Clustering Contracts in Central London

Clustering
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 130 155
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 +25
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.36% 0.17% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 0.54% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £525 £490 £393
25th Percentile £544 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +6.82% -3.08%
75th Percentile £674 £641 £645
90th Percentile £675 £646 £656
London median daily rate £580 £555 £600
% change year-on-year +4.50% -7.50% +1.69%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 676 739 1,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.54% 31.50% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 501 866
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £463 £445 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £616
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.66% +7.13%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.52 £15.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £33.98 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -22.86% -13.58%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Central London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in Central London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in Central London

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
City of London +7 7 £625 - 8
Clustering
London

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Database Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) AWK
2 2 (28.57%) sed
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) VCAP
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) NFS
3 2 (28.57%) GPFS
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) Firmware
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas File System
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Control-M
2 1 (14.29%) Netcool
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (14.29%) vMotion
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) Atempo
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks
3 2 (28.57%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) Mellanox
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Qualys
4 1 (14.29%) SaltStack
4 1 (14.29%) Splunk