Microsoft Clustering Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 612 666
Rank change year-on-year +96 +54 -98
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 25 61 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 0.77% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 44 94
10th Percentile £191 £374 £363
25th Percentile £381 £449 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £535 £484
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% +10.59% +7.50%
75th Percentile £544 £650 £663
90th Percentile £604 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -10.10% +8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.93%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,392 7,887 11,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 15.68% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,176 5,759 8,311
10th Percentile £250 £350 £363
25th Percentile £410 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 182 162
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.64 £13.88
25th Percentile £17.74 £22.88 £15.31
Median hourly rate £27.25 £55.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +155.81% -10.42%
75th Percentile £51.13 £72.50 £44.46
90th Percentile £70.13 £81.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% +155.56% -43.75%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Clustering within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +27 11 £526 -
London +84 6 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands +30 5 £400 +6.67% 3
West Midlands - 4 £400 -
North of England +10 1 - -
North West +9 1 - -
South East +9 1 - - 1
Microsoft Clustering
UK

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (4.00%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) DHCP
1 11 (44.00%) DNS
1 11 (44.00%) SAN
2 10 (40.00%) LAN
2 10 (40.00%) WAN
3 8 (32.00%) MPLS
3 8 (32.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (12.00%) Firewall
4 3 (12.00%) NAS
4 3 (12.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) IT Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) DBA
5 3 (12.00%) Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) SQL DBA
5 3 (12.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
7 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared DBA
7 1 (4.00%) Junior
7 1 (4.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (88.00%) Clustering
2 10 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (32.00%) Client/Server
4 5 (20.00%) PKI
5 3 (12.00%) Fat Client
5 3 (12.00%) Thin Client
6 2 (8.00%) Equities
6 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Unix
2 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Application Packaging
1 8 (32.00%) Asset Management
1 8 (32.00%) Business Transformation
1 8 (32.00%) Capacity Management
1 8 (32.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (32.00%) Data Migration
1 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
1 8 (32.00%) Decision-Making
1 8 (32.00%) Migration
1 8 (32.00%) Network Management
1 8 (32.00%) Server Management
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) High Availability
3 4 (16.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (12.00%) Database Mirroring
4 3 (12.00%) Key Management
4 3 (12.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (12.00%) Statistics
5 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) Degree
3 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (32.00%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (32.00%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
5 4 (16.00%) vSphere
6 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) SCCM
2 8 (32.00%) Nagios
2 8 (32.00%) NetBackup
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 3 (12.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (8.00%) SCOM
5 2 (8.00%) VxRail
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.00%) Nessus
6 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) VMware
2 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Hitachi
3 8 (32.00%) NetApp
4 2 (8.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) EMC
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Huawei
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) Sybase
4 2 (8.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas