Microsoft Clustering Contracts

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 553 600
Rank change year-on-year +54 +47 +132
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 22 25 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.059% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.49% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 59
10th Percentile £313 £191 £413
25th Percentile £500 £381 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £433 £520
Median % change year-on-year +24.86% -16.83% +9.47%
75th Percentile £589 £544 £645
90th Percentile £600 £604 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £400 £532
% change year-on-year +36.25% -24.79% +25.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,524 5,090 9,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.78% 12.00% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,088 3,695 6,452
10th Percentile £308 £264 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £558
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -8.15% -1.24%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +0.61% -6.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 103 203
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.73
25th Percentile £21.04 £18.89 £24.13
Median hourly rate £27.75 £27.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -50.00% +151.26%
75th Percentile £63.29 £50.13 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.09 £71.25 £83.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +112.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 23 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
UK excluding London +51 19 £545 +36.25% 8
England +52 18 £535 +33.75% 11
South East +58 8 £540 - 3
North of England +18 4 £325 - 4
North West +11 4 £325 - 1
Scotland - 4 £589 -
London +53 3 £500 - 4
Work from Home +49 3 £540 +62.41% 10
South West +30 2 £588 +0.86% 1
Midlands +14 1 £535 +33.75% 1
West Midlands +10 1 £535 +33.75% 1

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (50.00%) IIS
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (13.64%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.64%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (13.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) OCI
3 2 (9.09%) IaaS
3 2 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) DNS
2 9 (40.91%) DHCP
3 6 (27.27%) NetScaler
3 6 (27.27%) SMTP
4 3 (13.64%) DDNS
4 3 (13.64%) SAN
4 3 (13.64%) VPN
5 2 (9.09%) VSAN
6 1 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Administrator
1 5 (22.73%) VMWare Administrator
1 5 (22.73%) Wintel Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Database Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Support
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Database Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Clustering
2 7 (31.82%) PKI
2 7 (31.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 10 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (27.27%) Linux
5 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (18.18%) AIX
6 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (18.18%) Solaris
7 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) High Availability
2 12 (54.55%) ITIL
3 9 (40.91%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (27.27%) Patch Management
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Resource Management
5 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) Problem Management
7 3 (13.64%) Architectural Design
7 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.64%) Content Management
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Database Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Content Management
7 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Search
7 3 (13.64%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (13.64%) SDLC
7 3 (13.64%) Service Management
8 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (40.91%) vSphere
3 7 (31.82%) Hyper-V
3 7 (31.82%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (27.27%) XenApp
4 6 (27.27%) XenDesktop
5 5 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (13.64%) Brightmail
7 3 (13.64%) ISA Server
8 1 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) WSUS
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (27.27%) vCenter Server
4 5 (22.73%) NetApp OnCommand
4 5 (22.73%) vMotion
5 4 (18.18%) Data Guard
5 4 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (18.18%) Oracle Flashback
6 2 (9.09%) SCCM
7 1 (4.55%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (4.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (63.64%) VMware
3 10 (45.45%) Dell
4 8 (36.36%) HP
5 6 (27.27%) Citrix
6 4 (18.18%) Dynatrace
6 4 (18.18%) Oracle
6 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
7 2 (9.09%) Cisco
7 2 (9.09%) EMC
7 2 (9.09%) McAfee
7 2 (9.09%) Symantec
8 1 (4.55%) NetApp
8 1 (4.55%) Veritas