Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 151 204 212
Rank change year-on-year +53 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 8 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.018% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.20% 0.14% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile £508 - £443
25th Percentile £513 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.48%
75th Percentile £588 - £524
90th Percentile £600 - £573
England median daily rate £537 £435 £535
% change year-on-year +23.33% -18.69% +10.59%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Berkshire - 5 £532 -
Thames Valley - 5 £532 -
Hampshire +28 3 £550 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (62.50%) IIS
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (37.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) NetScaler
2 5 (62.50%) SMTP
3 3 (37.50%) DDNS
3 3 (37.50%) DHCP
3 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 3 (37.50%) VPN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Support
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
1 5 (62.50%) PKI
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Content Management
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Search
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) vSphere
2 5 (62.50%) XenApp
2 5 (62.50%) XenDesktop
3 3 (37.50%) Brightmail
3 3 (37.50%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (62.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
2 5 (62.50%) HP
2 5 (62.50%) VMware