High Availability Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

High Availability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring High Availability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited High Availability over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 317 271
Rank change year-on-year +256 -46 +39
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 1,002 286 417
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.75% 0.87% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 0.98% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 150 243 342
10th Percentile £40,584 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,938 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +5.04%

All Process and 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 19,574 29,160 33,339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.88% 89.07% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,359 21,452 24,510
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

High Availability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing High Availability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

High Availability trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

High Availability
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing High Availability.

High Availability salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing High Availability over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

High Availability salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

High Availability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 38 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.60%) IIS
3 6 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.50%) Apache
5 4 (0.40%) Confluence
6 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.20%) CMS
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.100%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 13 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 289 (28.84%) AWS
2 215 (21.46%) Pulumi
3 86 (8.58%) Azure
4 41 (4.09%) SaaS
5 28 (2.79%) GCP
6 27 (2.69%) GitHub
7 19 (1.90%) Serverless
8 17 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (1.60%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (1.20%) PaaS
13 11 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.00%) AWS KMS
15 9 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.90%) Entra ID
16 7 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (0.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 772 (77.05%) Broadband
2 19 (1.90%) Firewall
3 16 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.40%) Network Security
4 14 (1.40%) SAN
5 11 (1.10%) NAS
5 11 (1.10%) VPN
6 10 (1.00%) WAN
7 9 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.80%) LAN
8 8 (0.80%) Wireless
9 6 (0.60%) BGP
9 6 (0.60%) DHCP
9 6 (0.60%) DNS
9 6 (0.60%) OSPF
10 5 (0.50%) VLAN
11 3 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.30%) VoIP
11 3 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (22.36%) NoSQL
2 222 (22.16%) Relational Database
3 221 (22.06%) RDBMS
4 49 (4.89%) SQL Server
5 26 (2.59%) Data Hub
5 26 (2.59%) SQL CLR
6 21 (2.10%) MySQL
7 16 (1.60%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (1.30%) Metadata
10 13 (1.30%) Power BI
11 8 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.60%) Redis
13 5 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.30%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 215 (21.46%) Jaeger
2 20 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.40%) Git
4 11 (1.10%) GitLab
5 9 (0.90%) JIRA
6 5 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.30%) Maven
9 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.20%) Gradle
9 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.20%) MLflow
9 2 (0.20%) NUnit
9 2 (0.20%) Subversion
9 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.100%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.100%) JUnit
10 1 (0.100%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.100%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.100%) Selenium
General
1 638 (63.67%) Social Skills
2 227 (22.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 86 (8.58%) Finance
4 83 (8.28%) Multimedia
5 27 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.59%) Back Office
7 16 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.00%) Law
9 8 (0.80%) Banking
9 8 (0.80%) Marketing
10 7 (0.70%) Advertising
11 6 (0.60%) Games
12 4 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.40%) Front Office
13 3 (0.30%) Retail
14 2 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.20%) Electronics
14 2 (0.20%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.20%) Police
14 2 (0.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 460 (45.91%) Lead
2 288 (28.74%) Team Leader
3 154 (15.37%) Systems Engineer
4 94 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
5 55 (5.49%) Senior
6 31 (3.09%) Developer
7 28 (2.79%) Administrator
8 25 (2.50%) Systems Administrator
9 24 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (2.30%) Architect
11 18 (1.80%) Senior Developer
12 17 (1.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (1.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (1.50%) Support Engineer
15 14 (1.40%) Head of Development
16 13 (1.30%) Microsoft Developer
16 13 (1.30%) SaaS Developer
16 13 (1.30%) Senior Microsoft Developer
16 13 (1.30%) Senior SQL Developer
16 13 (1.30%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (23.35%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (21.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 32 (3.19%) .NET
4 22 (2.20%) REST
5 19 (1.90%) Node.js
6 18 (1.80%) Kafka
7 17 (1.70%) .NET Core
7 17 (1.70%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.50%) Middleware
9 14 (1.40%) Entity Framework
10 13 (1.30%) Dapper ORM
10 13 (1.30%) SOAP
11 10 (1.00%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.00%) SAML
12 9 (0.90%) BAPI
12 9 (0.90%) IBM Integration Bus
12 9 (0.90%) JMS
12 9 (0.90%) OAuth
13 7 (0.70%) Web Services
14 6 (0.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (2.59%) Private Cloud
2 23 (2.30%) e-Learning
3 22 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.00%) Clustering
5 14 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 11 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 9 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (0.90%) Replication
9 8 (0.80%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.50%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.30%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.30%) Media Streaming
13 2 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.20%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.20%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.20%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 278 (27.74%) Linux
2 232 (23.15%) Unix
3 52 (5.19%) Windows
4 30 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.70%) Solaris
5 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.40%) Debian
8 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.20%) AIX
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE
9 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.100%) Android
10 1 (0.100%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (79.74%) Mentoring
2 783 (78.14%) Product Management
3 782 (78.04%) Roadmaps
4 615 (61.38%) Problem-Solving
5 589 (58.78%) Computer Science
6 557 (55.59%) Broadcast Engineering
7 282 (28.14%) DevOps
8 256 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 246 (24.55%) Agile
10 238 (23.75%) Containerisation
11 232 (23.15%) Cost Optimisation
11 232 (23.15%) Resource Management
12 228 (22.75%) Performance Optimisation
13 220 (21.96%) Task Automation
14 216 (21.56%) Continuous Integration
15 215 (21.46%) Budget Control
15 215 (21.46%) GitOps
16 69 (6.89%) CI/CD
17 52 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 50 (4.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 253 (25.25%) Python
2 235 (23.45%) Bash
3 234 (23.35%) Java
4 226 (22.55%) JavaScript
5 222 (22.16%) Go
6 60 (5.99%) SQL
7 34 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 32 (3.19%) C#
9 18 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.80%) Perl
12 6 (0.60%) C++
13 5 (0.50%) PHP
14 4 (0.40%) C
15 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.100%) ABAP
16 1 (0.100%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.100%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.100%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 596 (59.48%) Degree
2 577 (57.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 234 (23.35%) AWS Certification
4 57 (5.69%) Security Cleared
5 45 (4.49%) SC Cleared
6 31 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.99%) CCNP
7 30 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.80%) RHCSA
9 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.70%) CCNA
11 6 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.40%) CCIE
13 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.40%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.20%) HNC
15 2 (0.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.30%) GDPR
2 13 (1.30%) HIPAA
3 12 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.60%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.50%) QA
6 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.20%) NIST
7 2 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.100%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 246 (24.55%) Docker
2 40 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.20%) KVM
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.100%) Corosync
7 1 (0.100%) NFS
7 1 (0.100%) pfSense
7 1 (0.100%) SRDF
7 1 (0.100%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.100%) Xen
Systems Management
1 262 (26.15%) Terraform
2 259 (25.85%) Kubernetes
3 251 (25.05%) Ansible
4 241 (24.05%) Prometheus
5 218 (21.76%) Argo
6 215 (21.46%) Kustomize
7 27 (2.69%) Grafana
8 16 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.40%) SCCM
10 3 (0.30%) Puppet
10 3 (0.30%) SCOM
11 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.100%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.100%) Icinga
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle ZFS
12 1 (0.100%) Pacemaker
12 1 (0.100%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 230 (22.95%) Google
2 75 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 48 (4.79%) VMware
4 36 (3.59%) Cisco
5 23 (2.30%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.50%) Oracle
6 15 (1.50%) SAP
7 9 (0.90%) IBM
8 7 (0.70%) Informatica
9 6 (0.60%) EMC
9 6 (0.60%) Sage
10 5 (0.50%) F5
10 5 (0.50%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.40%) RedGate
11 4 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.40%) Talend
11 4 (0.40%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.30%) Dell
12 3 (0.30%) Gigya
12 3 (0.30%) HP