Clustering Jobs in the Midlands

Clustering
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 255 303
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 -87
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 65 69 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.56% 0.72% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 1.89% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 60 40 41
10th Percentile - £32,500 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £62,875 £48,750
90th Percentile £55,500 £65,000 £53,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,745 3,645 4,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.14% 37.88% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,663 1,483 2,712
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,875 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,837 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands +35 53 £42,500 -22.73% 4
East Midlands -29 12 £43,750 -16.67% 6
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 45 (69.23%) IIS
2 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (10.77%) SharePoint
4 3 (4.62%) MQSeries
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (4.62%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.08%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 60 (92.31%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) AWS
2 17 (26.15%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (10.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.62%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.62%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.08%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 36 (55.38%) WAN
2 31 (47.69%) Firewall
3 16 (24.62%) SAN
4 10 (15.38%) VPN
5 9 (13.85%) DNS
6 7 (10.77%) DHCP
7 5 (7.69%) VLAN
8 4 (6.15%) LAN
8 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
8 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.62%) BGP
9 3 (4.62%) Ethernet
9 3 (4.62%) HTTP
9 3 (4.62%) SMTP
10 2 (3.08%) SMS
11 1 (1.54%) BIG-IP
11 1 (1.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (12.31%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.62%) DB2
4 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.62%) MySQL
4 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.62%) Redis
5 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (10.77%) Law
2 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Games
4 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Finance
6 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (36.92%) Senior
3 15 (23.08%) Support Engineer
4 14 (21.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Applications Support
8 5 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Operations Support Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) DBA
9 4 (6.15%) IT Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Technical Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) DB2 DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) REST
1 19 (29.23%) WebRTC
2 3 (4.62%) .NET
2 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
2 3 (4.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Public Cloud
2 13 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 5 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.62%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Windows
2 21 (32.31%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.77%) Linux
4 6 (9.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.62%) Unix
8 1 (1.54%) CentOS
8 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (64.62%) High Availability
3 23 (35.38%) Load Balancing
4 14 (21.54%) Validation
5 13 (20.00%) API Design
5 13 (20.00%) API Development
5 13 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 13 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 13 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 13 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 13 (20.00%) TDD
6 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.31%) Task Automation
8 7 (10.77%) Patch Management
9 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (7.69%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (72.31%) SQL
2 13 (20.00%) Java
3 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.08%) Python
4 2 (3.08%) R
5 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) Degree
4 4 (6.15%) MCSE
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (4.62%) MCSA
5 3 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.54%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 38 (58.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 18 (27.69%) VMware NSX
4 13 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.62%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (10.77%) SCCM
4 6 (9.23%) SCOM
5 4 (6.15%) Autotask
5 4 (6.15%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.62%) SCOrch
6 3 (4.62%) vMotion
7 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.54%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 58 (89.23%) Microsoft
2 52 (80.00%) VMware
3 14 (21.54%) CheckPoint
4 8 (12.31%) Dell
5 7 (10.77%) Datto
5 7 (10.77%) Veeam
6 5 (7.69%) EqualLogic
6 5 (7.69%) NetApp
6 5 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
7 4 (6.15%) Apple
8 3 (4.62%) Aruba
8 3 (4.62%) Draytek
8 3 (4.62%) HP
8 3 (4.62%) IBM
8 3 (4.62%) Oracle
8 3 (4.62%) Sage
8 3 (4.62%) Sophos
8 3 (4.62%) Splunk
8 3 (4.62%) Webroot
9 2 (3.08%) Google