Microsoft Clustering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 340 433
Rank change year-on-year +39 +93 +153
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 3 5 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.033% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.30% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 31
10th Percentile £538 £138 £413
25th Percentile £539 £178 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £333 £475
Median % change year-on-year +62.41% -30.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £565 £492 £534
90th Percentile £579 £527 £650
UK median daily rate £545 £468 £520
% change year-on-year +16.58% -10.10% +8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Microsoft Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Clustering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Clustering.

Microsoft Clustering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Clustering.

Microsoft Clustering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) NetScaler
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Database Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
1 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
2 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat