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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 762 715
Rank change year-on-year +90 -47 +390
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 4 34 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.044% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.074% 0.47% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 52
10th Percentile - £37,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £38,750 £42,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,000 £69,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,950 £87,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% - -

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 5,370 7,268 8,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 9.31% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,167 4,455 7,234
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% +4.35%

Microsoft Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Clustering 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
England +79 4 £57,500 +9.52% 5
UK excluding London +94 2 £57,500 +27.78% 5
London +56 2 £73,500 -13.53%
East of England - 2 £57,500 -

Microsoft Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Server Building
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Licensing
2 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
1 2 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Aderant
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) iManage
1 2 (50.00%) Intapp
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) RedGate
2 1 (25.00%) SAP