Clustering Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Clustering
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 79 134
Rank change year-on-year -30 +55 -
Contract jobs citing Clustering 5 40 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.32% 2.33% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 6.71% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile - £417 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile - £448 £538
90th Percentile - £519 -
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -8.59%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 610 596 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.83% 34.65% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 322 530
10th Percentile £181 £192 £250
25th Percentile £351 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £674 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 27
10th Percentile £14.87 £18.83 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.36 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -8.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.60 £39.34 £60.60
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Clustering job vacancy trend in Scotland

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Glasgow -33 3 - -
Edinburgh +6 2 - - 1
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) DSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) DataWeave
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Korn
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat