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 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 307 380
Rank change year-on-year -35 +73 +36
Contract jobs citing Clustering 30 56 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.41% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 1.19% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 13
10th Percentile £416 £305 £331
25th Percentile £491 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -24.53%
75th Percentile £691 £625 £507
90th Percentile £806 £668 £664
England median daily rate £455 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -12.29% +15.28% -18.18%

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 5,517 4,707 6,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.99% 34.13% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,585 2,965 4,316
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £800 £844 £804
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 58 158
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.81 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.54 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% +33.46% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.19 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.49 £65.53
England median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £34.61
% change year-on-year -19.86% +8.37% +53.90%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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
South London - 4 £650 - 1
Central London -4 2 £401 -33.25% 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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (6.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) GitHub
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) Snowflake
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (10.00%) dbt
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) IaaS
3 3 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Matillion
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.00%) SMTP
3 3 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
1 4 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.00%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.67%) Looker
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) OLAP
4 1 (3.33%) OLTP
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (3.33%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) Subversion
2 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Billing
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Exchange Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Exchange Migration Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) NetApp Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Basis Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) SAP Basis
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (3.33%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.33%) Matplotlib
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (3.33%) MyBatis
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (3.33%) pgvector
4 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.33%) Seaborn
4 1 (3.33%) Snowpark
4 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Replication
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) PKI
3 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (20.00%) Windows
4 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 4 (13.33%) Solaris
6 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Migration
2 8 (26.67%) High Availability
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Data Security
6 4 (13.33%) API Integration
6 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Kernel Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 4 (13.33%) Security Hardening
6 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 4 (13.33%) Use Case
7 3 (10.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) Perl
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SAP Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) GIAC
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SnowPro
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (13.33%) SLA
3 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 4 (13.33%) NFS
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas File System
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (10.00%) BitLocker
3 3 (10.00%) Docker
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) QRadar
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (13.33%) SCOM
3 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Puppet
3 3 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (10.00%) vMotion
4 2 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.33%) Pacemaker
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM
5 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Splunk
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (26.67%) VMware
4 5 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (13.33%) BMC
5 4 (13.33%) Citrix
5 4 (13.33%) Qualys
5 4 (13.33%) Remedy
5 4 (13.33%) SaltStack
5 4 (13.33%) SAP
5 4 (13.33%) Trend Micro
6 3 (10.00%) NetApp
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle
7 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) HP
7 1 (3.33%) Informatica
7 1 (3.33%) Percona
7 1 (3.33%) Solace