Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 166 170
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 11 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.34% 0.028% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.68% 0.17% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £471 - £233
25th Percentile £487 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £569 - £488
90th Percentile £587 - £518
England median daily rate £400 £535 £484
% change year-on-year -25.23% +10.59% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.07%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 410 604 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.82% 16.66% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 499 382
10th Percentile £205 £324 £251
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £597 £644 £594
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.70 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -54.25%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £86.00 £55.03
England median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +167.44% -10.42%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Somerset - 8 - -
Bristol +18 1 £583 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £470 -
Microsoft Clustering
England

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) SAN
2 9 (81.82%) DHCP
2 9 (81.82%) DNS
3 8 (72.73%) LAN
3 8 (72.73%) MPLS
3 8 (72.73%) WAN
3 8 (72.73%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (18.18%) NAS
4 2 (18.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (72.73%) Aerospace
1 8 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) IT Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Clustering
2 8 (72.73%) Client/Server
2 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
3 3 (27.27%) PKI
4 2 (18.18%) Fat Client
4 2 (18.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Unix
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Application Packaging
1 8 (72.73%) Asset Management
1 8 (72.73%) Business Transformation
1 8 (72.73%) Capacity Management
1 8 (72.73%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (72.73%) Data Migration
1 8 (72.73%) Data Protection
1 8 (72.73%) Decision-Making
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
1 8 (72.73%) Network Management
1 8 (72.73%) Server Management
2 2 (18.18%) Database Mirroring
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Key Management
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (72.73%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (72.73%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (27.27%) vSphere
5 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) SCCM
2 8 (72.73%) Nagios
2 8 (72.73%) NetBackup
3 2 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (72.73%) Hitachi
2 8 (72.73%) NetApp
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Veritas