Microsoft Clustering Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 109 146 166
Rank change year-on-year +37 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 2 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.34% 0.028%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 2.70% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £471 -
25th Percentile £569 £487 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £526 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% - -
75th Percentile £606 £569 -
90th Percentile - £587 -
England median daily rate £537 £435 £535
% change year-on-year +23.33% -18.69% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 407 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.18% 12.72% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 312 499
10th Percentile £293 £205 £324
25th Percentile £440 £391 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £591 £644
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 21
10th Percentile £31.15 - £53.75
25th Percentile £56.13 - £60.70
Median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile £79.77 £72.85 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £76.28 £86.00
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 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 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
Bristol +19 1 £588 +0.86%
Gloucestershire +17 1 - -
Microsoft Clustering
England

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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 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) vMotion
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas