Microsoft Clustering Job Trends

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microsoft Clustering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 641 833
Rank change year-on-year -88 +192 +29
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 7 5 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.012% 0.061%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.098% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 50
10th Percentile £32,611 - £37,500
25th Percentile £36,021 £32,611 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -28.75% +52.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £73,750 £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +37.35% -17.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,744 5,095 9,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.11% 11.95% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,329 3,056 7,048
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,212 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +10.74% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Microsoft Clustering job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Clustering

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
UK excluding London -46 5 £47,500 -16.67% 4
England -80 5 £47,500 -34.48% 4
North West - 5 £47,500 - 4
North of England - 5 £47,500 - 4

Microsoft Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Looker
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Clustering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (57.14%) Driving Licence
2 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Application Security
2 4 (57.14%) BCP
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Practice Management
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (57.14%) MCSA
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) Google