Hybrid/Remote Failover Clustering Job Trends

Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Failover Clustering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 406 554
Rank change year-on-year -14 +148 +12
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 12 16 16
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.056% 0.097% 0.050%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 0.78% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 16
10th Percentile £37,750 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £42,625 - £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +58.11% -11.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - £56,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £44,274
% change year-on-year -28.57% +58.11% -1.61%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Failover Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,809 2,039 3,371
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 12.35% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 1,185 2,511
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £63,373 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.00% -7.41%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Failover Clustering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Failover Clustering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Failover Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Failover Clustering

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Failover Clustering salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Failover Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (58.33%) IIS
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) Cloudflare
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) IaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) Wireless
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) IT Support
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 7 (58.33%) IT Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior IT Support
2 7 (58.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) High Availability
1 7 (58.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Logistics
4 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 1 (8.33%) Network Management
7 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
7 1 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
7 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Veeam