Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 177 184
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +52
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 10 1 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.021% 0.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.68% 0.19% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 17
10th Percentile - - £442
25th Percentile £313 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile £575 - £700
England median daily rate £530 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +32.50% -27.27% +12.82%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 596 522 846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.01% 11.14% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 361 597
10th Percentile £263 £235 £318
25th Percentile £375 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £631
90th Percentile £636 £645 £700
England median daily rate £521 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% -8.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 52
10th Percentile £62.54 £16.74 £16.38
25th Percentile - £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £63.40 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.55% -26.67% +87.50%
75th Percentile £84.88 £53.13 £49.43
90th Percentile £89.15 £86.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £27.25 £52.32
% change year-on-year +6.42% -47.91% +143.33%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the North of England

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 6
North West +8 4 £325 - 1
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England

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (40.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (60.00%) Postman
2 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Wintel Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (60.00%) Data Management
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Line Management
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Puppet
2 4 (40.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (40.00%) vMotion
2 4 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) MuleSoft