Microsoft Clustering Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Windows Clustering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.31% - 0.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.13% - 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £468
25th Percentile - - £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.39%
75th Percentile - - £536
90th Percentile - - £567
South East median daily rate £600 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 32 65 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.94% 17.62% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 54 47
10th Percentile £435 £278 £285
25th Percentile £450 £336 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -19.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £695
90th Percentile £625 £607 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £30.60 -
25th Percentile - £31.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £35.08 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +84.64% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £37.06 £19.50
90th Percentile - £37.62 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £36.17 £49.73
% change year-on-year -9.39% -27.28% +48.45%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 2025. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 - -
Microsoft Clustering
South East

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle