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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 415 483
Rank change year-on-year -14 +68 -54
Contract jobs citing Clustering 152 295 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 1.55% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 196 318
10th Percentile £210 £400 £363
25th Percentile £325 £463 £443
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 £731 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% +9.76%
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% -7.17%

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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +6 134 £500 -10.71% 65
UK excluding London -23 75 £475 -13.64% 44
London +76 67 £560 -6.67% 25
Work from Home +57 64 £563 +8.17% 32
South West +6 18 £525 -4.55% 6
North of England 0 17 £475 -26.92% 9
South East 0 12 £575 +10.58% 14
Scotland +36 11 £340 -36.37% 2
Midlands +11 9 £288 -36.11% 10
East of England -1 7 £240 -56.36% 2
North West -14 7 £220 -66.15% 2
West Midlands +20 6 £288 -49.34% 4
Yorkshire +15 6 £563 +52.03% 6
North East - 4 £488 - 1
East Midlands +11 2 - - 6
Wales - 1 - - 1

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 22 (14.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (7.24%) Confluence
4 8 (5.26%) IIS
5 3 (1.97%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.97%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.97%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (1.97%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.32%) nginx
6 2 (1.32%) Traefik
7 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.66%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.21%) AWS
2 40 (26.32%) Azure
3 18 (11.84%) dbt
3 18 (11.84%) Snowflake
4 14 (9.21%) PaaS
5 13 (8.55%) GCP
5 13 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (8.55%) SaaS
6 11 (7.24%) Entra ID
6 11 (7.24%) GitHub
7 10 (6.58%) IaaS
8 8 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (5.26%) Nutanix
9 6 (3.95%) Rubrik
10 4 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 38 (25.00%) DNS
2 34 (22.37%) DHCP
3 28 (18.42%) Firewall
4 24 (15.79%) SAN
5 21 (13.82%) WAN
6 20 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (11.84%) LAN
7 18 (11.84%) VPN
8 16 (10.53%) TCP/IP
9 14 (9.21%) VLAN
10 13 (8.55%) NAS
11 11 (7.24%) MPLS
12 8 (5.26%) VoIP
13 6 (3.95%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (3.95%) Kerberos
13 6 (3.95%) VSAN
14 5 (3.29%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (3.29%) HTTP
14 5 (3.29%) Network Security
14 5 (3.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 23 (15.13%) Big Data
3 18 (11.84%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (11.84%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (11.84%) Data Lake
3 18 (11.84%) Dremio
3 18 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.55%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.58%) MySQL
6 7 (4.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.55%) Git
1 13 (8.55%) JIRA
2 12 (7.89%) GitLab
3 9 (5.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.95%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.66%) tSQLt
General
1 47 (30.92%) Social Skills
2 38 (25.00%) Finance
3 23 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.26%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.63%) Banking
7 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.32%) German Language
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (13.16%) Support Engineer
2 19 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 18 (11.84%) Big Data Engineer
3 18 (11.84%) Site Engineer
4 17 (11.18%) DBA
5 15 (9.87%) SQL DBA
6 12 (7.89%) Analyst
7 11 (7.24%) Administrator
7 11 (7.24%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (7.24%) Linux Support
7 11 (7.24%) Linux Support Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Database Specialist
8 8 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) IT Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.84%) gRPC
1 18 (11.84%) LDAP
1 18 (11.84%) Protocol Buffers
2 5 (3.29%) Flash
3 4 (2.63%) SAML
4 3 (1.97%) Node.js
4 3 (1.97%) OpenID
5 2 (1.32%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.66%) FHIR
6 1 (0.66%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.66%) OAuth
6 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.66%) Web Services
6 1 (0.66%) XML
6 1 (0.66%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Replication
2 22 (14.47%) Data Centre
3 18 (11.84%) Hedge funds
4 14 (9.21%) PKI
5 11 (7.24%) Client/Server
6 8 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.61%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.61%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.32%) Equities
9 2 (1.32%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.32%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.66%) NHS
10 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 75 (49.34%) Windows
2 46 (30.26%) Windows Server
3 43 (28.29%) Linux
4 16 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (8.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (7.24%) Solaris
6 11 (7.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (6.58%) Windows 10
8 9 (5.92%) Unix
9 8 (5.26%) Mac OS
10 7 (4.61%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (3.95%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (3.29%) VMS
12 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (1.32%) CentOS
14 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (42.76%) High Availability
2 38 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 37 (24.34%) DevOps
4 29 (19.08%) Asset Management
5 28 (18.42%) Migration
5 28 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (15.13%) Decision-Making
7 23 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (13.82%) Investment Management
10 20 (13.16%) Agile
11 19 (12.50%) Capacity Management
12 18 (11.84%) ITIL
13 17 (11.18%) Storage Management
13 17 (11.18%) Task Automation
14 16 (10.53%) Data Migration
15 12 (7.89%) Database Security
15 12 (7.89%) Service Management
16 11 (7.24%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.55%) PowerShell
2 41 (26.97%) SQL
3 36 (23.68%) Python
4 23 (15.13%) Go
5 20 (13.16%) Bash
5 20 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 18 (11.84%) Java
7 4 (2.63%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.97%) C
9 2 (1.32%) Perl
9 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.32%) Ruby
9 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.66%) R
10 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (22.37%) Degree
4 16 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (7.89%) MCSE
7 10 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (5.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.95%) RHCE
10 5 (3.29%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.29%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.29%) CCDP
10 5 (3.29%) CCNA
10 5 (3.29%) CCNP
10 5 (3.29%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.63%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (1.97%) MCITP
12 3 (1.97%) MCTS
13 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.61%) GDPR
1 7 (4.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (3.95%) SLA
3 2 (1.32%) NCSC
4 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.66%) HL7
4 1 (0.66%) IFRS
4 1 (0.66%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (38.82%) Active Directory
2 55 (36.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (14.47%) Hyper-V
4 18 (11.84%) Docker
5 17 (11.18%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (10.53%) vSphere
7 13 (8.55%) VMware Workstation
8 11 (7.24%) VMware NSX
9 8 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (4.61%) KVM
11 5 (3.29%) BitLocker
11 5 (3.29%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (3.29%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.32%) XenApp
13 1 (0.66%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.66%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.66%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (26.97%) Terraform
2 40 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 27 (17.76%) Ansible
4 24 (15.79%) SCCM
5 22 (14.47%) Microsoft Clustering
6 20 (13.16%) Prometheus
7 18 (11.84%) vCenter Server
8 17 (11.18%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (5.92%) Nagios
10 8 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (5.26%) NetBackup
10 8 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (3.95%) Autotask
11 6 (3.95%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (3.95%) Netcool
11 6 (3.95%) Tivoli
11 6 (3.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 5 (3.29%) vMotion
13 4 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (44.08%) VMware
2 48 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 23 (15.13%) Oracle
4 18 (11.84%) Cisco
4 18 (11.84%) Splunk
5 14 (9.21%) Red Hat
6 13 (8.55%) ServiceNow
7 12 (7.89%) HP
8 11 (7.24%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.92%) Citrix
9 9 (5.92%) CyberArk
9 9 (5.92%) Dell
9 9 (5.92%) EMC
10 8 (5.26%) Hitachi
10 8 (5.26%) Infoblox
10 8 (5.26%) NetApp
11 7 (4.61%) IBM
12 6 (3.95%) Apple
12 6 (3.95%) Qualys
12 6 (3.95%) Serena