Microsoft Clustering Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 528 573
Rank change year-on-year +58 +45 +108
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 25 31 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.095% 0.083% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.61% 0.66% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 43
10th Percentile £383 £191 £413
25th Percentile £500 £381 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.46% +8.05%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £663
90th Percentile £601 £661 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £483 £520
% change year-on-year +13.99% -7.21% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,114 4,707 7,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.61% 12.60% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,738 3,383 5,194
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 95 163
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.47 £18.80
25th Percentile £26.45 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -42.73% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.38 £74.38
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.43% -43.48% +155.56%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
South East +50 11 £563 - 4
North of England - 10 £425 - 2
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 2
London +26 2 £500 - 1
North West - 2 £325 -
South West +25 1 £588 +0.86%
West Midlands +7 1 £535 +33.75%
Midlands +3 1 £535 +33.75%
Microsoft Clustering
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (28.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (28.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (28.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (28.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (28.00%) IIS
2 7 (28.00%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (28.00%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (28.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) DNS
2 10 (40.00%) DHCP
3 8 (32.00%) Firewall
3 8 (32.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (28.00%) DDNS
4 7 (28.00%) SAN
4 7 (28.00%) VPN
5 5 (20.00%) NetScaler
5 5 (20.00%) SMTP
6 1 (4.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (32.00%) Postman
2 5 (20.00%) Git
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Exchange Support
1 7 (28.00%) Support Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Windows Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Wintel Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Clustering
1 7 (28.00%) Replication
2 6 (24.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.00%) Linux
5 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) High Availability
2 9 (36.00%) ITIL
3 8 (32.00%) Configuration Management
3 8 (32.00%) Data Management
3 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Architectural Design
4 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (28.00%) Content Management
4 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Content Management
4 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Search
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
6 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (12.00%) Patch Management
8 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
8 2 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (44.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (28.00%) Brightmail
3 7 (28.00%) ISA Server
3 7 (28.00%) vSphere
4 5 (20.00%) XenApp
4 5 (20.00%) XenDesktop
5 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
1 8 (32.00%) Puppet
2 7 (28.00%) SCCM
2 7 (28.00%) WSUS
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (12.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.00%) NetApp OnCommand
5 2 (8.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (68.00%) VMware
3 8 (32.00%) MuleSoft
4 6 (24.00%) HP
5 5 (20.00%) Citrix
5 5 (20.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco
6 1 (4.00%) EMC
6 1 (4.00%) McAfee
6 1 (4.00%) NetApp
6 1 (4.00%) Symantec
6 1 (4.00%) Veritas