Clustering Contracts in Scotland

Clustering
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 120 148 159
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Clustering 11 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 0.56% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 1.54% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 4
10th Percentile - £500 £469
25th Percentile £340 £513 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £534 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +4.26% +36.67%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £538
90th Percentile £575 £581 -
UK median daily rate £473 £565 £570
% change year-on-year -16.37% -0.88% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 721 1,036 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.67% 36.30% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 711 819
10th Percentile £204 £250 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Scotland

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Scotland 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
Renfrewshire +4 8 £563 +6.13%
Edinburgh - 2 £340 - 5
Glasgow -10 1 £490 -9.26%
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DHCP
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) SMTP
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Support
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Server Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Server Support
2 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) High Availability
2 7 (63.64%) Project Delivery
3 5 (45.45%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Compliance Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
6 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (9.09%) ITIL
6 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) Network Design
6 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
6 1 (9.09%) Service Management
6 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (63.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) RHCE
5 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) MCSE
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
3 5 (45.45%) BitLocker
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (45.45%) Terminal Services
4 3 (27.27%) KVM
5 2 (18.18%) vSphere
6 1 (9.09%) Docker
6 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) vCenter Server
2 5 (45.45%) vMotion
3 2 (18.18%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Nagios
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 7 (63.64%) Citrix
3 5 (45.45%) Infoblox
4 2 (18.18%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) McAfee
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 2 (18.18%) Symantec
4 2 (18.18%) Veritas