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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	144	123	123
Rank change year-on-year	-21	0	+24
Contract jobs citing Clustering	9	3	6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	0.38%	0.16%	0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.96%	0.41%	0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	2	5
10^th Percentile	£544	-	-
25^th Percentile	£575	£625	£513
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	£650	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-3.85%	+18.18%	-14.73%
75^th Percentile	£638	£675	£638
90^th Percentile	£672	-	£645
London median daily rate	£575	£650	£568
% change year-on-year	-11.54%	+14.54%	+1.34%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	939	728	739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London	39.47%	38.42%	31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted	622	527	473
10^th Percentile	£338	£360	£355
25^th Percentile	£451	£457	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£575	£585
Median % change year-on-year	-4.35%	-1.71%	-2.50%
75^th Percentile	£688	£688	£719
90^th Percentile	£775	£788	£838
London median daily rate	£550	£550	£575
% change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	-4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted	25	9	4
10^th Percentile	£19.70	£16.96	£24.28
25^th Percentile	£23.16	£19.79	£25.00
Median hourly rate	£35.82	£25.08	£26.40
Median % change year-on-year	+42.85%	-5.00%	-25.65%
75^th Percentile	£64.25	£36.00	£43.38
90^th Percentile	£128.70	£70.21	£72.85
London median hourly rate	£35.82	£26.40	£34.13
% change year-on-year	+35.68%	-22.64%	+14.28%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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.

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 17 October 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	-20	9	£625	-3.85%	4
Clustering London

Clustering Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Clustering also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region with a requirement for Clustering.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PowerShell	77.8%	7
2	Active Directory	66.7%	6
2	VMware	66.7%	6
2	VMware Infrastructure	66.7%	6
2	Windows	66.7%	6
6	Infrastructure Engineering	55.6%	5
6	Security Cleared	55.6%	5
8	AI	44.4%	4
8	GCP	44.4%	4
8	Google	44.4%	4
8	Power BI	44.4%	4
8	Power Platform	44.4%	4
8	SQL	44.4%	4
8	SQL Server	44.4%	4
8	Windows Server	44.4%	4
16	Amazon RDS	33.3%	3
16	Ansible	33.3%	3
16	AWS	33.3%	3
16	Big Data	33.3%	3
16	BitLocker	33.3%	3
16	BMC	33.3%	3
16	Business Intelligence	33.3%	3
16	Citrix	33.3%	3
16	Commvault	33.3%	3
16	Confluence	33.3%	3
16	Degree	33.3%	3
16	DevOps	33.3%	3
16	DHCP	33.3%	3
16	DNS	33.3%	3
16	Docker	33.3%	3

Clustering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Centre	66.7%	6
2	PKI	33.3%	3
3	Hybrid Cloud	11.1%	1
3	Replication	11.1%	1