Clustering Contracts in Manchester

Clustering
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 95 109
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.45% 1.11% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 3.34% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 29
10th Percentile - £438 £563
25th Percentile £210 £572 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -66.15% +4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £282 £656 £663
90th Percentile £375 £681 £665
North West median daily rate £220 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -66.15% +4.00% +38.89%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 422 629 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.42% 33.25% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 435 761
10th Percentile £300 £320 £226
25th Percentile £409 £419 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £587 £631 £588
90th Percentile £725 £686 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 33
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.82 £20.74 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +141.38% -17.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.50 £19.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £22.85
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Manchester

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in Manchester

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Manchester

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in Manchester

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (28.57%) nginx
1 2 (28.57%) Traefik
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) VoIP
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (14.29%) DHCP
5 1 (14.29%) NAS
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (28.57%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Quality Management
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Autotask
1 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Consul
2 2 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (28.57%) Graphite
2 2 (28.57%) HAProxy
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) linkerd
2 2 (28.57%) Packer
2 2 (28.57%) Podman
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 3 (42.86%) Datto
4 2 (28.57%) PagerDuty
4 2 (28.57%) Splunk
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
5 1 (14.29%) Dell
5 1 (14.29%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Meraki
5 1 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (14.29%) Veeam