Hybrid/Remote Clustering Contract Job Trends

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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 284 341
Rank change year-on-year -15 +57 +67
Contract jobs citing Clustering 21 36 36
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.99% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 17
10th Percentile £330 £167 £385
25th Percentile £338 £200 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £488 £681
90th Percentile £775 £575 £693
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.00
Median hourly rate - - £57.99
75th Percentile - - £61.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.40 £39.25
% change year-on-year +33.93% -42.92% -28.65%

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 3,574 3,648 5,122
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.91% 31.04% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,240 2,328 3,536
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 65 121
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £38.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -24.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Clustering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Clustering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Clustering daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) Datadog
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Prefect
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (9.52%) Internet
2 2 (9.52%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VoIP
3 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MySQL
1 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
4 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.52%) MariaDB
5 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.76%) DB2
6 1 (4.76%) Informix
6 1 (4.76%) Metadata
6 1 (4.76%) OLAP
6 1 (4.76%) OLTP
6 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) Maven
1 2 (9.52%) PyCharm
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Arabic Language
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) French Language
4 1 (4.76%) German Language
4 1 (4.76%) Japanese Language
4 1 (4.76%) Korean Language
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Administrator
2 3 (14.29%) DBA
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Database Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
1 2 (9.52%) MyBatis
1 2 (9.52%) NumPy
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 2 (9.52%) Pandas
1 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.52%) Online Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) IBM XIV
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps
1 8 (38.10%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) High Availability
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 3 (14.29%) Data Science
5 3 (14.29%) Data Security
5 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Database Security
5 3 (14.29%) Database Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) AI
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) AWK
5 1 (4.76%) Korn
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) sed
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL Certification
3 1 (4.76%) OCP
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (4.76%) GPFS
4 1 (4.76%) NFS
4 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (9.52%) Nagios
3 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (4.76%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) TADDM
4 1 (4.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) Bloomberg
3 2 (9.52%) IBM
3 2 (9.52%) Refinitiv
3 2 (9.52%) Solace
3 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) Percona
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) VMware