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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 309 352
Rank change year-on-year -55 +43 +62
Contract jobs citing Clustering 34 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.95% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 19
10th Percentile £369 £310 £134
25th Percentile £463 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +37.50% -38.46%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £500
90th Percentile £675 £735 £516
England median daily rate £460 £538 £375
% change year-on-year -14.46% +43.40% -35.40%

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 5,975 4,515 5,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.89% 34.97% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 2,986 4,207
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 68 179
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.70 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +27.48% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.00 £57.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £80.75 £65.35
England median hourly rate £36.32 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +6.04% +20.18% +26.67%

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 12 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 12 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 -16 6 £508 -11.74% 1
South London - 3 £650 -
West London -16 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 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Aladdin
1 2 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) GCP
2 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) dbt
3 5 (14.71%) IaaS
3 5 (14.71%) PaaS
3 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (5.88%) Cohesity
6 2 (5.88%) Fivetran
6 2 (5.88%) Matillion
6 2 (5.88%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.94%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Prefect
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DHCP
1 6 (17.65%) DNS
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) SMTP
2 5 (14.71%) VPN
3 1 (2.94%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.94%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.71%) Power BI
2 5 (14.71%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (11.76%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.82%) Metadata
5 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data
5 2 (5.88%) Looker
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.94%) OLTP
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) NetApp Engineer
1 7 (20.59%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) DBA
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) SQL DBA
4 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Exchange Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.94%) Jinja
2 1 (2.94%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.94%) Seaborn
2 1 (2.94%) Snowpark
2 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Storage
1 6 (17.65%) PKI
2 5 (14.71%) Replication
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 8 (23.53%) Linux
4 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (32.35%) Analytics
3 8 (23.53%) High Availability
3 8 (23.53%) Migration
4 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (17.65%) AI
5 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (17.65%) Data Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Data Governance
5 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (17.65%) Incident Management
5 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) ETL
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) RBAC
6 5 (14.71%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Use Case
7 4 (11.76%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.71%) Python
4 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) R
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) DV Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) MCITP
4 2 (5.88%) MCTS
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.88%) SnowPro
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) GIAC
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL Certification
5 1 (2.94%) SAP Certification
5 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.88%) SLA
4 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 6 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (14.71%) BitLocker
4 5 (14.71%) Docker
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (5.88%) NFS
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.94%) Firmware
6 1 (2.94%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Puppet
2 5 (14.71%) vCenter Server
2 5 (14.71%) vMotion
3 3 (8.82%) SCOM
4 2 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (5.88%) SnapMirror
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.94%) Pacemaker
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 7 (20.59%) NetApp
4 6 (17.65%) Citrix
5 4 (11.76%) Google
5 4 (11.76%) Splunk
6 2 (5.88%) BMC
6 2 (5.88%) Informatica
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle
6 2 (5.88%) Remedy
6 2 (5.88%) SAP
6 2 (5.88%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.94%) Cribl.io
7 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.94%) HP
7 1 (2.94%) Percona
7 1 (2.94%) Red Hat