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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 233 263
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 +27
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 501 680 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.27% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.40% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 347 402 556
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +20.43% -14.81%
75th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £119,250 £107,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.00%

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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14 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 14 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 -29 460 £74,000 +5.71% 315
UK excluding London -18 253 £60,000 - 287
London +13 221 £85,000 +11.11% 67
Work from Home +34 216 £75,000 +11.11% 148
South East -7 73 £61,250 -11.23% 83
North of England -20 61 £62,500 +19.05% 69
Midlands +6 43 £55,500 +16.84% 43
South West +1 41 £60,000 -7.69% 34
West Midlands +31 33 £71,250 +34.19% 22
North West -3 30 £65,000 +18.18% 33
East of England +9 19 £85,000 +30.77% 38
Yorkshire -14 17 £60,000 +14.29% 27
Northern Ireland - 15 £31,500 - 7
North East +8 14 £68,750 +25.00% 10
East Midlands -33 10 £52,500 +10.53% 21
Scotland +4 8 £90,000 +84.51% 11
Wales +8 1 £41,000 -21.15% 9

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 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.60%) Confluence
3 6 (1.20%) Apache
3 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 3 (0.60%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.40%) WildFly
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 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 13 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 209 (41.72%) Azure
2 187 (37.33%) AWS
3 54 (10.78%) GCP
4 45 (8.98%) GitHub
5 44 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (7.19%) Serverless
7 28 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.99%) Entra ID
12 19 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.39%) Amazon S3
13 17 (3.39%) Nutanix
14 16 (3.19%) SaaS
15 15 (2.99%) Azure AKS
16 14 (2.79%) Azure Functions
17 13 (2.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 94 (18.76%) Firewall
2 68 (13.57%) WAN
3 60 (11.98%) LAN
4 57 (11.38%) VPN
5 41 (8.18%) DNS
6 34 (6.79%) DHCP
7 29 (5.79%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (5.59%) SD-WAN
9 26 (5.19%) TCP/IP
10 24 (4.79%) Network Security
11 21 (4.19%) Remote Desktop
11 21 (4.19%) VLAN
12 19 (3.79%) Wireless
13 18 (3.59%) VoIP
14 17 (3.39%) Broadband
15 16 (3.19%) SAN
16 15 (2.99%) BGP
16 15 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (2.59%) Cisco Firepower
18 11 (2.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.39%) NoSQL
2 30 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.99%) MySQL
6 19 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.39%) RDBMS
8 16 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.59%) Oracle Database
10 12 (2.40%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.20%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.60%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.40%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.20%) Redis
14 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 34 (6.79%) Jenkins
2 31 (6.19%) Git
3 15 (2.99%) Jaeger
4 13 (2.59%) JIRA
5 10 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.00%) GitLab
6 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.00%) Vite
8 4 (0.80%) JMeter
9 3 (0.60%) MLflow
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%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.20%) GCC
11 1 (0.20%) GDB
General
1 156 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 134 (26.75%) Finance
3 44 (8.78%) Telecoms
4 37 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.79%) Financial Institution
7 21 (4.19%) Banking
8 17 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.19%) Retail
10 15 (2.99%) Law
11 12 (2.40%) Electronics
11 12 (2.40%) Marketing
12 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.60%) Legal
14 7 (1.40%) Front Office
14 7 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.20%) Games
16 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (20.76%) Senior
2 46 (9.18%) Network Engineer
3 45 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 44 (8.78%) Lead
5 42 (8.38%) Developer
6 39 (7.78%) Administrator
7 34 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 27 (5.39%) Systems Administrator
10 25 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (4.59%) Architect
12 22 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.19%) DBA
13 21 (4.19%) IT Manager
14 20 (3.99%) Cisco Engineer
14 20 (3.99%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 20 (3.99%) WAN Engineer
15 17 (3.39%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.39%) Kafka
2 29 (5.79%) OAuth
2 29 (5.79%) RESTful
3 25 (4.99%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (4.59%) JMS
4 23 (4.59%) REST
5 22 (4.39%) Spring
6 21 (4.19%) Spring Boot
7 19 (3.79%) .NET
7 19 (3.79%) React
8 18 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (3.59%) SAML
9 17 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (2.99%) Middleware
11 14 (2.79%) gRPC
12 13 (2.59%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.59%) SOAP
13 12 (2.40%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (2.40%) Akka
13 12 (2.40%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 67 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.98%) Data Centre
3 39 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.39%) e-Learning
5 25 (4.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (4.79%) Management Information System
7 23 (4.59%) Public Cloud
8 20 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (3.19%) Replication
11 13 (2.59%) AI Agents
12 12 (2.40%) Onboarding
12 12 (2.40%) Virtual Team
13 10 (2.00%) Clustering
13 10 (2.00%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.80%) Driving Licence
15 8 (1.60%) Hedge funds
16 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
17 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 121 (24.15%) Linux
2 74 (14.77%) Windows
3 52 (10.38%) Unix
4 46 (9.18%) 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 4 (0.80%) Debian
8 4 (0.80%) SUSE
9 3 (0.60%) AIX
9 3 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.20%) Solaris
11 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (33.73%) DevOps
2 134 (26.75%) CI/CD
3 124 (24.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 112 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (18.96%) ITIL
5 95 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (16.37%) Agile
7 80 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (15.77%) Computer Science
9 76 (15.17%) Mentoring
10 68 (13.57%) Containerisation
11 63 (12.57%) Business Continuity
12 62 (12.38%) Microservices
12 62 (12.38%) Observability
13 56 (11.18%) Cybersecurity
14 55 (10.98%) ITSM
15 52 (10.38%) AI
16 50 (9.98%) Roadmaps
17 47 (9.38%) Incident Response
17 47 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (23.75%) Python
2 75 (14.97%) SQL
3 61 (12.18%) Bash
4 56 (11.18%) Java
5 48 (9.58%) Go
6 40 (7.98%) PowerShell
7 37 (7.39%) JavaScript
8 27 (5.39%) C#
9 17 (3.39%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.20%) C++
11 8 (1.60%) Bicep
12 7 (1.40%) Scala
13 6 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.00%) ABAP
14 5 (1.00%) Perl
15 4 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.80%) PHP
15 4 (0.80%) Ruby
16 2 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 97 (19.36%) Degree
2 76 (15.17%) Cisco Certification
3 75 (14.97%) Security Cleared
4 73 (14.57%) CCNP
5 61 (12.18%) SC Cleared
6 59 (11.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (8.78%) AWS Certification
8 42 (8.38%) CCNA
9 39 (7.78%) DV Cleared
10 27 (5.39%) Azure Certification
11 26 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (4.19%) CCIE
13 18 (3.59%) Master's Degree
14 17 (3.39%) PMI Certification
14 17 (3.39%) PMP
15 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (2.20%) CCSA
16 11 (2.20%) CCSE
17 10 (2.00%) CISSP
18 8 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.19%) GDPR
2 23 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (4.19%) QA
3 21 (4.19%) SLA
4 16 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (2.40%) NIST
6 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.60%) WCAG
12 1 (0.20%) Basel III
12 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.20%) MiFID
12 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (18.16%) Docker
2 57 (11.38%) Active Directory
3 40 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (7.39%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.59%) vSphere
6 6 (1.20%) pfSense
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.80%) 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%) Lustre
10 1 (0.20%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 128 (25.55%) Kubernetes
2 107 (21.36%) Terraform
3 63 (12.57%) Ansible
4 53 (10.58%) Prometheus
5 37 (7.39%) Grafana
6 18 (3.59%) Argo
7 14 (2.79%) FortiGate
8 13 (2.59%) Kustomize
9 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.60%) Endace
11 6 (1.20%) Kibana
12 5 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
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
15 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 109 (21.76%) Cisco
2 85 (16.97%) Microsoft
3 44 (8.78%) VMware
4 34 (6.79%) SAP
5 32 (6.39%) Dell
6 27 (5.39%) Google
7 26 (5.19%) Fortinet
8 23 (4.59%) Palo Alto
9 21 (4.19%) Juniper
10 18 (3.59%) Nimble Storage
10 18 (3.59%) Oracle
11 16 (3.19%) Dell Compellent
11 16 (3.19%) HP
12 15 (2.99%) IBM
13 14 (2.79%) CheckPoint
14 12 (2.40%) Databricks
14 12 (2.40%) SolarWinds
15 10 (2.00%) Red Hat
15 10 (2.00%) ServiceNow
16 8 (1.60%) Salesforce