) PMP
16 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.24%) GDPR
2 37 (6.22%) SLA
3 27 (4.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 23 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (3.19%) QA
7 18 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (2.86%) Data Quality
9 15 (2.52%) SOC 2
10 13 (2.18%) NIST
11 6 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) IFRS
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 14000
13 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.17%) Basel III
13 1 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 117 (19.66%) Docker
2 94 (15.80%) Active Directory
3 64 (10.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (8.57%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.68%) vSphere
7 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.34%) Firmware
11 2 (0.34%) Samba
12 1 (0.17%) KVM
12 1 (0.17%) XenApp
12 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 163 (27.39%) Kubernetes
2 157 (26.39%) Terraform
3 103 (17.31%) Ansible
4 82 (13.78%) Prometheus
5 51 (8.57%) Grafana
6 26 (4.37%) Argo
7 20 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.19%) Kustomize
9 13 (2.18%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.18%) Data Guard
10 7 (1.18%) Nagios
11 6 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.84%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.84%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.67%) VxRail
14 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.50%) Control-M
14 3 (0.50%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 117 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 83 (13.95%) Cisco
3 72 (12.10%) VMware
4 42 (7.06%) Dell
5 34 (5.71%) Google
6 31 (5.21%) Palo Alto
7 29 (4.87%) Nimble Storage
8 28 (4.71%) Dell Compellent
8 28 (4.71%) HP
9 25 (4.20%) SAP
10 22 (3.70%) Databricks
11 21 (3.53%) CheckPoint
11 21 (3.53%) Oracle
12 19 (3.19%) Fortinet
13 18 (3.03%) Meraki
14 17 (2.86%) Red Hat
14 17 (2.86%) Zscaler
15 13 (2.18%) SolarWinds
15 13 (2.18%) Splunk
16 12 (2.02%) F5