Clustering Contracts in the South West

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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 149 161
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -31
Contract jobs citing Clustering 17 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.65% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 2.34% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 9
10th Percentile - £500 £368
25th Percentile £325 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £638
90th Percentile £634 £735 £648
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +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 1,040 984 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.68% 27.83% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 689 658
10th Percentile £300 £275 £205
25th Percentile £457 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £588
90th Percentile £695 £738 £668
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 134 56
10th Percentile £13.69 - £15.19
25th Percentile £15.75 - £29.68
Median hourly rate £46.95 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +379.03% -80.30% +5.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £64.96
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.31 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.66% +3.34%

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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 10 May 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 10 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
Wiltshire +2 8 £525 -8.70% 1
Somerset - 8 - -
Bristol +8 1 £583 +5.91% 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 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (29.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) SAN
2 9 (52.94%) DHCP
2 9 (52.94%) DNS
3 8 (47.06%) LAN
3 8 (47.06%) MPLS
3 8 (47.06%) WAN
3 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (29.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (76.47%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Aerospace
4 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) IT Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Client/Server
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Asset Management
1 9 (52.94%) Server Management
2 8 (47.06%) Application Packaging
2 8 (47.06%) Business Transformation
2 8 (47.06%) Capacity Management
2 8 (47.06%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (47.06%) Data Migration
2 8 (47.06%) Data Protection
2 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
2 8 (47.06%) Migration
2 8 (47.06%) Network Management
3 7 (41.18%) High Availability
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (29.41%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (29.41%) NsoIT
5 5 (29.41%) Power Management
5 5 (29.41%) System Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Degree
2 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (29.41%) CCNA
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
4 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
5 4 (23.53%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (17.65%) MCSE
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (47.06%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (47.06%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (47.06%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
5 3 (17.65%) vSphere
6 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Clustering
1 9 (52.94%) SCCM
2 8 (47.06%) Nagios
2 8 (47.06%) NetBackup
2 8 (47.06%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Hitachi
2 8 (47.06%) NetApp
3 5 (29.41%) Atlassian
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) BEA
6 1 (5.88%) Veritas