Clustering Contracts in the North West

Clustering
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 130 119
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +14
Contract jobs citing Clustering 5 7 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.25% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 0.94% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 29
10th Percentile £289 - £445
25th Percentile £309 £210 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £220 £650
Median % change year-on-year +69.32% -66.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £438 £282 £675
90th Percentile - £375 £700
England median daily rate £550 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +12 2 £425 +93.18% 7
Cheshire - 2 £298 -
Merseyside - 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SSH
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) GIS
1 2 (40.00%) MSDE
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) DTS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) BCP
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (20.00%) Perfmon
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat