Clustering Jobs

Clustering
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 600 507 796
Rank change year-on-year -93 +289 -235
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 318 520 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 1.27% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 280 249 319
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,700 £39,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £93,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £75,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.73% +15.56% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering.

Salary trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 294 £60,000 +9.09% 50
UK excluding London -176 184 £48,500 -6.73% 30
Work from Home +32 154 £85,000 +47.83% 28
London +124 130 £87,500 +52.17% 15
Midlands -21 58 £42,500 -22.73% 9
West Midlands -9 41 £42,500 -29.17% 5
South East -20 36 £48,500 -10.19% 9
North of England -29 34 £47,500 +5.56% 8
South West -55 23 £57,000 +12.32% 3
East Midlands -26 17 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire +24 16 £47,500 +21.79% 2
East of England -37 13 £55,000 -4.35%
Scotland -91 13 £32,500 -53.20% 1
North East -11 10 £32,000 -46.67% 3
North West -37 8 £50,000 -12.44% 3
Wales -8 5 £51,000 +32.47%
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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 60 (18.87%) IIS
2 55 (17.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (16.98%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.77%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.89%) SAS
6 3 (0.94%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.94%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.63%) Apache
7 2 (0.63%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) Confluence
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Maximo
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 156 (49.06%) Azure
2 119 (37.42%) AWS
3 80 (25.16%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (18.87%) Snowflake
5 54 (16.98%) dbt
6 34 (10.69%) Entra ID
7 19 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (4.72%) GCP
8 15 (4.72%) SaaS
9 13 (4.09%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.46%) GitHub
10 11 (3.46%) IaaS
10 11 (3.46%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.89%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.89%) Google Analytics
12 6 (1.89%) PaaS
13 4 (1.26%) OCI
13 4 (1.26%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 74 (23.27%) Firewall
2 63 (19.81%) WAN
3 42 (13.21%) SAN
4 39 (12.26%) DNS
5 32 (10.06%) TCP/IP
6 25 (7.86%) VPN
7 23 (7.23%) DHCP
7 23 (7.23%) Internet
8 17 (5.35%) VLAN
9 16 (5.03%) LAN
10 13 (4.09%) BGP
11 11 (3.46%) VoIP
11 11 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (3.14%) Wireless
13 9 (2.83%) MPLS
13 9 (2.83%) OSPF
13 9 (2.83%) SD-WAN
14 8 (2.52%) HTTP
14 8 (2.52%) tcpdump
14 8 (2.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (32.08%) SQL Server
2 56 (17.61%) Dremio
3 55 (17.30%) Big Data
3 55 (17.30%) Data Lake
4 54 (16.98%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (16.98%) Apache Arrow
5 26 (8.18%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.35%) MySQL
8 16 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (5.03%) MongoDB
9 15 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (3.46%) Power BI
12 9 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (2.20%) InfluxDB
14 6 (1.89%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (9.12%) Git
2 22 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.29%) JIRA
4 12 (3.77%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.94%) GitLab
6 2 (0.63%) Subversion
7 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.31%) JMeter
7 1 (0.31%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 123 (38.68%) Finance
2 65 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.09%) Law
5 13 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (3.14%) Games
6 10 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.20%) Marketing
8 6 (1.89%) Banking
9 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.94%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Back Office
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (17.61%) Site Engineer
1 56 (17.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 55 (17.30%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (16.98%) Big Data Engineer
4 51 (16.04%) Support Engineer
5 41 (12.89%) DBA
5 41 (12.89%) Senior
6 40 (12.58%) Systems Engineer
7 29 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (7.23%) Administrator
9 20 (6.29%) SQL DBA
10 17 (5.35%) Analyst
11 15 (4.72%) 3rd Line Support
11 15 (4.72%) Lead
11 15 (4.72%) SQL Server DBA
12 14 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support
13 13 (4.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 13 (4.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 12 (3.77%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.77%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.98%) gRPC
1 54 (16.98%) Protocol Buffers
2 23 (7.23%) REST
3 18 (5.66%) WebRTC
4 10 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.52%) YAML
6 7 (2.20%) .NET
7 6 (1.89%) XML
8 4 (1.26%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.26%) JSON
8 4 (1.26%) Middleware
8 4 (1.26%) Node.js
9 3 (0.94%) React
10 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.63%) WSH
11 1 (0.31%) J2EE
11 1 (0.31%) LAMP
11 1 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.98%) Hedge funds
2 44 (13.84%) Replication
3 35 (11.01%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.97%) PKI
5 18 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.40%) Data Centre
6 14 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.83%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.52%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.52%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.89%) PMI
11 5 (1.57%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 164 (51.57%) Windows
2 119 (37.42%) Windows Server
3 56 (17.61%) Linux
4 28 (8.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (8.18%) Windows 10
6 16 (5.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.40%) AIX
9 12 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
9 12 (3.77%) Solaris
9 12 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (3.46%) Unix
11 8 (2.52%) Mac OS
12 7 (2.20%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.26%) CentOS
14 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (35.85%) High Availability
2 97 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (24.53%) DevOps
4 58 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (18.24%) Disaster Recovery
4 58 (18.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 56 (17.61%) Asset Management
6 54 (16.98%) Investment Management
7 46 (14.47%) Performance Tuning
8 40 (12.58%) CI/CD
9 36 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 33 (10.38%) Load Balancing
11 28 (8.81%) Capacity Planning
12 27 (8.49%) Customer Requirements
13 26 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (8.18%) ITIL
13 26 (8.18%) Systems Engineering
14 25 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (7.86%) Migration
14 25 (7.86%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 122 (38.36%) SQL
2 118 (37.11%) PowerShell
3 94 (29.56%) Python
4 78 (24.53%) Java
5 58 (18.24%) JavaScript
6 55 (17.30%) Go
7 26 (8.18%) Bash
8 17 (5.35%) T-SQL
9 15 (4.72%) VB
10 14 (4.40%) C#
11 13 (4.09%) ActionScript
12 12 (3.77%) Perl
13 6 (1.89%) R
14 5 (1.57%) VBScript
15 3 (0.94%) Ruby
16 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.63%) PHP
16 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.63%) Scala
17 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (16.04%) Degree
3 32 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.52%) A+ Certification
7 6 (1.89%) MCSE
7 6 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.57%) MCSA
9 4 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.26%) MCP
10 3 (0.94%) HNC
10 3 (0.94%) HND
10 3 (0.94%) MCITP
11 2 (0.63%) CCNA
11 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.18%) SLA
2 12 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.83%) GDPR
4 5 (1.57%) SOC 1
4 5 (1.57%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.94%) QA
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 117 (36.79%) Active Directory
2 102 (32.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (16.98%) Hyper-V
4 53 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 30 (9.43%) Docker
6 28 (8.81%) VMware NSX
7 17 (5.35%) vSphere
8 13 (4.09%) OpenSSH
8 13 (4.09%) XenApp
9 5 (1.57%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.26%) VirtualBox
10 4 (1.26%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.63%) Ceph
11 2 (0.63%) Firmware
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.63%) PowerHA
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.31%) KVM
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (26.10%) Terraform
2 81 (25.47%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.50%) Prometheus
4 59 (18.55%) Microsoft Clustering
5 50 (15.72%) Failover Clustering
6 43 (13.52%) vCenter Server
7 40 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (10.69%) Ansible
9 22 (6.92%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (6.29%) SCCM
11 18 (5.66%) Grafana
12 17 (5.35%) Nagios
13 16 (5.03%) Backup Exec
14 15 (4.72%) SCOM
15 14 (4.40%) Puppet
16 13 (4.09%) IBM BigFix
16 13 (4.09%) PowerCLI
17 12 (3.77%) NetBackup
18 11 (3.46%) Jamf Pro
19 10 (3.14%) Autotask
Vendors
1 152 (47.80%) VMware
2 149 (46.86%) Microsoft
3 39 (12.26%) Oracle
4 27 (8.49%) IBM
5 24 (7.55%) Commvault
6 21 (6.60%) ServiceNow
7 19 (5.97%) NetApp
8 18 (5.66%) Cisco
8 18 (5.66%) Sun
9 16 (5.03%) Veritas
10 14 (4.40%) Citrix
11 13 (4.09%) Datto
11 13 (4.09%) HP
12 12 (3.77%) Google
12 12 (3.77%) Hitachi
12 12 (3.77%) Serena
12 12 (3.77%) Snow
12 12 (3.77%) Veeam
13 11 (3.46%) Dell
14 10 (3.14%) Aruba