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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 299 361
Rank change year-on-year -49 +62 +77
Contract jobs citing Clustering 28 58 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 1.17% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 14
10th Percentile £410 £315 £404
25th Percentile £481 £428 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £519
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -1.20% -23.15%
75th Percentile £706 £617 £681
90th Percentile £808 £675 £686
England median daily rate £456 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -9.93% +1.25% -13.87%

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 5,531 4,959 6,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.36% 34.22% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 3,145 4,348
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £719
90th Percentile £800 £838 £819
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 63 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £18.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%
75th Percentile £46.88 £59.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.11
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.25 £42.92
% change year-on-year -20.00% -15.53% +29.07%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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
South London - 4 £650 -
Central London -1 1 £414 -21.24%
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 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (7.14%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) GitHub
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.57%) dbt
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.71%) DHCP
3 3 (10.71%) Firewall
4 2 (7.14%) SMTP
4 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) OLAP
3 1 (3.57%) OLTP
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (3.57%) QlikView
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
1 4 (14.29%) Subversion
1 4 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Administrator
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Exchange Migration Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) DBA
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Basis Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) SAP Basis
3 2 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (7.14%) MyBatis
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) Matplotlib
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (3.57%) pgvector
4 1 (3.57%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) Seaborn
4 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Replication
2 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) PKI
4 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (17.86%) Windows
4 4 (14.29%) Solaris
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) High Availability
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Data Security
5 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.29%) API Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.29%) Kernel Tuning
6 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Security Hardening
6 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 3 (10.71%) Logistics
7 3 (10.71%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) Perl
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 2 (7.14%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) R
7 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) SAP Certification
5 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.57%) GIAC
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) GDPR
2 4 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) NFS
2 4 (14.29%) Veritas File System
2 4 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (7.14%) BitLocker
4 2 (7.14%) Docker
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) QRadar
2 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (14.29%) SCOM
3 2 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Puppet
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.14%) vMotion
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.57%) Pacemaker
4 1 (3.57%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Splunk
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.00%) VMware
4 5 (17.86%) CyberArk
4 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
5 4 (14.29%) BMC
5 4 (14.29%) Qualys
5 4 (14.29%) Remedy
5 4 (14.29%) SaltStack
5 4 (14.29%) Trend Micro
6 3 (10.71%) Citrix
6 3 (10.71%) Oracle
6 3 (10.71%) SAP
7 2 (7.14%) Bloomberg
7 2 (7.14%) NetApp
7 2 (7.14%) Refinitiv
7 2 (7.14%) Solace
8 1 (3.57%) Cribl.io
8 1 (3.57%) Google
8 1 (3.57%) HP