Microsoft Clustering Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Windows Clustering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 325 - 391
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 6 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.030% - 0.030%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% - 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £44,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.65%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £51,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £47,500 £64,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -26.64% -23.82% +70.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 922 1,423 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.63% 17.41% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 714 497 1,056
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Clustering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 6 £47,500 - 1
Microsoft Clustering
England

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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