Clustering Contract Job Trends 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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 124 140
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +34
Contract jobs citing Clustering 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.050% 0.24% 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.76% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £530 -
25th Percentile £370 £556 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% -4.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £457 £635 £688
90th Percentile - £656 -
London median daily rate £625 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +25.00% -0.70% -25.41%

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 741 655 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.85% 30.79% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 413 553
10th Percentile £356 £375 £321
25th Percentile £457 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £804 £833
London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £19.53 - £17.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £25.40 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +7.46% -40.74%
75th Percentile £29.31 £26.19 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.77 - £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.30 £37.00 £28.13
% change year-on-year -28.92% +31.56% -1.32%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Central London

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Clustering

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 19 January 2026. 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 -11 1 £414 -31.08% 2
Clustering
London

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python