Clustering Jobs in the West Midlands

Clustering
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 229 260
Rank change year-on-year +34 +31 -95
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 53 45 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.67% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 1.78% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48 27 32
10th Percentile £30,800 - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +25.71% +18.24%
75th Percentile £53,750 £64,000 £49,438
90th Percentile £60,000 £67,000 £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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,360 2,529 2,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.63% 37.86% 39.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 980 1,764
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,075
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,108 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Warwickshire +72 32 £42,500 -33.59% 1
Birmingham -6 6 £61,250 +11.36% 3
Solihull +3 5 - -
Worcestershire -16 4 £30,000 -50.00%
Staffordshire -17 3 £50,000 +11.11%
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Shropshire - 1 £26,000 -
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England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 34 (64.15%) IIS
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (11.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.66%) MQSeries
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (5.66%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.77%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 48 (90.57%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (24.53%) AWS
3 13 (24.53%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (13.21%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.66%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.66%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.77%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 36 (67.92%) WAN
2 23 (43.40%) Firewall
3 6 (11.32%) DHCP
4 5 (9.43%) DNS
4 5 (9.43%) SAN
5 4 (7.55%) LAN
5 4 (7.55%) VLAN
5 4 (7.55%) VPN
5 4 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (5.66%) Ethernet
6 3 (5.66%) HTTP
6 3 (5.66%) SMTP
6 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.77%) SMS
8 1 (1.89%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (67.92%) SQL Server
2 13 (24.53%) NoSQL
3 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.66%) DB2
4 3 (5.66%) MySQL
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (9.43%) Games
2 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Retail
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.77%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Systems Engineer
2 21 (39.62%) Senior
3 14 (26.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) DBA
7 3 (5.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.66%) DB2 DBA
7 3 (5.66%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 2 (3.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Support
8 2 (3.77%) Insight Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Customer Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) REST
1 19 (35.85%) WebRTC
2 3 (5.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Distributed Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Public Cloud
2 5 (9.43%) Client/Server
2 5 (9.43%) Driving Licence
2 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Windows
2 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (7.55%) Windows 10
4 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.66%) Linux
5 3 (5.66%) Unix
6 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) High Availability
1 36 (67.92%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (37.74%) Load Balancing
3 14 (26.42%) Validation
4 13 (24.53%) API Design
4 13 (24.53%) API Development
4 13 (24.53%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
4 13 (24.53%) Continuous Delivery
4 13 (24.53%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (24.53%) Performance Analysis
4 13 (24.53%) Prototyping
4 13 (24.53%) Software Testing
4 13 (24.53%) TDD
5 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (9.43%) Line Management
7 5 (9.43%) Process Improvement
7 5 (9.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (77.36%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) Java
3 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.77%) Python
4 2 (3.77%) R
5 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (66.04%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (5.66%) MCSA
4 3 (5.66%) MCSE
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) GDPR
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (62.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (33.96%) VMware NSX
3 15 (28.30%) Active Directory
4 11 (20.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (13.21%) SCCM
3 4 (7.55%) Autotask
3 4 (7.55%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.66%) SCOM
5 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 47 (88.68%) Microsoft
2 46 (86.79%) VMware
3 14 (26.42%) CheckPoint
4 7 (13.21%) Dell
5 6 (11.32%) Datto
6 5 (9.43%) EqualLogic
6 5 (9.43%) NetApp
6 5 (9.43%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (9.43%) Veeam
7 4 (7.55%) Apple
8 3 (5.66%) Draytek
8 3 (5.66%) IBM
8 3 (5.66%) Oracle
8 3 (5.66%) Sage
8 3 (5.66%) Sophos
8 3 (5.66%) Webroot
9 2 (3.77%) Adobe
9 2 (3.77%) Aruba
9 2 (3.77%) Coremetrics
9 2 (3.77%) Google