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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 284 283
Rank change year-on-year -81 -1 +23
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 740 1,289 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.24% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.30% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 613 800 1,068
10th Percentile £36,750 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,672 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,552 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +14.74% +0.87%
75th Percentile £79,250 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £101,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -71 639 £57,500 -11.54% 191
UK excluding London -49 521 £55,000 - 122
Work from Home -28 343 £57,500 -14.81% 101
London -66 183 £77,500 +3.33% 79
North of England -39 146 £57,500 +11.65% 34
South East +41 115 £56,250 - 28
Midlands +14 109 £42,500 -29.17% 23
West Midlands +22 85 £42,500 -29.17% 11
North West -49 69 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Yorkshire +46 63 £57,500 +43.75% 10
Scotland -100 60 £52,500 -24.40% 10
South West -64 50 £57,500 +27.78% 13
East of England +13 33 £57,500 -30.30% 15
East Midlands -24 24 £40,000 -42.86% 12
North East +1 14 £57,500 +20.62% 1
Wales +15 10 £51,193 -19.32% 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 (10.27%) IIS
2 34 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (3.65%) SharePoint
5 16 (2.16%) Apache
6 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.95%) JBoss
8 6 (0.81%) CMS
8 6 (0.81%) Drupal
8 6 (0.81%) nginx
9 4 (0.54%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.41%) GlassFish
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) Confluence
11 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.27%) WordPress
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 18 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.95%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.81%) SAP PLM
3 5 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.41%) Maximo
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 402 (54.32%) Azure
2 213 (28.78%) AWS
3 108 (14.59%) GCP
4 100 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 62 (8.38%) SaaS
6 54 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 39 (5.27%) GitHub
9 31 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
10 25 (3.38%) Google Docs
11 23 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (3.11%) Lucidchart
11 23 (3.11%) Miro
11 23 (3.11%) Slack
12 19 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.57%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.57%) Serverless
13 16 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 116 (15.68%) Firewall
2 89 (12.03%) WAN
3 78 (10.54%) Broadband
4 59 (7.97%) DNS
5 51 (6.89%) VPN
6 40 (5.41%) SAN
7 32 (4.32%) LAN
8 28 (3.78%) MPLS
9 27 (3.65%) DHCP
10 25 (3.38%) BGP
11 24 (3.24%) SD-WAN
12 23 (3.11%) TCP/IP
13 22 (2.97%) Wireless
14 21 (2.84%) OSPF
15 20 (2.70%) Network Security
16 17 (2.30%) Internet
16 17 (2.30%) SNMP
16 17 (2.30%) WLAN
17 13 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
18 12 (1.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 94 (12.70%) Power BI
3 87 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (7.57%) NoSQL
5 41 (5.54%) Big Data
5 41 (5.54%) MySQL
6 38 (5.14%) Relational Database
7 36 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (4.32%) Hadoop
9 30 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (3.51%) MongoDB
10 26 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.11%) Redis
11 23 (3.11%) Scylla
12 21 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (2.03%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.49%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 65 (8.78%) Git
2 50 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.11%) GitLab
4 19 (2.57%) TeamCity
5 14 (1.89%) JIRA
6 13 (1.76%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.81%) Subversion
9 5 (0.68%) Selenium
10 4 (0.54%) Maven
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.41%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.14%) JMeter
13 1 (0.14%) JUnit
13 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 318 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 141 (19.05%) Finance
3 77 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (3.92%) Banking
6 24 (3.24%) Music Industry
6 24 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 23 (3.11%) Legal
8 21 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.03%) Retail
10 14 (1.89%) Law
11 13 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.49%) Police
13 10 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.35%) Front Office
13 10 (1.35%) Games
14 5 (0.68%) Local Government
14 5 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (15.27%) DBA
2 106 (14.32%) Senior
3 91 (12.30%) SQL DBA
4 71 (9.59%) Architect
5 70 (9.46%) Systems Engineer
6 67 (9.05%) Developer
7 58 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (6.89%) Lead
9 47 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 41 (5.54%) Administrator
11 39 (5.27%) Software Engineer
12 32 (4.32%) Support Engineer
13 30 (4.05%) Analyst
14 29 (3.92%) .NET Developer
15 28 (3.78%) C# .NET Developer
15 28 (3.78%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
17 24 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
17 24 (3.24%) Principal Software Engineer
18 22 (2.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.19%) HTML
2 61 (8.24%) .NET
3 49 (6.62%) HTML5
4 47 (6.35%) Kafka
5 45 (6.08%) RESTful
6 40 (5.41%) CSS
7 39 (5.27%) .NET Core
8 36 (4.86%) ASP.NET
9 34 (4.59%) REST
10 32 (4.32%) ASP.NET Web API
11 27 (3.65%) GraphQL
12 25 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 25 (3.38%) WebRTC
13 24 (3.24%) ASP.NET MVC
13 24 (3.24%) LINQ
14 19 (2.57%) YAML
15 17 (2.30%) .NET Framework
15 17 (2.30%) Web Services
16 15 (2.03%) CSS3
16 15 (2.03%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.30%) Clustering
2 77 (10.41%) Data Centre
3 63 (8.51%) Replication
4 48 (6.49%) Public Cloud
5 43 (5.81%) Algorithms
5 43 (5.81%) Data Structures
6 40 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (4.86%) Cloud Native
8 34 (4.59%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.43%) AS400
10 18 (2.43%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.89%) Driving Licence
14 13 (1.76%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.62%) PKI
15 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.49%) PMI
17 10 (1.35%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 156 (21.08%) Windows
2 111 (15.00%) Linux
3 85 (11.49%) VMS
4 82 (11.08%) Windows Server
5 29 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.57%) Unix
7 15 (2.03%) Oracle Linux
8 13 (1.76%) Solaris
9 12 (1.62%) CentOS
10 10 (1.35%) Windows 10
11 9 (1.22%) Android
11 9 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.81%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.68%) AIX
14 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.68%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.54%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.41%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (36.08%) Problem-Solving
2 234 (31.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 165 (22.30%) Performance Tuning
4 153 (20.68%) DevOps
5 139 (18.78%) CI/CD
6 127 (17.16%) Agile
7 101 (13.65%) Collaborative Working
8 99 (13.38%) Migration
9 98 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
10 96 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 85 (11.49%) Computer Science
12 85 (11.49%) Containerisation
13 82 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
14 73 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 69 (9.32%) Software Engineering
16 65 (8.78%) Business Continuity
17 64 (8.65%) Capacity Planning
17 64 (8.65%) ITIL
18 59 (7.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 245 (33.11%) SQL
2 121 (16.35%) Python
3 109 (14.73%) T-SQL
4 101 (13.65%) Java
5 87 (11.76%) C#
6 85 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 69 (9.32%) Bash
8 68 (9.19%) JavaScript
9 47 (6.35%) Go
10 31 (4.19%) Scala
11 28 (3.78%) PHP
12 17 (2.30%) Perl
13 14 (1.89%) C++
14 10 (1.35%) RPG
15 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.95%) Rust
16 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.81%) C
17 6 (0.81%) VBA
18 5 (0.68%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 118 (15.95%) Degree
2 98 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 85 (11.49%) Security Cleared
4 50 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (6.08%) SC Cleared
6 30 (4.05%) Master's Degree
7 28 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (3.65%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.76%) CCNA
10 12 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.22%) CCIE
12 9 (1.22%) CCNP
13 8 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.95%) CCDP
14 7 (0.95%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 6 (0.81%) MCSE
15 6 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
15 6 (0.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.27%) QA
2 31 (4.19%) SLA
3 17 (2.30%) GDPR
4 8 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 7 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.27%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 109 (14.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 105 (14.19%) Virtual Machines
3 99 (13.38%) Active Directory
4 92 (12.43%) Docker
5 45 (6.08%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (5.14%) VMware NSX
7 31 (4.19%) Hyper-V
8 26 (3.51%) Firmware
9 15 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (1.08%) vSphere
12 6 (0.81%) XenApp
12 6 (0.81%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.41%) KVM
15 2 (0.27%) Ceph
15 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.14%) NFS
16 1 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 137 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 93 (12.57%) Terraform
3 80 (10.81%) Ansible
4 28 (3.78%) Grafana
5 24 (3.24%) Nagios
6 23 (3.11%) Puppet
7 22 (2.97%) SCOM
8 20 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 19 (2.57%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (2.30%) vCenter Server
11 15 (2.03%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (1.76%) Prometheus
12 13 (1.76%) SCCM
13 12 (1.62%) Graphite
14 11 (1.49%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.35%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.22%) Data Guard
16 9 (1.22%) WSUS
17 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 302 (40.81%) Microsoft
2 145 (19.59%) VMware
3 61 (8.24%) Oracle
4 50 (6.76%) Cisco
5 45 (6.08%) Google
6 41 (5.54%) Dell
6 41 (5.54%) IBM
7 31 (4.19%) Veeam
8 30 (4.05%) Red Hat
9 18 (2.43%) SAP
10 17 (2.30%) HP
10 17 (2.30%) SolarWinds
11 16 (2.16%) Citrix
11 16 (2.16%) NetApp
11 16 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.89%) Commvault
13 13 (1.76%) CheckPoint
14 12 (1.62%) CyberArk
15 11 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
15 11 (1.49%) Nimble Storage