Microsoft Clustering Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 424 360 383
Rank change year-on-year -64 +23 +86
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 7 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.007% 0.071%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.048% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £400 - £165
25th Percentile £416 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.10%
75th Percentile £500 - £603
90th Percentile - - £695
England median daily rate £438 £550 £485
% change year-on-year -20.45% +13.40% -11.82%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,700 2,102 2,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.63% 15.50% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 1,387 1,693
10th Percentile £358 £350 £330
25th Percentile £440 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 33
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.23 £20.50
25th Percentile £39.88 £26.68 £22.08
Median hourly rate £62.75 £42.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.52% +69.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.88 £50.25
90th Percentile - £63.25 £70.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% +85.00% -45.45%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Microsoft Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London - 1 £475 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
England

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
1 3 (42.86%) VLAN
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
1 3 (42.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DBA
1 4 (57.14%) SQL DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (42.86%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (42.86%) SUSE
2 3 (42.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (42.86%) Server Management
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Security Management
4 2 (28.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Firmware
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) vCenter Server
1 3 (42.86%) VxRail
2 2 (28.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) BMC
3 2 (28.57%) Commvault
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Remedy