Clustering Contracts in the Midlands

Clustering
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 154 173
Rank change year-on-year +25 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Clustering 9 14 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 1.29% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 24
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £190 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +9.09% +2.48%
75th Percentile £386 £538 £448
90th Percentile £489 £576 £663
England median daily rate £500 £571 £575
% change year-on-year -12.47% -0.65% +21.05%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 827 1,087 1,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.45% 32.37% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 722 1,048
10th Percentile £213 £237 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +15.15%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 42 55
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.79 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.16 £14.82
Median hourly rate £19.50 £23.25 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +40.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.44 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £23.55
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.66% +1.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
West Midlands +18 6 £288 -49.34% 7
East Midlands +16 2 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
2 3 (33.33%) VoIP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DBA
2 3 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) High Availability
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (11.11%) Database Security
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Server Migrations
4 1 (11.11%) Time Management
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) RHCE
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) KVM
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Autotask
1 3 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Apple
3 3 (33.33%) Datto
4 2 (22.22%) EMC
5 1 (11.11%) Dell
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat