Clustering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 277 351 411
Rank change year-on-year +74 +60 -45
Contract jobs citing Clustering 64 106 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.41% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 72 171
10th Percentile £300 £400 £315
25th Percentile £450 £436 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -0.95% +7.47%
75th Percentile £850 £653 £625
90th Percentile - £734 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Clustering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Clustering.

Clustering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Clustering over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Clustering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Clustering.

Clustering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (28.13%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (10.94%) IIS
4 5 (7.81%) Confluence
5 3 (4.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) AWS
2 18 (28.13%) dbt
2 18 (28.13%) Snowflake
3 16 (25.00%) Azure
4 7 (10.94%) GCP
4 7 (10.94%) SaaS
5 6 (9.38%) PaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (7.81%) IaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Nutanix
6 5 (7.81%) Rubrik
7 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.75%) DHCP
1 12 (18.75%) DNS
2 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
3 6 (9.38%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (9.38%) Firewall
3 6 (9.38%) NAS
3 6 (9.38%) SAN
4 5 (7.81%) BGP
4 5 (7.81%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (7.81%) HTTP
4 5 (7.81%) Kerberos
4 5 (7.81%) Network Security
4 5 (7.81%) OSPF
4 5 (7.81%) SNMP
4 5 (7.81%) VLAN
5 3 (4.69%) MPLS
5 3 (4.69%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.69%) WAN
5 3 (4.69%) Wireshark
6 2 (3.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) Big Data
2 19 (29.69%) SQL Server
3 18 (28.13%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (28.13%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (28.13%) Data Lake
3 18 (28.13%) Dremio
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.81%) MySQL
5 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.69%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.13%) Power BI
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (51.56%) Finance
2 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) AWS Engineer
1 19 (29.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 18 (28.13%) Big Data Engineer
2 18 (28.13%) Site Engineer
3 9 (14.06%) DBA
4 6 (9.38%) SQL DBA
5 5 (7.81%) Administrator
5 5 (7.81%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Server Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Applications Support
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) gRPC
1 18 (28.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 7 (10.94%) LDAP
3 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.13%) OpenID
3 2 (3.13%) SailPoint
3 2 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Hedge funds
2 10 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 9 (14.06%) Replication
4 2 (3.13%) Equities
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.06%) Windows
2 14 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 11 (17.19%) Linux
4 8 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (7.81%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.81%) Solaris
6 4 (6.25%) VMS
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) DevOps
2 24 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 21 (32.81%) Investment Management
4 20 (31.25%) Asset Management
5 19 (29.69%) High Availability
6 16 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.94%) ITIL
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
10 6 (9.38%) Agile
10 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.81%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (7.81%) Security Hardening
11 5 (7.81%) Server Patching
11 5 (7.81%) Storage Management
11 5 (7.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 19 (29.69%) JavaScript
2 19 (29.69%) SQL
3 18 (28.13%) Go
3 18 (28.13%) Java
4 17 (26.56%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.50%) Bash
6 2 (3.13%) Perl
6 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.56%) R
7 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) CCDP
3 5 (7.81%) CCNP
3 5 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) MCSE
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) MCSA
6 1 (1.56%) OCP
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) GDPR
1 6 (9.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.56%) IFRS
2 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (17.19%) Docker
3 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.13%) XenApp
5 1 (1.56%) DFS Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.56%) vSphere
5 1 (1.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (45.31%) Kubernetes
2 28 (43.75%) Terraform
3 18 (28.13%) Prometheus
4 11 (17.19%) Ansible
5 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (7.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (7.81%) Netcool
6 5 (7.81%) Tivoli
6 5 (7.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (6.25%) SCCM
8 3 (4.69%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (4.69%) Kibana
8 3 (4.69%) SCOM
9 2 (3.13%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (3.13%) WSUS
10 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.56%) SCOrch
10 1 (1.56%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.88%) Splunk
3 12 (18.75%) Cisco
4 11 (17.19%) ServiceNow
5 9 (14.06%) Oracle
5 9 (14.06%) VMware
6 8 (12.50%) CyberArk
6 8 (12.50%) HP
7 5 (7.81%) Arista
7 5 (7.81%) Aruba
7 5 (7.81%) Dell
7 5 (7.81%) EMC
7 5 (7.81%) IBM
7 5 (7.81%) Isilon
7 5 (7.81%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.81%) Qualys
7 5 (7.81%) Serena
7 5 (7.81%) Zscaler
8 4 (6.25%) Meraki
9 3 (4.69%) Infoblox