Clustering Contracts in England

Clustering
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 407 436
Rank change year-on-year -14 +29 -25
Contract jobs citing Clustering 129 240 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.14% 1.52% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 155 305
10th Percentile £210 £385 £363
25th Percentile £300 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -2.61% +21.05%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £850 £750 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile - - £42.38
25th Percentile - - £44.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% - +8.33%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in England

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in England

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in England

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in England

Clustering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clustering in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Clustering in England

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +55 66 £560 -6.67% 24
South West +1 17 £525 -4.55% 2
North of England -11 17 £475 -26.92% 9
South East -8 10 £575 +19.48% 15
Midlands +9 9 £288 -39.47% 4
Yorkshire +11 7 £563 +52.03% 2
East of England -5 7 £240 -56.36% 1
West Midlands +14 6 £288 -49.34% 2
North West -15 5 £220 -66.15% 2
North East - 5 £475 - 5
East Midlands +3 2 - - 2
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.98%) Confluence
3 7 (5.43%) IIS
4 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.33%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.78%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.78%) Traefik
6 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 47 (36.43%) AWS
2 33 (25.58%) Azure
3 18 (13.95%) dbt
3 18 (13.95%) Snowflake
4 14 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (8.53%) GCP
5 11 (8.53%) PaaS
5 11 (8.53%) SaaS
6 10 (7.75%) GitHub
7 7 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.43%) IaaS
8 6 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.65%) Nutanix
9 5 (3.88%) Rubrik
10 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (23.26%) DNS
2 27 (20.93%) DHCP
3 23 (17.83%) Firewall
4 22 (17.05%) SAN
5 21 (16.28%) WAN
5 21 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (13.95%) LAN
7 15 (11.63%) VPN
8 14 (10.85%) TCP/IP
8 14 (10.85%) VLAN
9 11 (8.53%) MPLS
9 11 (8.53%) NAS
10 9 (6.98%) VoIP
11 6 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (3.88%) BGP
12 5 (3.88%) HTTP
12 5 (3.88%) Kerberos
12 5 (3.88%) Network Security
12 5 (3.88%) OSPF
12 5 (3.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (32.56%) SQL Server
2 22 (17.05%) Big Data
3 18 (13.95%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (13.95%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (13.95%) Data Lake
3 18 (13.95%) Dremio
4 17 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.75%) MySQL
6 8 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.88%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Git
1 11 (8.53%) JIRA
2 10 (7.75%) GitLab
3 7 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.88%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.58%) Finance
3 19 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.20%) Aerospace
4 8 (6.20%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.55%) Banking
6 2 (1.55%) German Language
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
1 18 (13.95%) Big Data Engineer
1 18 (13.95%) Site Engineer
1 18 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 16 (12.40%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.85%) DBA
4 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.30%) SQL DBA
5 11 (8.53%) Analyst
6 10 (7.75%) Administrator
7 8 (6.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (6.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Database Specialist
7 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) IT Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 7 (5.43%) Platform Specialist
9 6 (4.65%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.95%) gRPC
1 18 (13.95%) Protocol Buffers
2 13 (10.08%) LDAP
3 4 (3.10%) Flash
3 4 (3.10%) SAML
4 3 (2.33%) Node.js
4 3 (2.33%) OpenID
5 2 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.55%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.78%) cloud-init
6 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.78%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) OAuth
6 1 (0.78%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.78%) Web Services
6 1 (0.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.05%) Data Centre
1 22 (17.05%) Replication
2 18 (13.95%) Hedge funds
3 11 (8.53%) Client/Server
4 8 (6.20%) Driving Licence
4 8 (6.20%) PKI
5 7 (5.43%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.55%) Equities
7 2 (1.55%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.55%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 66 (51.16%) Windows
2 36 (27.91%) Windows Server
3 35 (27.13%) Linux
4 15 (11.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (9.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (8.53%) Windows 10
7 10 (7.75%) Unix
7 10 (7.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (6.98%) Mac OS
8 9 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (3.88%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.88%) Solaris
9 5 (3.88%) VMS
9 5 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.78%) CentOS
11 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.21%) High Availability
2 34 (26.36%) DevOps
2 34 (26.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (22.48%) Asset Management
4 26 (20.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 25 (19.38%) Migration
6 23 (17.83%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (16.28%) Decision-Making
7 21 (16.28%) Investment Management
8 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.95%) Capacity Management
10 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (11.63%) Data Migration
11 15 (11.63%) Storage Management
12 14 (10.85%) Agile
12 14 (10.85%) ITIL
13 13 (10.08%) Task Automation
14 11 (8.53%) Database Security
14 11 (8.53%) Load Balancing
15 10 (7.75%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.56%) PowerShell
2 35 (27.13%) SQL
3 34 (26.36%) Python
4 22 (17.05%) Go
5 20 (15.50%) JavaScript
6 18 (13.95%) Java
7 17 (13.18%) Bash
8 4 (3.10%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.33%) C
10 2 (1.55%) Perl
10 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) R
11 1 (0.78%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.81%) Degree
3 23 (17.83%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (9.30%) DV Cleared
6 10 (7.75%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (7.75%) MCSE
7 7 (5.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.88%) CCDP
8 5 (3.88%) CCNA
8 5 (3.88%) CCNP
9 4 (3.10%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (3.10%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.33%) MCITP
10 3 (2.33%) MCTS
11 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) GDPR
2 5 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.78%) IFRS
3 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (39.53%) Active Directory
2 48 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.40%) Hyper-V
4 14 (10.85%) Docker
4 14 (10.85%) vSphere
5 13 (10.08%) VMware Workstation
6 11 (8.53%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (6.98%) VMware NSX
8 8 (6.20%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.55%) XenApp
10 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.78%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.78%) KVM
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.78%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.78%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (28.68%) Terraform
2 36 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 25 (19.38%) SCCM
4 23 (17.83%) Ansible
5 21 (16.28%) Microsoft Clustering
6 19 (14.73%) Prometheus
7 16 (12.40%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (7.75%) vCenter Server
9 9 (6.98%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (6.20%) Nagios
10 8 (6.20%) NetBackup
11 7 (5.43%) Autotask
11 7 (5.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (3.88%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (3.88%) Netcool
12 5 (3.88%) Tivoli
12 5 (3.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 56 (43.41%) VMware
2 40 (31.01%) Microsoft
3 21 (16.28%) Oracle
4 16 (12.40%) Cisco
5 15 (11.63%) Splunk
6 11 (8.53%) HP
7 10 (7.75%) ServiceNow
7 10 (7.75%) SolarWinds
8 8 (6.20%) CyberArk
8 8 (6.20%) Hitachi
8 8 (6.20%) NetApp
8 8 (6.20%) Red Hat
9 7 (5.43%) Datto
9 7 (5.43%) Dell
9 7 (5.43%) EMC
10 6 (4.65%) Apple
10 6 (4.65%) Aruba
10 6 (4.65%) IBM
11 5 (3.88%) Isilon
11 5 (3.88%) Palo Alto