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 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 468 517 592
Rank change year-on-year +49 +75 +71
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 17 25 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.067% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.57% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 44
10th Percentile £331 £191 £374
25th Percentile £500 £381 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £435 £535
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -18.69% +10.59%
75th Percentile £581 £544 £650
90th Percentile £600 £604 £675
UK median daily rate £545 £468 £520
% change year-on-year +16.58% -10.10% +8.33%
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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +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 1 May 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 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
South East +53 8 £540 - 3
London +35 3 £500 - 3
North of England +21 3 £325 - 1
North West +19 3 £325 - 1
South West +37 2 £588 +11.64% 1
Midlands +18 1 £535 +33.75% 1
West Midlands +11 1 £535 +33.75% 1
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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 10 (58.82%) IIS
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (17.65%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (17.65%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (17.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) DNS
2 8 (47.06%) DHCP
3 6 (35.29%) NetScaler
3 6 (35.29%) SMTP
4 3 (17.65%) DDNS
4 3 (17.65%) SAN
4 3 (17.65%) VPN
5 2 (11.76%) VSAN
6 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (5.88%) NAS
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Administrator
1 4 (23.53%) VMWare Administrator
1 4 (23.53%) Wintel Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Exchange Support
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Clustering
2 7 (41.18%) PKI
3 3 (17.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows Server
3 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
7 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) High Availability
2 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Patch Management
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (23.53%) Resource Management
4 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Content Management
5 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Content Management
5 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Search
6 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Line Management
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
7 1 (5.88%) Migration
7 1 (5.88%) Project Management
7 1 (5.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) vSphere
3 6 (35.29%) Hyper-V
3 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (35.29%) XenApp
3 6 (35.29%) XenDesktop
4 4 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (17.65%) Brightmail
5 3 (17.65%) ISA Server
6 1 (5.88%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) WSUS
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
4 4 (23.53%) NetApp OnCommand
4 4 (23.53%) vMotion
5 2 (11.76%) SCCM
6 1 (5.88%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (5.88%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (76.47%) VMware
3 8 (47.06%) HP
4 6 (35.29%) Citrix
4 6 (35.29%) Dell
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) EMC
5 2 (11.76%) McAfee
5 2 (11.76%) Symantec
6 1 (5.88%) NetApp
6 1 (5.88%) Veritas