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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 343 323
Rank change year-on-year -28 -20 +58
Contract jobs citing Clustering 71 24 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.18% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 0.47% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 19 56
10th Percentile £450 £375 £250
25th Percentile £465 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £568
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +14.54% -5.42%
75th Percentile £644 £738 £850
90th Percentile £725 £813 -
England median daily rate £532 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -5.51% +2.27% -

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 7,566 5,074 5,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.69% 37.74% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,739 3,323 3,798
10th Percentile £355 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £676 £716 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 123 81
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.11 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.56 £27.50 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -8.61% -14.03%
75th Percentile £56.25 £45.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £31.36 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.74% -33.98% +8.36%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +3 17 £575 -11.54% 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 10 (14.08%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) JBoss
3 5 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (4.23%) Apache
Business Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.62%) Azure
2 18 (25.35%) AWS
3 15 (21.13%) GCP
4 13 (18.31%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.27%) dbt
5 8 (11.27%) Snowflake
6 7 (9.86%) IaaS
6 7 (9.86%) PaaS
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (7.04%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Stack
8 4 (5.63%) Fivetran
8 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (4.23%) Cohesity
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub
9 3 (4.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) DNS
1 11 (15.49%) Firewall
2 10 (14.08%) VPN
3 9 (12.68%) DHCP
4 7 (9.86%) Kerberos
4 7 (9.86%) SMTP
5 5 (7.04%) SSL
6 4 (5.63%) VLAN
6 4 (5.63%) VSAN
7 3 (4.23%) Network Security
8 2 (2.82%) SAN
9 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.90%) Power BI
3 11 (15.49%) Big Data
3 11 (15.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (14.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (14.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (11.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (9.86%) Metadata
7 6 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (8.45%) Hadoop
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
9 3 (4.23%) Data Vault
9 3 (4.23%) Db2
9 3 (4.23%) Star Schema
9 3 (4.23%) Tableau
10 2 (2.82%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.82%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.82%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.82%) ERwin
3 2 (2.82%) PowerDesigner
General
1 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Back Office
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) DBA
2 13 (18.31%) SQL DBA
3 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Administrator
5 8 (11.27%) Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Data Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Snowflake Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) NetApp Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Migration Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Senior
9 4 (5.63%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (5.63%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.63%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) LDAP
1 4 (5.63%) OAuth
1 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.63%) OpenID
1 4 (5.63%) SAML
2 3 (4.23%) Kafka
3 2 (2.82%) JSON
3 2 (2.82%) YAML
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) Jinja
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
4 1 (1.41%) pgvector
4 1 (1.41%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.41%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.08%) PKI
3 6 (8.45%) Replication
4 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.23%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.82%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.41%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (39.44%) Windows
2 19 (26.76%) Linux
3 15 (21.13%) Windows Server
4 11 (15.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.63%) SUSE
5 4 (5.63%) VMS
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (4.23%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (2.82%) Unix
7 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.41%) AIX
8 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) Migration
2 27 (38.03%) High Availability
3 25 (35.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (32.39%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (23.94%) AI
6 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (21.13%) DevOps
7 15 (21.13%) Incident Management
7 15 (21.13%) ITIL
8 14 (19.72%) Validation
9 13 (18.31%) ETL
10 12 (16.90%) Analytics
10 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (15.49%) Change Management
11 11 (15.49%) Data Engineering
11 11 (15.49%) Data Governance
11 11 (15.49%) Data Modelling
12 10 (14.08%) Business Continuity
13 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
13 8 (11.27%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) SQL
2 25 (35.21%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.68%) Python
4 4 (5.63%) Java
5 2 (2.82%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) Perl
6 1 (1.41%) Korn
6 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (53.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (36.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) SnowPro
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.63%) Degree
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.82%) CISM
7 2 (2.82%) CISSP
7 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.82%) MCITP
7 2 (2.82%) MCTS
8 1 (1.41%) CISA
8 1 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.27%) QA
3 6 (8.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) COPPA
4 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (45.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (32.39%) Active Directory
3 13 (18.31%) Hyper-V
4 12 (16.90%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (9.86%) BitLocker
5 7 (9.86%) Docker
5 7 (9.86%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (8.45%) Firmware
6 6 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (8.45%) vSphere
7 4 (5.63%) Terminal Services
8 3 (4.23%) NFS
9 1 (1.41%) Postfix
9 1 (1.41%) PowerHA
9 1 (1.41%) Varnish
9 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Microsoft Clustering
2 13 (18.31%) Puppet
3 12 (16.90%) vCenter Server
4 11 (15.49%) Failover Clustering
5 10 (14.08%) Ansible
6 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
6 7 (9.86%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (9.86%) SCOM
6 7 (9.86%) vMotion
7 5 (7.04%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (5.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (5.63%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (5.63%) PingFederate
8 4 (5.63%) VxRail
9 3 (4.23%) Nagios
9 3 (4.23%) SnapMirror
9 3 (4.23%) Terraform
10 2 (2.82%) Grafana
10 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 34 (47.89%) VMware
2 23 (32.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.08%) BMC
3 10 (14.08%) Remedy
4 9 (12.68%) Google
5 8 (11.27%) Red Hat
6 7 (9.86%) Citrix
6 7 (9.86%) Commvault
6 7 (9.86%) NetApp
7 6 (8.45%) Cisco
8 5 (7.04%) Dell
9 4 (5.63%) HP
9 4 (5.63%) IBM
9 4 (5.63%) Informatica
9 4 (5.63%) Ping Identity
9 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
9 4 (5.63%) Symantec
10 2 (2.82%) Databricks
10 2 (2.82%) Splunk
10 2 (2.82%) Veeam