Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 164 198
Rank change year-on-year +36 +34 -50
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 5 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.087% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.81% 0.69% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £388 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.83%
75th Percentile - £388 £388
90th Percentile - - £464
England median daily rate £435 £535 £484
% change year-on-year -18.69% +10.59% +7.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 277 434 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.05% 12.61% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 300 369
10th Percentile £189 £231 £206
25th Percentile £350 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.15%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £540
90th Percentile £650 £700 £625
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 18
10th Percentile £21.49 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.00 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.67 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +31.33% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.57 £40.25 £19.94
90th Percentile £55.00 £50.55 £22.70
England median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +167.44% -10.42%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the Midlands

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the Midlands

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the Midlands

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
West Midlands - 4 £400 -
Microsoft Clustering
England

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DBA
2 3 (60.00%) Administrator
2 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) VMware