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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 344 323
Rank change year-on-year -27 -21 +58
Contract jobs citing Clustering 62 27 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.20% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.53% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 52
10th Percentile £410 £375 £250
25th Percentile £465 £495 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £560
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +16.07% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £850
90th Percentile £735 £805 -
England median daily rate £513 £569 £531
% change year-on-year -9.89% +7.06% -5.76%

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 7,337 5,058 5,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.95% 37.20% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,600 3,335 3,899
10th Percentile £358 £334 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £749
90th Percentile £796 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 114 89
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -8.82% -13.83%
75th Percentile £60.12 £45.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%

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 29 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 29 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 0 16 £575 -4.17% 4
West London -16 1 £550 -26.67% 2
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 9 (14.52%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.45%) JBoss
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.61%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) Azure
2 18 (29.03%) AWS
3 14 (22.58%) GCP
4 10 (16.13%) Power Platform
5 8 (12.90%) IaaS
5 8 (12.90%) PaaS
6 7 (11.29%) dbt
6 7 (11.29%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Stack
7 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (4.84%) Cohesity
8 3 (4.84%) Fivetran
8 3 (4.84%) Prefect
8 3 (4.84%) Rubrik
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) Firewall
2 11 (17.74%) VPN
3 10 (16.13%) DNS
4 8 (12.90%) DHCP
4 8 (12.90%) SMTP
5 5 (8.06%) SSL
6 4 (6.45%) Kerberos
6 4 (6.45%) VLAN
6 4 (6.45%) VSAN
7 3 (4.84%) Network Security
8 1 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.52%) Power BI
2 9 (14.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (12.90%) Big Data
3 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (11.29%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (11.29%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (9.68%) Metadata
5 6 (9.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.84%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.84%) Db2
8 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.84%) Star Schema
8 3 (4.84%) Tableau
9 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.23%) ERwin
2 2 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
2 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (1.61%) Back Office
5 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) DBA
2 12 (19.35%) SQL DBA
3 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Architect
4 8 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) NetApp Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.45%) Administrator
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared DBA
7 4 (6.45%) SQL Server DBA
8 3 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) LDAP
1 4 (6.45%) OAuth
1 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
1 4 (6.45%) OpenID
1 4 (6.45%) SAML
2 3 (4.84%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) YAML
4 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.61%) Jinja
4 1 (1.61%) Middleware
4 1 (1.61%) pgvector
4 1 (1.61%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.61%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 10 (16.13%) PKI
3 8 (12.90%) Replication
4 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.84%) Mainframe
7 2 (3.23%) Educational Technology
7 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.61%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (35.48%) Windows
2 17 (27.42%) Linux
3 12 (19.35%) Windows Server
4 8 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.06%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (6.45%) SUSE
7 3 (4.84%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (4.84%) VMS
8 2 (3.23%) Unix
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.61%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Migration
2 22 (35.48%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (32.26%) High Availability
4 17 (27.42%) AI
5 16 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (20.97%) DevOps
6 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (20.97%) Validation
7 12 (19.35%) Analytics
7 12 (19.35%) ETL
8 11 (17.74%) Data Governance
8 11 (17.74%) Incident Management
9 10 (16.13%) Data Engineering
9 10 (16.13%) Data Modelling
9 10 (16.13%) ITIL
10 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (12.90%) Change Management
12 7 (11.29%) Machine Learning
13 6 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) SQL
2 18 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.90%) Python
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) Perl
5 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Korn
6 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) SnowPro
5 4 (6.45%) Degree
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CISM
7 2 (3.23%) CISSP
7 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.23%) MCITP
7 2 (3.23%) MCTS
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.61%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.29%) GDPR
3 4 (6.45%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) COPPA
4 1 (1.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (40.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (33.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (19.35%) Hyper-V
3 12 (19.35%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (12.90%) BitLocker
4 8 (12.90%) Docker
4 8 (12.90%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (8.06%) Firmware
5 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (6.45%) Terminal Services
6 4 (6.45%) vSphere
7 3 (4.84%) NFS
8 1 (1.61%) Postfix
8 1 (1.61%) PowerHA
8 1 (1.61%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) vCenter Server
2 11 (17.74%) Puppet
3 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (14.52%) Ansible
5 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
5 8 (12.90%) vMotion
6 7 (11.29%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (8.06%) SCOM
8 4 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (6.45%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (6.45%) PingFederate
8 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (6.45%) VxRail
9 3 (4.84%) Nagios
9 3 (4.84%) SnapMirror
10 1 (1.61%) Grafana
10 1 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) VMware
2 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.90%) Citrix
3 8 (12.90%) Google
3 8 (12.90%) NetApp
4 6 (9.68%) BMC
4 6 (9.68%) Commvault
4 6 (9.68%) Remedy
5 5 (8.06%) Dell
5 5 (8.06%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.45%) HP
6 4 (6.45%) IBM
6 4 (6.45%) Ping Identity
6 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.45%) Symantec
7 3 (4.84%) Cisco
7 3 (4.84%) Informatica
8 2 (3.23%) Databricks
9 1 (1.61%) Oracle
9 1 (1.61%) Veeam