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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 693 662
Rank change year-on-year +50 -31 +272
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 2 21 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.039% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.049% 0.36% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 58
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,300
25th Percentile £71,750 £40,924 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £73,750 £79,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £45,598 £51,000
% change year-on-year - -10.59% -7.27%

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 4,108 5,895 7,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.88% 10.97% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,924 3,599 6,089
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,140 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £107,684 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +9.09% -4.35%

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
Top 2 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 9 January 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
London +47 2 £73,500 +3.16%
England +46 2 £73,500 +33.64% 3

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Aderant
1 2 (100.00%) iManage
1 2 (100.00%) Intapp
1 2 (100.00%) RedGate