Microsoft Clustering Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Windows Clustering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.038% - 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £493
25th Percentile £463 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.29%
75th Percentile £488 - £619
90th Percentile - - £638
London median daily rate £488 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.10%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 331 319 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.65% 15.62% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 218 241
10th Percentile £331 £279 £350
25th Percentile £451 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £657
90th Percentile £725 £761 £775
London median daily rate £532 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +1.33% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £56.73 £26.51 £17.03
25th Percentile £58.11 £26.60 £23.44
Median hourly rate £63.88 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.15% +5.56% -67.89%
75th Percentile £71.18 £47.91 £32.81
90th Percentile £73.47 £58.51 £43.28
London median hourly rate £62.75 £42.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +48.52% +69.00% -60.94%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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
City of London - 1 £475 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
London

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) VMware