Clustering Contracts

Clustering
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies. 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 454 429 486
Rank change year-on-year -25 +57 -73
Contract jobs citing Clustering 144 307 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 1.54% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 205 306
10th Percentile £210 £405 £363
25th Percentile £297 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% -0.88% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £850 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -13.64% +18.28% +6.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 5
10th Percentile - £40.25 £49.75
25th Percentile - £48.13 £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £59.38 £67.50
90th Percentile - £62.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +9.70%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK 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
England +6 127 £470 -18.26% 54
UK excluding London -5 79 £475 -13.64% 41
London +56 55 £400 -33.47% 20
Work from Home +59 54 £500 -4.76% 17
South West +18 20 £525 -4.55% 6
North of England +5 19 £475 -26.92% 5
South East +6 12 £575 - 7
Scotland +28 11 £490 -8.30% 6
Midlands +20 9 £288 -36.11% 10
East of England +4 7 £240 -56.36% 8
North West -15 7 £220 -66.15% 3
West Midlands +33 6 £288 -49.34% 4
Yorkshire +17 6 £563 +33.93% 1
North East - 6 £488 - 1
East Midlands +12 2 - - 6
Wales - 1 - -

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (15.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.72%) Confluence
3 10 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.56%) IIS
5 3 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.39%) nginx
6 2 (1.39%) Traefik
7 1 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.69%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.56%) AWS
2 39 (27.08%) Azure
3 15 (10.42%) PaaS
4 13 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (9.03%) SaaS
5 12 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (8.33%) IaaS
6 11 (7.64%) GCP
6 11 (7.64%) GitHub
7 10 (6.94%) dbt
7 10 (6.94%) Nutanix
7 10 (6.94%) Snowflake
8 9 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.56%) Rubrik
10 4 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 43 (29.86%) DNS
2 39 (27.08%) DHCP
3 31 (21.53%) Firewall
4 26 (18.06%) SAN
5 21 (14.58%) WAN
6 20 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (13.19%) VPN
8 18 (12.50%) LAN
8 18 (12.50%) TCP/IP
9 16 (11.11%) VLAN
10 15 (10.42%) NAS
11 11 (7.64%) MPLS
12 8 (5.56%) Kerberos
12 8 (5.56%) VoIP
13 7 (4.86%) VSAN
14 6 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (4.17%) SMTP
15 5 (3.47%) HTTP
15 5 (3.47%) Network Security
15 5 (3.47%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.42%) Big Data
3 14 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (6.94%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 10 (6.94%) Dremio
6 7 (4.86%) MySQL
7 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (11.11%) JIRA
2 15 (10.42%) Git
3 12 (8.33%) GitLab
4 11 (7.64%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.69%) tSQLt
General
1 49 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.53%) Finance
3 24 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.08%) German Language
9 1 (0.69%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.69%) French Language
9 1 (0.69%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.69%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (11.11%) DBA
2 16 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 14 (9.72%) SQL DBA
4 12 (8.33%) Analyst
5 11 (7.64%) Administrator
5 11 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Big Data Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Site Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Database Specialist
7 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Linux Support
7 8 (5.56%) Linux Support Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.19%) LDAP
2 10 (6.94%) gRPC
2 10 (6.94%) Protocol Buffers
3 6 (4.17%) Flash
4 3 (2.08%) Node.js
5 2 (1.39%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.39%) SAML
6 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.69%) FHIR
6 1 (0.69%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.69%) OpenID
6 1 (0.69%) Web Services
6 1 (0.69%) XML
6 1 (0.69%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.36%) Replication
2 22 (15.28%) Data Centre
3 17 (11.81%) PKI
4 11 (7.64%) Client/Server
5 10 (6.94%) Hedge funds
6 8 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.86%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.86%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.39%) Equities
10 2 (1.39%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.39%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.69%) NHS
11 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (54.17%) Windows
2 52 (36.11%) Windows Server
3 41 (28.47%) Linux
4 17 (11.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (9.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (6.94%) Solaris
8 10 (6.94%) Unix
8 10 (6.94%) Windows 10
8 10 (6.94%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (5.56%) Mac OS
9 8 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.47%) VMS
10 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.39%) CentOS
12 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (45.14%) High Availability
2 39 (27.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (20.83%) DevOps
4 29 (20.14%) Migration
5 25 (17.36%) Performance Tuning
6 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (15.97%) Agile
7 23 (15.97%) Decision-Making
8 22 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (14.58%) Asset Management
10 20 (13.89%) Storage Management
11 19 (13.19%) Capacity Management
12 18 (12.50%) ITIL
13 17 (11.81%) Task Automation
14 16 (11.11%) Data Migration
15 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (9.03%) Investment Management
16 12 (8.33%) Data Protection
16 12 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (36.81%) PowerShell
2 40 (27.78%) SQL
3 30 (20.83%) Python
4 22 (15.28%) Bash
5 15 (10.42%) Go
6 12 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.94%) Java
8 4 (2.78%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.08%) C
9 3 (2.08%) Perl
10 2 (1.39%) Ruby
10 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.00%) Degree
3 34 (23.61%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.58%) DV Cleared
5 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (8.33%) MCSE
7 11 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (6.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (4.17%) CCNA
9 6 (4.17%) Master's Degree
10 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.47%) CCDP
10 5 (3.47%) CCNP
11 4 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.08%) MCITP
12 3 (2.08%) MCTS
12 3 (2.08%) RHCE
13 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) GDPR
2 8 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 2 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.69%) HL7
5 1 (0.69%) IFRS
5 1 (0.69%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 61 (42.36%) Active Directory
2 60 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (17.36%) Hyper-V
4 23 (15.97%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (13.89%) Docker
6 18 (12.50%) vSphere
7 13 (9.03%) VMware Workstation
8 11 (7.64%) VMware NSX
9 8 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (4.17%) BitLocker
10 6 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (4.17%) Terminal Services
11 4 (2.78%) KVM
12 2 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.39%) XenApp
13 1 (0.69%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.69%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (24.31%) Terraform
2 34 (23.61%) Kubernetes
3 28 (19.44%) Ansible
4 24 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 24 (16.67%) SCCM
4 24 (16.67%) vCenter Server
5 15 (10.42%) Failover Clustering
6 12 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 9 (6.25%) Nagios
8 8 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (5.56%) NetBackup
8 8 (5.56%) Netcool
8 8 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 8 (5.56%) Tivoli
8 8 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (4.17%) Autotask
9 6 (4.17%) vMotion
10 4 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 75 (52.08%) VMware
2 53 (36.81%) Microsoft
3 22 (15.28%) Oracle
4 21 (14.58%) Cisco
5 20 (13.89%) Splunk
6 16 (11.11%) HP
7 13 (9.03%) ServiceNow
8 12 (8.33%) Citrix
9 11 (7.64%) Dell
9 11 (7.64%) EMC
9 11 (7.64%) Red Hat
9 11 (7.64%) SolarWinds
10 10 (6.94%) IBM
11 9 (6.25%) CyberArk
11 9 (6.25%) Infoblox
12 8 (5.56%) Hitachi
12 8 (5.56%) Isilon
12 8 (5.56%) NetApp
12 8 (5.56%) Qualys
12 8 (5.56%) Serena