Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Microsoft Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 135 171
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 -41
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 1 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.037% 0.63% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.36% 3.87% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 16 8
10th Percentile - £470 £575
25th Percentile - £625 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile - £681 £663
90th Percentile - £700 £666
England median daily rate £435 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -16.35% +8.33% +6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

Microsoft Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 276 517 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.23% 16.38% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 370 464
10th Percentile £215 £325 £250
25th Percentile £375 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £592 £631 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 44 10
10th Percentile £16.67 £16.70 £16.25
25th Percentile - £21.91 £17.19
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.24% +48.25% -56.28%
75th Percentile £58.44 £49.43 £49.14
90th Percentile £91.25 £61.14 £54.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%

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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 4 May 2024. 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
Manchester +16 1 - -
Microsoft Clustering
England

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware