Clustering Contracts in the South West

Clustering
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 132 150 167
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 -38
Contract jobs citing Clustering 20 24 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.63% 0.66% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 2.35% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 7
10th Percentile £325 £498 £323
25th Percentile £393 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £568 £584 £619
90th Percentile £775 £733 £638
England median daily rate £470 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -18.26% - +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,050 1,021 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 33.15% 28.04% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 705 652
10th Percentile £300 £259 £205
25th Percentile £450 £425 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £496
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +11.00% +10.11%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £575
90th Percentile £693 £725 £668
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 139 58
10th Percentile £13.69 - £15.46
25th Percentile £15.17 - £25.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +359.18% -80.30% +4.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.33 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the South West 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
Wiltshire -4 10 £525 -6.67% 1
Somerset - 8 - -
Bristol +16 1 £583 +5.91% 1
Gloucestershire 0 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (30.00%) Confluence
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) SAN
2 9 (45.00%) DHCP
2 9 (45.00%) DNS
3 8 (40.00%) LAN
3 8 (40.00%) MPLS
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
3 8 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (30.00%) VSAN
5 2 (10.00%) NAS
5 2 (10.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Aerospace
4 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) IT Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 8 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Unix
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (10.00%) Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Asset Management
1 9 (45.00%) Server Management
2 8 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 8 (40.00%) Business Transformation
2 8 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 8 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 8 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (40.00%) High Availability
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 8 (40.00%) Network Management
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Power Management
3 6 (30.00%) Service Management
3 6 (30.00%) System Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Validation
3 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Degree
2 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (30.00%) CCNA
5 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (30.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
7 4 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (15.00%) MCSE
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (45.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (40.00%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (35.00%) VMware NSX
6 5 (25.00%) vSphere
7 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 11 (55.00%) SCCM
2 9 (45.00%) vCenter Server
3 8 (40.00%) Nagios
3 8 (40.00%) NetBackup
4 3 (15.00%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) VMware
2 8 (40.00%) Hitachi
2 8 (40.00%) NetApp
3 6 (30.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) BEA
5 1 (5.00%) Veritas