Clustering Contracts in the West Midlands

Clustering
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 134 154
Rank change year-on-year +27 +20 -33
Contract jobs citing Clustering 6 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.17% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 0.53% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 17
10th Percentile - £432 -
25th Percentile £190 £479 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £568 £375
Median % change year-on-year -49.34% +51.33% -6.83%
75th Percentile £386 £576 £438
90th Percentile £489 - £663
England median daily rate £475 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -17.39% - +21.05%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 644 758 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.28% 32.17% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 512 720
10th Percentile £299 £263 £262
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +12.43%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £582
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 26
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.36 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £18.12 £12.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.50 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +60.78% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £61.50 £19.38
England median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +16 5 £200 -50.00% 3
Coventry - 1 £390 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) VLAN
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
1 3 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (50.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Server Migrations
4 1 (16.67%) Server Patching
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Autotask
1 3 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Apple
2 3 (50.00%) Datto
2 3 (50.00%) VMware