Microsoft Clustering Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows Clustering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.67% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £325 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 81 60 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.04% 11.90% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 37 68
10th Percentile £307 £184 £200
25th Percentile £354 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.68% -2.42%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £571
90th Percentile £638 £582 £641
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.72 £12.35
25th Percentile £81.75 £17.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.22% -11.40% -
75th Percentile £85.25 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.74 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warrington - 3 £325 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
North West

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (100.00%) vMotion
1 3 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware