Clustering Contracts in London

Clustering
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 395 416
Rank change year-on-year +56 +21 -82
Contract jobs citing Clustering 55 100 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.37% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 1.03% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 64 141
10th Percentile £140 £408 £450
25th Percentile £268 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £601 £585
Median % change year-on-year -33.47% +2.78% +17.00%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £663
90th Percentile - £1,046 £688
England median daily rate £470 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -18.26% - +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.38
25th Percentile - £52.50 £46.56
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.56
90th Percentile - - £65.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
London

Clustering is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North London - 2 £250 -
West London - 2 £159 -
Central London +21 1 £500 -5.66% 5
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (14.55%) Confluence
3 3 (5.45%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.45%) IIS
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) AWS
2 20 (36.36%) Azure
3 12 (21.82%) PaaS
3 12 (21.82%) SaaS
4 10 (18.18%) dbt
4 10 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 9 (16.36%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (16.36%) IaaS
6 8 (14.55%) GCP
6 8 (14.55%) Nutanix
6 8 (14.55%) Rubrik
7 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) GitHub
10 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.73%) DHCP
1 18 (32.73%) DNS
2 16 (29.09%) TCP/IP
3 15 (27.27%) Firewall
4 11 (20.00%) NAS
4 11 (20.00%) SAN
5 10 (18.18%) VLAN
6 8 (14.55%) Kerberos
7 5 (9.09%) BGP
7 5 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (9.09%) HTTP
7 5 (9.09%) Network Security
7 5 (9.09%) OSPF
7 5 (9.09%) SNMP
7 5 (9.09%) WAN
7 5 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.45%) MPLS
8 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
8 3 (5.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (18.18%) Apache Arrow
2 10 (18.18%) Big Data
2 10 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 10 (18.18%) Dremio
3 5 (9.09%) MySQL
3 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Git
2 10 (18.18%) JIRA
3 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
4 8 (14.55%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 19 (34.55%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) Big Data Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) Site Engineer
1 10 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 4 (7.27%) Administrator
3 4 (7.27%) Consultant
3 4 (7.27%) DBA
3 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.27%) Server Engineer
3 4 (7.27%) SQL DBA
4 3 (5.45%) Analyst
4 3 (5.45%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (3.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (3.64%) Applications Support
5 2 (3.64%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Database Specialist
5 2 (3.64%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (3.64%) Support Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) LDAP
2 10 (18.18%) gRPC
2 10 (18.18%) Protocol Buffers
3 3 (5.45%) Node.js
4 2 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.64%) SAML
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.82%) OpenID
5 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Replication
2 10 (18.18%) Hedge funds
3 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.45%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.64%) Equities
5 2 (3.64%) PKI
5 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.00%) Windows
2 18 (32.73%) Linux
3 10 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.55%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (14.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (14.55%) Solaris
5 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) DevOps
2 21 (38.18%) High Availability
2 21 (38.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 18 (32.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (25.45%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (23.64%) Investment Management
6 12 (21.82%) Asset Management
7 11 (20.00%) Agile
7 11 (20.00%) Storage Management
8 10 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (18.18%) Security Hardening
9 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (16.36%) Data Security
9 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.36%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (14.55%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (14.55%) Load Balancing
11 7 (12.73%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (12.73%) Service Catalogue
11 7 (12.73%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (47.27%) Python
2 16 (29.09%) PowerShell
3 15 (27.27%) SQL
4 13 (23.64%) Go
5 12 (21.82%) Bash
5 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
6 10 (18.18%) Java
7 3 (5.45%) C
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 5 (9.09%) CCDP
4 5 (9.09%) CCNP
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.45%) MCITP
5 3 (5.45%) MCSE
5 3 (5.45%) MCTS
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) GDPR
1 8 (14.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Active Directory
1 16 (29.09%) Docker
2 13 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.82%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.82%) vSphere
4 1 (1.82%) XenApp
4 1 (1.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (50.91%) Kubernetes
2 23 (41.82%) Terraform
3 16 (29.09%) Ansible
4 10 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 8 (14.55%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (14.55%) Netcool
5 8 (14.55%) Tivoli
5 8 (14.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (9.09%) SCCM
7 3 (5.45%) Kibana
8 2 (3.64%) Backup Exec
8 2 (3.64%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.64%) SCOM
8 2 (3.64%) WSUS
9 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
1 18 (32.73%) Splunk
2 17 (30.91%) VMware
3 14 (25.45%) Cisco
4 11 (20.00%) Oracle
5 10 (18.18%) HP
6 9 (16.36%) IBM
7 8 (14.55%) CyberArk
7 8 (14.55%) Dell
7 8 (14.55%) EMC
7 8 (14.55%) Isilon
7 8 (14.55%) Qualys
7 8 (14.55%) Serena
7 8 (14.55%) ServiceNow
8 5 (9.09%) Arista
8 5 (9.09%) Aruba
8 5 (9.09%) Palo Alto
8 5 (9.09%) Zscaler
9 3 (5.45%) Infoblox
9 3 (5.45%) Meraki