Clustering Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 333 393
Rank change year-on-year +18 +60 +21
Contract jobs citing Clustering 38 58 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 0.98% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 64
10th Percentile £335 £158 £408
25th Percentile £425 £290 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £601
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.16% +2.78%
75th Percentile £660 £850 £700
90th Percentile £738 - £1,046
England median daily rate £550 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%

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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in London.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in London

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 1 May 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 +7 5 £575 -
West London +11 1 £750 +373.19%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) CICS
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) GitHub
3 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) Nutanix
4 5 (13.16%) GCP
4 5 (13.16%) IaaS
5 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.89%) PaaS
7 2 (5.26%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Storage
7 2 (5.26%) Rubrik
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) DNS
2 8 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.53%) Firewall
3 4 (10.53%) VPN
4 3 (7.89%) DHCP
4 3 (7.89%) Kerberos
4 3 (7.89%) MPLS
4 3 (7.89%) VoIP
5 2 (5.26%) BGP
5 2 (5.26%) EIGRP
5 2 (5.26%) Ethernet
5 2 (5.26%) Network Security
5 2 (5.26%) OSPF
5 2 (5.26%) SDH
5 2 (5.26%) SMTP
6 1 (2.63%) NAS
6 1 (2.63%) SAN
6 1 (2.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
4 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
4 3 (7.89%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.26%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.63%) Big Data
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.63%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) TeamCity
2 8 (21.05%) Subversion
3 7 (18.42%) Git
4 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.89%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Serena SBM
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.63%) tSQLt
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Banking
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Administrator
2 8 (21.05%) DBA
2 8 (21.05%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (15.79%) Developer
4 5 (13.16%) SQL DBA
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (5.26%) OSS Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (7.89%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) FHIR
3 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.63%) JDBC
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) ODBC
3 1 (2.63%) PostGIS
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Replication
2 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (39.47%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 10 (26.32%) Solaris
4 7 (18.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.89%) Unix
6 2 (5.26%) VMS
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) High Availability
2 17 (44.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (34.21%) DevOps
4 12 (31.58%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
6 8 (21.05%) Data Security
6 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) API Integration
7 7 (18.42%) Database Security
7 7 (18.42%) Kernel Tuning
8 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
8 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (15.79%) ETL
8 6 (15.79%) Storage Management
9 5 (13.16%) Security Hardening
10 4 (10.53%) Analytics
10 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (10.53%) Data Integration
10 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (10.53%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Python
1 15 (39.47%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) Bash
2 11 (28.95%) Perl
3 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.89%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.63%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) Korn
6 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) VCAP
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) MCDBA
4 1 (2.63%) MCSE
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) GDPR
1 9 (23.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.63%) HL7
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) Docker
3 3 (7.89%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.89%) NFS
3 3 (7.89%) Veritas File System
3 3 (7.89%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (5.26%) BitLocker
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (5.26%) Terminal Services
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Ansible
2 8 (21.05%) QRadar
3 7 (18.42%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (18.42%) Tivoli
4 6 (15.79%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (15.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 3 (7.89%) Terraform
6 2 (5.26%) Control-M
6 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
6 2 (5.26%) Galera Cluster
6 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.26%) Nagios
6 2 (5.26%) Netcool
6 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.26%) vMotion
7 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) VMware
2 11 (28.95%) Splunk
3 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (26.32%) Oracle
3 10 (26.32%) Qualys
4 9 (23.68%) CyberArk
4 9 (23.68%) EMC
4 9 (23.68%) Red Hat
5 8 (21.05%) IBM
6 7 (18.42%) SaltStack
7 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
8 4 (10.53%) Sybase
9 2 (5.26%) Atempo
9 2 (5.26%) BMC
9 2 (5.26%) Citrix
9 2 (5.26%) Databricks
9 2 (5.26%) F5
9 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
9 2 (5.26%) Google
9 2 (5.26%) Serena