Microsoft Clustering Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Windows Clustering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.099% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

Microsoft Clustering falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 338 376 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.56% 16.54% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 266 212 342
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,125 £82,375
North West median annual salary £61,250 £67,037 £55,754
% change year-on-year -8.63% +20.24% -7.08%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Clustering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Looker
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (66.67%) Driving Licence
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Application Security
1 4 (66.67%) BCP
1 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
1 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Management
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Practice Management
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) MCSA
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft