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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 154 164
Rank change year-on-year +39 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Clustering 12 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.58% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 1.59% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile - £500 £469
25th Percentile - £513 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £534 £513
Median % change year-on-year -36.37% +4.26% +36.67%
75th Percentile £516 £568 £538
90th Percentile £563 £581 -
UK median daily rate £483 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -12.27% -4.35% +21.05%

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 729 1,006 1,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.62% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 680 806
10th Percentile £200 £249 £263
25th Percentile £370 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £562
90th Percentile £651 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 24
10th Percentile £13.33 - £15.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -69.02% -6.65%
75th Percentile £44.75 £22.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.53 £51.34 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -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

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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 11 May 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 11 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
Renfrewshire +2 7 £563 +6.13%
Edinburgh - 4 £340 - 4
Glasgow +1 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 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) SMTP
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Support
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Server Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
1 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Solaris
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) High Availability
2 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
3 5 (41.67%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Compliance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
6 1 (8.33%) Server Management
6 1 (8.33%) Server Patching
6 1 (8.33%) Software Deployment
6 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) RHCE
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) MCSE
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (41.67%) BitLocker
3 5 (41.67%) KVM
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (41.67%) Terminal Services
4 1 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) vCenter Server
2 5 (41.67%) vMotion
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Nagios
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
3 5 (41.67%) Infoblox
4 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) McAfee
5 1 (8.33%) Symantec
5 1 (8.33%) Veritas