Clustering Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 195 182
Rank change year-on-year +59 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Clustering 19 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.23% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 0.80% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 23
10th Percentile £341 £155 £323
25th Percentile £538 £395 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +35.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £559
90th Percentile £625 - £1,030
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £22.40 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.54% +18.18%
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,015 1,625 1,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.27% 28.63% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 953 1,319
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £350 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £597 £623 £629
90th Percentile £660 £690 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 175 97
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.64 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +153.68%
75th Percentile £61.12 £61.30 £66.21
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
% change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the South East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Hampshire +38 12 £575 - 5
Berkshire - 6 £525 - 13
Thames Valley - 6 £525 - 16
Surrey - 1 £475 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (21.05%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
1 8 (42.11%) GCP
1 8 (42.11%) IaaS
1 8 (42.11%) OpenShift
1 8 (42.11%) PaaS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) DNS
2 12 (63.16%) SMTP
3 8 (42.11%) DHCP
3 8 (42.11%) Firewall
3 8 (42.11%) VPN
4 4 (21.05%) NetScaler
5 3 (15.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (42.11%) Big Data
1 8 (42.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Support Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) PKI
2 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Fat Client
3 2 (10.53%) Thin Client
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 15 (78.95%) Windows Server
3 9 (47.37%) Linux
4 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
6 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (10.53%) Windows 7
8 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
1 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
1 8 (42.11%) Software Deployment
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) Power Management
4 1 (5.26%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (5.26%) Capacity Management
4 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
4 1 (5.26%) Database Security
4 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (5.26%) High Availability
4 1 (5.26%) Patch Management
4 1 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (5.26%) Server Management
4 1 (5.26%) Server Patching
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Management
4 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
3 1 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) Degree
2 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
2 13 (68.42%) Hyper-V
3 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (42.11%) BitLocker
4 8 (42.11%) Docker
4 8 (42.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (42.11%) Terminal Services
4 8 (42.11%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (36.84%) vSphere
6 4 (21.05%) XenApp
6 4 (21.05%) XenDesktop
7 1 (5.26%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) vCenter Server
2 9 (47.37%) Ansible
3 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (42.11%) Nagios
3 8 (42.11%) Puppet
3 8 (42.11%) vMotion
4 7 (36.84%) WSUS
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (15.79%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (15.79%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (10.53%) SCVMM
8 1 (5.26%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) VMware
2 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (68.42%) HP
4 12 (63.16%) Citrix
5 11 (57.89%) Symantec
6 8 (42.11%) Google
7 5 (26.32%) Dell
8 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
9 2 (10.53%) Juniper
9 2 (10.53%) NETGEAR
9 2 (10.53%) TP-LINK
10 1 (5.26%) IBM
10 1 (5.26%) Mellanox
10 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
10 1 (5.26%) Solarflare
10 1 (5.26%) Sun