Clustering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 272 290 352
Rank change year-on-year +18 +62 +104
Contract jobs citing Clustering 32 55 126
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.36% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.98% 1.25% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 85
10th Percentile £373 £290 £400
25th Percentile £506 £364 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £594 £850 £645
90th Percentile £738 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £565
% change year-on-year +15.79% -15.93% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Clustering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Clustering.

Clustering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Clustering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Clustering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Clustering.

Clustering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (34.38%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) IIS
3 1 (3.13%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) IaaS
2 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
2 2 (6.25%) PaaS
2 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.13%) Cloudflare
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
3 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) NetScaler
3 2 (6.25%) SMTP
3 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) SSH
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (9.38%) Star Schema
4 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (6.25%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.13%) DB2
5 1 (3.13%) Informix
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) QlikView
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.13%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
3 8 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Arabic Language
5 1 (3.13%) French Language
5 1 (3.13%) German Language
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Japanese Language
5 1 (3.13%) Korean Language
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (9.38%) DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Splunk Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Migration Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Flash
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.13%) FHIR
2 1 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.13%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Web Services
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Replication
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.50%) Unix
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Solaris
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.13%) AIX
6 1 (3.13%) CentOS
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) High Availability
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Service Management
3 10 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 10 (31.25%) Critical Thinking
3 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (31.25%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (31.25%) NsoIT
3 10 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (31.25%) Power Management
3 10 (31.25%) System Testing
3 10 (31.25%) Validation
3 10 (31.25%) Waterfall
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (12.50%) Data Security
6 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) Degree
3 10 (31.25%) CCNA
3 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 10 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.13%) HL7
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (34.38%) VMware NSX
4 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
5 2 (6.25%) vSphere
5 2 (6.25%) XenApp
5 2 (6.25%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.13%) Docker
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) vCenter Server
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Tivoli
3 2 (6.25%) WSUS
4 1 (3.13%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.13%) Nagios
4 1 (3.13%) Netcool
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (3.13%) TADDM
4 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) VMware
2 11 (34.38%) Cisco
3 10 (31.25%) Atlassian
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.50%) Dell
5 4 (12.50%) IBM
6 3 (9.38%) HP
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle
6 3 (9.38%) Splunk
7 2 (6.25%) Citrix
7 2 (6.25%) Qualys
7 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.25%) Sybase
8 1 (3.13%) Atempo
8 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
8 1 (3.13%) EMC
8 1 (3.13%) Informatica
8 1 (3.13%) Isilon
8 1 (3.13%) RedGate
8 1 (3.13%) Serena