Clustering Contract Job Trends 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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 143
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +44
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.61% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £576
25th Percentile £625 £513 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -20.75% +17.26%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £697
90th Percentile - £618 £699
Central London median daily rate £650 £538 £663
% change year-on-year +20.93% -18.87% +17.26%

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 675 651 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.82% 30.66% 31.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 406 560
10th Percentile £350 £361 £319
25th Percentile £446 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £723 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -45.54%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Database Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) AWK
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) sed
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) VMware