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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 308 277
Rank change year-on-year +237 -31 +67
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 736 341 516
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.48% 1.01% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 1.10% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 129 282 383
10th Percentile £46,294 £42,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,625 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -12.21% +11.97%

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 15,406 30,912 40,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.78% 91.49% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,748 23,470 28,078
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,767 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 8 May 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 28 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.09%) Apache
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
3 6 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.68%) Confluence
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
5 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (11.28%) Azure
2 74 (10.05%) AWS
3 42 (5.71%) SaaS
4 41 (5.57%) GCP
5 25 (3.40%) PaaS
6 23 (3.13%) Serverless
7 18 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (2.17%) GitHub
10 14 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (1.77%) AWS KMS
11 13 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.49%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.82%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.82%) IaaS
15 5 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (0.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 557 (75.68%) Broadband
2 16 (2.17%) Firewall
3 15 (2.04%) Network Security
4 12 (1.63%) NAS
4 12 (1.63%) SAN
4 12 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.63%) Wireless
5 11 (1.49%) DNS
6 7 (0.95%) DHCP
7 6 (0.82%) VPN
7 6 (0.82%) WAN
8 5 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.54%) LAN
10 3 (0.41%) BGP
10 3 (0.41%) OSPF
11 2 (0.27%) FCoE
11 2 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.27%) SNMP
11 2 (0.27%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.90%) Data Hub
2 14 (1.90%) SQL CLR
3 10 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (1.22%) Metadata
4 9 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.22%) Power BI
4 9 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (1.09%) MySQL
6 7 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.41%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.27%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 37 (5.03%) Jenkins
2 32 (4.35%) Git
3 9 (1.22%) JIRA
4 8 (1.09%) GitLab
5 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) Babel
6 2 (0.27%) Gradle
6 2 (0.27%) Maven
6 2 (0.27%) Mocha
6 2 (0.27%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) Subversion
6 2 (0.27%) webpack
7 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 620 (84.24%) Social Skills
2 83 (11.28%) Multimedia
3 46 (6.25%) Finance
4 31 (4.21%) Telecoms
5 23 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.13%) Law
6 14 (1.90%) Back Office
7 9 (1.22%) Banking
8 7 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.82%) Electronics
9 6 (0.82%) Games
10 5 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.54%) Retail
12 2 (0.27%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.14%) Advertising
13 1 (0.14%) Automotive
13 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.14%) Marketing
13 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 249 (33.83%) Lead
2 152 (20.65%) Systems Engineer
3 94 (12.77%) Engineering Manager
4 73 (9.92%) Team Leader
5 60 (8.15%) Senior
6 29 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (2.85%) Architect
8 21 (2.85%) Developer
9 19 (2.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 14 (1.90%) AWS Architect
10 14 (1.90%) Software Engineer
11 13 (1.77%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (1.63%) Senior Developer
12 12 (1.63%) Support Engineer
13 10 (1.36%) Infrastructure Support
13 10 (1.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 9 (1.22%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (1.22%) SaaS Developer
14 9 (1.22%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.40%) Node.js
2 22 (2.99%) .NET
3 21 (2.85%) Kafka
4 19 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (2.31%) REST
6 11 (1.49%) .NET Framework
7 10 (1.36%) Web Services
8 9 (1.22%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.09%) Entity Framework
10 7 (0.95%) Middleware
11 5 (0.68%) Dapper ORM
11 5 (0.68%) OAuth
11 5 (0.68%) SOAP
12 4 (0.54%) JSON
12 4 (0.54%) React
12 4 (0.54%) RESTful
12 4 (0.54%) SAML
12 4 (0.54%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.41%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.89%) Management Information System
2 17 (2.31%) Public Cloud
3 16 (2.17%) Clustering
4 14 (1.90%) Private Cloud
5 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.09%) Replication
7 6 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 6 (0.82%) Device Driver
7 6 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (0.54%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.27%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.27%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.14%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.14%) IoT
11 1 (0.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.74%) Windows
2 53 (7.20%) Linux
3 23 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.09%) Solaris
4 8 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.95%) Unix
6 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.41%) AIX
8 3 (0.41%) Debian
9 2 (0.27%) SUSE
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (81.93%) Computer Science
2 601 (81.66%) Problem-Solving
3 589 (80.03%) Mentoring
4 570 (77.45%) Product Management
5 564 (76.63%) Roadmaps
6 557 (75.68%) Broadcast Engineering
7 78 (10.60%) CI/CD
7 78 (10.60%) DevOps
8 47 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 43 (5.84%) Software Engineering
10 41 (5.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 39 (5.30%) Cloud Security
11 39 (5.30%) Performance Tuning
12 28 (3.80%) Microservices
13 26 (3.53%) Data Protection
14 25 (3.40%) Containerisation
15 24 (3.26%) Analytics
16 23 (3.13%) Incident Management
17 22 (2.99%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 42 (5.71%) SQL
2 41 (5.57%) Python
3 27 (3.67%) PowerShell
4 26 (3.53%) C#
4 26 (3.53%) Java
5 10 (1.36%) T-SQL
6 9 (1.22%) Bash
6 9 (1.22%) C++
6 9 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.09%) C
8 6 (0.82%) Perl
9 3 (0.41%) Go
9 3 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.14%) Ruby
10 1 (0.14%) Scala
10 1 (0.14%) VB
10 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.14%) VB6
Qualifications
1 607 (82.47%) Degree
2 579 (78.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.45%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.54%) CCNA
10 4 (0.54%) CCNP
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.27%) CEH
11 2 (0.27%) CISSP
11 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.27%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) CCA
12 1 (0.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.40%) GDPR
2 16 (2.17%) HIPAA
3 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.41%) QA
6 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (4.48%) Docker
3 22 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.41%) Squid
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.41%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 2 (0.27%) NFS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.27%) SRDF
7 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.27%) Xen
8 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (8.02%) Terraform
2 53 (7.20%) Kubernetes
3 43 (5.84%) Ansible
4 22 (2.99%) Grafana
5 20 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.68%) Puppet
9 3 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.41%) SCOM
10 2 (0.27%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.27%) SCCM
10 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.14%) vRealize
11 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (9.10%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.84%) VMware
3 15 (2.04%) Google
4 10 (1.36%) Oracle
5 9 (1.22%) EMC
6 8 (1.09%) Cisco
6 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.68%) F5
7 5 (0.68%) HP
7 5 (0.68%) SAP
8 4 (0.54%) Dell
8 4 (0.54%) NetApp
8 4 (0.54%) TOWER Software
9 3 (0.41%) IBM
9 3 (0.41%) Informatica
9 3 (0.41%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.41%) Splunk
9 3 (0.41%) Veeam
10 2 (0.27%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.27%) SolarWinds