Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 414 446
Rank change year-on-year +47 +32 -57
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 18 42 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% 1.19% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 49
10th Percentile £385 £401 -
25th Percentile - £472 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £532 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.79% +25.14% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £473
90th Percentile £574 £698 £663
UK median daily rate £465 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -10.58% +8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,315 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £213 £281 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +26 9 £583 -
Midlands +33 5 £400 +6.67% 2
West Midlands - 4 £400 -
Scotland +39 2 £525 -
North of England +8 1 - -
North West +5 1 - -
South East +1 1 - - 1
Microsoft Clustering
UK

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) DHCP
1 13 (72.22%) DNS
2 10 (55.56%) LAN
2 10 (55.56%) WAN
3 8 (44.44%) MPLS
3 8 (44.44%) SAN
3 8 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Aerospace
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) IT Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) DBA
3 3 (16.67%) Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
1 1 (5.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) Clustering
2 10 (55.56%) Data Centre
3 8 (44.44%) Client/Server
4 4 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.56%) Linux
6 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Application Packaging
1 8 (44.44%) Asset Management
1 8 (44.44%) Business Transformation
1 8 (44.44%) Capacity Management
1 8 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (44.44%) Data Migration
1 8 (44.44%) Data Protection
1 8 (44.44%) Decision-Making
1 8 (44.44%) Migration
1 8 (44.44%) Network Management
1 8 (44.44%) Server Management
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Statistics
5 2 (11.11%) Software Deployment
5 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (44.44%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (44.44%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
6 3 (16.67%) vSphere
7 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) SCCM
2 8 (44.44%) Nagios
2 8 (44.44%) NetBackup
3 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (11.11%) VxRail
5 1 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) Nessus
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (44.44%) Hitachi
3 8 (44.44%) NetApp
4 3 (16.67%) Veritas
5 2 (11.11%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) Dell
5 2 (11.11%) EMC
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) McAfee
5 2 (11.11%) Symantec