Clustering Contracts

Clustering
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 414 452
Rank change year-on-year -12 +38 -18
Contract jobs citing Clustering 149 291 458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.52% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 1.56% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 193 339
10th Percentile £210 £400 £363
25th Percentile £325 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £850 £735 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £456
% change year-on-year -13.64% +20.55% +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile - - £43.13
25th Percentile - - £49.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £67.13
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

Clustering is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England -22 130 £504 -10.69% 47
UK excluding London -34 74 £475 -13.64% 30
London +66 65 £560 -6.67% 12
Work from Home +55 62 £563 +8.17% 29
South West +4 18 £525 -4.55% 3
North of England -7 16 £475 -26.92% 8
South East -11 12 £575 +12.20% 9
Scotland +32 11 £340 -36.37% 1
Midlands +15 9 £288 -36.11% 9
East of England -5 7 £240 -56.36%
Yorkshire +14 6 £563 +52.03% 2
West Midlands +11 6 £288 -49.34% 5
North West -9 6 £220 -66.15% 3
North East - 4 £488 - 3
East Midlands +7 2 - - 4
Wales - 1 £600 -

Clustering
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.08%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (6.71%) Confluence
4 8 (5.37%) IIS
5 3 (2.01%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.01%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.01%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.34%) nginx
6 2 (1.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.34%) Traefik
7 1 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.67%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.56%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Azure
3 18 (12.08%) dbt
3 18 (12.08%) Snowflake
4 13 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.05%) GCP
5 12 (8.05%) PaaS
6 11 (7.38%) GitHub
6 11 (7.38%) SaaS
7 10 (6.71%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.04%) IaaS
9 7 (4.70%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.03%) Nutanix
11 5 (3.36%) Rubrik
12 4 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 35 (23.49%) DNS
2 31 (20.81%) DHCP
3 25 (16.78%) Firewall
4 22 (14.77%) SAN
5 20 (13.42%) WAN
5 20 (13.42%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (11.41%) LAN
6 17 (11.41%) VPN
7 15 (10.07%) TCP/IP
8 13 (8.72%) VLAN
9 11 (7.38%) MPLS
9 11 (7.38%) NAS
10 8 (5.37%) VoIP
11 6 (4.03%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (4.03%) VSAN
12 5 (3.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.36%) HTTP
12 5 (3.36%) Kerberos
12 5 (3.36%) Network Security
12 5 (3.36%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (30.87%) SQL Server
2 23 (15.44%) Big Data
3 18 (12.08%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (12.08%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (12.08%) Data Lake
3 18 (12.08%) Dremio
3 18 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (7.38%) MySQL
6 6 (4.03%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.34%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) Git
1 12 (8.05%) GitLab
1 12 (8.05%) JIRA
2 8 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.36%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.83%) Finance
3 23 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.37%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Banking
7 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.34%) German Language
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (14.09%) Support Engineer
2 19 (12.75%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (12.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 18 (12.08%) Big Data Engineer
3 18 (12.08%) DBA
3 18 (12.08%) Site Engineer
4 15 (10.07%) SQL DBA
5 12 (8.05%) Administrator
5 12 (8.05%) Analyst
5 12 (8.05%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (8.05%) Linux Support
5 12 (8.05%) Linux Support Engineer
6 8 (5.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 8 (5.37%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (5.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (5.37%) Database Specialist
6 8 (5.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (5.37%) IT Analyst
6 8 (5.37%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.08%) gRPC
1 18 (12.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 16 (10.74%) LDAP
3 5 (3.36%) Flash
4 4 (2.68%) SAML
5 3 (2.01%) Node.js
5 3 (2.01%) OpenID
6 2 (1.34%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.34%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.67%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.67%) OAuth
7 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.67%) Web Services
7 1 (0.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.11%) Replication
2 22 (14.77%) Data Centre
3 18 (12.08%) Hedge funds
4 13 (8.72%) PKI
5 11 (7.38%) Client/Server
6 8 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.70%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.34%) Equities
9 2 (1.34%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.34%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 72 (48.32%) Windows
2 43 (28.86%) Windows Server
3 42 (28.19%) Linux
4 15 (10.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (10.07%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (8.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (7.38%) Solaris
7 10 (6.71%) Windows 10
7 10 (6.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (6.04%) Unix
9 8 (5.37%) Mac OS
10 6 (4.03%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (3.36%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.36%) VMS
12 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (1.34%) CentOS
14 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.28%) High Availability
2 38 (25.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (24.16%) DevOps
4 29 (19.46%) Asset Management
5 27 (18.12%) Migration
5 27 (18.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (16.11%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (15.44%) Decision-Making
7 23 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (14.09%) Investment Management
10 19 (12.75%) Capacity Management
11 18 (12.08%) Agile
12 17 (11.41%) ITIL
12 17 (11.41%) Task Automation
13 16 (10.74%) Data Migration
13 16 (10.74%) Storage Management
14 12 (8.05%) Database Security
14 12 (8.05%) Service Management
15 11 (7.38%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.21%) PowerShell
2 39 (26.17%) SQL
3 35 (23.49%) Python
4 23 (15.44%) Go
5 20 (13.42%) JavaScript
6 19 (12.75%) Bash
7 18 (12.08%) Java
8 4 (2.68%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.01%) C
10 2 (1.34%) Perl
10 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.34%) Ruby
11 1 (0.67%) R
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (31.54%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 34 (22.82%) Degree
4 15 (10.07%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (8.05%) MCSE
6 10 (6.71%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.70%) RHCE
9 5 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.36%) CCDP
9 5 (3.36%) CCNA
9 5 (3.36%) CCNP
9 5 (3.36%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.68%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (2.01%) MCITP
11 3 (2.01%) MCTS
12 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) SLA
2 6 (4.03%) GDPR
2 6 (4.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.34%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.67%) IFRS
4 1 (0.67%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (36.91%) Active Directory
2 52 (34.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (13.42%) Hyper-V
4 17 (11.41%) Docker
5 16 (10.74%) vSphere
6 15 (10.07%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (8.72%) VMware Workstation
8 10 (6.71%) VMware NSX
9 8 (5.37%) KVM
9 8 (5.37%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (2.68%) BitLocker
10 4 (2.68%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (2.68%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (1.34%) XenApp
12 1 (0.67%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.67%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (26.85%) Terraform
2 39 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.45%) Ansible
4 24 (16.11%) SCCM
5 22 (14.77%) Microsoft Clustering
6 20 (13.42%) Prometheus
7 17 (11.41%) Failover Clustering
8 16 (10.74%) vCenter Server
9 9 (6.04%) Nagios
10 8 (5.37%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (5.37%) NetBackup
10 8 (5.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (4.03%) Autotask
12 5 (3.36%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (3.36%) Netcool
12 5 (3.36%) Tivoli
12 5 (3.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (2.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 63 (42.28%) VMware
2 44 (29.53%) Microsoft
3 22 (14.77%) Oracle
4 17 (11.41%) Cisco
5 16 (10.74%) Splunk
6 15 (10.07%) Red Hat
7 12 (8.05%) ServiceNow
8 11 (7.38%) HP
8 11 (7.38%) SolarWinds
9 8 (5.37%) Citrix
9 8 (5.37%) CyberArk
9 8 (5.37%) Hitachi
9 8 (5.37%) NetApp
10 7 (4.70%) Dell
10 7 (4.70%) EMC
10 7 (4.70%) Infoblox
11 6 (4.03%) Apple
11 6 (4.03%) Datto
11 6 (4.03%) IBM
12 5 (3.36%) Arista