Clustering Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Clustering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 57 69
Rank change year-on-year -27 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Clustering 9 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.74% 0.85% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.38% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.11% +33.93%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile £630 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.11% +52.03%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 446 210 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 36.56% 35.71% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 131 146
10th Percentile £313 £303 £263
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £592
90th Percentile £668 £625 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 36
10th Percentile £16.03 £27.29 -
25th Percentile £17.92 £28.86 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.81 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.90% +143.04% -37.21%
75th Percentile £28.00 £66.35 £15.19
90th Percentile £42.36 £85.67 £16.76
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £24.25 £14.63
% change year-on-year -1.03% +65.81% +37.58%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in West Yorkshire

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Leeds -15 7 £525 +5.00% 1
Halifax - 2 £625 -
Clustering
Yorkshire

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) DBA
2 3 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Middleware
2 5 (55.56%) ISPF
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Mainframe
2 3 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Database Security
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) RedGate
2 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle