Clustering Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 340 389
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +17
Contract jobs citing Clustering 34 65 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 1.10% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 48 65
10th Percentile £405 £219 £455
25th Percentile £478 £330 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £738 £850 £683
90th Percentile £783 - £1,055
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 4,897 5,884 9,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.87% 33.39% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,129 6,620
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 141 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £17.93
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.81 £50.25 £58.44
90th Percentile £65.03 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
% change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in London

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 5 July 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
Central London +12 7 £625 +6.38% 8
West London +10 1 £750 +373.19%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) CICS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 8 (23.53%) AWS
4 5 (14.71%) Nutanix
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) IaaS
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.88%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Storage
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.88%) PaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) DNS
2 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.76%) Firewall
4 3 (8.82%) DHCP
5 2 (5.88%) Kerberos
5 2 (5.88%) NAS
5 2 (5.88%) Network Security
5 2 (5.88%) SAN
5 2 (5.88%) SMTP
5 2 (5.88%) VPN
6 1 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.94%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.94%) Multicast
6 1 (2.94%) VLAN
6 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (8.82%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Power BI
5 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.94%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) TeamCity
2 4 (11.76%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Subversion
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) Maven
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.94%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (41.18%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Banking
4 5 (14.71%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.94%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Administrator
3 7 (20.59%) DBA
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 3 (8.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) MyBatis
3 1 (2.94%) FHIR
3 1 (2.94%) JDBC
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) ODBC
3 1 (2.94%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Replication
2 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Windows
3 6 (17.65%) Solaris
4 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 2 (5.88%) VMS
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) High Availability
2 17 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (38.24%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
7 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (14.71%) Data Security
7 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (14.71%) ETL
7 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
8 4 (11.76%) API Integration
8 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
8 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.76%) Database Security
8 4 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
8 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (11.76%) Kernel Tuning
8 4 (11.76%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Python
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Bash
3 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.71%) Perl
5 4 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) AWK
6 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.88%) sed
6 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) VCAP
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) GDPR
1 5 (14.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.94%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.82%) NFS
4 2 (5.88%) BitLocker
4 2 (5.88%) Firmware
4 2 (5.88%) GPFS
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (5.88%) Terminal Services
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.94%) Veritas File System
5 1 (2.94%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Tivoli
3 4 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.76%) QRadar
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 4 (11.76%) vMotion
4 3 (8.82%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (8.82%) Puppet
4 3 (8.82%) Terraform
5 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.88%) Nagios
5 2 (5.88%) Netcool
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.94%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) VMware
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Oracle
3 6 (17.65%) IBM
3 6 (17.65%) Qualys
3 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 5 (14.71%) CyberArk
4 5 (14.71%) Splunk
5 4 (11.76%) Bloomberg
5 4 (11.76%) EMC
5 4 (11.76%) Refinitiv
5 4 (11.76%) SaltStack
5 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (8.82%) Cisco
6 3 (8.82%) Solace
7 2 (5.88%) Atempo
7 2 (5.88%) Citrix
7 2 (5.88%) Databricks
7 2 (5.88%) Mellanox
7 2 (5.88%) Sybase