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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 240 259
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +38
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 500 691 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.25% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.39% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 353 415 543
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% +20.00% -14.18%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £118,500 £108,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -15.97%

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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -23 462 £73,500 +5.00% 367
UK excluding London -12 254 £60,000 - 243
London -11 221 £82,500 +6.45% 160
Work from Home +39 217 £75,000 +11.11% 131
South East -22 72 £60,000 -11.11% 57
North of England -1 63 £60,000 +14.29% 76
Midlands +4 44 £55,500 +11.00% 37
South West -2 44 £60,000 -7.69% 23
West Midlands +29 34 £72,500 +36.54% 26
North West +3 31 £60,000 +9.09% 44
Yorkshire -4 19 £62,500 +19.05% 25
East of England +8 17 £82,500 +22.22% 31
North East +6 13 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Northern Ireland - 13 £31,500 - 2
East Midlands -35 10 £52,500 +10.53% 10
Scotland +7 8 £90,000 +84.51% 15
Wales +4 1 £41,000 -21.15% 6

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 15 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.00%) Confluence
4 9 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.20%) Apache
5 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.80%) IIS
7 3 (0.60%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.40%) WildFly
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.20%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 15 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 208 (41.60%) Azure
2 178 (35.60%) AWS
3 58 (11.60%) GCP
4 44 (8.80%) GitHub
5 43 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (6.60%) Serverless
7 30 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.00%) Entra ID
11 18 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.60%) SaaS
12 17 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.80%) Amazon S3
13 14 (2.80%) Azure AKS
13 14 (2.80%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.60%) Nutanix
15 11 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 94 (18.80%) Firewall
2 70 (14.00%) WAN
3 62 (12.40%) VPN
4 60 (12.00%) LAN
5 39 (7.80%) DNS
6 31 (6.20%) DHCP
7 30 (6.00%) SD-WAN
7 30 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (5.40%) TCP/IP
9 24 (4.80%) Network Security
10 23 (4.60%) VLAN
11 20 (4.00%) Wireless
12 19 (3.80%) VoIP
13 17 (3.40%) Remote Desktop
14 16 (3.20%) BGP
14 16 (3.20%) SAN
15 14 (2.80%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (2.40%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (2.20%) HTTP
17 11 (2.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 22 (4.40%) MySQL
5 19 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (3.40%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.60%) Oracle Database
8 12 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.20%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.20%) Redis
13 5 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.00%) Big Data
13 5 (1.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 30 (6.00%) Git
1 30 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.00%) JIRA
3 11 (2.20%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.80%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.60%) GitLab
6 6 (1.20%) MLflow
7 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.00%) Vite
8 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.80%) JMeter
9 3 (0.60%) Postman
9 3 (0.60%) Selenium
9 3 (0.60%) Snyk
9 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.20%) GCC
11 1 (0.20%) GDB
General
1 160 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 139 (27.80%) Finance
3 46 (9.20%) Telecoms
4 43 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.40%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 19 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.40%) Banking
8 17 (3.40%) Law
9 16 (3.20%) Retail
10 15 (3.00%) Marketing
11 14 (2.80%) Electronics
12 11 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.00%) Front Office
14 8 (1.60%) Legal
15 7 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.20%) Games
17 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (20.00%) Senior
2 44 (8.80%) Network Engineer
3 43 (8.60%) Administrator
4 42 (8.40%) Developer
5 38 (7.60%) Lead
6 37 (7.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (6.20%) Systems Administrator
9 29 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (5.20%) Software Engineer
11 24 (4.80%) Architect
11 24 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.60%) IT Manager
13 22 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (4.20%) DBA
15 19 (3.80%) Support Engineer
16 18 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.60%) Cisco Engineer
16 18 (3.60%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 18 (3.60%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.80%) Kafka
2 31 (6.20%) OAuth
3 26 (5.20%) RESTful
4 25 (5.00%) JMS
5 24 (4.80%) REST
6 23 (4.60%) Spring
7 22 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 20 (4.00%) SAML
9 19 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (3.80%) React
10 17 (3.40%) .NET
10 17 (3.40%) Middleware
11 16 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (3.00%) SOAP
13 13 (2.60%) Akka
13 13 (2.60%) BAPI
13 13 (2.60%) IBM Integration Bus
13 13 (2.60%) OAuth2
13 13 (2.60%) RxJava
13 13 (2.60%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.00%) Cloud Native
2 51 (10.20%) Data Centre
3 41 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (6.00%) e-Learning
5 26 (5.20%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (3.80%) Public Cloud
8 17 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (3.00%) Replication
10 13 (2.60%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.40%) Onboarding
11 12 (2.40%) Virtual Team
12 10 (2.00%) Clustering
12 10 (2.00%) Driving Licence
13 9 (1.80%) Operational Technology
14 6 (1.20%) CMDB
14 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 114 (22.80%) Linux
2 72 (14.40%) Windows
3 49 (9.80%) Unix
4 44 (8.80%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.80%) Android
6 7 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.40%) VMS
7 6 (1.20%) CentOS
8 5 (1.00%) Debian
9 4 (0.80%) SUSE
10 3 (0.60%) AIX
10 3 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.20%) Solaris
12 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (31.40%) DevOps
2 127 (25.40%) CI/CD
3 119 (23.80%) Disaster Recovery
4 101 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 95 (19.00%) ITIL
7 81 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (15.80%) Agile
8 79 (15.80%) Computer Science
9 64 (12.80%) Mentoring
10 63 (12.60%) Containerisation
11 62 (12.40%) Business Continuity
12 61 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
12 61 (12.20%) Observability
13 59 (11.80%) Microservices
14 58 (11.60%) AI
15 55 (11.00%) ITSM
16 52 (10.40%) Incident Response
17 49 (9.80%) Service Management
18 47 (9.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 114 (22.80%) Python
2 80 (16.00%) SQL
3 54 (10.80%) Bash
4 51 (10.20%) Java
5 41 (8.20%) PowerShell
6 40 (8.00%) Go
7 31 (6.20%) JavaScript
8 25 (5.00%) C#
9 17 (3.40%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.40%) C++
11 8 (1.60%) Bicep
12 7 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.20%) ABAP
13 6 (1.20%) Scala
14 5 (1.00%) Perl
14 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.80%) PHP
15 4 (0.80%) Ruby
16 2 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (18.80%) Degree
2 79 (15.80%) Cisco Certification
3 78 (15.60%) Security Cleared
4 76 (15.20%) CCNP
5 64 (12.80%) SC Cleared
6 58 (11.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (9.20%) CCNA
8 41 (8.20%) DV Cleared
9 39 (7.80%) AWS Certification
10 30 (6.00%) Azure Certification
11 27 (5.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (4.00%) CCIE
13 19 (3.80%) Master's Degree
13 19 (3.80%) PMI Certification
13 19 (3.80%) PMP
14 14 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (2.60%) CISSP
16 10 (2.00%) CCSA
16 10 (2.00%) CCSE
17 8 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.80%) GDPR
2 26 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (4.60%) QA
4 17 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 17 (3.40%) SLA
5 14 (2.80%) NIST
6 13 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.40%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.00%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.60%) WCAG
11 1 (0.20%) Basel III
11 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.20%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (17.00%) Docker
2 56 (11.20%) Active Directory
3 38 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (7.00%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.60%) vSphere
6 6 (1.20%) pfSense
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.00%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.60%) Squid
9 2 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.40%) KVM
9 2 (0.40%) NFS
9 2 (0.40%) QEMU
9 2 (0.40%) Samba
9 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.20%) Ceph
10 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 120 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 95 (19.00%) Terraform
3 58 (11.60%) Ansible
4 43 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 36 (7.20%) Grafana
6 13 (2.60%) FortiGate
7 12 (2.40%) Argo
8 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.60%) Endace
10 7 (1.40%) Kustomize
11 6 (1.20%) Kibana
12 5 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (0.80%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.80%) SCCM
13 4 (0.80%) SCOM
13 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.60%) logstash
14 3 (0.60%) Netcool
14 3 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (22.60%) Cisco
2 89 (17.80%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.40%) VMware
4 38 (7.60%) SAP
5 28 (5.60%) Dell
6 27 (5.40%) Fortinet
7 24 (4.80%) Palo Alto
8 22 (4.40%) Juniper
9 21 (4.20%) Google
10 18 (3.60%) Oracle
11 17 (3.40%) IBM
12 14 (2.80%) Nimble Storage
13 13 (2.60%) CheckPoint
13 13 (2.60%) SolarWinds
14 12 (2.40%) Databricks
14 12 (2.40%) Dell Compellent
14 12 (2.40%) HP
15 10 (2.00%) ServiceNow
16 9 (1.80%) Red Hat
16 9 (1.80%) Salesforce