Clustering Contract Job Trends 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 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 99 131
Rank change year-on-year -39 +32 +24
Contract jobs citing Clustering 3 17 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.11% 0.97% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 3.66% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 5
10th Percentile £453 £513 -
25th Percentile £456 £520 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.02% -14.55%
75th Percentile £520 £603 £775
90th Percentile £540 £714 -
England median daily rate £458 £530 £375
% change year-on-year -13.68% +41.33% -34.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
England median hourly rate £57.02 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -27.27%

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 774 465 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.34% 26.53% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 293 628
10th Percentile £225 £201 £293
25th Percentile £386 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 24 133
10th Percentile £15.46 £19.26 £13.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £47.50 £15.17
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +56.88% +153.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year -5.63% +17.71% +34.04%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Clustering

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Clustering

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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 March 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
Bristol -16 2 £463 -21.28%
Wiltshire -25 1 £535 -3.82% 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Database Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) NsoIT
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle