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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 322 377
Rank change year-on-year -37 +55 +57
Contract jobs citing Clustering 29 54 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 1.01% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 28
10th Percentile £373 £413 £439
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +4.02% -15.40%
75th Percentile £738 £625 £681
90th Percentile £813 £760 £688
England median daily rate £475 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -8.43% +3.75% -11.50%

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 5,547 5,332 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 33.91% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,532 3,415 4,810
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £720
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 62 100
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.28 £18.76
25th Percentile £19.89 £23.98 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +13.01% +1.65%
75th Percentile £42.47 £56.00 £50.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £68.08
England median hourly rate £29.14 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.91% +2.62% +47.54%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 3 £650 +23.81% 10
South London - 3 - - 2
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 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (6.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) GitHub
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.45%) dbt
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
4 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.45%) QlikView
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) Subversion
1 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Maven
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.45%) tSQLt
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Administrator
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) DBA
4 4 (13.79%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Database Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Exchange Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Developer
6 2 (6.90%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (10.34%) MyBatis
2 3 (10.34%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.45%) FHIR
3 1 (3.45%) Matplotlib
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.45%) pgvector
3 1 (3.45%) PostGIS
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) Seaborn
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Replication
2 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) NHS
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 9 (31.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Solaris
4 3 (10.34%) Windows
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) High Availability
2 10 (34.48%) Migration
2 10 (34.48%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (31.03%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.69%) Agile
6 5 (17.24%) Analytics
6 5 (17.24%) Data Security
6 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (13.79%) API Integration
7 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (13.79%) Kernel Tuning
7 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
7 4 (13.79%) Security Hardening
7 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
8 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Garbage Collection
8 3 (10.34%) Low Latency
8 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) Bash
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) Perl
5 3 (10.34%) Java
5 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.90%) AWK
6 2 (6.90%) sed
7 1 (3.45%) R
7 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) SAP Certification
4 1 (3.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
1 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (10.34%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) NFS
2 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) Veritas File System
3 4 (13.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (6.90%) GPFS
6 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 4 (13.79%) QRadar
2 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (10.34%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.34%) SCOM
4 2 (6.90%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.45%) Pacemaker
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Splunk
2 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
3 5 (17.24%) CyberArk
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) VMware
4 4 (13.79%) Qualys
4 4 (13.79%) SaltStack
5 3 (10.34%) Bloomberg
5 3 (10.34%) BMC
5 3 (10.34%) Refinitiv
5 3 (10.34%) Remedy
5 3 (10.34%) SAP
5 3 (10.34%) Solace
5 3 (10.34%) Trend Micro
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) HP
6 1 (3.45%) RedGate