Clustering Contracts in London

Clustering
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 394 406
Rank change year-on-year +66 +12 -63
Contract jobs citing Clustering 65 93 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.37% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 1.01% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 63 157
10th Percentile £211 £433 £450
25th Percentile £300 £523 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £850 £691 £663
90th Percentile - £1,055 £744
England median daily rate £504 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -10.69% -1.96% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.38
25th Percentile - - £46.56
Median hourly rate - - £53.75
75th Percentile - - £61.56
90th Percentile - - £65.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,183 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 36.10% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,671 10,256
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £714
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.14
% change year-on-year +60.11% -13.97% +2.49%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Clustering in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Clustering in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Clustering in London

Clustering
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +20 3 £625 +17.10%
North London - 2 £250 -
West London - 2 £159 -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (27.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.69%) Confluence
3 3 (4.62%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (4.62%) IIS
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.62%) OpenStack
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (66.15%) AWS
2 21 (32.31%) Azure
3 18 (27.69%) dbt
3 18 (27.69%) Snowflake
4 11 (16.92%) SaaS
5 10 (15.38%) PaaS
6 9 (13.85%) GCP
7 6 (9.23%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (9.23%) IaaS
8 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (7.69%) Nutanix
8 5 (7.69%) Rubrik
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.08%) GitHub
11 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.54%) OCI
11 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.08%) DHCP
1 15 (23.08%) DNS
2 13 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 12 (18.46%) Firewall
4 9 (13.85%) NAS
4 9 (13.85%) SAN
5 7 (10.77%) VLAN
6 5 (7.69%) BGP
6 5 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (7.69%) HTTP
6 5 (7.69%) Kerberos
6 5 (7.69%) Network Security
6 5 (7.69%) OSPF
6 5 (7.69%) SNMP
6 5 (7.69%) WAN
6 5 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (4.62%) MPLS
7 3 (4.62%) SSH
7 3 (4.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 18 (27.69%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (27.69%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (27.69%) Big Data
2 18 (27.69%) Data Lake
2 18 (27.69%) Dremio
3 10 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (13.85%) MySQL
5 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.54%) MarkLogic
8 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Git
2 7 (10.77%) JIRA
3 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 25 (38.46%) Finance
2 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) German Language
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) AWS Engineer
1 18 (27.69%) Big Data Engineer
1 18 (27.69%) Site Engineer
1 18 (27.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (9.23%) Consultant
3 5 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) DBA
4 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Server Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) SQL DBA
5 3 (4.62%) Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (3.08%) Applications Support
6 2 (3.08%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Database Specialist
6 2 (3.08%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) gRPC
1 18 (27.69%) Protocol Buffers
2 12 (18.46%) LDAP
3 4 (6.15%) SAML
4 3 (4.62%) Node.js
4 3 (4.62%) OpenID
5 2 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.08%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.54%) OAuth
6 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Hedge funds
2 12 (18.46%) Replication
3 9 (13.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.62%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.62%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.62%) PKI
4 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.08%) Equities
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.38%) Windows
2 19 (29.23%) Linux
3 8 (12.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.69%) Solaris
5 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) DevOps
2 26 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 21 (32.31%) Investment Management
4 20 (30.77%) Asset Management
5 19 (29.23%) High Availability
6 15 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (12.31%) Agile
8 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.31%) Load Balancing
8 8 (12.31%) Storage Management
9 7 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.77%) Security Hardening
10 6 (9.23%) Data Security
10 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) Python
2 21 (32.31%) Go
3 20 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 18 (27.69%) Java
5 17 (26.15%) PowerShell
5 17 (26.15%) SQL
6 9 (13.85%) Bash
7 3 (4.62%) C
8 2 (3.08%) Perl
9 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.69%) CCDP
4 5 (7.69%) CCNP
4 5 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.62%) MCITP
5 3 (4.62%) MCSE
5 3 (4.62%) MCTS
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) GDPR
1 5 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) Docker
3 11 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.08%) vSphere
6 1 (1.54%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.54%) XenApp
6 1 (1.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (50.77%) Kubernetes
2 28 (43.08%) Terraform
3 18 (27.69%) Prometheus
4 14 (21.54%) Ansible
5 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (9.23%) SCCM
6 5 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (7.69%) Netcool
6 5 (7.69%) Tivoli
6 5 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Kibana
7 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.08%) Backup Exec
8 2 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.08%) SCOM
8 2 (3.08%) WSUS
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (1.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.08%) VMware
3 14 (21.54%) Splunk
4 12 (18.46%) Oracle
5 11 (16.92%) Cisco
6 7 (10.77%) CyberArk
6 7 (10.77%) HP
6 7 (10.77%) ServiceNow
7 6 (9.23%) IBM
8 5 (7.69%) Arista
8 5 (7.69%) Aruba
8 5 (7.69%) Dell
8 5 (7.69%) EMC
8 5 (7.69%) Isilon
8 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 5 (7.69%) Qualys
8 5 (7.69%) Serena
8 5 (7.69%) Zscaler
9 3 (4.62%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.62%) Meraki