Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 665 989 993
Rank change year-on-year +324 +4 -282
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 65 83 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.068% 0.068%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.81% 0.44% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 60 60 67
10th Percentile £40,275 £41,650 -
25th Percentile £42,439 £44,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +43.75% -36.00%
75th Percentile £59,625 £76,563 £57,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -5.88%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Microsoft Clustering is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,015 19,075 21,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 15.53% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,365 11,409 14,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year -1.70% +3.60% +5.71%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Clustering.

Salary trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

Microsoft Clustering
Top 13 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 7 December 2023. 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 +326 60 £54,000 -1.82% 9
UK excluding London +230 46 £50,000 - 8
Work from Home +236 28 £55,000 -8.33% 7
South East +147 17 £48,000 -20.00% 3
South West - 15 £53,000 - 1
London +258 8 £60,250 -29.12% 1
Midlands +115 8 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East Midlands +43 7 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North of England +149 6 £37,000 -32.73% 1
Yorkshire +109 4 £37,000 -26.00%
West Midlands +120 1 £26,000 -42.22% 2
North West +117 1 - -
North East - 1 - - 1

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 13 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (35.38%) Azure
3 9 (13.85%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) IaaS
5 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.54%) PaaS
7 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.38%) SAN
2 17 (26.15%) DHCP
2 17 (26.15%) Firewall
3 16 (24.62%) DNS
3 16 (24.62%) NAS
4 14 (21.54%) TCP/IP
5 12 (18.46%) Skype
6 11 (16.92%) VPN
7 10 (15.38%) LAN
7 10 (15.38%) VLAN
7 10 (15.38%) WAN
8 6 (9.23%) iSCSI
8 6 (9.23%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (4.62%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.23%) MySQL
5 4 (6.15%) Power BI
5 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.54%) OLTP
8 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Git
1 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Military
3 10 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Retail
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Automotive
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (32.31%) Wintel Engineer
3 16 (24.62%) Senior
4 14 (21.54%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 12 (18.46%) DBA
6 11 (16.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (15.38%) Administrator
8 9 (13.85%) IT Engineer
8 9 (13.85%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) SQL DBA
10 5 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) IT Support
11 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) Lead
12 3 (4.62%) SQL Server DBA
13 2 (3.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 2 (3.08%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) JSON
2 5 (7.69%) .NET
2 5 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (80.00%) Clustering
2 23 (35.38%) PKI
3 16 (24.62%) Fat Client
3 16 (24.62%) Thin Client
4 11 (16.92%) Replication
5 10 (15.38%) NHS
6 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (96.92%) Windows
2 50 (76.92%) Windows Server
3 26 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (27.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (23.08%) Linux
6 9 (13.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (9.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (7.69%) Windows 2000
9 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (26.15%) Database Mirroring
3 16 (24.62%) Incident Management
3 16 (24.62%) Key Management
4 15 (23.08%) Patch Management
5 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.92%) Load Balancing
7 10 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 10 (15.38%) ITIL
7 10 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (12.31%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (10.77%) ETL
9 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.23%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (9.23%) Incident Response
10 6 (9.23%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 5 (7.69%) Network Load Balancing
11 5 (7.69%) Refactoring
11 5 (7.69%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 28 (43.08%) SQL
3 8 (12.31%) T-SQL
4 6 (9.23%) Bash
4 6 (9.23%) Python
5 5 (7.69%) C#
6 4 (6.15%) VBScript
7 2 (3.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (30.77%) DV Cleared
1 20 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.69%) Degree
2 18 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) CCA
4 2 (3.08%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) MCP
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (6.15%) SLA
4 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 48 (73.85%) Active Directory
2 33 (50.77%) Hyper-V
3 29 (44.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (43.08%) vSphere
5 16 (24.62%) VMware NSX
6 10 (15.38%) Terminal Services
7 6 (9.23%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (7.69%) Firmware
9 4 (6.15%) XenApp
10 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (38.46%) Failover Clustering
2 17 (26.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (24.62%) FortiGate
3 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 16 (24.62%) SCCM
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (7.69%) McAfee ePO
5 5 (7.69%) vCenter Server
6 4 (6.15%) SCOM
7 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (87.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (53.85%) VMware
3 13 (20.00%) Citrix
4 10 (15.38%) HP
4 10 (15.38%) SonicWALL
5 6 (9.23%) 3PAR
5 6 (9.23%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (9.23%) Veritas
6 5 (7.69%) McAfee
6 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.69%) Symantec
7 3 (4.62%) Brocade
7 3 (4.62%) Cisco
7 3 (4.62%) NetApp
8 2 (3.08%) EMC
8 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.08%) IBM
8 2 (3.08%) Meraki
8 2 (3.08%) RedGate
8 2 (3.08%) Veeam