Clustering Contracts in the South West

Clustering
England > South West

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 137 143
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Clustering 18 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 0.63% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.68% 1.89% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 18
10th Percentile £513 £325 £498
25th Percentile £525 £393 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £594 £568 £584
90th Percentile £688 £775 £733
England median daily rate £550 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +32 10 £563 +7.14%
Dorset - 5 £550 -
Bristol +20 2 £410 -29.57% 1
Somerset -4 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) SSH
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Solaris
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (83.33%) High Availability
3 14 (77.78%) NsoIT
3 14 (77.78%) Power Management
3 14 (77.78%) Service Management
3 14 (77.78%) System Testing
3 14 (77.78%) Validation
4 12 (66.67%) Agile
4 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 12 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
4 12 (66.67%) Waterfall
5 10 (55.56%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Server Management
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
7 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.56%) Project Management
7 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) Perl
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (77.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 13 (72.22%) CCNA
4 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (66.67%) Degree
5 12 (66.67%) Master's Degree
6 3 (16.67%) CCNP
7 2 (11.11%) MCSA
7 2 (11.11%) MCSE
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (77.78%) VMware NSX
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (83.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.11%) Puppet
2 2 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) VMware
2 13 (72.22%) Cisco
3 12 (66.67%) Atlassian
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Veritas