Clustering Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Clustering
North West > Cumbria

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Cumbria. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 2.88% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £476 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £275 £513
% change year-on-year +59.09% -46.34% -19.61%

All Generic Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 58 29 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 41.73% 14.65% 45.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 77
10th Percentile £402 £180 £450
25th Percentile £458 £384 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -20.00% +46.37%
75th Percentile £546 £508 £640
90th Percentile £589 £525 £672
North West median daily rate £450 £487 £513
% change year-on-year -7.55% -5.02% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £32.97 - £13.00
25th Percentile £35.40 £22.72 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.68 £25.43 £46.87
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -45.74% -44.41%
75th Percentile £47.22 £28.15 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.39 - £54.38
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 Cumbria

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 18 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 3 £469 - 1
Clustering
North West

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSA
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) VCAP
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware