Clustering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Clustering
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 298 338
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 -27
Contract jobs citing Clustering 74 151 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.66% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.24% 2.05% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 100 136
10th Percentile £210 £363 £301
25th Percentile £325 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +20.55% +7.35%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £638
90th Percentile £590 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile - - £46.75
25th Percentile - - £49.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £61.88
90th Percentile - - £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% - +8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,976 7,381 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.66% 32.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 4,949 6,853
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 428
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +8 18 £525 -4.55% 3
North of England -2 16 £475 -26.92% 8
South East -13 12 £575 +12.20% 9
Scotland +36 11 £340 -36.37% 1
Midlands +17 9 £288 -36.11% 9
East of England -2 7 £240 -56.36%
Yorkshire +17 6 £563 +52.03% 2
West Midlands +12 6 £288 -49.34% 5
North West -15 6 £220 -66.15% 3
North East - 4 £488 - 3
East Midlands +5 2 - - 4
Wales - 1 £600 -
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.76%) Confluence
3 4 (5.41%) IIS
4 2 (2.70%) nginx
4 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.70%) Traefik
5 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Azure
2 9 (12.16%) GitHub
3 8 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.76%) AWS
6 3 (4.05%) GCP
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.70%) IaaS
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.35%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.68%) DNS
2 15 (20.27%) DHCP
2 15 (20.27%) LAN
2 15 (20.27%) VPN
2 15 (20.27%) WAN
2 15 (20.27%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (17.57%) Firewall
3 13 (17.57%) SAN
4 8 (10.81%) MPLS
5 6 (8.11%) VLAN
5 6 (8.11%) VoIP
5 6 (8.11%) VSAN
6 4 (5.41%) SMTP
7 2 (2.70%) NAS
7 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.35%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.76%) Big Data
4 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) GitLab
2 5 (6.76%) JIRA
3 3 (4.05%) Git
4 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.81%) Aerospace
4 8 (10.81%) Finance
5 7 (9.46%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Support Engineer
2 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Linux Support
3 12 (16.22%) Linux Support Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Analyst
5 8 (10.81%) DBA
5 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (10.81%) IT Analyst
5 8 (10.81%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (9.46%) SQL DBA
7 6 (8.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 6 (8.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Database Specialist
7 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) Flash
2 4 (5.41%) LDAP
3 2 (2.70%) cloud-init
4 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.35%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.51%) Replication
3 9 (12.16%) PKI
4 8 (10.81%) Client/Server
4 8 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (8.11%) Driving Licence
6 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.35%) Smart Meter
7 1 (1.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (58.11%) Windows
2 30 (40.54%) Windows Server
3 23 (31.08%) Linux
4 13 (17.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (12.16%) Unix
7 8 (10.81%) Windows 10
7 8 (10.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (8.11%) Mac OS
8 6 (8.11%) Solaris
8 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (6.76%) VMS
10 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.70%) CentOS
11 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
12 1 (1.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.70%) High Availability
2 21 (28.38%) Migration
3 17 (22.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (21.62%) Capacity Management
4 16 (21.62%) Data Migration
4 16 (21.62%) Decision-Making
5 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.86%) Server Management
6 11 (14.86%) Task Automation
7 10 (13.51%) Agile
7 10 (13.51%) ITIL
8 9 (12.16%) Asset Management
8 9 (12.16%) Customer Service
8 9 (12.16%) Data Protection
8 9 (12.16%) Database Security
8 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.81%) Business Transformation
9 8 (10.81%) Compliance Management
9 8 (10.81%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) PowerShell
2 17 (22.97%) SQL
3 10 (13.51%) Bash
4 4 (5.41%) MATLAB
5 3 (4.05%) Python
6 2 (2.70%) Go
6 2 (2.70%) Ruby
7 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (47.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 24 (32.43%) Degree
4 12 (16.22%) DV Cleared
5 8 (10.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (9.46%) RHCE
7 6 (8.11%) MCSE
7 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (6.76%) CCNA
8 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
9 4 (5.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) SLA
2 2 (2.70%) NCSC
3 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (54.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (48.65%) Active Directory
3 15 (20.27%) Hyper-V
4 14 (18.92%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (17.57%) VMware Workstation
5 13 (17.57%) vSphere
6 9 (12.16%) VMware NSX
7 8 (10.81%) KVM
7 8 (10.81%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (5.41%) BitLocker
8 4 (5.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (5.41%) Terminal Services
9 3 (4.05%) Docker
10 1 (1.35%) DFS Replication
10 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) SCCM
2 15 (20.27%) vCenter Server
3 14 (18.92%) Microsoft Clustering
4 12 (16.22%) Ansible
5 11 (14.86%) Terraform
6 10 (13.51%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (12.16%) Nagios
8 8 (10.81%) NetBackup
9 7 (9.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 6 (8.11%) Autotask
10 6 (8.11%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
12 4 (5.41%) vMotion
13 3 (4.05%) Packer
13 3 (4.05%) Puppet
14 2 (2.70%) Graphite
14 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
14 2 (2.70%) vRealize
14 2 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (63.51%) VMware
2 23 (31.08%) Microsoft
3 15 (20.27%) Red Hat
4 9 (12.16%) Oracle
4 9 (12.16%) SolarWinds
5 8 (10.81%) Hitachi
5 8 (10.81%) NetApp
6 6 (8.11%) Apple
6 6 (8.11%) Cisco
6 6 (8.11%) Citrix
6 6 (8.11%) Datto
7 5 (6.76%) Atlassian
8 4 (5.41%) HP
8 4 (5.41%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.05%) Symantec
10 2 (2.70%) Dell
10 2 (2.70%) EMC
10 2 (2.70%) Splunk
10 2 (2.70%) Veeam
10 2 (2.70%) Veritas