Clustering Contracts in Birmingham

Clustering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 76 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.67% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 0.97% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £190 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £375 - £434
90th Percentile £503 - £436
West Midlands median daily rate £288 £568 £375
% change year-on-year -49.34% +51.33% -6.83%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 216 308 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.80% 34.80% 28.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 193 258
10th Percentile £260 £320 £262
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £574
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.25% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 7
10th Percentile £18.88 £14.70 £13.80
25th Percentile £22.33 £18.74 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +45.48% -42.44%
75th Percentile £40.81 £47.81 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £97.75 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £27.25 £15.68
% change year-on-year -17.43% +73.79% -6.78%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
1 3 (60.00%) VoIP
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (60.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Autotask
1 3 (60.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Apple
2 3 (60.00%) Datto
2 3 (60.00%) VMware