Clustering Contracts in Reading

Clustering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Reading. 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 63 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Clustering 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £165 - £448
% change year-on-year - - -34.19%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 194 302 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.05% 27.21% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 159 228
10th Percentile £350 £315 £263
25th Percentile £450 £464 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +5.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £553 £515
% change year-on-year -9.50% +7.28% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £24.80 £42.05 £44.45
25th Percentile £31.44 £56.25 £62.44
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -6.95% +150.48%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.37 £70.88
90th Percentile £53.50 £71.76 £76.08
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £41.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +48.18% -35.83% +5.16%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in Reading

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Clustering

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Clustering

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium