Clustering Job Trends in Cheshire

Clustering
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.12% - 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% - 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £50,000
75th Percentile £53,750 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £48,801 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.29% +40.00% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 332 321 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.14% 43.85% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 259 68 207
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,925 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.87%
75th Percentile £61,875 £70,313 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £84,825 £78,492
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -6.96%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Clustering
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Clustering

Clustering
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
Warrington - 1 £52,500 -
Clustering
North West

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Ceph
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Zerto