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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 123 132
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +39
Contract jobs citing Clustering 9 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.40% 0.25% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 0.75% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £525
90th Percentile £588 £649 -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £400
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -38.46%

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 784 666 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.51% 33.59% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 438 556
10th Percentile £350 £363 £263
25th Percentile £454 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £763 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 9
10th Percentile £19.49 £29.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.79 £29.55 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.06 £30.04 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% +58.08% -45.71%
75th Percentile £46.19 £30.52 £27.50
90th Percentile £59.64 £30.81 £54.95
London median hourly rate £33.12 £35.89 £30.00
% change year-on-year -7.72% +19.63% -14.29%

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 March 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 25 March 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 -16 9 £475 -17.39%
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 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (44.44%) dbt
4 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 4 (44.44%) Snowflake
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 2 (22.22%) Cohesity
5 2 (22.22%) Fivetran
5 2 (22.22%) Prefect
5 2 (22.22%) Rubrik
6 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
6 1 (11.11%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) Snowflake Schema
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Star Schema
4 1 (11.11%) Looker
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Snowflake Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Jinja
2 1 (11.11%) Matplotlib
2 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
2 1 (11.11%) Seaborn
2 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) SUSE
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Data Science
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) RBAC
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SnowPro
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) Firmware
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SnapMirror
2 1 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Dell