Clustering Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Clustering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 105 146
Rank change year-on-year -16 +41 -1
Contract jobs citing Clustering 24 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.91% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 0.84% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £220 - £343
25th Percentile £397 £513 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £532 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +11.89% -7.32%
75th Percentile £509 £539 £528
90th Percentile £556 £539 £553
South East median daily rate £447 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.86% +10.53% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - £39.25
% change year-on-year - - -28.65%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 899 592 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.25% 36.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 327 521
10th Percentile £259 £300 £205
25th Percentile £366 £425 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.00% -1.87%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 20 61
10th Percentile £20.34 £17.96 £17.64
25th Percentile £26.17 £24.37 £22.61
Median hourly rate £81.25 £53.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.30% +76.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £60.39
90th Percentile £94.30 £87.60 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +69.23% -8.45% -16.47%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clustering

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the Thames Valley

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clustering

Clustering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clustering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Clustering in the Thames Valley

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire -4 22 £483 -9.22% 6
Buckinghamshire - 2 £400 -
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) BGP
1 19 (79.17%) Firewall
1 19 (79.17%) LAN
1 19 (79.17%) OSPF
1 19 (79.17%) WAN
2 18 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 18 (75.00%) DHCP
2 18 (75.00%) DNS
2 18 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 18 (75.00%) Junos
2 18 (75.00%) VXLAN
3 14 (58.33%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (16.67%) Military
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Senior
2 9 (37.50%) Firewall Specialist
2 9 (37.50%) Network Specialist
3 8 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) DBA
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Network Support
5 1 (4.17%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Senior SQL DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) PKI
2 16 (66.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) SUSE
2 2 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) High Availability
2 18 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 18 (75.00%) Load Balancing
3 17 (70.83%) Observability
4 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (33.33%) Availability Management
6 7 (29.17%) ITIL
6 7 (29.17%) Service Management
7 6 (25.00%) ITSM
8 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (12.50%) Database Security
9 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (12.50%) Migration
10 2 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
10 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 2 (8.33%) ETL
10 2 (8.33%) Planning and Forecasting
10 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
11 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Bash
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.50%) Python
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (25.00%) JNCIA
4 6 (25.00%) JNCIP
4 6 (25.00%) JNCIS
5 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.17%) OCP
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Juniper
2 18 (75.00%) Cisco
2 18 (75.00%) F5
2 18 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 18 (75.00%) Splunk
3 16 (66.67%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle