Clustering Contracts 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Clustering 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% - 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% - 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile £158 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - £448
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.19%
75th Percentile £249 - £501
90th Percentile £295 - £518
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £438
% change year-on-year - +31.43% -10.26%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 426 479 586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.32% 28.29% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 255 388
10th Percentile £300 £258 £300
25th Percentile £400 £416 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £514
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +8.03% +2.75%
75th Percentile £587 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £694 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 22
10th Percentile £32.05 £11.87 £18.75
25th Percentile £44.63 £19.72 £40.47
Median hourly rate £62.00 £41.50 £64.09
Median % change year-on-year +49.39% -35.24% +4.21%
75th Percentile £87.44 £60.44 £73.19
90th Percentile £88.87 £69.93 £74.23
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -40.92% +11.53% +122.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Berkshire

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Berkshire

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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

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 1 £325 - 6
Clustering
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Fat Client
1 2 (66.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCVMM
2 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) FireEye
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Tanium