Microsoft Clustering Contracts

Microsoft Windows Clustering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Clustering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 601 725
Rank change year-on-year +47 +124 -57
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Clustering 25 83 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.93% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 60 95
10th Percentile £200 £413 £363
25th Percentile £388 £440 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £574 £645 £663
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £532 £425
% change year-on-year -24.79% +25.14% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,883 13,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 15.76% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,345 10,012
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 199 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.26
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.75 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.80 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -12.74%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Clustering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Clustering in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +54 23 £400 -25.23% 12
UK excluding London +21 17 £400 -24.79% 7
South West +15 10 £583 - 2
London +84 6 £500 -13.04% 5
Work from Home +70 6 £465 -2.11% 5
Midlands +27 5 £400 +6.67% 3
West Midlands - 4 £400 - 1
South East +1 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £600 -

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 11 (44.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (4.00%) IIS
4 1 (4.00%) OpenEdge
4 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) DHCP
1 11 (44.00%) DNS
2 10 (40.00%) SAN
3 9 (36.00%) LAN
3 9 (36.00%) WAN
4 8 (32.00%) MPLS
4 8 (32.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (8.00%) Firewall
5 2 (8.00%) NAS
5 2 (8.00%) Skype
6 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) IT Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) DBA
4 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Server Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) SQL DBA
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Support
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (88.00%) Clustering
2 10 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (32.00%) Client/Server
4 4 (16.00%) PKI
5 2 (8.00%) Equities
5 2 (8.00%) Fat Client
5 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (8.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Unix
3 6 (24.00%) Linux
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Migration
2 8 (32.00%) Application Packaging
2 8 (32.00%) Asset Management
2 8 (32.00%) Business Transformation
2 8 (32.00%) Capacity Management
2 8 (32.00%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (32.00%) Data Migration
2 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
2 8 (32.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (32.00%) Network Management
2 8 (32.00%) Server Management
3 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (12.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (12.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Statistics
6 2 (8.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Python
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (32.00%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (32.00%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (16.00%) vSphere
6 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
7 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) SCCM
2 8 (32.00%) Nagios
2 8 (32.00%) NetBackup
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (12.00%) SCOM
4 3 (12.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.00%) Nessus
6 1 (4.00%) SCOrch
6 1 (4.00%) SCVMM
6 1 (4.00%) Terraform
6 1 (4.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) VMware
2 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Hitachi
3 8 (32.00%) NetApp
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Huawei
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) Sybase
4 2 (8.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) EMC
5 1 (4.00%) Varonis
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas