Clustering Contract Job Trends in London

Clustering
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 304 360
Rank change year-on-year -58 +56 +45
Contract jobs citing Clustering 29 49 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 1.05% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 14
10th Percentile £398 £297 £312
25th Percentile £523 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +5.26% -23.69%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £500
90th Percentile £781 £674 £537
England median daily rate £452 £525 £419
% change year-on-year -13.90% +25.37% -23.86%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,600 4,673 6,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.69% 34.48% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 2,941 4,324
10th Percentile £343 £319 £300
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £508 £548 £546
% change year-on-year -7.31% +0.23% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 59 177
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.21 £25.03 £19.47
Median hourly rate £27.86 £39.04 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +35.79% -12.05%
75th Percentile £53.59 £62.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.24 £65.70
England median hourly rate £31.65 £39.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% +20.00% +44.54%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in London

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Clustering

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in London over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in London

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South London - 5 £650 -
Central London -13 2 £401 -36.93% 5
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (6.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) GCP
2 4 (13.79%) IaaS
2 4 (13.79%) PaaS
2 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.34%) dbt
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Matillion
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) DHCP
2 5 (17.24%) Firewall
3 4 (13.79%) SMTP
3 4 (13.79%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
1 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (10.34%) Metadata
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.34%) Tableau
3 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.90%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) OLAP
4 1 (3.45%) OLTP
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Subversion
2 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Exchange Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) NetApp Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Exchange Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Exchange Migration Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Basis Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) REST
1 3 (10.34%) SAP Basis
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) Great Expectations
3 1 (3.45%) Matplotlib
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) Seaborn
3 1 (3.45%) Snowpark
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
1 5 (17.24%) PKI
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (13.79%) Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Migration
2 8 (27.59%) Analytics
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (20.69%) High Availability
4 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
5 5 (17.24%) Use Case
6 4 (13.79%) AI
6 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
7 3 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (10.34%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.34%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) R
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) SAP Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL Certification
5 1 (3.45%) SnowPro
5 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
1 4 (13.79%) SLA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) VMware ESXi
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.79%) BitLocker
3 4 (13.79%) Docker
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (6.90%) NFS
5 2 (6.90%) Veritas File System
5 2 (6.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Ansible
2 5 (17.24%) SCOM
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Puppet
3 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
3 4 (13.79%) vMotion
4 2 (6.90%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (6.90%) QRadar
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.45%) Pacemaker
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) Splunk
3 7 (24.14%) VMware
4 5 (17.24%) Citrix
5 4 (13.79%) BMC
5 4 (13.79%) NetApp
5 4 (13.79%) Remedy
5 4 (13.79%) SAP
5 4 (13.79%) Trend Micro
6 3 (10.34%) CyberArk
6 3 (10.34%) Oracle
6 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.90%) Google
7 2 (6.90%) Qualys
7 2 (6.90%) SaltStack
8 1 (3.45%) Cribl.io
8 1 (3.45%) HP
8 1 (3.45%) Informatica
8 1 (3.45%) Percona