Clustering Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing Clustering 9 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% - 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile £327 - £393
25th Percentile £341 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.00%
75th Percentile £578 - £556
90th Percentile £591 - £655
England median daily rate £550 £550 £520
% change year-on-year - +5.77% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.00 - -
Median hourly rate £27.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.00 £22.40 £57.99
% change year-on-year +20.54% -61.37% -12.80%

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 740 657 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.88% 27.48% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 369 528
10th Percentile £311 £294 £254
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.25%
75th Percentile £564 £594 £593
90th Percentile £648 £720 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 40
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.58 £16.23
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.44 £20.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £23.50 £40.80
Median % change year-on-year +78.47% -42.39% +102.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.90 £70.38
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Clustering
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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Clustering

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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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Clustering

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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 18 September 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 - 8 £475 - 4
Clustering
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 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) dbt
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Prefect
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) iSCSI
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 1 (11.11%) ICT Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Replication
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (11.11%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Dell
3 2 (22.22%) NetApp
3 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
3 2 (22.22%) Veeam
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) IBM