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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 333 326
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 +71
Contract jobs citing Clustering 54 28 69
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.21% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.56% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 53
10th Percentile £400 £375 £232
25th Percentile £465 £465 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £850
90th Percentile £730 £801 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -8.48%

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 7,287 5,026 5,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.77% 37.06% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,565 3,305 4,022
10th Percentile £354 £336 £315
25th Percentile £450 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 109 111
10th Percentile £18.71 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £21.90
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -2.06% -13.94%
75th Percentile £61.00 £45.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £85.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year +33.21% -19.76% +4.34%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -6 14 £575 -4.17% 3
West London -11 1 £550 -26.67% 1
South London - 1 - - 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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.85%) JBoss
4 1 (1.85%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 18 (33.33%) AWS
3 16 (29.63%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) IaaS
4 8 (14.81%) PaaS
4 8 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 7 (12.96%) dbt
5 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
6 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Stack
7 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.41%) Fivetran
8 3 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.56%) Cohesity
8 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.56%) Prefect
8 3 (5.56%) Rubrik
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) Firewall
1 11 (20.37%) VPN
2 9 (16.67%) DNS
3 8 (14.81%) DHCP
3 8 (14.81%) SMTP
4 4 (7.41%) SSL
4 4 (7.41%) VLAN
4 4 (7.41%) VSAN
5 3 (5.56%) Network Security
6 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.96%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.96%) Metadata
2 7 (12.96%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.11%) Power BI
4 5 (9.26%) Big Data
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.41%) Data Vault
5 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (7.41%) Tableau
6 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (5.56%) Db2
6 3 (5.56%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.70%) ERwin
2 2 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
2 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Back Office
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) DBA
2 8 (14.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Architect
2 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) SQL DBA
3 7 (12.96%) Data Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) NetApp Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared DBA
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
5 4 (7.41%) SQL Server DBA
6 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Kafka
1 4 (7.41%) LDAP
1 4 (7.41%) OAuth
1 4 (7.41%) OAuth2
1 4 (7.41%) OpenID
1 4 (7.41%) SAML
2 2 (3.70%) JSON
2 2 (3.70%) Snowpark
2 2 (3.70%) YAML
3 1 (1.85%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.85%) Jinja
3 1 (1.85%) pgvector
3 1 (1.85%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) PKI
2 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.81%) Replication
3 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.70%) Educational Technology
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Windows
2 13 (24.07%) Linux
3 12 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (7.41%) SUSE
6 3 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (5.56%) VMS
7 2 (3.70%) Unix
8 1 (1.85%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (31.48%) AI
2 17 (31.48%) Migration
3 15 (27.78%) High Availability
4 13 (24.07%) Analytics
4 13 (24.07%) Validation
5 12 (22.22%) DevOps
5 12 (22.22%) ETL
6 11 (20.37%) Data Governance
7 10 (18.52%) Data Engineering
7 10 (18.52%) Data Modelling
8 9 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (12.96%) Incident Management
10 7 (12.96%) ITIL
10 7 (12.96%) RBAC
11 6 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
11 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) SQL
2 15 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (7.41%) Java
5 2 (3.70%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) Perl
5 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) SnowPro
5 5 (9.26%) Degree
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.70%) CISM
7 2 (3.70%) CISSP
7 2 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.70%) MCITP
7 2 (3.70%) MCTS
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.85%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 8 (14.81%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) COPPA
3 1 (1.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
1 17 (31.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 12 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (14.81%) BitLocker
3 8 (14.81%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (12.96%) Docker
5 5 (9.26%) Firmware
5 5 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (7.41%) Terminal Services
6 4 (7.41%) vSphere
7 3 (5.56%) NFS
8 1 (1.85%) Postfix
8 1 (1.85%) PowerHA
8 1 (1.85%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 8 (14.81%) Ansible
2 8 (14.81%) Puppet
2 8 (14.81%) vMotion
3 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (7.41%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (7.41%) PingFederate
5 4 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (7.41%) VxRail
6 3 (5.56%) Nagios
6 3 (5.56%) SCOM
6 3 (5.56%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.85%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 18 (33.33%) VMware
2 9 (16.67%) Google
3 8 (14.81%) Citrix
3 8 (14.81%) NetApp
4 5 (9.26%) Dell
5 4 (7.41%) HP
5 4 (7.41%) IBM
5 4 (7.41%) Informatica
5 4 (7.41%) Ping Identity
5 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.41%) Symantec
6 3 (5.56%) Commvault
7 2 (3.70%) BMC
7 2 (3.70%) Databricks
7 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.70%) Remedy
8 1 (1.85%) Cisco
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle
8 1 (1.85%) Veeam