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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 341 317
Rank change year-on-year -45 -24 +57
Contract jobs citing Clustering 68 26 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.19% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 0.51% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 18 55
10th Percentile £450 £375 £312
25th Percentile £485 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £850
90th Percentile £728 £813 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

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 7,690 5,142 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 38.36% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,826 3,342 3,640
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -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 183 120 72
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.60 £28.60 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -5.01% -13.99%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.00%

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 9 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 9 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 -9 15 £575 -11.54% 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 10 (14.71%) Confluence
2 7 (10.29%) JBoss
3 6 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (5.88%) Apache
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.47%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.82%) Azure
2 16 (23.53%) AWS
2 16 (23.53%) GCP
3 13 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 10 (14.71%) dbt
5 8 (11.76%) Snowflake
6 6 (8.82%) IaaS
6 6 (8.82%) PaaS
7 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Stack
8 4 (5.88%) Fivetran
8 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (4.41%) GitHub
9 3 (4.41%) Prefect
10 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) DNS
1 10 (14.71%) Firewall
2 9 (13.24%) VPN
3 8 (11.76%) DHCP
4 7 (10.29%) Kerberos
5 6 (8.82%) SMTP
6 5 (7.35%) SSL
7 4 (5.88%) VLAN
7 4 (5.88%) VSAN
8 3 (4.41%) Network Security
9 2 (2.94%) SAN
10 1 (1.47%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.47%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) Power BI
1 13 (19.12%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (14.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (14.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (13.24%) Big Data
5 8 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (10.29%) Metadata
7 6 (8.82%) Hadoop
8 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (7.35%) BigQuery
8 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (4.41%) Data Vault
9 3 (4.41%) Db2
9 3 (4.41%) Star Schema
9 3 (4.41%) Tableau
10 2 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.94%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.94%) ERwin
3 2 (2.94%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.47%) Flyway
General
1 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Back Office
5 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) DBA
3 10 (14.71%) Administrator
3 10 (14.71%) SQL DBA
4 8 (11.76%) Architect
4 8 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 6 (8.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (5.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) LDAP
1 4 (5.88%) OAuth
1 4 (5.88%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.88%) OpenID
1 4 (5.88%) SAML
2 3 (4.41%) Kafka
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) JSON
3 2 (2.94%) Middleware
3 2 (2.94%) YAML
4 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.47%) pgvector
4 1 (1.47%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.47%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.24%) PKI
3 5 (7.35%) Replication
4 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.94%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.24%) Windows
2 19 (27.94%) Linux
3 13 (19.12%) Windows Server
4 11 (16.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.88%) SUSE
5 4 (5.88%) VMS
6 3 (4.41%) Unix
6 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.47%) AIX
8 1 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) Migration
2 24 (35.29%) High Availability
3 22 (32.35%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (23.53%) AI
6 15 (22.06%) DevOps
6 15 (22.06%) ITIL
7 14 (20.59%) Incident Management
8 13 (19.12%) Data Modelling
9 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (17.65%) Data Governance
9 12 (17.65%) Validation
10 11 (16.18%) Change Management
10 11 (16.18%) ETL
11 9 (13.24%) Analytics
11 9 (13.24%) Business Continuity
11 9 (13.24%) Data Engineering
12 8 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) PowerShell
2 23 (33.82%) SQL
3 9 (13.24%) Python
4 4 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (2.94%) Bash
5 2 (2.94%) Perl
6 1 (1.47%) Korn
6 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) SnowPro
5 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 2 (2.94%) CISM
6 2 (2.94%) CISSP
6 2 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.47%) CISA
7 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.76%) QA
3 6 (8.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) COPPA
4 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (44.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (27.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (19.12%) Hyper-V
4 12 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (10.29%) vSphere
6 6 (8.82%) BitLocker
6 6 (8.82%) Docker
6 6 (8.82%) Firmware
6 6 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (5.88%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.47%) NFS
9 1 (1.47%) Postfix
9 1 (1.47%) PowerHA
9 1 (1.47%) Varnish
9 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Clustering
2 12 (17.65%) Failover Clustering
2 12 (17.65%) Puppet
2 12 (17.65%) vCenter Server
3 9 (13.24%) Ansible
4 7 (10.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (10.29%) SCOM
5 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
5 6 (8.82%) vMotion
6 5 (7.35%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (5.88%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.88%) PingFederate
7 4 (5.88%) VxRail
8 3 (4.41%) Nagios
9 2 (2.94%) Grafana
9 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.47%) SnapMirror
10 1 (1.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) VMware
2 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.71%) BMC
3 10 (14.71%) Google
3 10 (14.71%) Remedy
4 8 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 7 (10.29%) Commvault
6 6 (8.82%) Cisco
6 6 (8.82%) Citrix
7 5 (7.35%) Dell
8 4 (5.88%) HP
8 4 (5.88%) IBM
8 4 (5.88%) Informatica
8 4 (5.88%) NetApp
8 4 (5.88%) Ping Identity
8 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.88%) Symantec
9 2 (2.94%) Databricks
9 2 (2.94%) Splunk
9 2 (2.94%) Veeam