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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 312 333
Rank change year-on-year -47 +21 +67
Contract jobs citing Clustering 48 38 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.85% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 43
10th Percentile £454 £339 £206
25th Percentile £473 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £850
90th Percentile £750 £738 -
England median daily rate £486 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.59% +10.00% -10.71%

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 6,362 4,464 5,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.34% 36.03% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,015 4,130
10th Percentile £350 £336 £313
25th Percentile £450 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.29% -2.92%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £845 £850
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 84 148
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.48
25th Percentile £23.16 £23.42 £18.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £49.94 £49.13
90th Percentile £88.75 £74.01 £69.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.91 £34.00
% change year-on-year +32.70% -0.26% +51.21%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -11 10 £550 -4.35% 1
South London - 2 £650 -
West London -23 1 £550 -26.67%
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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.33%) Confluence
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) AWS
3 14 (29.17%) GCP
4 8 (16.67%) dbt
4 8 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 7 (14.58%) IaaS
5 7 (14.58%) PaaS
5 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
6 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Stack
8 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (8.33%) Fivetran
9 3 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (6.25%) Cohesity
9 3 (6.25%) Prefect
9 3 (6.25%) Rubrik
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (4.17%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) Firewall
1 11 (22.92%) VPN
2 8 (16.67%) DHCP
2 8 (16.67%) DNS
2 8 (16.67%) SMTP
3 4 (8.33%) SSL
3 4 (8.33%) VLAN
3 4 (8.33%) VSAN
4 3 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Metadata
2 8 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.50%) Power BI
5 5 (10.42%) Tableau
6 4 (8.33%) Data Vault
7 3 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 3 (6.25%) DB2
7 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (6.25%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (4.17%) Big Data
8 2 (4.17%) Looker
8 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.08%) Parquet
9 1 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) ER Studio
2 2 (4.17%) ERwin
2 2 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 14 (29.17%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Billing
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) NetApp Engineer
1 10 (20.83%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (12.50%) DBA
4 6 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Migration Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) SQL DBA
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.17%) Lead
7 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) Kafka
2 4 (8.33%) LDAP
2 4 (8.33%) OAuth
2 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 4 (8.33%) OpenID
2 4 (8.33%) SAML
3 2 (4.17%) JSON
3 2 (4.17%) Snowpark
3 2 (4.17%) YAML
4 1 (2.08%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.08%) Jinja
4 1 (2.08%) Middleware
4 1 (2.08%) pgvector
4 1 (2.08%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) PKI
2 8 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 8 (16.67%) Replication
3 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.25%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.25%) Windows
2 12 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (22.92%) Linux
4 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.33%) SUSE
6 3 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (31.25%) Migration
3 13 (27.08%) Analytics
3 13 (27.08%) High Availability
3 13 (27.08%) Validation
4 12 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 11 (22.92%) AI
6 10 (20.83%) ETL
7 9 (18.75%) DevOps
8 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 8 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (14.58%) RBAC
10 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 6 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
11 5 (10.42%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) SQL
2 13 (27.08%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.58%) Python
4 4 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) SnowPro
4 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.25%) Degree
6 2 (4.17%) CISM
6 2 (4.17%) CISSP
6 2 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.17%) MCITP
6 2 (4.17%) MCTS
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CISA
7 1 (2.08%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 7 (14.58%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.08%) SEPA
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 12 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (16.67%) BitLocker
4 8 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (14.58%) Docker
6 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (8.33%) Firmware
7 4 (8.33%) vSphere
8 3 (6.25%) NFS
9 1 (2.08%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (16.67%) vMotion
3 7 (14.58%) Ansible
3 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Puppet
4 4 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (8.33%) CA Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (8.33%) PingFederate
4 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.33%) VxRail
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (6.25%) SnapMirror
6 2 (4.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.25%) VMware
3 11 (22.92%) NetApp
4 8 (16.67%) Citrix
5 6 (12.50%) Google
6 5 (10.42%) Dell
7 4 (8.33%) Informatica
7 4 (8.33%) Ping Identity
7 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 3 (6.25%) IBM
9 1 (2.08%) BMC
9 1 (2.08%) HP
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle
9 1 (2.08%) Percona
9 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.08%) RedGate
9 1 (2.08%) SAP
9 1 (2.08%) Splunk
9 1 (2.08%) Symantec
9 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro