Clustering Contracts in the North of England

Clustering
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 167 197
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 -35
Contract jobs citing Clustering 19 46 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.81% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 2.61% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 44
10th Percentile £210 £421 £363
25th Percentile £233 £477 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +48.48%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £653
90th Percentile - £699 £684
England median daily rate £488 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -15.22% - +21.05%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,248 1,760 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.59% 30.83% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 1,189 1,828
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 82 103
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.13
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -9.89% +5.65%
75th Percentile £26.62 £47.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.62 £43.98
England median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -4 7 £220 -66.15% 2
Yorkshire +22 6 £563 +52.03% 2
North East - 6 £488 - 1
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England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (21.05%) IIS
3 2 (10.53%) nginx
3 2 (10.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
1 6 (31.58%) VPN
2 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) LAN
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
2 4 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (15.79%) VLAN
3 3 (15.79%) VoIP
4 2 (10.53%) DHCP
4 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.26%) NAS
5 1 (5.26%) SAN
5 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Migration Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Migration Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Wintel Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DBA
3 3 (15.79%) SQL DBA
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Support
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) cloud-init
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
2 3 (15.79%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
1 14 (73.68%) Windows Server
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 4 (21.05%) VMS
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
6 2 (10.53%) CentOS
6 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) High Availability
2 5 (26.32%) ITIL
3 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
4 3 (15.79%) Quality Management
4 3 (15.79%) Server Patching
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
5 2 (10.53%) Release Management
5 2 (10.53%) Service Management
5 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (10.53%) Docker
5 2 (10.53%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) vCenter Server
2 3 (15.79%) Autotask
2 3 (15.79%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) SCCM
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Consul
3 2 (10.53%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (10.53%) Graphite
3 2 (10.53%) HAProxy
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) linkerd
3 2 (10.53%) Packer
3 2 (10.53%) Podman
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) vRealize
3 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) VMware
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Apple
3 3 (15.79%) Datto
4 2 (10.53%) Citrix
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) PagerDuty
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.26%) Dell
5 1 (5.26%) EMC
5 1 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.26%) Meraki
5 1 (5.26%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (5.26%) Symantec
5 1 (5.26%) Veeam