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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 793 679 747
Rank change year-on-year -114 +68 -39
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 16 4 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.008% 0.044%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.081% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 18
10th Percentile £44,450 - £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £51,848
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +10.90% +3.70%
75th Percentile £50,000 £67,000 £59,375
90th Percentile - £71,950 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.22% +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 5,222 4,964 6,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.49% 10.07% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 2,884 3,898
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,125 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% -5.96% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,420
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -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 8 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 20 September 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
England -121 16 £48,750 -15.22% 4
UK excluding London -134 14 £48,750 -15.22% 2
North of England - 7 £47,500 -
East Midlands - 7 £50,000 -
Midlands - 7 £50,000 -
North West - 7 £47,500 -
London -69 2 - - 3
Work from Home - 1 £45,500 -

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 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SmartSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DHCP
1 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) SAN
3 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) VLAN
5 2 (12.50%) Wireless
6 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Looker
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Administrator
2 6 (37.50%) Network Administrator
2 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Network Systems Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Support Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Clustering
2 6 (37.50%) Driving Licence
3 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Robotics
5 1 (6.25%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
1 15 (93.75%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Virtual Environments
2 6 (37.50%) Storage Management
3 5 (31.25%) AI
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Application Security
4 4 (25.00%) BCP
4 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (12.50%) Network Management
6 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (25.00%) MCSA
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Ceph
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Veeam
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) NVIDIA