Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 117 136 138
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +28
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 3 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.036% 0.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.98% 0.34% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile - - £540
25th Percentile £313 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £338 - £688
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £537 £435 £535
% change year-on-year +23.33% -18.69% +10.59%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 293 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 10.64% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 377
10th Percentile £250 £231 £325
25th Percentile £382 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £548 £584 £626
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 45
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £51.38 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.44 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.95 £91.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 3 £325 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
England

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (100.00%) vMotion
1 3 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware