Clustering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Clustering
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Clustering 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.28% - 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £354 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.00%
75th Percentile £417 - £338
90th Percentile £435 - -
South East median daily rate £391 £400 £438
% change year-on-year -2.19% -8.57% -18.60%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Clustering falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 550 498 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 38.65% 31.13% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 246 343
10th Percentile £293 £300 £206
25th Percentile £409 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £673 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £492 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% +2.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 18 25
10th Percentile £20.56 £18.68 £28.61
25th Percentile £20.79 £28.06 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.00 £45.06 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -26.90% +39.31%
75th Percentile £86.00 £61.57 £66.44
90th Percentile £97.00 £64.48 £78.67
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +53.62%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Clustering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Reading - 2 £385 -
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) SUSE
1 2 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) OCP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) FireEye
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Tanium