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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 346 315
Rank change year-on-year -30 -31 +48
Contract jobs citing Clustering 66 25 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.19% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 0.49% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 18 56
10th Percentile £450 £375 £293
25th Percentile £483 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £568
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +14.54% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £850
90th Percentile £730 £813 -
England median daily rate £550 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% +2.33%

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 7,567 5,066 5,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.77% 38.16% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,749 3,316 3,723
10th Percentile £352 £333 £330
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £743
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 119 79
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.98 £22.90
Median hourly rate £32.87 £27.00 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.75% -14.61% -9.66%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.35 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.11 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £51.25
% change year-on-year +19.34% -37.46% +11.85%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
Central London -4 15 £575 -11.54% 1
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 10 (15.15%) Confluence
2 7 (10.61%) JBoss
3 4 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.03%) Apache
Business Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.85%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
3 14 (21.21%) GCP
4 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
5 9 (13.64%) dbt
6 8 (12.12%) Snowflake
7 6 (9.09%) IaaS
7 6 (9.09%) PaaS
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.06%) Azure Stack
9 4 (6.06%) Fivetran
9 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
10 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (4.55%) GitHub
10 3 (4.55%) Prefect
11 2 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.15%) DNS
1 10 (15.15%) Firewall
2 9 (13.64%) VPN
3 8 (12.12%) DHCP
4 7 (10.61%) Kerberos
5 6 (9.09%) SMTP
6 5 (7.58%) SSL
7 4 (6.06%) VLAN
7 4 (6.06%) VSAN
8 3 (4.55%) Network Security
9 2 (3.03%) SAN
10 1 (1.52%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
1 13 (19.70%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (15.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (15.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (13.64%) Big Data
5 8 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (10.61%) Metadata
7 6 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (9.09%) Hadoop
8 5 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (4.55%) BigQuery
10 3 (4.55%) Data Vault
10 3 (4.55%) Db2
10 3 (4.55%) Star Schema
10 3 (4.55%) Tableau
11 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
11 2 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.03%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.03%) ERwin
3 2 (3.03%) Git
3 2 (3.03%) PowerDesigner
General
1 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (21.21%) Finance
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.61%) Banking
3 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Retail
4 1 (1.52%) Back Office
4 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.67%) DBA
3 10 (15.15%) Administrator
3 10 (15.15%) SQL DBA
4 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Architect
5 7 (10.61%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Senior
7 5 (7.58%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) LDAP
1 4 (6.06%) OAuth
1 4 (6.06%) OAuth2
1 4 (6.06%) OpenID
1 4 (6.06%) SAML
2 3 (4.55%) Kafka
2 3 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) JSON
3 2 (3.03%) YAML
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) Jinja
4 1 (1.52%) Middleware
4 1 (1.52%) pgvector
4 1 (1.52%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.52%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.64%) PKI
3 5 (7.58%) Replication
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.55%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.03%) Educational Technology
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (39.39%) Windows
2 18 (27.27%) Linux
3 13 (19.70%) Windows Server
4 11 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.06%) SUSE
5 4 (6.06%) VMS
6 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.03%) Unix
7 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.52%) AIX
8 1 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (45.45%) Migration
2 24 (36.36%) High Availability
3 22 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (24.24%) AI
5 16 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (22.73%) DevOps
6 15 (22.73%) ITIL
7 14 (21.21%) Incident Management
8 12 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (18.18%) ETL
8 12 (18.18%) Validation
9 11 (16.67%) Change Management
9 11 (16.67%) Data Modelling
10 10 (15.15%) Data Engineering
10 10 (15.15%) Data Governance
11 9 (13.64%) Analytics
11 9 (13.64%) Business Continuity
12 8 (12.12%) BCP
12 8 (12.12%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) PowerShell
2 23 (34.85%) SQL
3 9 (13.64%) Python
4 4 (6.06%) Java
5 2 (3.03%) Bash
5 2 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (1.52%) Korn
6 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) SnowPro
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.06%) Degree
6 2 (3.03%) CISM
6 2 (3.03%) CISSP
6 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.52%) CISA
7 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.12%) QA
3 6 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) COPPA
4 1 (1.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (28.79%) Active Directory
3 13 (19.70%) Hyper-V
4 12 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (10.61%) vSphere
6 6 (9.09%) BitLocker
6 6 (9.09%) Docker
6 6 (9.09%) Firmware
6 6 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (7.58%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (6.06%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.52%) NFS
9 1 (1.52%) Postfix
9 1 (1.52%) PowerHA
9 1 (1.52%) Varnish
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Clustering
2 12 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
2 12 (18.18%) Puppet
2 12 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 9 (13.64%) Ansible
4 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (10.61%) SCOM
5 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 6 (9.09%) vMotion
6 5 (7.58%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (6.06%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (6.06%) PingFederate
7 4 (6.06%) VxRail
8 3 (4.55%) Nagios
9 2 (3.03%) Grafana
9 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.52%) SCCM
10 1 (1.52%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (48.48%) VMware
2 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.15%) BMC
3 10 (15.15%) Remedy
4 8 (12.12%) Google
4 8 (12.12%) Red Hat
5 7 (10.61%) Commvault
6 6 (9.09%) Cisco
6 6 (9.09%) Citrix
7 5 (7.58%) Dell
8 4 (6.06%) HP
8 4 (6.06%) IBM
8 4 (6.06%) Informatica
8 4 (6.06%) NetApp
8 4 (6.06%) Ping Identity
8 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
8 4 (6.06%) Symantec
9 2 (3.03%) Databricks
9 2 (3.03%) Splunk
9 2 (3.03%) Veeam