Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Clustering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 274 320 315
Rank change year-on-year +46 -5 +47
Contract jobs citing Clustering 62 79 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.38% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 1.29% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 104
10th Percentile £413 £210 £387
25th Percentile £490 £288 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +18.92%
75th Percentile £589 £569 £650
90th Percentile £606 £592 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £565
% change year-on-year +15.79% -15.93% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 3
10th Percentile - - £38.50
25th Percentile - - £43.75
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £63.50
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK excluding London 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
South East +53 19 £575 - 18
South West +44 18 £550 +4.76% 2
Scotland +12 10 £575 +17.24% 3
North of England +10 10 £425 -10.53% 9
North West +15 5 £373 +69.32% 7
Yorkshire +7 5 £500 -11.11% 2
East of England +27 4 £467 +94.38% 1
Midlands +14 1 £535 +86.09% 6
West Midlands +9 1 £535 +86.09% 6
Wales +1 1 £167 - 4
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (19.35%) Confluence
2 8 (12.90%) IIS
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.23%) CICS
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) AWS
2 12 (19.35%) OpenShift
3 10 (16.13%) IaaS
3 10 (16.13%) PaaS
4 8 (12.90%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) Nutanix
6 4 (6.45%) OCI
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.61%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (33.87%) DNS
2 14 (22.58%) SMTP
3 12 (19.35%) DHCP
4 8 (12.90%) Firewall
4 8 (12.90%) VPN
5 6 (9.68%) NetScaler
5 6 (9.68%) SAN
6 5 (8.06%) VSAN
7 4 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (6.45%) NAS
7 4 (6.45%) SSL
8 2 (3.23%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.61%) Network Security
9 1 (1.61%) SSH
9 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.90%) Big Data
2 8 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.23%) GIS
5 2 (3.23%) MSDE
6 1 (1.61%) DB2
6 1 (1.61%) DTS
6 1 (1.61%) Power BI
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.61%) tSQLt
General
1 19 (30.65%) Public Sector
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Banking
5 6 (9.68%) Finance
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (12.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Support Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) DBA
7 5 (8.06%) Senior
8 4 (6.45%) Administrator
8 4 (6.45%) Consultant
8 4 (6.45%) Database Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) SQL DBA
9 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Database Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) SQL Server DBA
10 2 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) Flash
2 8 (12.90%) Middleware
3 4 (6.45%) Kafka
3 4 (6.45%) LDAP
3 4 (6.45%) REST
4 3 (4.84%) .NET
5 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.61%) FHIR
6 1 (1.61%) Web Services
6 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) PKI
2 13 (20.97%) Replication
3 11 (17.74%) Data Centre
4 6 (9.68%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.84%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (58.06%) Windows
2 28 (45.16%) Windows Server
3 17 (27.42%) Linux
4 10 (16.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (8.06%) Solaris
6 4 (6.45%) AIX
6 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.84%) Unix
7 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.23%) CentOS
8 2 (3.23%) VMS
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) High Availability
2 27 (43.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (29.03%) Service Management
4 16 (25.81%) Power Management
5 14 (22.58%) Agile
5 14 (22.58%) NsoIT
5 14 (22.58%) System Testing
5 14 (22.58%) Validation
6 13 (20.97%) Computer Science
6 13 (20.97%) ITIL
7 12 (19.35%) Critical Thinking
7 12 (19.35%) Waterfall
8 11 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (16.13%) DevOps
9 10 (16.13%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 8 (12.90%) Problem Management
10 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.90%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.13%) Shell Script
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 4 (6.45%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.23%) Perl
4 2 (3.23%) Python
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (46.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (35.48%) Degree
3 20 (32.26%) SC Cleared
4 14 (22.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (20.97%) CCNA
5 13 (20.97%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (19.35%) Master's Degree
7 9 (14.52%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.84%) CCNP
8 3 (4.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (3.23%) MCSA
9 2 (3.23%) MCSE
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.61%) HL7
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (48.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (41.94%) VMware ESXi
3 25 (40.32%) Active Directory
4 20 (32.26%) VMware NSX
5 16 (25.81%) Hyper-V
6 12 (19.35%) Docker
7 11 (17.74%) vSphere
8 8 (12.90%) BitLocker
8 8 (12.90%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (12.90%) Terminal Services
9 6 (9.68%) XenApp
9 6 (9.68%) XenDesktop
10 4 (6.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (41.94%) vCenter Server
2 12 (19.35%) Ansible
2 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (17.74%) Failover Clustering
3 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Clustering
4 10 (16.13%) Nagios
4 10 (16.13%) Puppet
5 9 (14.52%) WSUS
6 8 (12.90%) vMotion
7 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (9.68%) Prometheus
8 4 (6.45%) Data Guard
8 4 (6.45%) Grafana
8 4 (6.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (6.45%) Oracle Flashback
8 4 (6.45%) Podman
9 3 (4.84%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (4.84%) SCOM
10 2 (3.23%) Terraform
10 2 (3.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (64.52%) VMware
2 23 (37.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (25.81%) HP
4 14 (22.58%) Citrix
5 13 (20.97%) Cisco
6 12 (19.35%) Atlassian
6 12 (19.35%) Dell
7 11 (17.74%) Symantec
8 10 (16.13%) Oracle
9 8 (12.90%) Google
10 6 (9.68%) Red Hat
10 6 (9.68%) Splunk
11 5 (8.06%) IBM
11 5 (8.06%) SolarWinds
12 4 (6.45%) Confluent
12 4 (6.45%) Dynatrace
12 4 (6.45%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (3.23%) Juniper
13 2 (3.23%) NETGEAR
13 2 (3.23%) TP-LINK