Failover Clustering (High-Availability, HA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Failover Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 877 1137
Rank change year-on-year +33 +260 -311
Permanent jobs citing Failover Clustering 58 95 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.094% 0.059%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.64% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 42 58 72
10th Percentile £28,550 £32,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £29,188 £37,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £53,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,250 £39,641 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.64% -33.93% +33.33%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Failover Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,909 14,819 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.62% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,136 9,161 14,046
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

Failover Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Failover Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Failover Clustering.

Salary trend for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Failover Clustering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Failover Clustering in the UK

Failover Clustering
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Failover Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +65 56 £41,500 -16.79% 8
UK excluding London -20 49 £32,250 -18.64% 5
North of England +45 20 £32,250 +0.16% 1
West Midlands +8 12 £31,500 -20.53%
Midlands -23 12 £31,500 -37.00%
Yorkshire +78 11 £32,250 +0.16%
London +99 9 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North East - 9 £30,000 - 1
East of England +14 8 £30,000 -33.33% 1
Work from Home +48 6 £50,000 -13.04% 2
South West -17 6 £45,000 +15.38% 2
Wales - 2 £42,500 -
South East -1 1 £29,000 -41.71% 1

Failover Clustering
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 15 (25.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.45%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (68.97%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (58.62%) Azure
3 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.90%) Google Workspace
5 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (39.66%) Firewall
2 17 (29.31%) WAN
3 14 (24.14%) VPN
4 12 (20.69%) TCP/IP
5 11 (18.97%) DHCP
5 11 (18.97%) DNS
6 10 (17.24%) LAN
6 10 (17.24%) VLAN
6 10 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (13.79%) VSAN
7 8 (13.79%) Wireless
8 7 (12.07%) BGP
8 7 (12.07%) MPLS
8 7 (12.07%) OSPF
8 7 (12.07%) SD-WAN
8 7 (12.07%) VoIP
9 6 (10.34%) SAN
10 3 (5.17%) Ethernet
10 3 (5.17%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (5.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Games
3 8 (13.79%) Retail
4 5 (8.62%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Administrator
3 10 (17.24%) Support Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) IT Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (13.79%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (12.07%) IT Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Architect
7 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
7 5 (8.62%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (8.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.90%) DBA
8 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (5.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Technical Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) .NET
1 2 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (87.93%) Clustering
2 8 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.79%) Driving Licence
2 8 (13.79%) Operational Technology
3 5 (8.62%) Client/Server
3 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.90%) Replication
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 46 (79.31%) Windows
2 36 (62.07%) Windows Server
3 18 (31.03%) Windows 10
4 15 (25.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (24.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (18.97%) Linux
7 10 (17.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (12.07%) Mac OS
9 5 (8.62%) CentOS
9 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (5.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (32.76%) High Availability
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (15.52%) Decision-Making
5 8 (13.79%) Line Management
6 7 (12.07%) Customer Service
6 7 (12.07%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (12.07%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 6 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (10.34%) Quality Management
8 5 (8.62%) API Management
8 5 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (8.62%) Business Continuity
8 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
8 5 (8.62%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (8.62%) FinOps
8 5 (8.62%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (8.62%) Load Balancing
8 5 (8.62%) Service Management
8 5 (8.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) PowerShell
2 17 (29.31%) SQL
3 2 (3.45%) C#
3 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) A+ Certification
3 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) RHCE
4 5 (8.62%) RHCSA
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.17%) HNC
6 3 (5.17%) HND
6 3 (5.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (5.17%) MCSA
6 3 (5.17%) MCSE
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.72%) MCP
7 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) GDPR
2 4 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (79.31%) Active Directory
2 41 (70.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (63.79%) Hyper-V
4 15 (25.86%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.90%) Firmware
5 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.17%) vSphere
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (24.14%) SCCM
3 10 (17.24%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (15.52%) Autotask
4 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (15.52%) SCOM
5 7 (12.07%) FortiGate
6 5 (8.62%) Ansible
6 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (8.62%) Puppet
7 2 (3.45%) Foglight
7 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (84.48%) VMware
2 47 (81.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.52%) Apple
3 9 (15.52%) Datto
4 8 (13.79%) Veeam
5 7 (12.07%) Dell
5 7 (12.07%) NetApp
6 6 (10.34%) Cisco
6 6 (10.34%) Commvault
6 6 (10.34%) Draytek
7 5 (8.62%) Aruba
7 5 (8.62%) EqualLogic
7 5 (8.62%) Nimble Storage
7 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
8 4 (6.90%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (6.90%) Citrix
8 4 (6.90%) Kaseya
8 4 (6.90%) Sophos
9 3 (5.17%) Sage
9 3 (5.17%) Webroot