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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 261 279
Rank change year-on-year -141 +18 +3
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 542 1,139 2,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 1.41% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.48% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 440 755 1,116
10th Percentile £38,125 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +7.52% +3.52%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £93,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,255
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.37% +4.84%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for High Availability in the UK

High Availability
Top 16 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 26 July 2024. 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 -130 505 £62,500 - 84
UK excluding London -125 362 £57,500 +4.55% 61
Work from Home -61 224 £57,500 -11.54% 50
London -74 160 £80,000 +10.34% 38
South East +10 105 £57,500 -4.17% 17
North of England -110 94 £57,500 +9.52% 13
Midlands -58 65 £52,500 -8.70% 9
North West -91 53 £57,500 +4.55% 8
South West -39 48 £57,500 +27.78% 12
West Midlands -45 41 £60,500 +15.24% 7
Yorkshire -8 32 £65,000 +85.71% 4
East of England -14 28 £57,500 -16.36% 2
East Midlands -25 24 £45,000 -21.74% 2
Scotland -65 17 £57,500 -12.01% 1
North East -9 9 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Wales +25 7 £57,500 -14.05% 2

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 37 (6.83%) IIS
2 19 (3.51%) Apache
3 18 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.95%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.40%) Tomcat
6 11 (2.03%) JBoss
7 9 (1.66%) Apache Spark
8 8 (1.48%) nginx
9 4 (0.74%) CMS
9 4 (0.74%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 4 (0.74%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.55%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.37%) Confluence
11 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.74%) Maximo
2 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 278 (51.29%) Azure
2 153 (28.23%) AWS
3 58 (10.70%) GCP
4 56 (10.33%) Power Platform
5 46 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (7.01%) SaaS
7 31 (5.72%) GitHub
8 23 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (3.14%) Azure AKS
10 16 (2.95%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.58%) OneDrive
11 14 (2.58%) Serverless
12 10 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.85%) Datadog
12 10 (1.85%) PaaS
13 9 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.48%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 77 (14.21%) Firewall
2 46 (8.49%) Broadband
3 37 (6.83%) DNS
4 36 (6.64%) SAN
5 34 (6.27%) VPN
6 29 (5.35%) WAN
7 20 (3.69%) MPLS
8 19 (3.51%) SSL
9 18 (3.32%) BGP
9 18 (3.32%) LAN
10 17 (3.14%) SNMP
10 17 (3.14%) Wireless
11 16 (2.95%) OSPF
12 15 (2.77%) SD-WAN
13 14 (2.58%) TCP/IP
14 13 (2.40%) DHCP
14 13 (2.40%) Internet
14 13 (2.40%) Network Security
15 12 (2.21%) HTTP
15 12 (2.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (26.01%) SQL Server
2 56 (10.33%) Power BI
3 53 (9.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 48 (8.86%) NoSQL
5 33 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (5.54%) MySQL
7 24 (4.43%) Relational Database
8 23 (4.24%) Big Data
9 22 (4.06%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.21%) Data Lake
12 12 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (2.03%) Hadoop
13 11 (2.03%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 6 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
17 6 (1.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (11.25%) Git
2 49 (9.04%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.43%) GitLab
4 23 (4.24%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.29%) JIRA
7 7 (1.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.55%) Android Studio
8 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.37%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.37%) JMeter
9 2 (0.37%) JUnit
10 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.18%) Selenium
10 1 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 216 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 97 (17.90%) Finance
3 56 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (3.69%) Banking
6 17 (3.14%) Retail
7 16 (2.95%) Law
8 13 (2.40%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.03%) Front Office
11 9 (1.66%) Music Industry
11 9 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.29%) Automotive
14 6 (1.11%) Games
15 5 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (14.39%) Senior
2 75 (13.84%) DBA
3 59 (10.89%) Architect
4 55 (10.15%) SQL DBA
5 54 (9.96%) Lead
6 52 (9.59%) Developer
7 45 (8.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (4.61%) Administrator
11 23 (4.24%) Software Engineer
12 22 (4.06%) Analyst
12 22 (4.06%) Support Engineer
13 18 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.14%) Applications Support
14 17 (3.14%) Operations Engineer
14 17 (3.14%) Technical Architect
15 16 (2.95%) .NET Developer
16 15 (2.77%) Network Engineer
16 15 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.41%) HTML
2 50 (9.23%) .NET
3 33 (6.09%) CSS
3 33 (6.09%) HTML5
4 32 (5.90%) RESTful
5 22 (4.06%) ASP.NET
5 22 (4.06%) Kafka
6 21 (3.87%) .NET Core
7 19 (3.51%) .NET Framework
7 19 (3.51%) React
8 17 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (3.14%) XML
9 16 (2.95%) Node.js
10 15 (2.77%) CSS3
11 14 (2.58%) YAML
12 12 (2.21%) jQuery
13 11 (2.03%) Spring
14 10 (1.85%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.66%) Laravel
15 9 (1.66%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.70%) Clustering
2 54 (9.96%) Data Centre
3 44 (8.12%) Replication
4 31 (5.72%) Cloud Native
5 27 (4.98%) Public Cloud
6 26 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.58%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.21%) PKI
11 11 (2.03%) Driving Licence
11 11 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.29%) FMCG
14 7 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 6 (1.11%) Robotics
16 5 (0.92%) Blackberry
16 5 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 123 (22.69%) Windows
2 116 (21.40%) Linux
3 60 (11.07%) Windows Server
4 51 (9.41%) VMS
5 33 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (2.95%) CentOS
7 15 (2.77%) Unix
8 14 (2.58%) Oracle Linux
8 14 (2.58%) Solaris
9 12 (2.21%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.74%) AIX
13 4 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.74%) Android
13 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.55%) Debian
14 3 (0.55%) Rocky
14 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (32.66%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (28.60%) Disaster Recovery
3 149 (27.49%) DevOps
4 115 (21.22%) Performance Tuning
5 112 (20.66%) CI/CD
6 88 (16.24%) Agile
7 84 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (13.28%) Computer Science
10 63 (11.62%) Containerisation
10 63 (11.62%) Migration
11 61 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
11 61 (11.25%) Collaborative Working
12 52 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 47 (8.67%) Software Engineering
14 46 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (7.20%) Mentoring
16 36 (6.64%) Business Continuity
17 35 (6.46%) Configuration Management
18 33 (6.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 175 (32.29%) SQL
2 115 (21.22%) Python
3 88 (16.24%) PowerShell
4 70 (12.92%) T-SQL
5 68 (12.55%) C#
6 64 (11.81%) Java
7 53 (9.78%) Bash
8 45 (8.30%) JavaScript
9 25 (4.61%) Go
10 24 (4.43%) C++
11 16 (2.95%) PHP
12 15 (2.77%) C
13 11 (2.03%) Rust
13 11 (2.03%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.66%) Perl
15 7 (1.29%) TypeScript
16 6 (1.11%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.92%) ABAP
17 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (18.27%) Degree
2 56 (10.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (8.30%) Security Cleared
5 22 (4.06%) SC Cleared
6 19 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 17 (3.14%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.21%) CCNP
10 9 (1.66%) CCIE
10 9 (1.66%) RHCE
11 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.29%) CCDP
11 7 (1.29%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.92%) HND
12 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.92%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.80%) QA
2 19 (3.51%) SLA
3 18 (3.32%) GDPR
4 11 (2.03%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.29%) ISO 9001
5 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (14.21%) Active Directory
2 68 (12.55%) Docker
3 60 (11.07%) Virtual Machines
4 53 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (2.95%) Firmware
7 10 (1.85%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.48%) vSphere
10 6 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.11%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.74%) KVM
11 4 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.37%) Ceph
12 2 (0.37%) NFS
13 1 (0.18%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.18%) PowerDNS
13 1 (0.18%) XenApp
13 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 88 (16.24%) Terraform
3 80 (14.76%) Ansible
4 32 (5.90%) Grafana
5 25 (4.61%) Prometheus
6 23 (4.24%) Puppet
7 21 (3.87%) Nagios
8 17 (3.14%) Microsoft Clustering
8 17 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (2.40%) Progress Chef
10 12 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (2.03%) vCenter Server
12 10 (1.85%) Pingdom
13 9 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.11%) WSUS
16 5 (0.92%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.92%) Foglight
16 5 (0.92%) Kibana
16 5 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 177 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 68 (12.55%) VMware
3 39 (7.20%) Oracle
4 36 (6.64%) Cisco
5 26 (4.80%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.69%) Google
6 20 (3.69%) Veeam
7 17 (3.14%) New Relic
8 16 (2.95%) Splunk
9 15 (2.77%) HP
9 15 (2.77%) IBM
10 14 (2.58%) SolarWinds
11 12 (2.21%) SAP
11 12 (2.21%) Serena
12 10 (1.85%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.85%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.66%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (1.48%) Dell
14 8 (1.48%) Nimble Storage