Clustering Job Trends in Birmingham

Clustering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 129 96
Rank change year-on-year +33 -33 +47
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 3 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.18% 0.052% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 0.16% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £56,625
25th Percentile - - £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,196 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% -14.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile - - £62,813
90th Percentile - - £63,375
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -10.00% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Clustering falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 442 632 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.84% 33.07% 41.64%
Number of salaries quoted 306 272 402
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,680
25th Percentile £44,375 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,625 £84,812 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -0.73%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Clustering job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Clustering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Clustering

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On