Clustering Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Clustering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.73% 1.02% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.72% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £569 - £569
90th Percentile £588 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.11% +33.93%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 347 184 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.26% 37.55% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 112 118
10th Percentile £350 £313 £312
25th Percentile £458 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £636 £621
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 34
10th Percentile £15.31 £36.81 -
25th Percentile £16.09 £44.81 £12.15
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.25 £12.90
Median % change year-on-year -69.48% +382.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £31.73 £82.45 £15.19
90th Percentile £43.96 £92.11 £15.25
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.00 £32.81 £13.50
% change year-on-year -29.90% +143.04% -37.21%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Leeds

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
1 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) ISPF
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Database Security
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
1 3 (42.86%) RedGate
1 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle