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 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 311 376
Rank change year-on-year -23 +65 +55
Contract jobs citing Clustering 30 74 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.45% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 1.35% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 58 48
10th Percentile £375 £350 £459
25th Percentile £506 £466 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £581 £589
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -1.27% -3.48%
75th Percentile £738 £850 £681
90th Percentile £813 - £807
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -11.11%

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 5,131 5,477 7,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.39% 33.65% 35.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 3,613 5,592
10th Percentile £337 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £854 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 67 85
10th Percentile £16.37 £17.25 £17.27
25th Percentile £23.23 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% +14.98% -5.98%
75th Percentile £46.35 £54.38 £52.75
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.50 £71.50
England median hourly rate £32.72 £57.35 £45.41
% change year-on-year -42.94% +26.29% +74.65%

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
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -4 3 £650 +20.93% 7
South London - 2 - -
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 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Aladdin
2 2 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) GitHub
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) SMTP
3 2 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.33%) Multicast
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.00%) Power BI
4 3 (10.00%) Star Schema
5 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (6.67%) QlikView
5 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Subversion
1 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.33%) tSQLt
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Administrator
2 6 (20.00%) Snowflake Developer
3 5 (16.67%) DBA
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Database Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Basis Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (10.00%) MyBatis
3 3 (10.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.33%) FHIR
4 1 (3.33%) pgvector
4 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Replication
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) NHS
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Solaris
4 2 (6.67%) Windows
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 11 (36.67%) High Availability
3 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (26.67%) Data Security
5 7 (23.33%) Data Modelling
5 7 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 6 (20.00%) ETL
6 6 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 4 (13.33%) Analytics
8 4 (13.33%) API Integration
8 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Garbage Collection
8 4 (13.33%) Kernel Tuning
8 4 (13.33%) Low Latency
8 4 (13.33%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) Bash
4 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (13.33%) Java
5 4 (13.33%) Perl
6 3 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.67%) AWK
7 2 (6.67%) sed
8 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) SAP Certification
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (20.00%) NFS
3 4 (13.33%) Veritas File System
3 4 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.67%) BitLocker
4 2 (6.67%) Firmware
4 2 (6.67%) GPFS
4 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (6.67%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.33%) Docker
5 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (13.33%) QRadar
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (13.33%) vMotion
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.67%) SCOM
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Nagios
4 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) VMware
2 7 (23.33%) Splunk
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.33%) Bloomberg
4 4 (13.33%) CyberArk
4 4 (13.33%) Oracle
4 4 (13.33%) Qualys
4 4 (13.33%) Refinitiv
4 4 (13.33%) SaltStack
4 4 (13.33%) Solace
5 3 (10.00%) SAP
6 2 (6.67%) BMC
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco
6 2 (6.67%) Citrix
6 2 (6.67%) Remedy
6 2 (6.67%) Trend Micro
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Informatica
7 1 (3.33%) RedGate