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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 352 313
Rank change year-on-year -13 -39 +65
Contract jobs citing Clustering 67 28 69
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 0.55% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 55
10th Percentile £430 £375 £250
25th Percentile £465 £474 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +9.38% -6.86%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £850
90th Percentile £730 £801 -
England median daily rate £516 £563 £531
% change year-on-year -8.22% +5.88% -5.13%

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 7,462 5,083 5,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.07% 37.32% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 3,351 3,850
10th Percentile £357 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £795 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 117 80
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.75 £27.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -8.65% -13.99%
75th Percentile £59.12 £45.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -1 16 £575 -4.17% 4
West London -20 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 9 (13.43%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.97%) JBoss
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (4.48%) Apache
5 1 (1.49%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) AWS
3 15 (22.39%) GCP
4 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.94%) dbt
5 8 (11.94%) IaaS
5 8 (11.94%) PaaS
5 8 (11.94%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Stack
6 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.97%) Fivetran
6 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (4.48%) Cohesity
7 3 (4.48%) Prefect
7 3 (4.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.91%) Firewall
2 11 (16.42%) DNS
2 11 (16.42%) VPN
3 9 (13.43%) DHCP
4 8 (11.94%) SMTP
5 5 (7.46%) SSL
6 4 (5.97%) Kerberos
6 4 (5.97%) VLAN
6 4 (5.97%) VSAN
7 3 (4.48%) Network Security
8 1 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.42%) Power BI
2 11 (16.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (14.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (11.94%) Big Data
4 8 (11.94%) Snowflake Schema
4 8 (11.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (10.45%) Metadata
6 6 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.48%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.48%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.48%) Db2
8 3 (4.48%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.48%) Star Schema
8 3 (4.48%) Tableau
9 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.99%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.99%) ERwin
3 2 (2.99%) PowerDesigner
General
1 14 (20.90%) Finance
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Retail
5 1 (1.49%) Back Office
5 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) DBA
2 14 (20.90%) SQL DBA
3 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Architect
4 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) NetApp Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Storage Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Administrator
7 5 (7.46%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared DBA
8 4 (5.97%) SQL Server DBA
9 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) LDAP
1 4 (5.97%) OAuth
1 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.97%) OpenID
1 4 (5.97%) SAML
2 3 (4.48%) Kafka
3 2 (2.99%) JSON
3 2 (2.99%) YAML
4 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.49%) Jinja
4 1 (1.49%) Middleware
4 1 (1.49%) pgvector
4 1 (1.49%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.49%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.93%) PKI
3 8 (11.94%) Replication
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.48%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.99%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.81%) Windows
2 17 (25.37%) Linux
3 14 (20.90%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (5.97%) SUSE
7 3 (4.48%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (4.48%) VMS
8 2 (2.99%) Unix
8 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.49%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Migration
2 24 (35.82%) High Availability
3 22 (32.84%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (28.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (25.37%) AI
6 15 (22.39%) DevOps
6 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (20.90%) Validation
8 13 (19.40%) ETL
8 13 (19.40%) Incident Management
9 12 (17.91%) Analytics
9 12 (17.91%) Data Governance
10 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (16.42%) Data Engineering
10 11 (16.42%) Data Modelling
10 11 (16.42%) ITIL
11 10 (14.93%) Change Management
12 8 (11.94%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (10.45%) Data Ingestion
13 7 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) SQL
2 22 (32.84%) PowerShell
3 9 (13.43%) Python
4 4 (5.97%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) Bash
5 2 (2.99%) Perl
5 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.49%) Korn
6 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (50.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) SnowPro
5 4 (5.97%) Degree
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CISM
7 2 (2.99%) CISSP
7 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.99%) MCITP
7 2 (2.99%) MCTS
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (10.45%) GDPR
3 6 (8.96%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) COPPA
4 1 (1.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (41.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (32.84%) Active Directory
3 13 (19.40%) Hyper-V
3 13 (19.40%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (11.94%) BitLocker
4 8 (11.94%) Docker
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (8.96%) Firmware
5 6 (8.96%) vSphere
6 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (5.97%) Terminal Services
8 3 (4.48%) NFS
9 1 (1.49%) Postfix
9 1 (1.49%) PowerHA
9 1 (1.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft Clustering
1 13 (19.40%) vCenter Server
2 11 (16.42%) Puppet
3 10 (14.93%) Ansible
4 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.94%) vMotion
5 7 (10.45%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (7.46%) SCOM
7 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (5.97%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.97%) PingFederate
7 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.97%) VxRail
8 3 (4.48%) Nagios
8 3 (4.48%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.99%) Terraform
10 1 (1.49%) Grafana
10 1 (1.49%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (44.78%) VMware
2 22 (32.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.43%) Google
4 8 (11.94%) BMC
4 8 (11.94%) Citrix
4 8 (11.94%) NetApp
4 8 (11.94%) Remedy
5 6 (8.96%) Commvault
6 5 (7.46%) Dell
6 5 (7.46%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.97%) HP
7 4 (5.97%) IBM
7 4 (5.97%) Informatica
7 4 (5.97%) Ping Identity
7 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.97%) Symantec
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco
9 2 (2.99%) Databricks
10 1 (1.49%) Oracle
10 1 (1.49%) Veeam