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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 427 491
Rank change year-on-year +1 +64 -71
Contract jobs citing Clustering 148 292 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 1.54% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 195 302
10th Percentile £210 £400 £363
25th Percentile £306 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £596 £650 £638
90th Percentile £850 £733 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile - - £49.75
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% - +9.70%

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 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -11 129 £500 -12.47% 59
UK excluding London -20 75 £475 -13.64% 37
London +73 63 £507 -15.50% 24
Work from Home +68 61 £563 +8.17% 25
South West +14 17 £525 -4.55% 6
North of England -7 17 £475 -26.92% 4
Scotland +43 12 £340 -36.37% 4
South East -1 12 £575 +10.58% 11
Midlands +27 9 £288 -36.11% 8
East of England 0 7 £240 -56.36% 4
North West -9 7 £220 -66.15% 1
West Midlands +20 6 £288 -49.34% 4
Yorkshire +16 6 £563 +52.03% 2
North East - 4 £488 - 1
East Midlands +9 2 - - 4
Wales - 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 23 (15.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (7.43%) Confluence
4 8 (5.41%) IIS
5 3 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.03%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.35%) nginx
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.35%) Traefik
7 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.68%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.78%) AWS
2 40 (27.03%) Azure
3 16 (10.81%) dbt
3 16 (10.81%) Snowflake
4 14 (9.46%) PaaS
5 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.11%) SaaS
6 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 11 (7.43%) GCP
6 11 (7.43%) GitHub
7 10 (6.76%) IaaS
8 9 (6.08%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (5.41%) Nutanix
10 6 (4.05%) Rubrik
11 4 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 40 (27.03%) DNS
2 36 (24.32%) DHCP
3 29 (19.59%) Firewall
4 23 (15.54%) SAN
5 21 (14.19%) WAN
6 20 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (12.84%) VPN
8 18 (12.16%) LAN
9 16 (10.81%) TCP/IP
10 14 (9.46%) VLAN
11 12 (8.11%) NAS
12 11 (7.43%) MPLS
13 8 (5.41%) VoIP
14 6 (4.05%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (4.05%) Kerberos
14 6 (4.05%) SMTP
14 6 (4.05%) VSAN
15 5 (3.38%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (3.38%) HTTP
15 5 (3.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.76%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.19%) Big Data
3 16 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (10.81%) Apache Arrow
3 16 (10.81%) Data Lake
3 16 (10.81%) Dremio
3 16 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.78%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.41%) MySQL
6 7 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Git
1 13 (8.78%) JIRA
2 12 (8.11%) GitLab
3 9 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.05%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) tSQLt
General
1 48 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.32%) Finance
3 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Banking
7 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.35%) German Language
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 18 (12.16%) Support Engineer
2 17 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (11.49%) DBA
2 17 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 16 (10.81%) Big Data Engineer
3 16 (10.81%) Site Engineer
4 15 (10.14%) SQL DBA
5 12 (8.11%) Analyst
6 11 (7.43%) Administrator
7 10 (6.76%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Linux Support
7 10 (6.76%) Linux Support Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Database Specialist
8 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) IT Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.16%) LDAP
2 16 (10.81%) gRPC
2 16 (10.81%) Protocol Buffers
3 5 (3.38%) Flash
4 3 (2.03%) Node.js
4 3 (2.03%) SAML
5 2 (1.35%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.35%) OpenID
6 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.68%) FHIR
6 1 (0.68%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.68%) Web Services
6 1 (0.68%) XML
6 1 (0.68%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.89%) Replication
2 22 (14.86%) Data Centre
3 16 (10.81%) Hedge funds
4 15 (10.14%) PKI
5 11 (7.43%) Client/Server
6 8 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.73%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.73%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.35%) Equities
9 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.68%) NHS
10 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.68%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 75 (50.68%) Windows
2 48 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 41 (27.70%) Linux
4 17 (11.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (8.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (7.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (6.76%) Solaris
8 10 (6.76%) Windows 10
9 9 (6.08%) Unix
9 9 (6.08%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (5.41%) Mac OS
11 6 (4.05%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (3.38%) VMS
12 5 (3.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (1.35%) CentOS
14 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.68%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (43.24%) High Availability
2 38 (25.68%) Disaster Recovery
3 35 (23.65%) DevOps
4 28 (18.92%) Migration
5 27 (18.24%) Asset Management
6 26 (17.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 23 (15.54%) Decision-Making
7 23 (15.54%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (13.51%) Agile
10 19 (12.84%) Capacity Management
10 19 (12.84%) Investment Management
11 18 (12.16%) ITIL
12 17 (11.49%) Storage Management
12 17 (11.49%) Task Automation
13 16 (10.81%) Data Migration
14 12 (8.11%) Database Security
14 12 (8.11%) Service Management
15 11 (7.43%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.46%) PowerShell
2 40 (27.03%) SQL
3 34 (22.97%) Python
4 21 (14.19%) Go
5 20 (13.51%) Bash
6 18 (12.16%) JavaScript
7 16 (10.81%) Java
8 4 (2.70%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.03%) C
10 2 (1.35%) Perl
10 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.35%) Ruby
10 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) R
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 35 (23.65%) Degree
4 18 (12.16%) DV Cleared
5 15 (10.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (8.11%) MCSE
7 10 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (6.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.38%) CCDP
9 5 (3.38%) CCNA
9 5 (3.38%) CCNP
9 5 (3.38%) Master's Degree
9 5 (3.38%) RHCE
10 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.70%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.03%) MCITP
11 3 (2.03%) MCTS
12 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) GDPR
1 7 (4.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (3.38%) SLA
3 2 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.35%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) HL7
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (39.86%) Active Directory
2 54 (36.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (15.54%) Hyper-V
4 19 (12.84%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (12.16%) Docker
6 16 (10.81%) vSphere
7 13 (8.78%) VMware Workstation
8 10 (6.76%) VMware NSX
9 8 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (4.05%) BitLocker
10 6 (4.05%) KVM
10 6 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (4.05%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.35%) XenApp
12 1 (0.68%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.68%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (26.35%) Terraform
2 38 (25.68%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.57%) Ansible
4 23 (15.54%) SCCM
5 22 (14.86%) Microsoft Clustering
6 20 (13.51%) vCenter Server
7 18 (12.16%) Prometheus
8 15 (10.14%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (6.08%) Nagios
10 8 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (5.41%) NetBackup
10 8 (5.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (4.05%) Autotask
11 6 (4.05%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (4.05%) Netcool
11 6 (4.05%) Tivoli
11 6 (4.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 6 (4.05%) vMotion
12 3 (2.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (45.95%) VMware
2 49 (33.11%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.19%) Oracle
4 18 (12.16%) Cisco
4 18 (12.16%) Splunk
5 13 (8.78%) HP
5 13 (8.78%) Red Hat
6 12 (8.11%) ServiceNow
7 11 (7.43%) Citrix
7 11 (7.43%) SolarWinds
8 9 (6.08%) Dell
8 9 (6.08%) EMC
8 9 (6.08%) Infoblox
9 8 (5.41%) CyberArk
9 8 (5.41%) Hitachi
9 8 (5.41%) NetApp
10 7 (4.73%) IBM
11 6 (4.05%) Apple
11 6 (4.05%) Qualys
11 6 (4.05%) Serena