Clustering Contracts in England

Clustering
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in England. 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 392 413 408
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +68
Contract jobs citing Clustering 93 129 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 1.13% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 78 175
10th Percentile £413 £207 £400
25th Percentile £469 £259 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £688 £850 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £565
% change year-on-year +15.79% -15.93% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 4
10th Percentile - - £40.25
25th Percentile - - £48.13
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £59.38
90th Percentile - - £62.75
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in England

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in England

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in England

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in England

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +18 38 £550 +22.22% 30
South East +53 19 £575 - 18
South West +44 18 £550 +4.76% 2
North of England +10 10 £425 -10.53% 9
North West +15 5 £373 +69.32% 7
Yorkshire +7 5 £500 -11.11% 2
East of England +27 4 £467 +94.38% 1
Midlands +14 1 £535 +86.09% 6
West Midlands +9 1 £535 +86.09% 6
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (17.20%) Confluence
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (8.60%) IIS
4 5 (5.38%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.15%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.15%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.81%) Azure
2 20 (21.51%) AWS
3 14 (15.05%) GCP
4 13 (13.98%) IaaS
4 13 (13.98%) Nutanix
4 13 (13.98%) OpenShift
5 11 (11.83%) GitHub
5 11 (11.83%) PaaS
6 5 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.15%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.15%) SaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (38.71%) DNS
2 16 (17.20%) SMTP
3 15 (16.13%) DHCP
4 12 (12.90%) Firewall
4 12 (12.90%) VPN
5 10 (10.75%) TCP/IP
6 7 (7.53%) SAN
7 6 (6.45%) NetScaler
8 5 (5.38%) NAS
8 5 (5.38%) VSAN
9 4 (4.30%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (4.30%) Kerberos
9 4 (4.30%) SSL
10 3 (3.23%) MPLS
10 3 (3.23%) Network Security
10 3 (3.23%) VoIP
11 2 (2.15%) BGP
11 2 (2.15%) EIGRP
11 2 (2.15%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.68%) Big Data
3 9 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.30%) MySQL
6 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.23%) Star Schema
7 3 (3.23%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (2.15%) DTS
8 2 (2.15%) GIS
8 2 (2.15%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (2.15%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.15%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) JIRA
2 10 (10.75%) TeamCity
3 9 (9.68%) Subversion
4 7 (7.53%) Git
5 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.08%) Serena SBM
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.08%) tSQLt
General
1 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 15 (16.13%) Finance
4 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.08%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) French Language
7 1 (1.08%) German Language
7 1 (1.08%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.08%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Retail
7 1 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (17.20%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 14 (15.05%) Administrator
4 13 (13.98%) DBA
5 12 (12.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Linux Administrator
6 10 (10.75%) Support Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (9.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) SQL DBA
8 7 (7.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Senior
9 6 (6.45%) Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Consultant
11 4 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Snowflake Developer
11 4 (4.30%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.05%) Flash
2 13 (13.98%) REST
3 8 (8.60%) LDAP
4 7 (7.53%) Middleware
5 4 (4.30%) Kafka
6 3 (3.23%) .NET
7 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.08%) FHIR
8 1 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (1.08%) JDBC
8 1 (1.08%) ODBC
8 1 (1.08%) PostGIS
8 1 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.81%) Replication
2 19 (20.43%) PKI
3 12 (12.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (3.23%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (47.31%) Windows
2 35 (37.63%) Windows Server
3 30 (32.26%) Linux
4 12 (12.90%) Solaris
4 12 (12.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.38%) Unix
7 4 (4.30%) VMS
7 4 (4.30%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.15%) CentOS
9 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.39%) High Availability
2 31 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (26.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (23.66%) DevOps
5 16 (17.20%) Power Management
6 15 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (16.13%) Service Management
7 14 (15.05%) Agile
7 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.05%) NsoIT
7 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (15.05%) System Testing
7 14 (15.05%) Validation
8 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
8 12 (12.90%) Critical Thinking
8 12 (12.90%) Waterfall
9 10 (10.75%) ITIL
9 10 (10.75%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (9.68%) Database Security
10 9 (9.68%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.11%) PowerShell
2 21 (22.58%) SQL
3 18 (19.35%) Python
4 14 (15.05%) Bash
4 14 (15.05%) Perl
5 12 (12.90%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.15%) C#
8 2 (2.15%) Java
8 2 (2.15%) Korn
9 1 (1.08%) Bicep
9 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.81%) Degree
3 22 (23.66%) SC Cleared
4 16 (17.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (13.98%) CCNA
5 13 (13.98%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (12.90%) Master's Degree
7 10 (10.75%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.23%) CCNP
8 3 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 3 (3.23%) MCSE
8 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.15%) MCSA
9 2 (2.15%) VCAP
10 1 (1.08%) MCDBA
10 1 (1.08%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) GDPR
1 9 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) HL7
3 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (43.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (40.86%) VMware ESXi
3 35 (37.63%) Active Directory
4 20 (21.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (20.43%) Hyper-V
6 15 (16.13%) Docker
7 11 (11.83%) vSphere
8 10 (10.75%) BitLocker
8 10 (10.75%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (10.75%) Terminal Services
9 6 (6.45%) XenApp
9 6 (6.45%) XenDesktop
10 4 (4.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (4.30%) NFS
10 4 (4.30%) Veritas File System
10 4 (4.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (1.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (30.11%) vCenter Server
2 26 (27.96%) Ansible
3 14 (15.05%) Kubernetes
4 13 (13.98%) Puppet
5 12 (12.90%) Nagios
6 10 (10.75%) vMotion
7 9 (9.68%) QRadar
7 9 (9.68%) Tivoli
7 9 (9.68%) WSUS
8 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (8.60%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (7.53%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
10 6 (6.45%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (6.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (5.38%) Terraform
12 4 (4.30%) Grafana
12 4 (4.30%) Podman
13 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (59.14%) VMware
2 28 (30.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (18.28%) HP
4 16 (17.20%) Citrix
4 16 (17.20%) Oracle
4 16 (17.20%) Splunk
5 14 (15.05%) Cisco
5 14 (15.05%) IBM
6 12 (12.90%) Atlassian
6 12 (12.90%) Red Hat
6 12 (12.90%) Symantec
7 11 (11.83%) Qualys
8 10 (10.75%) CyberArk
8 10 (10.75%) Google
9 9 (9.68%) EMC
10 8 (8.60%) Dell
10 8 (8.60%) SaltStack
11 6 (6.45%) ServiceNow
12 5 (5.38%) SolarWinds
13 4 (4.30%) Sybase