Microsoft Clustering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 422 575
Rank change year-on-year +86 +153 -124
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 5 45 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.18% 0.100%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 1.09% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 32 31
10th Percentile £138 £413 £288
25th Percentile £178 £435 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £473 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +18.13% -13.51%
75th Percentile £492 £532 £497
90th Percentile £527 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £465 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -10.58% +8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.93%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,622 4,141 7,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.80% 16.48% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 3,059 5,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 78 50
10th Percentile £20.40 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £43.28 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £62.25 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Microsoft Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Clustering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Clustering.

Microsoft Clustering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Microsoft Clustering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Equities
2 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (60.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Automated Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
1 3 (60.00%) SCOM
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) SCOrch
3 1 (20.00%) SCVMM
3 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Huawei
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase
1 2 (40.00%) Trend Micro
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Varonis
2 1 (20.00%) VMware