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 advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 194 217
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -47
Contract jobs citing Clustering 12 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 1.62% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 31
10th Percentile £408 £381 £405
25th Percentile £536 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +27.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £488
90th Percentile - £1,100 £610
England median daily rate £470 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -18.26% - +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £53.75 -
25th Percentile - £55.63 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile - £63.13 £67.50
90th Percentile - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,573 1,980 2,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.47% 33.97% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 1,340 1,705
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £359 £386 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 89 121
10th Percentile £11.72 £18.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.19 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +144.19% -33.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
West Sussex - 6 £575 -
Hampshire -3 4 £250 -57.45% 3
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £563 +15.38%
Thames Valley -6 1 £563 +15.38% 1
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
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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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Database Specialist
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Database Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Support
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (8.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) VMS
4 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) High Availability
2 8 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 8 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 8 (66.67%) Database Security
2 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (66.67%) Migration
2 8 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 8 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) Build Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (75.00%) vSphere
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (8.33%) DFS Replication
4 1 (8.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) Nessus
4 1 (8.33%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (8.33%) Packer
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (8.33%) vRealize
4 1 (8.33%) VxRail
4 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 9 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 8 (66.67%) Oracle
3 8 (66.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (16.67%) Symantec
5 1 (8.33%) Arqiva
5 1 (8.33%) Citrix
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) Ivanti
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) NETGEAR
5 1 (8.33%) Veeam
5 1 (8.33%) Veritas