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 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 125 123
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Clustering 14 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.56% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 0.41% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £465 - £494
25th Percentile £525 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.93% -15.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £622
90th Percentile £644 - £644
London median daily rate £550 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.64% -0.42%

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 932 732 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.41% 37.69% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 524 457
10th Percentile £350 £341 £350
25th Percentile £463 £442 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -2.29% -1.92%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £719
90th Percentile £775 £796 £838
London median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 7
10th Percentile £19.80 £17.08 £19.60
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.89 £22.90
Median hourly rate £35.41 £26.45 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +2.56% -17.47%
75th Percentile £64.13 £50.79 £27.00
90th Percentile £148.68 £88.75 £53.20
London median hourly rate £33.92 £27.50 £31.31
% change year-on-year +23.33% -12.17% +4.37%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in Central London over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Central London

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 September 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 -15 14 £600 -7.69% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) IaaS
3 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) dbt
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (7.14%) Cohesity
5 1 (7.14%) Fivetran
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (7.14%) Prefect
5 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) DHCP
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) SMTP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (21.43%) Big Data
3 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) PKI
3 2 (14.29%) Replication
4 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) VMS
5 1 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.14%) SUSE
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) Software Deployment
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Server Management
5 2 (14.29%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Korn
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SnowPro
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (21.43%) BitLocker
4 3 (21.43%) Docker
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (21.43%) Terminal Services
5 1 (7.14%) Firmware
5 1 (7.14%) NFS
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Nagios
2 3 (21.43%) Puppet
2 3 (21.43%) SCOM
2 3 (21.43%) vMotion
3 1 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) SnapMirror
3 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Google
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) BMC
4 3 (21.43%) Citrix
4 3 (21.43%) Commvault
4 3 (21.43%) HP
4 3 (21.43%) Remedy
4 3 (21.43%) Symantec
5 1 (7.14%) Dell
5 1 (7.14%) Informatica
5 1 (7.14%) NetApp
5 1 (7.14%) RedGate