Clustering Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 78 105
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing Clustering 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.23% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 1.19% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £421 £463 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £467 £240
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +94.38% -45.14%
75th Percentile £503 £472 £245
90th Percentile £591 £473 -
England median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 536 419 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.84% 38.90% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 213 322
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £313 £373 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £621 £613 £562
90th Percentile £709 £700 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 53 130
10th Percentile £12.75 £25.53 £13.44
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.75 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.30% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £31.36 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -16.37% +15.38% +44.54%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Clustering

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Clustering

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 3 £454 - 2
Essex - 1 £335 - 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk