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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 124 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.098% 0.14% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £369 £607 -
25th Percentile £369 £618 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £635 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% - -
75th Percentile £444 £653 -
90th Percentile £452 £663 -
London median daily rate £625 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +28.21% -2.50% -18.70%

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 754 661 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.87% 31.30% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 420 560
10th Percentile £350 £375 £284
25th Percentile £450 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £716
90th Percentile £788 £787 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £19.27 - £14.03
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +22.81% -48.15%
75th Percentile £29.50 £26.19 £34.25
90th Percentile £41.79 - £49.20
London median hourly rate £27.71 £39.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +34.48% -15.72%

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 2 February 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 -7 2 £401 -36.93% 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Matillion
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Looker
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Seaborn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality