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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 286 331
Rank change year-on-year -43 +45 -21
Contract jobs citing Clustering 72 145 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 1.99% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 92 140
10th Percentile £210 £364 £302
25th Percentile £300 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £632
90th Percentile £588 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile - - £46.75
25th Percentile - - £49.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -6.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £61.88
90th Percentile - - £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% - +8.33%

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 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 22 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 22 June 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
South West +1 17 £525 -4.55% 5
North of England -11 17 £475 -26.92% 6
Scotland +44 11 £340 -36.37% 1
South East -8 10 £575 +19.48% 14
Midlands +9 9 £288 -39.47% 1
Yorkshire +11 7 £563 +52.03% 1
East of England -5 7 £240 -56.36% 2
West Midlands +14 6 £288 -49.34% 1
North West -15 5 £220 -66.15% 3
North East - 5 £475 - 2
East Midlands +3 2 - -
Wales - 1 £600 -
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 18 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.56%) Confluence
2 4 (5.56%) IIS
3 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.39%) nginx
4 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.11%) GitHub
4 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.56%) AWS
6 2 (2.78%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) IaaS
6 2 (2.78%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.39%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.00%) DNS
2 16 (22.22%) LAN
2 16 (22.22%) VPN
2 16 (22.22%) WAN
2 16 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (20.83%) DHCP
4 14 (19.44%) Firewall
5 13 (18.06%) SAN
6 8 (11.11%) MPLS
7 7 (9.72%) VLAN
7 7 (9.72%) VoIP
8 5 (6.94%) VSAN
9 4 (5.56%) SMTP
10 2 (2.78%) NAS
11 1 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.39%) NetScaler
11 1 (1.39%) Skype
11 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.94%) Big Data
4 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 8 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.72%) Finance
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Support Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Linux Support
3 12 (16.67%) Linux Support Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) DBA
4 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (9.72%) SQL DBA
6 6 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 6 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Database Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) Flash
1 4 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (1.39%) cloud-init
2 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.39%) Keycloak
2 1 (1.39%) Middleware
2 1 (1.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.50%) Replication
3 8 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 8 (11.11%) PKI
4 7 (9.72%) Driving Licence
4 7 (9.72%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.39%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.39%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (62.50%) Windows
2 31 (43.06%) Windows Server
3 23 (31.94%) Linux
4 14 (19.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (13.89%) Unix
6 9 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (9.72%) Mac OS
7 7 (9.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (8.33%) Solaris
9 5 (6.94%) VMS
10 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (1.39%) CentOS
12 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
12 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.00%) High Availability
2 20 (27.78%) Migration
3 17 (23.61%) Decision-Making
3 17 (23.61%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (20.83%) Capacity Management
4 15 (20.83%) Data Migration
5 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.28%) Server Management
7 10 (13.89%) ITIL
7 10 (13.89%) Task Automation
8 9 (12.50%) Asset Management
8 9 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 9 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 8 (11.11%) Business Transformation
9 8 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (11.11%) Compliance Management
9 8 (11.11%) Database Security
9 8 (11.11%) Network Management
9 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 17 (23.61%) SQL
3 8 (11.11%) Bash
4 4 (5.56%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.78%) Python
6 1 (1.39%) Go
6 1 (1.39%) Ruby
6 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 24 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (31.94%) Degree
4 11 (15.28%) DV Cleared
5 7 (9.72%) MCSE
5 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (9.72%) RHCE
5 7 (9.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (6.94%) CCNA
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.56%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (52.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (51.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 14 (19.44%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (18.06%) VMware Workstation
6 12 (16.67%) vSphere
7 8 (11.11%) KVM
7 8 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (11.11%) VMware NSX
8 4 (5.56%) BitLocker
8 4 (5.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (5.56%) Terminal Services
9 2 (2.78%) Docker
10 1 (1.39%) DFS Replication
10 1 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) SCCM
2 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Clustering
2 14 (19.44%) vCenter Server
3 11 (15.28%) Failover Clustering
4 10 (13.89%) Ansible
5 9 (12.50%) Nagios
5 9 (12.50%) Terraform
6 8 (11.11%) NetBackup
7 7 (9.72%) Autotask
7 7 (9.72%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
9 4 (5.56%) vMotion
10 2 (2.78%) Packer
10 2 (2.78%) Puppet
10 2 (2.78%) vRealize
10 2 (2.78%) VxRail
11 1 (1.39%) Consul
11 1 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 45 (62.50%) VMware
2 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
3 14 (19.44%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.11%) Hitachi
4 8 (11.11%) NetApp
4 8 (11.11%) Oracle
4 8 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 7 (9.72%) Datto
6 6 (8.33%) Apple
6 6 (8.33%) Citrix
7 5 (6.94%) Cisco
8 4 (5.56%) Atlassian
8 4 (5.56%) HP
8 4 (5.56%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.17%) Symantec
10 2 (2.78%) Dell
10 2 (2.78%) EMC
10 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.78%) Veritas
11 1 (1.39%) Meraki