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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 94 129
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing Clustering 11 21 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.64% 1.28% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 3.35% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £477 £491
25th Percentile £513 £479 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +9.43% -1.75%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £569
90th Percentile - - £588
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £473
% change year-on-year -13.64% +16.40% -14.09%

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 572 627 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.29% 38.07% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 320 422
10th Percentile £250 £200 £203
25th Percentile £377 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 31 37
10th Percentile £16.10 £17.30 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.05 £23.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% +17.95% +62.50%
75th Percentile £47.19 £26.21 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.40 £34.29 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +38.46% +19.27% +21.19%

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 16 April 2026. 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 -7 6 - - 3
Edinburgh +1 5 £525 -10.87% 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Database Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Database Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) z/OS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
1 2 (18.18%) zOS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Korn
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) IBM
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat