Clustering Contracts in the City of London

Clustering
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 162
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 +15
Contract jobs citing Clustering 5 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.091% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 0.30% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile - £493 £520
25th Percentile £525 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +6.98% -4.87%
75th Percentile £618 £619 £625
90th Percentile £649 £638 £645
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £530
% change year-on-year - +8.49% -3.64%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 612 676 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.85% 30.77% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 462 889
10th Percentile £363 £276 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £849 £861
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the City of London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the City of London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the City of London

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Serena SBM
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Database Mirroring
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) VCAP
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) NFS
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas File System
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Control-M
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (40.00%) QRadar
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (20.00%) Netcool
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Atempo
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Mellanox
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Serena
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase