Clustering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Clustering
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.94% 0.22% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £332 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £275 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile £351 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £275 £513
% change year-on-year +59.09% -46.34% -19.61%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 211 181 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.12% 39.69% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 96 113
10th Percentile £252 £306 £433
25th Percentile £358 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% -6.08% +7.14%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £567
90th Percentile £638 £638 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £487 £513
% change year-on-year -7.55% -5.02% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile - £20.46 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.25 £26.71 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +50.71% +2.10%
75th Percentile £30.44 £33.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £78.50 £54.20
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £30.12 £41.87
% change year-on-year +50.95% -28.07% +19.61%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Clustering job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Crewe - 3 £338 - 2
Clustering
North West

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 6 (100.00%) Nagios
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) SolarWinds