Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 882 1132
Rank change year-on-year +27 +250 -347
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 59 82 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.079% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.54% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 51 65 69
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £66,250 £50,000
90th Percentile - £73,500 £67,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% +11.11% +12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Microsoft 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 9,958 15,130 28,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 14.62% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,178 9,321 14,195
10th Percentile £32,735 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,225 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,544 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% -4.09% +9.09%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +91 58 £80,000 +52.38% 7
Work from Home +73 38 £85,000 +36.00% 2
London +148 34 £85,000 +36.00% 3
UK excluding London -47 25 £41,500 -17.00% 4
Midlands -2 9 £40,000 -17.95% 3
East Midlands -20 8 £40,000 -23.81% 3
North of England +50 6 £44,500 +14.10%
South East +28 6 £47,250 +13.86% 1
South West -26 4 £54,000 +33.33%
Yorkshire +87 3 £47,500 +21.79%
North East - 3 £41,500 -
West Midlands +10 1 £26,000 -42.22%

Microsoft 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 20 (33.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (13.56%) IIS
3 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 38 (64.41%) Azure
2 31 (52.54%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (37.29%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.95%) AWS
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.47%) IaaS
7 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) SAN
2 10 (16.95%) Firewall
3 9 (15.25%) DHCP
3 9 (15.25%) VPN
4 8 (13.56%) DNS
5 5 (8.47%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.47%) Wireless
6 4 (6.78%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (6.78%) NAS
6 4 (6.78%) Skype
7 3 (5.08%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (3.39%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.39%) SMTP
9 1 (1.69%) LAN
9 1 (1.69%) VLAN
9 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.25%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (15.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (11.86%) Power BI
3 7 (11.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (11.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) JIRA
2 7 (11.86%) Git
General
1 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 8 (13.56%) Law
5 4 (6.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Lead
2 9 (15.25%) 3rd Line Support
2 9 (15.25%) DBA
3 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Manager
3 7 (11.86%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) SQL DBA
3 7 (11.86%) SQL Server DBA
4 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Administrator
5 5 (8.47%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Applications Support
5 5 (8.47%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Architect
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Operations Support Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) .NET
1 2 (3.39%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (100.00%) Clustering
2 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.17%) Replication
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.78%) Fat Client
4 4 (6.78%) PKI
4 4 (6.78%) Thin Client
5 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) iPhone
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (98.31%) Windows
2 51 (86.44%) Windows Server
3 13 (22.03%) Linux
4 5 (8.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (8.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.69%) CentOS
6 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (33.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (33.90%) High Availability
2 20 (33.90%) Information Security
2 20 (33.90%) Performance Management
3 18 (30.51%) Backlog Management
3 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (30.51%) Resource Management
4 16 (27.12%) Patch Management
5 10 (16.95%) Change Management
6 7 (11.86%) Business Continuity
6 7 (11.86%) Database Security
6 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
7 6 (10.17%) ITIL
8 5 (8.47%) FinOps
8 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (8.47%) Service Management
8 5 (8.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (67.80%) PowerShell
2 14 (23.73%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.08%) VBScript
5 2 (3.39%) C#
5 2 (3.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) HNC
3 3 (5.08%) HND
3 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 38 (64.41%) Active Directory
2 20 (33.90%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.47%) Terminal Services
5 4 (6.78%) VMware NSX
5 4 (6.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (35.59%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (33.90%) vCenter Server
4 13 (22.03%) Failover Clustering
5 9 (15.25%) SCCM
6 7 (11.86%) Ansible
6 7 (11.86%) Foglight
6 7 (11.86%) Nagios
7 6 (10.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 4 (6.78%) SCOM
9 1 (1.69%) Check_MK
9 1 (1.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (47.46%) VMware
2 25 (42.37%) Microsoft
3 20 (33.90%) Commvault
4 18 (30.51%) ServiceNow
4 18 (30.51%) Sun
5 7 (11.86%) ArcSight
5 7 (11.86%) HP
6 6 (10.17%) Cisco
7 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.69%) Aderant
8 1 (1.69%) iManage
8 1 (1.69%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.69%) Veeam