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 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 316 382
Rank change year-on-year -27 +66 +35
Contract jobs citing Clustering 30 65 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 1.21% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 47 36
10th Percentile £375 £413 £475
25th Percentile £463 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £553
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.07% -9.43%
75th Percentile £800 £740 £681
90th Percentile £813 £850 £694
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -11.50%

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 5,220 5,384 7,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.98% 34.00% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 3,457 5,181
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £695 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 68 93
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.43 £18.61
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +17.77% +10.16%
75th Percentile £46.81 £57.81 £50.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £79.35 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.52 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.59% +16.67% +75.03%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 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 +6 3 £650 +18.18% 6
South London - 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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Aladdin
2 2 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) GitHub
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) dbt
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.33%) Firewall
4 1 (3.33%) Multicast
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.33%) QlikView
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Subversion
1 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.33%) tSQLt
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) DBA
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Snowflake Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Database Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Basis Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (10.00%) MyBatis
3 3 (10.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.33%) FHIR
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (3.33%) pgvector
4 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Replication
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Solaris
4 2 (6.67%) Windows
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) High Availability
2 13 (43.33%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Data Security
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (13.33%) API Integration
8 4 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
8 4 (13.33%) Garbage Collection
8 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
8 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) Perl
4 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.67%) AWK
6 2 (6.67%) sed
7 1 (3.33%) R
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SAP Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) NFS
1 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas File System
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (6.67%) Firmware
4 2 (6.67%) GPFS
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (13.33%) QRadar
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.67%) SCOM
3 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.67%) vMotion
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.33%) Pacemaker
4 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Splunk
2 7 (23.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle
5 4 (13.33%) Bloomberg
5 4 (13.33%) CyberArk
5 4 (13.33%) Qualys
5 4 (13.33%) Refinitiv
5 4 (13.33%) SaltStack
5 4 (13.33%) Solace
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.00%) SAP
7 2 (6.67%) BMC
7 2 (6.67%) Cisco
7 2 (6.67%) Remedy
7 2 (6.67%) Trend Micro
8 1 (3.33%) Cribl.io
8 1 (3.33%) Google
8 1 (3.33%) Informatica
8 1 (3.33%) RedGate