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 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 332 316
Rank change year-on-year -56 -16 +53
Contract jobs citing Clustering 67 30 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.22% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 0.58% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 19 56
10th Percentile £450 £375 £318
25th Percentile £476 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £581
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.83% -1.48%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £850
90th Percentile £729 £813 -
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +5.26%

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 7,722 5,139 5,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.96% 38.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,850 3,326 3,616
10th Percentile £352 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 118 69
10th Percentile £17.38 £16.30 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -11.29% +0.81%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £70.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -16 14 £600 -7.69% 5
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 (14.93%) Confluence
2 7 (10.45%) JBoss
3 5 (7.46%) Apache
3 5 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.49%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) Azure
2 14 (20.90%) AWS
2 14 (20.90%) GCP
3 11 (16.42%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.94%) dbt
5 6 (8.96%) Snowflake
6 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.46%) IaaS
6 5 (7.46%) PaaS
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Stack
7 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (4.48%) Cohesity
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 3 (4.48%) Rubrik
9 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) DNS
1 8 (11.94%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) Kerberos
2 7 (10.45%) VPN
3 6 (8.96%) DHCP
4 5 (7.46%) SSL
5 4 (5.97%) SMTP
5 4 (5.97%) VLAN
5 4 (5.97%) VSAN
6 3 (4.48%) Network Security
7 2 (2.99%) SAN
8 1 (1.49%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.42%) Power BI
2 11 (16.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (14.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (14.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (13.43%) Big Data
5 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (10.45%) Metadata
6 6 (8.96%) BigQuery
6 6 (8.96%) Hadoop
6 6 (8.96%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (4.48%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.48%) Db2
9 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.99%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.99%) ERwin
4 2 (2.99%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.49%) Flyway
General
1 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Back Office
6 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) DBA
2 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Administrator
3 10 (14.93%) SQL DBA
4 8 (11.94%) Architect
4 8 (11.94%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Migration Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (5.97%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.97%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) LDAP
1 4 (5.97%) OAuth
1 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.97%) OpenID
1 4 (5.97%) SAML
1 4 (5.97%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) JSON
2 2 (2.99%) Middleware
2 2 (2.99%) YAML
3 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.49%) Kafka
3 1 (1.49%) PySpark
3 1 (1.49%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.45%) PKI
3 6 (8.96%) Replication
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.48%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.99%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (35.82%) Windows
2 19 (28.36%) Linux
3 11 (16.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (16.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.97%) SUSE
4 4 (5.97%) Unix
4 4 (5.97%) VMS
5 3 (4.48%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.49%) AIX
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) Migration
2 27 (40.30%) High Availability
3 24 (35.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (26.87%) Performance Tuning
5 15 (22.39%) AI
5 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (22.39%) ITIL
6 14 (20.90%) Incident Management
7 13 (19.40%) DevOps
8 11 (16.42%) Change Management
8 11 (16.42%) Data Governance
9 10 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (14.93%) Data Modelling
9 10 (14.93%) Validation
10 9 (13.43%) Business Continuity
10 9 (13.43%) ETL
11 8 (11.94%) Analytics
11 8 (11.94%) BCP
11 8 (11.94%) Configuration Management
11 8 (11.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) PowerShell
2 22 (32.84%) SQL
3 9 (13.43%) Python
4 4 (5.97%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) Perl
6 2 (2.99%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) Korn
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (46.27%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.99%) CISM
5 2 (2.99%) CISSP
5 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.49%) CISA
6 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.94%) QA
3 6 (8.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) COPPA
4 1 (1.49%) SEPA
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (44.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (25.37%) Active Directory
3 11 (16.42%) Hyper-V
4 10 (14.93%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (11.94%) Firmware
6 7 (10.45%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (10.45%) vSphere
7 5 (7.46%) Docker
8 4 (5.97%) BitLocker
8 4 (5.97%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (4.48%) NFS
9 3 (4.48%) Terminal Services
10 1 (1.49%) Postfix
10 1 (1.49%) PowerHA
10 1 (1.49%) Varnish
10 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (22.39%) Microsoft Clustering
2 13 (19.40%) Failover Clustering
3 11 (16.42%) Puppet
4 10 (14.93%) vCenter Server
5 8 (11.94%) Ansible
6 7 (10.45%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (10.45%) SCOM
7 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
7 5 (7.46%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (5.97%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (5.97%) PingFederate
8 4 (5.97%) vMotion
8 4 (5.97%) VxRail
9 3 (4.48%) Nagios
9 3 (4.48%) SnapMirror
10 2 (2.99%) Grafana
10 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.49%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 32 (47.76%) VMware
2 16 (23.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.93%) BMC
3 10 (14.93%) Remedy
4 8 (11.94%) Google
5 7 (10.45%) Commvault
5 7 (10.45%) Red Hat
6 6 (8.96%) Cisco
7 4 (5.97%) Citrix
7 4 (5.97%) Dell
7 4 (5.97%) IBM
7 4 (5.97%) NetApp
7 4 (5.97%) Ping Identity
7 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.48%) HP
8 3 (4.48%) Symantec
9 2 (2.99%) Databricks
9 2 (2.99%) Informatica
9 2 (2.99%) Oracle
9 2 (2.99%) Veeam