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 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 305 328
Rank change year-on-year -74 +23 +69
Contract jobs citing Clustering 47 38 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.87% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 45
10th Percentile £445 £383 £211
25th Percentile £469 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.45% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £732 £850
90th Percentile £759 £749 -
England median daily rate £486 £550 £504
% change year-on-year -11.59% +9.24% -10.09%

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 6,545 4,356 5,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.69% 36.09% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,175 2,918 4,116
10th Percentile £358 £336 £314
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £521 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -2.16% -3.18% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 85 149
10th Percentile £18.74 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £61.31 £48.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £35.83
% change year-on-year +27.42% -3.70% +59.33%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -14 10 £550 -4.35% 5
West London -24 1 £550 -26.67% 1
South London - 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 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.51%) Confluence
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.13%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) Azure
2 15 (31.91%) AWS
3 14 (29.79%) GCP
4 8 (17.02%) dbt
4 8 (17.02%) IaaS
4 8 (17.02%) PaaS
4 8 (17.02%) Snowflake
5 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Stack
7 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
7 4 (8.51%) Fivetran
8 3 (6.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.38%) Cohesity
8 3 (6.38%) Prefect
8 3 (6.38%) Rubrik
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.26%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) Firewall
1 11 (23.40%) VPN
2 9 (19.15%) DNS
3 8 (17.02%) DHCP
3 8 (17.02%) SMTP
4 4 (8.51%) SSL
4 4 (8.51%) VLAN
4 4 (8.51%) VSAN
5 3 (6.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Metadata
1 8 (17.02%) Snowflake Schema
2 7 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (12.77%) Power BI
4 5 (10.64%) Tableau
5 4 (8.51%) Data Vault
6 3 (6.38%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.38%) DB2
6 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.38%) Star Schema
7 2 (4.26%) Big Data
7 2 (4.26%) Looker
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.13%) Parquet
8 1 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.26%) ERwin
3 2 (4.26%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (29.79%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) NetApp Engineer
1 10 (21.28%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) DBA
4 6 (12.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) SQL DBA
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared DBA
8 1 (2.13%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Senior
8 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Kafka
1 4 (8.51%) LDAP
1 4 (8.51%) OAuth
1 4 (8.51%) OAuth2
1 4 (8.51%) OpenID
1 4 (8.51%) SAML
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) Snowpark
2 2 (4.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.13%) Great Expectations
3 1 (2.13%) Jinja
3 1 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (2.13%) pgvector
3 1 (2.13%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) PKI
2 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (14.89%) Replication
4 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.38%) Mainframe
6 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Windows
2 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.51%) SUSE
5 3 (6.38%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (6.38%) VMS
6 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (29.79%) Migration
3 13 (27.66%) Analytics
3 13 (27.66%) High Availability
3 13 (27.66%) Validation
4 11 (23.40%) AI
4 11 (23.40%) Data Governance
4 11 (23.40%) Data Modelling
5 10 (21.28%) ETL
6 9 (19.15%) DevOps
7 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.02%) Data Engineering
7 8 (17.02%) Incident Management
8 7 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.89%) RBAC
9 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
9 6 (12.77%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (10.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.02%) Python
4 4 (8.51%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) SnowPro
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) CISM
5 2 (4.26%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) MCITP
5 2 (4.26%) MCTS
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.77%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (31.91%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (25.53%) Hyper-V
3 12 (25.53%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (17.02%) BitLocker
4 8 (17.02%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (14.89%) Docker
6 5 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (8.51%) Firmware
7 4 (8.51%) vSphere
8 3 (6.38%) NFS
9 1 (2.13%) Postfix
9 1 (2.13%) Terminal Services
9 1 (2.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) vCenter Server
2 8 (17.02%) Ansible
2 8 (17.02%) vMotion
3 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.89%) Puppet
4 4 (8.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (8.51%) CA Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.51%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (8.51%) PingFederate
4 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.51%) VxRail
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (6.38%) SnapMirror
6 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.91%) VMware
3 11 (23.40%) NetApp
4 8 (17.02%) Citrix
5 6 (12.77%) Google
6 5 (10.64%) Dell
7 4 (8.51%) Informatica
7 4 (8.51%) Ping Identity
7 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
8 3 (6.38%) IBM
9 1 (2.13%) HP
9 1 (2.13%) Oracle
9 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.13%) RedGate
9 1 (2.13%) SAP
9 1 (2.13%) Symantec