Clustering Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Clustering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Clustering 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.47% - 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% - 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £464 - £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £251
90th Percentile - - £326
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £535 £200
% change year-on-year -7.71% +167.50% -51.52%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 308 166 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 35.94% 29.80% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 113 155
10th Percentile £215 £200 £275
25th Percentile £401 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £689 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 13
10th Percentile £17.09 £19.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £17.25 £28.00 £22.33
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +17.12% +47.39%
75th Percentile £23.50 £55.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £24.85 £58.08 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £22.75
% change year-on-year +15.39% -4.20% +13.75%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Lead
1 4 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Real Time Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google