Clustering Job Trends in the East Midlands

Clustering
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 112 150
Rank change year-on-year -27 +38 0
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 6 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 0.32% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.98% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £40,000 - £39,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £50,625
90th Percentile - £58,500 £51,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 834 615 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.26% 33.03% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 454 296 739
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £24,807
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £53,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% +25.29% -19.05%
75th Percentile £57,000 £65,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Clustering
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Clustering

Clustering
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Leicestershire -11 5 £45,000 -5.26%
Northamptonshire - 1 £40,000 - 2
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) iPaaS
2 5 (83.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (83.33%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Law
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) IT Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) IT Support
1 5 (83.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Network Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL