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 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 128 146
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.54% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £421 - £576
25th Percentile £498 £513 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -20.75% +26.19%
75th Percentile £675 £556 £697
90th Percentile - £568 £699
London median daily rate £635 £544 £500
% change year-on-year +16.78% +8.75% -20.00%

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 764 744 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.74% 31.30% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 476 623
10th Percentile £350 £363 £312
25th Percentile £431 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £592 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -1.38% +1.27%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 13
10th Percentile £17.08 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.95 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -49.51%
75th Percentile £41.85 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £65.57 £79.40 £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -1.64%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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 +2 3 £650 +23.81%
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 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Database Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) Seaborn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Time Series Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) AWK
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) sed
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat