Microsoft Clustering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Windows Clustering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - 123
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% - 0.092%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% - 0.66%
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
Central London median daily rate £475 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -1.29%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 268 281 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.15% 16.38% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 193 213
10th Percentile £320 £275 £350
25th Percentile £444 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £657
90th Percentile £695 £750 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 £26.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £28.50 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +102.68% +40.74% -75.92%
75th Percentile £67.36 £30.25 £32.81
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.28
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £27.48 £20.25
% change year-on-year +110.25% +35.68% -75.92%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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