Clustering Contract Job Trends in Chester

Clustering
Cheshire > Chester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Chester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 2.21% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £541 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £348 £298 -
% change year-on-year +16.81% - -

All Generic Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 16.18% 27.94% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 9
10th Percentile - - £240
25th Percentile £413 - £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £325 £513
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% -36.59% +51.85%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £638
90th Percentile £780 £705 £678
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £467 £500
% change year-on-year -3.64% -6.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £26.85 - -
25th Percentile £28.49 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £31.60 £70.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.86% +64.71% +83.59%
75th Percentile £34.34 - £43.75
90th Percentile £35.76 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% -10.96% +30.45%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Chester

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) DTS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Database Mirroring
1 3 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) BMC
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase