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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 337 315
Rank change year-on-year -54 -22 +64
Contract jobs citing Clustering 58 30 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.58% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 17 50
10th Percentile £400 £375 £408
25th Percentile £461 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £581
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +11.83% +3.79%
75th Percentile £702 £738 £761
90th Percentile £725 £813 £850
England median daily rate £550 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +7.32%

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 7,891 5,211 5,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.48% 38.95% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 3,351 3,505
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 123 71
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.16 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.52 £23.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.41 £26.50 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.62% -21.48% +12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.88 £56.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £77.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £52.75
% change year-on-year +15.20% -44.08% +14.23%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -23 9 £625 -3.85% 6
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 7 (12.07%) Apache
1 7 (12.07%) JBoss
2 6 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.34%) Confluence
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.72%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) Azure
1 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
2 10 (17.24%) GCP
3 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 7 (12.07%) dbt
4 5 (8.62%) Cloud Composer
4 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
5 4 (6.90%) IaaS
5 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.90%) PaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Cohesity
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Rubrik
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.45%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) DNS
2 7 (12.07%) Kerberos
3 6 (10.34%) DHCP
4 5 (8.62%) Firewall
5 3 (5.17%) SMTP
5 3 (5.17%) VPN
6 2 (3.45%) SAN
7 1 (1.72%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.72%) NAS
7 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.72%) SSL
7 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.97%) Power BI
3 10 (17.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (17.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (17.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (15.52%) Big Data
5 7 (12.07%) BigQuery
5 7 (12.07%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (10.34%) Hadoop
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (5.17%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.45%) Db2
9 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.72%) Metadata
10 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Flyway
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Banking
5 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) DBA
2 10 (17.24%) Administrator
2 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) SQL DBA
3 9 (15.52%) Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Senior
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) PySpark
3 2 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (3.45%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.62%) PKI
3 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) Educational Technology
5 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (34.48%) Windows
2 15 (25.86%) Linux
3 10 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.90%) Unix
6 3 (5.17%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.72%) AIX
8 1 (1.72%) VMS
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (43.10%) Migration
3 22 (37.93%) High Availability
4 15 (25.86%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (22.41%) AI
6 13 (22.41%) Incident Management
7 12 (20.69%) ITIL
8 10 (17.24%) Analytics
8 10 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (15.52%) Business Continuity
9 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (15.52%) Machine Learning
10 8 (13.79%) BCP
10 8 (13.79%) Business Continuity Planning
10 8 (13.79%) Change Management
10 8 (13.79%) Configuration Management
10 8 (13.79%) Data Governance
10 8 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (13.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) PowerShell
1 20 (34.48%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) Perl
4 2 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) Korn
5 1 (1.72%) LookML
5 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Ruby
5 1 (1.72%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 27 (46.55%) Security Cleared
2 23 (39.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.45%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.72%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.79%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) COPPA
4 1 (1.72%) SEPA
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.34%) Firmware
3 6 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.62%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.90%) Docker
5 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.17%) NFS
6 3 (5.17%) Terminal Services
6 3 (5.17%) vSphere
7 1 (1.72%) Ceph
7 1 (1.72%) Postfix
7 1 (1.72%) PowerHA
7 1 (1.72%) Varnish
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 10 (17.24%) Puppet
3 9 (15.52%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (12.07%) Ansible
4 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (12.07%) SCOM
5 5 (8.62%) vCenter Server
6 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
7 3 (5.17%) Nagios
7 3 (5.17%) SnapMirror
7 3 (5.17%) vMotion
8 2 (3.45%) Grafana
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.72%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.72%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.72%) SCCM
9 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (46.55%) VMware
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (17.24%) BMC
3 10 (17.24%) Google
3 10 (17.24%) Remedy
4 7 (12.07%) Commvault
4 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
5 6 (10.34%) Cisco
6 3 (5.17%) Citrix
6 3 (5.17%) Databricks
6 3 (5.17%) HP
6 3 (5.17%) IBM
6 3 (5.17%) NetApp
6 3 (5.17%) Splunk
6 3 (5.17%) Symantec
7 2 (3.45%) Veeam
8 1 (1.72%) F5
8 1 (1.72%) Informatica
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle
8 1 (1.72%) Sybase