Clustering Job Trends in the East of England

Clustering
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 182 125
Rank change year-on-year +26 -57 +76
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 5 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.12% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.28% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £46,000 £49,850 £43,575
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,750 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,438 £56,313
90th Percentile - £66,875 £58,525
England median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +0.98% -2.86%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,343 1,407 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 32.54% 38.43% 44.43%
Number of salaries quoted 635 581 555
10th Percentile £27,350 £29,000 £28,880
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Clustering
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the East of England

Clustering
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +17 5 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) IaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (20.00%) PaaS
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (20.00%) IPv4
3 1 (20.00%) IPv6
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Server Building
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Licensing
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler