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 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 299 340
Rank change year-on-year -69 +41 +67
Contract jobs citing Clustering 38 41 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 0.91% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 21
10th Percentile £370 £308 £140
25th Percentile £464 £419 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -30.77%
75th Percentile £634 £626 £500
90th Percentile £650 £740 £550
England median daily rate £475 £540 £383
% change year-on-year -12.04% +41.18% -33.48%

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 6,119 4,501 5,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.59% 35.62% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 3,028 4,195
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £844 £825
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 74 164
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.43 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.90
Median hourly rate £33.12 £35.45 £29.36
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +20.73% -16.11%
75th Percentile £59.72 £56.13 £47.90
90th Percentile £77.05 £80.75 £66.93
England median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +23.78% +23.21% +20.95%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -9 9 £475 -17.39%
South London - 3 £650 -
West London -15 1 £550 -26.67% 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 6 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) OpenEdge
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) GCP
4 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.79%) dbt
5 6 (15.79%) IaaS
5 6 (15.79%) PaaS
5 6 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (10.53%) Azure Stack
7 4 (10.53%) Fivetran
7 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (7.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.89%) Cohesity
8 3 (7.89%) Prefect
8 3 (7.89%) Rubrik
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (5.26%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) Firewall
1 10 (26.32%) VPN
2 8 (21.05%) DHCP
2 8 (21.05%) DNS
3 7 (18.42%) SMTP
4 4 (10.53%) VLAN
4 4 (10.53%) VSAN
5 3 (7.89%) Network Security
6 1 (2.63%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Power BI
2 6 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.79%) Tableau
3 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.89%) Metadata
4 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.26%) Big Data
5 2 (5.26%) Looker
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (2.63%) OLAP
6 1 (2.63%) OLTP
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Billing
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) NetApp Engineer
1 9 (23.68%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) DBA
3 6 (15.79%) Migration Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 5 (13.16%) SQL DBA
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Exchange Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared DBA
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Exchange Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.63%) Jinja
2 1 (2.63%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.63%) pgvector
2 1 (2.63%) PostGIS
2 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.63%) Seaborn
2 1 (2.63%) Snowpark
2 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) PKI
1 8 (21.05%) Replication
2 7 (18.42%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Windows
2 11 (28.95%) Linux
2 11 (28.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.53%) SUSE
5 3 (7.89%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (7.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (26.32%) Analytics
2 10 (26.32%) High Availability
2 10 (26.32%) Migration
3 9 (23.68%) Validation
4 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.05%) Data Governance
4 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 7 (18.42%) AI
5 7 (18.42%) Data Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
5 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (15.79%) ETL
6 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.79%) RBAC
7 5 (13.16%) Data Science
7 5 (13.16%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 12 (31.58%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) SnowPro
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.26%) MCITP
6 2 (5.26%) MCTS
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.63%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (28.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (28.95%) Hyper-V
4 7 (18.42%) BitLocker
4 7 (18.42%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (15.79%) Docker
6 5 (13.16%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (10.53%) Firmware
7 4 (10.53%) vSphere
8 3 (7.89%) NFS
9 1 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
9 1 (2.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) vCenter Server
2 7 (18.42%) vMotion
3 6 (15.79%) Ansible
3 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.79%) Puppet
4 4 (10.53%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (10.53%) VxRail
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (7.89%) SCOM
5 3 (7.89%) SnapMirror
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 15 (39.47%) VMware
3 10 (26.32%) NetApp
4 8 (21.05%) Citrix
5 7 (18.42%) Google
6 5 (13.16%) Dell
7 4 (10.53%) Informatica
8 2 (5.26%) BMC
8 2 (5.26%) HP
8 2 (5.26%) Remedy
8 2 (5.26%) Splunk
8 2 (5.26%) Trend Micro
9 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
9 1 (2.63%) Oracle
9 1 (2.63%) Percona
9 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.63%) SAP
9 1 (2.63%) Symantec