Clustering Contracts in Edinburgh

Clustering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 63 70 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.25% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £340 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.24% - -
Scotland median daily rate £575 £490 £534
% change year-on-year +17.24% -8.30% +4.26%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Edinburgh

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in Edinburgh

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in Edinburgh

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat