Microsoft Clustering Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 112 127 158
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.090% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.70% 0.72% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £574 - £490
25th Percentile £584 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.19% - -
75th Percentile - £538 £539
90th Percentile - - £539
UK median daily rate £545 £468 £520
% change year-on-year +16.58% -10.10% +8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 278 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 12.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 194 406
10th Percentile £198 £246 £260
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £576 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £21.18 £19.59 £21.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%
75th Percentile £24.00 £49.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £55.68 £59.65
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 Scotland

Job postings citing Microsoft Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in Scotland

Microsoft Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in Scotland

Microsoft Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 3 £589 -
Edinburgh - 1 £589 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
UK

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) OCI
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Database Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Database Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Solaris
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Database Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 4 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft