Clustering Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Clustering
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Clustering 6 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% - 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% - 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £398 - £400
25th Percentile £463 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.00%
75th Percentile £584 - £556
90th Percentile £594 - £628
North West median daily rate £513 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -18.00%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 337 328 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.73% 27.96% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 190 345
10th Percentile £313 £313 £228
25th Percentile £400 £425 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £828 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 15
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.50 £21.06 £16.85
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% +68.89% +21.62%
75th Percentile £64.69 £59.13 £50.94
90th Percentile £77.88 £93.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £41.31 £23.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +75.79% -41.72% +100.32%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Manchester

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Clustering

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) dbt
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Prefect
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (16.67%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) IBM