Hybrid/Remote High Availability Job Trends

High Availability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring High Availability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 174 262
Rank change year-on-year -98 +88 -5
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 205 276 248
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.66% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.76% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 141 165 133
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £46,800
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% +8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,009 15,647 19,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,419 11,293
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,540
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,312 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

High Availability job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

High Availability
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability

High Availability
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing High Availability over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

High Availability salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

High Availability
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 15 (7.32%) IIS
2 13 (6.34%) Apache
3 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (5.37%) nginx
5 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.98%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) JBoss
6 1 (0.49%) Site Server
6 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.49%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 128 (62.44%) Azure
2 69 (33.66%) AWS
3 37 (18.05%) Entra ID
4 22 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.73%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.76%) GCP
5 20 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (8.29%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (7.32%) GitHub
8 11 (5.37%) Azure Storage
8 11 (5.37%) SaaS
9 9 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.39%) PaaS
9 9 (4.39%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (3.90%) Serverless
11 7 (3.41%) Cloudflare
11 7 (3.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.39%) Firewall
2 45 (21.95%) DNS
3 34 (16.59%) DHCP
4 31 (15.12%) VPN
5 27 (13.17%) Network Security
6 20 (9.76%) LAN
6 20 (9.76%) WAN
7 19 (9.27%) TCP/IP
8 16 (7.80%) VLAN
9 12 (5.85%) Wireless
10 11 (5.37%) CTI
10 11 (5.37%) VoIP
11 10 (4.88%) SD-WAN
12 8 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (3.41%) BGP
13 7 (3.41%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (3.41%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (2.93%) OSPF
15 5 (2.44%) Internet
15 5 (2.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (6.83%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.37%) Power BI
6 8 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.93%) Redis
8 4 (1.95%) Metadata
8 4 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.98%) Big Data
10 2 (0.98%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.98%) MS Access
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.93%) JIRA
2 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.98%) GitLab
2 2 (0.98%) MLflow
2 2 (0.98%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.49%) Flyway
3 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.88%) Finance
3 31 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.12%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.71%) Retail
5 15 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (6.34%) Law
8 12 (5.85%) Legal
9 11 (5.37%) Banking
9 11 (5.37%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.37%) Music Industry
10 10 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.41%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.93%) Police
12 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.46%) Games
13 3 (1.46%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.98%) French Language
14 2 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (24.39%) Senior
2 24 (11.71%) Architect
2 24 (11.71%) Lead
3 22 (10.73%) Network Engineer
4 19 (9.27%) Developer
5 16 (7.80%) Administrator
6 15 (7.32%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.34%) Analyst
7 13 (6.34%) Technical Architect
8 12 (5.85%) DBA
8 12 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.85%) Lead Architect
8 12 (5.85%) Technical Leader
9 11 (5.37%) .NET Developer
9 11 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (5.37%) NOC Manager
9 11 (5.37%) Operations Manager
10 10 (4.88%) Database Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (4.39%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (24.39%) Terraform
2 16 (7.80%) .NET
3 13 (6.34%) AngularJS
4 12 (5.85%) .NET Core
4 12 (5.85%) ASP.NET
4 12 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 12 (5.85%) Middleware
4 12 (5.85%) RESTful
4 12 (5.85%) Vue
5 11 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web API
5 11 (5.37%) Entity Framework
5 11 (5.37%) LINQ
6 10 (4.88%) REST
7 6 (2.93%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.93%) Web Services
8 5 (2.44%) OAuth
8 5 (2.44%) OpenID
9 4 (1.95%) JSON
9 4 (1.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Replication
2 21 (10.24%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.32%) Clustering
3 15 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (6.83%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.37%) IVR
6 10 (4.88%) Data Structures
7 9 (4.39%) Blog
7 9 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (3.41%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.93%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.93%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.93%) PKI
9 6 (2.93%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (31.22%) Windows
2 52 (25.37%) Windows Server
3 43 (20.98%) Linux
4 8 (3.90%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.98%) Android
6 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.98%) Unix
7 1 (0.49%) AIX
7 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (38.54%) Continuous Improvement
2 78 (38.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 75 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (26.34%) CI/CD
4 54 (26.34%) DevOps
5 46 (22.44%) Business Continuity
6 38 (18.54%) Analytics
6 38 (18.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (17.56%) Performance Tuning
8 33 (16.10%) Agile
8 33 (16.10%) Mentoring
8 33 (16.10%) Roadmaps
9 32 (15.61%) AI
10 29 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (13.17%) Observability
12 26 (12.68%) Migration
13 24 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (11.22%) Project Delivery
15 20 (9.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 59 (28.78%) SQL
2 47 (22.93%) PowerShell
3 29 (14.15%) Python
4 18 (8.78%) C#
5 14 (6.83%) Bicep
6 12 (5.85%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.37%) Java
8 7 (3.41%) Bash
9 6 (2.93%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.98%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) Delphi
13 1 (0.49%) Pascal
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.71%) Azure Certification
4 18 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (7.80%) CCNA
6 14 (6.83%) CCNP
6 14 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (5.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (4.88%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.90%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.90%) Degree
10 5 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.98%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.98%) CCIE
12 2 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.39%) GDPR
3 9 (4.39%) QA
4 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.95%) NCSC
7 3 (1.46%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.98%) IFRS
8 2 (0.98%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.98%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.98%) SLA
8 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.49%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (20.98%) Active Directory
2 32 (15.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 13 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (6.34%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.85%) Docker
6 6 (2.93%) Squid
7 4 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.46%) vSphere
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.49%) GPFS
10 1 (0.49%) Lustre
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.32%) Grafana
3 14 (6.83%) Ansible
4 13 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (5.37%) FortiGate
5 11 (5.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.39%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (2.44%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.95%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.98%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.98%) SCOM
9 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.49%) Argo
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.49%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (51.71%) Microsoft
2 47 (22.93%) VMware
3 37 (18.05%) Cisco
4 14 (6.83%) Veeam
5 13 (6.34%) Aruba
5 13 (6.34%) Fortinet
5 13 (6.34%) Palo Alto
6 12 (5.85%) Oracle
7 11 (5.37%) Avaya
7 11 (5.37%) Genesys
8 9 (4.39%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.90%) CheckPoint
9 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.93%) Dell
10 6 (2.93%) F5
10 6 (2.93%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.44%) Meraki
11 5 (2.44%) NetApp
12 4 (1.95%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.46%) Red Hat