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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 118 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 -18
Contract jobs citing Clustering 7 38 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 1.18% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 3.50% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 29 36
10th Percentile - £445 £343
25th Percentile £210 £625 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -66.15% +4.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £282 £675 £653
90th Percentile £375 £700 £669
England median daily rate £470 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -18.26% - +21.05%

All Generic Skills
North West

Clustering is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 740 1,085 1,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.69% 33.70% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 726 1,056
10th Percentile £289 £291 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +24.35%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £586
90th Percentile £672 £675 £671
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.22 £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +49.23% +4.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

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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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 0 7 £220 -66.15% 3
Clustering
England

Clustering
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 (28.57%) nginx
1 2 (28.57%) Traefik
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) VoIP
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (14.29%) DHCP
5 1 (14.29%) NAS
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (28.57%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Quality Management
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Autotask
1 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Consul
2 2 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (28.57%) Graphite
2 2 (28.57%) HAProxy
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) linkerd
2 2 (28.57%) Packer
2 2 (28.57%) Podman
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 3 (42.86%) Datto
4 2 (28.57%) PagerDuty
4 2 (28.57%) Splunk
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
5 1 (14.29%) Dell
5 1 (14.29%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Meraki
5 1 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (14.29%) Veeam