Clustering Contracts in Hampshire

Clustering
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 57 91 89
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Clustering 12 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.61% 0.25% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.63% 0.90% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 10
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile £563 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £250 £588
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -57.45% +30.56%
75th Percentile £600 - £681
90th Percentile £661 - £750
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 213 443 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.55% 27.52% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 230 281
10th Percentile £313 £400 £240
25th Percentile £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 61 54
10th Percentile £21.39 £14.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £46.25 £20.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +14.70% +90.48%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Hampshire

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in Hampshire

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in Hampshire

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke - 8 £575 - 5
Winchester +3 3 £616 +146.50%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
1 8 (66.67%) IaaS
1 8 (66.67%) OpenShift
1 8 (66.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
2 8 (66.67%) DHCP
2 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 8 (66.67%) SMTP
2 8 (66.67%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (66.67%) Big Data
1 8 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) DBA
5 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
1 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 8 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Power Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Database Security
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Kanban
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
4 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
1 11 (91.67%) Hyper-V
2 8 (66.67%) BitLocker
2 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (66.67%) Terminal Services
2 8 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) vCenter Server
2 8 (66.67%) Ansible
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (66.67%) Nagios
2 8 (66.67%) Puppet
2 8 (66.67%) vMotion
3 3 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Symantec
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Citrix
2 8 (66.67%) Google
2 8 (66.67%) HP
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (16.67%) Juniper
4 2 (16.67%) NETGEAR
4 2 (16.67%) TP-LINK