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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 123 122
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Clustering 11 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 0.40% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £588 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -14.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £665 - £645
London median daily rate £575 £650 £560
% change year-on-year -11.54% +16.07% -

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 937 747 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.42% 38.72% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 541 452
10th Percentile £338 £350 £351
25th Percentile £459 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £838
London median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 7
10th Percentile £20.10 £17.02 £19.60
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.34 £22.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.29 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +42.65% +1.93% -26.31%
75th Percentile £64.25 £58.18 £27.00
90th Percentile £142.02 £89.88 £53.20
London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +32.08% -18.46% +13.04%

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 3 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 -11 11 £625 -3.85% 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 (27.27%) Confluence
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) GCP
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) SMTP
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) Big Data
3 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DBA
3 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) VMS
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) AI
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
3 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Software Deployment
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Server Migrations
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) UX Design
5 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) BitLocker
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (27.27%) Terminal Services
2 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) Nagios
1 3 (27.27%) Puppet
1 3 (27.27%) SCOM
1 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
1 3 (27.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 3 (27.27%) BMC
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Commvault
3 3 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Remedy
3 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 1 (9.09%) RedGate