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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 311 377
Rank change year-on-year -24 +66 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Clustering 24 72 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 1.32% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 56 54
10th Percentile £375 £293 £500
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £568 £601
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -5.61% +0.21%
75th Percentile £738 £850 £686
90th Percentile £813 - £1,055
England median daily rate £563 £550 £548
% change year-on-year +2.27% +0.46% -6.41%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,091 5,456 8,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.08% 33.61% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,333 3,742 5,885
10th Percentile £333 £338 £356
25th Percentile £438 £456 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £750 £733
90th Percentile £825 £863 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 79
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.29
25th Percentile £23.21 £22.00 £22.62
Median hourly rate £27.25 £31.31 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -10.54% +12.90%
75th Percentile £46.15 £53.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £65.06 £71.25 £76.50
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -1 4 £650 +20.93% 5
South London - 2 - - 4
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Aladdin
2 2 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
1 6 (25.00%) GitHub
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (8.33%) SMTP
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.17%) Multicast
4 1 (4.17%) NAS
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) SAN
4 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (12.50%) Star Schema
5 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (8.33%) Power BI
5 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.17%) Big Data
6 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.17%) QlikView
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Subversion
2 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (4.17%) tSQLt
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Health
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) DBA
3 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Database Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (12.50%) MyBatis
3 2 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) FHIR
4 1 (4.17%) pgvector
4 1 (4.17%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Solaris
3 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (41.67%) High Availability
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) Data Security
7 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
7 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
7 4 (16.67%) ETL
7 4 (16.67%) Garbage Collection
7 4 (16.67%) Low Latency
7 4 (16.67%) Multithreading
8 3 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (12.50%) Runbook
8 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
8 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 4 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.33%) AWK
6 2 (8.33%) sed
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Sun Certification
3 1 (4.17%) VCAP
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (16.67%) NFS
4 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (8.33%) BitLocker
5 2 (8.33%) Firmware
5 2 (8.33%) GPFS
5 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (8.33%) Terminal Services
5 2 (8.33%) Veritas File System
5 2 (8.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Docker
6 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 4 (16.67%) vMotion
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
3 2 (8.33%) QRadar
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (8.33%) SCOM
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Nagios
4 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Bloomberg
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (16.67%) Refinitiv
3 4 (16.67%) Solace
3 4 (16.67%) Splunk
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 2 (8.33%) BMC
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) Citrix
5 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
5 2 (8.33%) Qualys
5 2 (8.33%) Remedy
5 2 (8.33%) SaltStack
5 2 (8.33%) Trend Micro
6 1 (4.17%) Atempo
6 1 (4.17%) Databricks
6 1 (4.17%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.17%) RedGate