Clustering Contract Job Trends 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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.74% 0.63% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 1.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.62% +9.43% -1.75%

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 249 245 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.78% 38.89% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 121 143
10th Percentile £216 £200 £400
25th Percentile £393 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% +6.47%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £604
90th Percentile £676 £638 £671
Scotland median daily rate £475 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +3.71% -3.58% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 16
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £67.00 £23.00 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +191.30% -20.51% +34.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £25.59 £60.75
90th Percentile - £36.86 -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £23.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year +30.43% +25.89% +59.35%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) z/OS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) zOS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Korn
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat