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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 322 310
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +45
Contract jobs citing Clustering 56 81 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.38% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 1.33% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 50 82
10th Percentile £413 £208 £363
25th Percentile £478 £245 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £408 £545
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% -25.23% +15.96%
75th Percentile £589 £561 £638
90th Percentile £602 £588 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +8.33%
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,862 6,107 7,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.68% 29.00% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,571 4,946
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £381 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 738 379
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.26 £16.52
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% +32.69% +25.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
% change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%

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 6 July 2025.

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
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 6 July 2025. 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 East +47 19 £575 - 9
South West +33 14 £550 +4.76% 7
Scotland 0 9 £575 +68.97% 2
North of England -5 7 £425 -5.56% 20
East of England +26 5 £467 +94.38% 7
Yorkshire +3 5 £500 -11.11% 11
North West +6 2 £425 +93.18% 6
Wales +8 1 £183 -69.58% 3
Midlands +5 1 £535 +86.09% 5
West Midlands +2 1 £535 +86.09% 3
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 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (16.07%) Confluence
3 7 (12.50%) IIS
4 2 (3.57%) CICS
4 2 (3.57%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.79%) Mule
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
2 12 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 10 (17.86%) IaaS
3 10 (17.86%) PaaS
4 8 (14.29%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 4 (7.14%) OCI
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.79%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.93%) DNS
2 13 (23.21%) SMTP
3 11 (19.64%) DHCP
4 8 (14.29%) Firewall
4 8 (14.29%) VPN
5 5 (8.93%) NetScaler
5 5 (8.93%) VSAN
6 4 (7.14%) NAS
6 4 (7.14%) SAN
6 4 (7.14%) SSL
7 3 (5.36%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.79%) AMQP
8 1 (1.79%) DSL
8 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (14.29%) Big Data
1 8 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) DB2
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.79%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) Postman
2 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 11 (19.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Consultant
7 5 (8.93%) Senior
8 4 (7.14%) Database Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Administrator
9 3 (5.36%) Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (5.36%) Senior Database Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) DBA
10 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Flash
2 8 (14.29%) Middleware
3 5 (8.93%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) REST
4 4 (7.14%) LDAP
5 2 (3.57%) SOAP
5 2 (3.57%) XML
6 1 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.79%) FHIR
6 1 (1.79%) JWT
6 1 (1.79%) OAuth
6 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) PKI
2 10 (17.86%) Replication
3 8 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.14%) Mainframe
5 3 (5.36%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (3.57%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.57%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (53.57%) Windows
2 22 (39.29%) Windows Server
3 19 (33.93%) Linux
4 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.93%) Solaris
5 5 (8.93%) Windows 10
6 4 (7.14%) AIX
7 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.57%) CentOS
8 2 (3.57%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.57%) zOS
9 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) High Availability
1 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) Service Management
3 13 (23.21%) Power Management
4 11 (19.64%) Agile
4 11 (19.64%) DevOps
4 11 (19.64%) NsoIT
4 11 (19.64%) System Testing
4 11 (19.64%) Validation
5 10 (17.86%) Computer Science
5 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (16.07%) Critical Thinking
6 9 (16.07%) ITIL
6 9 (16.07%) Network Virtualisation
6 9 (16.07%) Waterfall
7 8 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 8 (14.29%) Software Deployment
8 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (12.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 8 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Java
3 2 (3.57%) Perl
3 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Python
4 1 (1.79%) DataWeave
4 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.14%) Degree
3 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (19.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (17.86%) CCNA
5 10 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (16.07%) DV Cleared
6 9 (16.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (5.36%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.79%) CCNP
8 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.79%) HL7
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (48.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 23 (41.07%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (30.36%) Hyper-V
5 16 (28.57%) VMware NSX
6 12 (21.43%) Docker
7 9 (16.07%) vSphere
8 8 (14.29%) BitLocker
8 8 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (14.29%) Terminal Services
9 5 (8.93%) XenApp
9 5 (8.93%) XenDesktop
10 4 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (7.14%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (1.79%) GPFS
11 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) vCenter Server
2 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 12 (21.43%) Ansible
4 10 (17.86%) Failover Clustering
4 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Clustering
4 10 (17.86%) Nagios
5 9 (16.07%) Puppet
6 8 (14.29%) vMotion
6 8 (14.29%) WSUS
7 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
8 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (7.14%) Data Guard
9 4 (7.14%) Grafana
9 4 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (7.14%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (5.36%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (5.36%) Podman
10 3 (5.36%) Terraform
11 2 (3.57%) SCVMM
11 2 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (64.29%) VMware
2 22 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (28.57%) HP
4 13 (23.21%) Citrix
5 12 (21.43%) Dell
6 11 (19.64%) Symantec
7 10 (17.86%) Cisco
7 10 (17.86%) Oracle
8 9 (16.07%) Atlassian
9 8 (14.29%) Google
10 6 (10.71%) IBM
11 5 (8.93%) Red Hat
11 5 (8.93%) SolarWinds
12 4 (7.14%) Confluent
12 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
12 4 (7.14%) Splunk
13 3 (5.36%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (5.36%) SAP
14 2 (3.57%) Juniper
14 2 (3.57%) Sun
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