Hybrid/Remote Microsoft Clustering Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 314 366
Rank change year-on-year +1 +52 +167
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 4 3 15
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.026% 0.087%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.18% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £317 - £523
25th Percentile £323 £460 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £470 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% -18.26% +32.95%
75th Percentile £339 £480 £681
90th Percentile £340 - £685
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +6.98% +4.88% +46.43%

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 1,698 1,648 2,355
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.59% 14.11% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,069 1,738
10th Percentile £358 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £438 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £684 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.42% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 47
10th Percentile £29.60 £13.49 £20.45
25th Percentile £34.50 £26.00 £37.44
Median hourly rate £54.50 £32.38 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.34% -48.61% +12.00%
75th Percentile £68.50 £60.63 £77.84
90th Percentile £95.60 £64.75 £83.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.53% -42.07% +37.85%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Clustering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microsoft Clustering
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) vMotion
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware