Lustre Contracts

Lustre
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Lustre skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lustre over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 567 658
Rank change year-on-year +12 +91 +190
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Lustre 3 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.021% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.078% 0.18% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £540 £510 £380
25th Percentile £600 £563 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +41.18% +21.43%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £463
90th Percentile £780 - £470
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £400
% change year-on-year -6.98% +34.38% +14.29%

All System Software Skills
UK

Lustre falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,841 4,444 6,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 11.42% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,439 3,039 4,632
10th Percentile £225 £220 £200
25th Percentile £381 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 144 248
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.45
Median hourly rate £31.39 £24.18 £48.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% -49.75% +123.79%
75th Percentile £79.68 £58.98 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £72.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £26.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +144.23% +5.61% +30.44%

Lustre
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lustre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lustre in the UK

Lustre
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lustre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lustre

Lustre
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lustre over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lustre in the UK

Lustre
Top 5 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lustre within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 2 £600 - 7
London +28 1 £700 +14.29% 5
Work from Home +27 1 £800 +28.00% 5
UK excluding London +3 1 £500 -6.98% 2
East of England - 1 £500 - 1

Lustre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NVMe
1 2 (66.67%) PCIe
2 1 (33.33%) Contract for Difference
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Biotechnology
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
1 1 (33.33%) R
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA