High Availability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for High Availability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited High Availability over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 292 286
Rank change year-on-year -75 -6 +20
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 748 1,267 2,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.20% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.26% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 621 786 1,037
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,188 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +16.76% -3.65%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £101,463 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

High Availability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -47 647 £57,500 -11.54% 180
UK excluding London -50 523 £55,000 -4.35% 113
Work from Home -17 345 £57,500 -14.81% 90
London -54 189 £77,500 +3.33% 81
North of England -31 147 £57,500 +9.52% 27
South East +50 116 £55,000 - 22
Midlands +7 111 £47,000 -21.67% 22
West Midlands +25 89 £44,750 -25.42% 8
North West -44 68 £55,000 - 19
Yorkshire +56 66 £56,000 +40.00% 7
Scotland -97 60 £52,500 -24.40% 10
South West -66 49 £57,500 +27.78% 14
East of England +17 32 £57,500 -30.30% 17
East Midlands -28 22 £47,500 -17.39% 14
North East +4 13 £57,500 +20.62% 1
Wales +9 10 £51,193 -23.48% 1

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 76 (10.16%) IIS
2 34 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 32 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (4.28%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.01%) Apache
5 8 (1.07%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.94%) CMS
7 6 (0.80%) Drupal
7 6 (0.80%) JBoss
7 6 (0.80%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.53%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.40%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) Confluence
10 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.94%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.80%) SAP PLM
3 5 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.53%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.40%) Maximo
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 405 (54.14%) Azure
2 214 (28.61%) AWS
3 106 (14.17%) GCP
4 99 (13.24%) Power Platform
5 62 (8.29%) SaaS
6 58 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (6.55%) Amazon S3
8 39 (5.21%) GitHub
9 31 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
10 25 (3.34%) Google Docs
11 24 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (3.07%) Lucidchart
12 23 (3.07%) Miro
12 23 (3.07%) Slack
13 22 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 21 (2.81%) Serverless
15 19 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (15.11%) Firewall
2 91 (12.17%) WAN
3 78 (10.43%) Broadband
4 64 (8.56%) DNS
5 51 (6.82%) VPN
6 38 (5.08%) SAN
7 33 (4.41%) LAN
8 30 (4.01%) DHCP
9 28 (3.74%) MPLS
10 27 (3.61%) BGP
11 23 (3.07%) OSPF
11 23 (3.07%) SD-WAN
11 23 (3.07%) Wireless
12 21 (2.81%) TCP/IP
13 19 (2.54%) Network Security
14 18 (2.41%) Internet
15 17 (2.27%) SNMP
15 17 (2.27%) WLAN
16 16 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
17 12 (1.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 93 (12.43%) Power BI
3 89 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 54 (7.22%) NoSQL
5 43 (5.75%) MySQL
6 41 (5.48%) Big Data
7 39 (5.21%) Relational Database
8 37 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (4.28%) Hadoop
11 28 (3.74%) MongoDB
12 25 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (3.07%) Redis
13 23 (3.07%) Scylla
14 21 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
14 21 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (1.60%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (1.47%) Oracle Database
17 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (8.69%) Git
2 50 (6.68%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.67%) GitLab
4 19 (2.54%) TeamCity
5 14 (1.87%) JIRA
6 13 (1.74%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.80%) Subversion
9 5 (0.67%) Selenium
10 4 (0.53%) Maven
10 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.40%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.13%) git-flow
13 1 (0.13%) NUnit
13 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 326 (43.58%) Social Skills
2 149 (19.92%) Finance
3 76 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (3.88%) Banking
6 25 (3.34%) Telecoms
7 24 (3.21%) Legal
7 24 (3.21%) Music Industry
8 21 (2.81%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.14%) Law
10 15 (2.01%) Retail
11 13 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.47%) Police
13 10 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.34%) Games
14 9 (1.20%) Front Office
15 6 (0.80%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.67%) Local Government
16 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (15.24%) DBA
2 105 (14.04%) Senior
3 91 (12.17%) SQL DBA
4 72 (9.63%) Systems Engineer
5 68 (9.09%) Developer
6 67 (8.96%) Architect
7 62 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 50 (6.68%) Lead
9 47 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 42 (5.61%) Administrator
11 39 (5.21%) Software Engineer
12 32 (4.28%) Support Engineer
13 31 (4.14%) Analyst
14 30 (4.01%) .NET Developer
15 28 (3.74%) C# .NET Developer
15 28 (3.74%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
17 25 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
18 24 (3.21%) Principal Software Engineer
19 23 (3.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.22%) HTML
2 60 (8.02%) .NET
3 49 (6.55%) HTML5
4 46 (6.15%) Kafka
5 45 (6.02%) RESTful
6 41 (5.48%) CSS
7 40 (5.35%) .NET Core
8 36 (4.81%) ASP.NET
8 36 (4.81%) REST
9 32 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
10 27 (3.61%) GraphQL
10 27 (3.61%) WebRTC
11 26 (3.48%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 24 (3.21%) LINQ
13 20 (2.67%) YAML
14 17 (2.27%) Web Services
15 15 (2.01%) .NET Framework
15 15 (2.01%) CSS3
15 15 (2.01%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 133 (17.78%) Clustering
2 82 (10.96%) Data Centre
3 68 (9.09%) Replication
4 48 (6.42%) Public Cloud
5 45 (6.02%) Algorithms
6 43 (5.75%) Data Structures
7 39 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (5.08%) Cloud Native
9 34 (4.55%) Management Information System
10 23 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (2.54%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.41%) AS400
13 17 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.87%) Driving Licence
15 13 (1.74%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.74%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.60%) PKI
17 10 (1.34%) iSeries
18 9 (1.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 157 (20.99%) Windows
2 115 (15.37%) Linux
3 86 (11.50%) VMS
4 84 (11.23%) Windows Server
5 30 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.54%) Unix
7 15 (2.01%) Oracle Linux
8 13 (1.74%) CentOS
8 13 (1.74%) Solaris
9 10 (1.34%) Android
9 10 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (1.20%) Windows 10
10 9 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.80%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.67%) AIX
13 5 (0.67%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.40%) Debian
14 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (35.96%) Problem-Solving
2 240 (32.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 162 (21.66%) Performance Tuning
4 155 (20.72%) DevOps
5 138 (18.45%) CI/CD
6 126 (16.84%) Agile
7 102 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
8 99 (13.24%) Migration
9 94 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
9 94 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 89 (11.90%) Containerisation
12 85 (11.36%) Computer Science
13 83 (11.10%) Cybersecurity
14 77 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 68 (9.09%) ITIL
16 67 (8.96%) Business Continuity
17 65 (8.69%) Software Engineering
18 64 (8.56%) Capacity Planning
19 59 (7.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 246 (32.89%) SQL
2 120 (16.04%) Python
3 109 (14.57%) T-SQL
4 98 (13.10%) Java
5 91 (12.17%) PowerShell
6 87 (11.63%) C#
7 70 (9.36%) Bash
8 69 (9.22%) JavaScript
9 46 (6.15%) Go
10 31 (4.14%) PHP
10 31 (4.14%) Scala
11 18 (2.41%) Perl
12 13 (1.74%) C++
13 10 (1.34%) RPG
13 10 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.94%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.80%) C
15 6 (0.80%) Rust
15 6 (0.80%) VBA
16 5 (0.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 120 (16.04%) Degree
2 99 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 48 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (6.28%) SC Cleared
6 29 (3.88%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.61%) Master's Degree
8 26 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.74%) CCNA
10 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.20%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.94%) CCDP
13 7 (0.94%) CCIE
13 7 (0.94%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 7 (0.94%) CCNP
14 6 (0.80%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.80%) MCSE
14 6 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.95%) QA
2 32 (4.28%) SLA
3 16 (2.14%) GDPR
4 8 (1.07%) HIPAA
5 7 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.27%) NCSC
7 2 (0.27%) NIST
7 2 (0.27%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (15.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 106 (14.17%) Virtual Machines
3 104 (13.90%) Active Directory
4 96 (12.83%) Docker
5 44 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (5.21%) VMware NSX
7 35 (4.68%) Hyper-V
8 28 (3.74%) Firmware
9 15 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.94%) vSphere
12 6 (0.80%) XenApp
12 6 (0.80%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.27%) Ceph
14 2 (0.27%) KVM
14 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.13%) etcd
15 1 (0.13%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 137 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 95 (12.70%) Terraform
3 79 (10.56%) Ansible
4 27 (3.61%) Grafana
5 24 (3.21%) Nagios
6 23 (3.07%) Puppet
6 23 (3.07%) SCOM
7 20 (2.67%) Failover Clustering
8 18 (2.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 16 (2.14%) vCenter Server
10 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.87%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.74%) SCCM
13 12 (1.60%) FortiGate
13 12 (1.60%) Graphite
13 12 (1.60%) Prometheus
14 11 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (1.34%) Progress Chef
15 10 (1.34%) WSUS
16 9 (1.20%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 303 (40.51%) Microsoft
2 149 (19.92%) VMware
3 60 (8.02%) Oracle
4 52 (6.95%) Cisco
5 46 (6.15%) Google
6 44 (5.88%) Dell
7 41 (5.48%) IBM
8 34 (4.55%) Veeam
9 27 (3.61%) Red Hat
10 20 (2.67%) SAP
11 18 (2.41%) HP
11 18 (2.41%) SolarWinds
12 17 (2.27%) Citrix
12 17 (2.27%) NetApp
13 16 (2.14%) ServiceNow
14 15 (2.01%) Commvault
15 14 (1.87%) CheckPoint
16 12 (1.60%) CyberArk
16 12 (1.60%) Nimble Storage
17 11 (1.47%) BeyondTrust