Clustering Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Clustering
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.43% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £452 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
East of England median daily rate £452 £467 £240
% change year-on-year -3.11% +94.38% -45.14%

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 209 193 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.65% 50.52% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 91 113
10th Percentile £318 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £463 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +13.68% -8.65%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £650
90th Percentile £800 £675 £805
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 43 64
10th Percentile £16.35 £35.00 £42.25
25th Percentile £18.05 £57.25 £49.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +7.69% -2.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.55 £95.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £22.75 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.30% +22.73% -15.38%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Clustering

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Hertfordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Clustering

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage - 2 £452 -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £600 - 2
Clustering
East of England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
1 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk