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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 516 782
Rank change year-on-year -74 +266 -215
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 319 523 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 1.24% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 284 251 324
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £38,750
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% +5.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £62,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £118,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £51,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year -5.83% +12.57% +1.67%

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 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £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 £86,250 £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 23 May 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -8 293 £60,000 +9.09% 64
UK excluding London -139 184 £48,500 -5.83% 46
Work from Home +41 154 £85,000 +49.12% 37
London +132 131 £87,500 +52.17% 23
Midlands -19 59 £42,500 -22.73% 9
West Midlands +10 43 £42,500 -29.17% 4
South East +5 36 £48,500 -10.19% 17
North of England -20 33 £46,250 +2.78% 9
South West -45 22 £57,000 +10.68% 8
Yorkshire +44 16 £47,500 +7.95% 5
East Midlands -18 16 £45,000 -14.29% 5
Scotland -80 14 £32,500 -53.20% 1
East of England -26 13 £55,000 -4.35% 1
North East -5 9 £30,000 -51.02% 2
North West -23 8 £50,000 -12.44% 2
Wales -4 5 £51,000 +32.47% 1
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 (18.81%) IIS
2 56 (17.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (16.93%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.76%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.88%) 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 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Maximo
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 158 (49.53%) Azure
2 120 (37.62%) AWS
3 79 (24.76%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (18.81%) Snowflake
5 54 (16.93%) dbt
6 34 (10.66%) Entra ID
7 21 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
8 16 (5.02%) GCP
9 14 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.39%) SaaS
10 11 (3.45%) GitHub
10 11 (3.45%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.13%) IaaS
12 7 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.88%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.88%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.88%) PaaS
14 4 (1.25%) OCI
14 4 (1.25%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 75 (23.51%) Firewall
2 65 (20.38%) WAN
3 40 (12.54%) DNS
3 40 (12.54%) SAN
4 33 (10.34%) TCP/IP
5 24 (7.52%) DHCP
5 24 (7.52%) VPN
6 23 (7.21%) Internet
7 16 (5.02%) LAN
7 16 (5.02%) VLAN
8 13 (4.08%) BGP
9 11 (3.45%) Wireless
10 10 (3.13%) VoIP
10 10 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.82%) MPLS
11 9 (2.82%) OSPF
11 9 (2.82%) SD-WAN
11 9 (2.82%) SNMP
11 9 (2.82%) tcpdump
12 8 (2.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (32.92%) SQL Server
2 56 (17.55%) Dremio
3 55 (17.24%) Big Data
3 55 (17.24%) Data Lake
4 54 (16.93%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (16.93%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (8.78%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.27%) MySQL
7 19 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.33%) MongoDB
10 16 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (3.45%) Power BI
13 9 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (2.19%) InfluxDB
15 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
16 5 (1.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (9.09%) Git
2 23 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.27%) JIRA
4 12 (3.76%) 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%) Selenium
General
1 123 (38.56%) Finance
2 66 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (3.76%) Law
6 11 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.13%) Games
8 7 (2.19%) Marketing
9 6 (1.88%) Banking
10 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.94%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
13 1 (0.31%) Back Office
13 1 (0.31%) Military
13 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (17.55%) Site Engineer
1 56 (17.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 55 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (16.93%) Big Data Engineer
4 51 (15.99%) Support Engineer
5 43 (13.48%) DBA
5 43 (13.48%) Senior
6 42 (13.17%) Systems Engineer
7 27 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 25 (7.84%) Administrator
9 20 (6.27%) SQL DBA
10 17 (5.33%) Analyst
11 15 (4.70%) 3rd Line Support
11 15 (4.70%) Lead
11 15 (4.70%) SQL Server DBA
12 14 (4.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 13 (4.08%) Infrastructure Support
13 13 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.93%) gRPC
1 54 (16.93%) Protocol Buffers
2 24 (7.52%) REST
3 19 (5.96%) WebRTC
4 11 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.82%) .NET
5 9 (2.82%) YAML
6 8 (2.51%) XML
7 4 (1.25%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.25%) JSON
7 4 (1.25%) Node.js
8 3 (0.94%) Middleware
8 3 (0.94%) React
9 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.63%) WSH
10 1 (0.31%) J2EE
10 1 (0.31%) LAMP
10 1 (0.31%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.93%) Hedge funds
2 46 (14.42%) Replication
3 36 (11.29%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.64%) PKI
6 14 (4.39%) Data Centre
6 14 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.82%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.51%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.51%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.88%) PMI
11 5 (1.57%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 163 (51.10%) Windows
2 116 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 55 (17.24%) Linux
4 27 (8.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 25 (7.84%) Windows 10
6 17 (5.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.39%) AIX
9 12 (3.76%) Oracle Linux
9 12 (3.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (3.45%) Solaris
11 9 (2.82%) Unix
12 7 (2.19%) Mac OS
12 7 (2.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.25%) CentOS
14 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (36.99%) High Availability
2 101 (31.66%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (24.45%) DevOps
4 60 (18.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 59 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 56 (17.55%) Asset Management
8 54 (16.93%) Investment Management
9 47 (14.73%) Performance Tuning
10 43 (13.48%) CI/CD
11 36 (11.29%) Load Balancing
12 34 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (9.72%) Capacity Planning
14 27 (8.46%) ITIL
15 26 (8.15%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (8.15%) Customer Requirements
15 26 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (8.15%) Migration
15 26 (8.15%) Security Hardening
15 26 (8.15%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (39.18%) SQL
2 115 (36.05%) PowerShell
3 94 (29.47%) Python
4 80 (25.08%) Java
5 58 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 55 (17.24%) Go
7 27 (8.46%) Bash
8 19 (5.96%) T-SQL
9 16 (5.02%) C#
10 14 (4.39%) VB
11 12 (3.76%) ActionScript
11 12 (3.76%) Perl
12 6 (1.88%) R
13 5 (1.57%) VBScript
14 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Ruby
14 2 (0.63%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 55 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 49 (15.36%) Degree
3 32 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.76%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.51%) A+ Certification
7 6 (1.88%) MCSE
7 6 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.57%) MCSA
9 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.25%) 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 (8.15%) SLA
2 12 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.57%) SOC 1
4 5 (1.57%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.25%) 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
1 115 (36.05%) Active Directory
2 100 (31.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (16.61%) Hyper-V
3 53 (16.61%) VMware ESXi
4 31 (9.72%) Docker
5 30 (9.40%) VMware NSX
6 16 (5.02%) vSphere
7 12 (3.76%) OpenSSH
7 12 (3.76%) XenApp
8 6 (1.88%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.25%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.94%) Firmware
10 3 (0.94%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.63%) Ceph
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.31%) KVM
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.31%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 82 (25.71%) Terraform
2 81 (25.39%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.44%) Prometheus
4 60 (18.81%) Microsoft Clustering
5 50 (15.67%) Failover Clustering
6 43 (13.48%) vCenter Server
7 41 (12.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (10.97%) Ansible
9 22 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (5.96%) Grafana
11 18 (5.64%) SCCM
12 17 (5.33%) Nagios
13 16 (5.02%) Backup Exec
14 15 (4.70%) SCOM
15 14 (4.39%) Puppet
16 12 (3.76%) IBM BigFix
16 12 (3.76%) NetBackup
16 12 (3.76%) PowerCLI
17 10 (3.13%) HAProxy
17 10 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 153 (47.96%) Microsoft
2 151 (47.34%) VMware
3 38 (11.91%) Oracle
4 26 (8.15%) IBM
5 24 (7.52%) Commvault
6 20 (6.27%) ServiceNow
7 19 (5.96%) Cisco
7 19 (5.96%) NetApp
8 18 (5.64%) Sun
9 16 (5.02%) Veritas
10 14 (4.39%) Citrix
11 12 (3.76%) Datto
11 12 (3.76%) Google
11 12 (3.76%) Hitachi
11 12 (3.76%) HP
11 12 (3.76%) Serena
11 12 (3.76%) Snow
11 12 (3.76%) Veeam
12 10 (3.13%) CheckPoint
12 10 (3.13%) Dell