Clustering Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Clustering
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 52 78
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.25% 0.38% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 1.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £452 £252 -
25th Percentile £456 £305 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £583
Median % change year-on-year +15.78% -29.57% +5.91%
75th Percentile £513 £517 £599
90th Percentile £528 £571 -
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £498
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.55% -9.55%

All Generic Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 323 149 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.19% 28.06% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 95 149
10th Percentile £254 £230 £300
25th Percentile £400 £355 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% +7.06%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £634 £643 £713
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 17 76
10th Percentile £19.32 £18.51 £21.33
25th Percentile £58.38 £47.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +461.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £76.48 £84.20
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +25.00% +308.16%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Bristol

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Corosync
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Pacemaker
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware