High Availability Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 277 276
Rank change year-on-year -111 -1 +27
Permanent jobs citing High Availability 713 1,228 2,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.32% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.38% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 582 748 1,064
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +10.17% +7.27%
75th Percentile £79,313 £82,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -91 637 £57,500 -10.16% 155
UK excluding London -107 504 £57,500 +4.55% 95
Work from Home -33 322 £57,500 -12.01% 78
London -86 179 £77,500 +3.33% 60
North of England -74 144 £57,500 +9.52% 20
South East +22 123 £57,500 -4.17% 24
Midlands -51 95 £47,500 -13.64% 19
North West -71 74 £57,500 +4.55% 13
West Midlands -28 67 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Yorkshire +4 56 £57,500 +59.72% 6
South West -66 52 £57,500 +27.78% 11
East of England -11 42 £57,500 -30.30% 13
Scotland -89 40 £52,500 -24.40% 6
East Midlands -37 28 £45,000 +21.27% 10
North East -12 14 £57,500 +14.80% 1
Wales +11 10 £51,193 -19.32% 4

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 60 (8.42%) IIS
2 24 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.09%) SharePoint
4 21 (2.95%) Apache
4 21 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.54%) JBoss
6 10 (1.40%) nginx
7 8 (1.12%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.56%) CMS
8 4 (0.56%) Drupal
8 4 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.42%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) Confluence
10 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.98%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.84%) SAP PLM
3 5 (0.70%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.42%) Maximo
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 391 (54.84%) Azure
2 202 (28.33%) AWS
3 99 (13.88%) Power Platform
4 89 (12.48%) GCP
5 54 (7.57%) SaaS
6 51 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (5.47%) GitHub
8 35 (4.91%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.38%) Serverless
12 16 (2.24%) Entra ID
13 15 (2.10%) Google Docs
14 14 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (1.82%) Lucidchart
15 13 (1.82%) Miro
15 13 (1.82%) Slack
16 12 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (15.29%) Firewall
2 78 (10.94%) Broadband
3 71 (9.96%) WAN
4 48 (6.73%) DNS
5 46 (6.45%) VPN
6 40 (5.61%) SAN
7 31 (4.35%) MPLS
8 29 (4.07%) LAN
9 26 (3.65%) TCP/IP
10 24 (3.37%) BGP
11 23 (3.23%) SD-WAN
12 22 (3.09%) OSPF
13 20 (2.81%) Network Security
14 19 (2.66%) Wireless
15 18 (2.52%) DHCP
16 17 (2.38%) WLAN
17 16 (2.24%) Internet
18 15 (2.10%) SNMP
19 13 (1.82%) SSL
20 12 (1.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (31.98%) SQL Server
2 93 (13.04%) Power BI
3 85 (11.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (8.13%) NoSQL
5 44 (6.17%) MySQL
6 39 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 35 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (4.63%) Big Data
9 31 (4.35%) MongoDB
10 27 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (3.51%) Hadoop
12 24 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 15 (2.10%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.82%) Data Lake
16 13 (1.82%) Redis
16 13 (1.82%) Scylla
17 12 (1.68%) Oracle Database
18 11 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (9.68%) Git
2 50 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.23%) TeamCity
4 20 (2.81%) GitLab
5 14 (1.96%) JIRA
6 13 (1.82%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.70%) Subversion
9 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.42%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.28%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.28%) JMeter
11 2 (0.28%) JUnit
11 2 (0.28%) Selenium
12 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.14%) Maven
12 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 293 (41.09%) Social Skills
2 133 (18.65%) Finance
3 82 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (3.65%) Music Industry
6 25 (3.51%) Banking
7 22 (3.09%) Legal
7 22 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 21 (2.95%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.38%) Law
9 17 (2.38%) Retail
10 13 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.68%) Front Office
12 11 (1.54%) Police
13 10 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.84%) Games
16 5 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 114 (15.99%) DBA
2 100 (14.03%) Senior
3 90 (12.62%) SQL DBA
4 78 (10.94%) Architect
5 70 (9.82%) Developer
6 53 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 52 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 51 (7.15%) Systems Engineer
9 50 (7.01%) Lead
10 38 (5.33%) Administrator
11 36 (5.05%) Support Engineer
12 31 (4.35%) .NET Developer
13 30 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
13 30 (4.21%) C# Developer
14 29 (4.07%) Software Engineer
15 27 (3.79%) Analyst
16 24 (3.37%) Network Engineer
17 23 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
18 19 (2.66%) IT Engineer
18 19 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.96%) HTML
2 63 (8.84%) .NET
3 53 (7.43%) HTML5
4 45 (6.31%) RESTful
5 42 (5.89%) .NET Core
6 41 (5.75%) CSS
7 38 (5.33%) ASP.NET
8 35 (4.91%) Kafka
9 34 (4.77%) ASP.NET Web API
10 27 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 26 (3.65%) ASP.NET MVC
11 26 (3.65%) LINQ
12 22 (3.09%) REST
13 18 (2.52%) CSS3
13 18 (2.52%) YAML
14 17 (2.38%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.38%) GraphQL
14 17 (2.38%) React
14 17 (2.38%) WebRTC
15 16 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 110 (15.43%) Clustering
2 66 (9.26%) Data Centre
3 64 (8.98%) Replication
4 42 (5.89%) Public Cloud
5 40 (5.61%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.05%) Management Information System
7 30 (4.21%) Algorithms
7 30 (4.21%) Data Structures
7 30 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.38%) AS400
9 17 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.96%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.82%) PKI
13 12 (1.68%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.54%) PMI
14 11 (1.54%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 146 (20.48%) Windows
2 116 (16.27%) Linux
3 83 (11.64%) VMS
4 75 (10.52%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (2.52%) Unix
7 15 (2.10%) Oracle Linux
8 14 (1.96%) Solaris
9 13 (1.82%) CentOS
10 12 (1.68%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.40%) Windows 10
12 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.70%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.56%) AIX
16 4 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.56%) Android
16 4 (0.56%) Windows 8
17 2 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (33.52%) Problem-Solving
2 220 (30.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 164 (23.00%) Performance Tuning
4 160 (22.44%) DevOps
5 132 (18.51%) Agile
5 132 (18.51%) CI/CD
6 100 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
8 97 (13.60%) Collaborative Working
8 97 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 93 (13.04%) Computer Science
10 88 (12.34%) Migration
11 83 (11.64%) Containerisation
12 73 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
13 69 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 64 (8.98%) Software Engineering
15 57 (7.99%) Microservices
16 56 (7.85%) Business Continuity
17 53 (7.43%) ITIL
18 52 (7.29%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 244 (34.22%) SQL
2 117 (16.41%) Python
3 109 (15.29%) T-SQL
4 89 (12.48%) C#
4 89 (12.48%) PowerShell
5 88 (12.34%) Java
6 71 (9.96%) JavaScript
7 59 (8.27%) Bash
8 38 (5.33%) Go
9 24 (3.37%) PHP
10 22 (3.09%) Scala
11 17 (2.38%) C++
12 14 (1.96%) Perl
13 10 (1.40%) RPG
13 10 (1.40%) Rust
14 8 (1.12%) C
15 7 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.98%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.84%) VBA
17 5 (0.70%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 126 (17.67%) Degree
2 96 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 73 (10.24%) Security Cleared
4 61 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (5.61%) SC Cleared
6 30 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (4.21%) Master's Degree
7 24 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.96%) CCNA
9 12 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.54%) CCNP
10 11 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.26%) CCIE
12 9 (1.26%) RHCE
13 7 (0.98%) CCDP
13 7 (0.98%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.47%) QA
2 27 (3.79%) SLA
3 16 (2.24%) GDPR
4 8 (1.12%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.28%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (14.03%) Virtual Machines
2 89 (12.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (12.34%) Docker
4 87 (12.20%) Active Directory
5 45 (6.31%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (3.79%) VMware NSX
7 23 (3.23%) Firmware
8 22 (3.09%) Hyper-V
9 16 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (1.54%) vSphere
12 4 (0.56%) KVM
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.56%) XenApp
12 4 (0.56%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.28%) Ceph
13 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.28%) NFS
14 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.14%) etcd
Systems Management
1 131 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.45%) Terraform
3 89 (12.48%) Ansible
4 31 (4.35%) Grafana
5 30 (4.21%) Puppet
6 26 (3.65%) Nagios
7 24 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 19 (2.66%) Failover Clustering
9 18 (2.52%) Prometheus
9 18 (2.52%) vCenter Server
10 17 (2.38%) SCOM
11 14 (1.96%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.54%) Graphite
13 10 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (1.26%) Data Guard
14 9 (1.26%) SCCM
14 9 (1.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 282 (39.55%) Microsoft
2 121 (16.97%) VMware
3 64 (8.98%) Oracle
4 50 (7.01%) Cisco
5 35 (4.91%) Google
5 35 (4.91%) IBM
6 34 (4.77%) Red Hat
7 27 (3.79%) Dell
8 25 (3.51%) Veeam
9 17 (2.38%) HP
10 16 (2.24%) SAP
10 16 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 16 (2.24%) Splunk
11 14 (1.96%) New Relic
11 14 (1.96%) SolarWinds
12 13 (1.82%) NetApp
13 12 (1.68%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.68%) Serena
14 11 (1.54%) BeyondTrust
15 10 (1.40%) Nimble Storage