Clustering Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Clustering
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in 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 135 90 97
Rank change year-on-year -45 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Clustering 12 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.44% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 1.21% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £513 - £234
25th Percentile £524 - £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.11% +52.03%
75th Percentile £624 - £569
90th Percentile £665 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,015 414 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.48% 35.88% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 251 239
10th Percentile £318 £290 £263
25th Percentile £410 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 72
10th Percentile £15.47 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.13 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.25 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +65.81% +37.58%
75th Percentile £58.00 £32.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.35 £28.46
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +25.33% -7.10% +62.33%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in Yorkshire

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -27 9 £600 +20.00% 1
South Yorkshire - 3 £610 -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) DBA
3 3 (25.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Middleware
2 5 (41.67%) ISPF
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mainframe
1 5 (41.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) zOS
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Database Security
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Key Management
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) RBAC
5 1 (8.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) RACF
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) RedGate
2 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk