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 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	198	161	169
Rank change year-on-year	-37	+8	-37
Permanent jobs citing Clustering	15	5	4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England	0.18%	0.15%	0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.64%	0.39%	0.29%
Number of salaries quoted	14	5	4
10^th Percentile	£56,625	£53,200	£49,850
25^th Percentile	£57,500	-	£50,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£80,000	£55,000	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+45.45%	+4.76%	+20.69%
75^th Percentile	£88,000	£58,750	£58,438
90^th Percentile	£90,275	-	£66,875
England median annual salary	£55,000	£55,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	-	+4.76%	-

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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	2,358	1,270	1,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England	27.82%	38.10%	32.53%
Number of salaries quoted	1,632	574	594
10^th Percentile	£28,500	£27,000	£28,500
25^th Percentile	£35,750	£32,500	£41,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£47,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-13.64%	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£63,750	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£83,488	£77,500	£80,000
England median annual salary	£56,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+1.82%	-8.33%	-4.00%

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 Salary Trend in the East of England

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 16 October 2026.

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 16 October 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
Hertfordshire	-37	8	£80,000	+45.45%	1
Norfolk	-	4	£60,000	-
Cambridgeshire	-	2	£57,500	-	2
Bedfordshire	-	1	-	-
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Clustering Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, job vacancies citing Clustering also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region with a requirement for Clustering.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	High Availability	73.3%	11
2	Cybersecurity	53.3%	8
2	Disaster Recovery	53.3%	8
2	Problem-Solving	53.3%	8
2	Security Monitoring	53.3%	8
2	SIEM	53.3%	8
2	Technical Leadership	53.3%	8
8	Ansible	40.0%	6
8	Capacity Planning	40.0%	6
8	CI/CD	40.0%	6
8	Cyber Threat Intelligence	40.0%	6
8	Data Ingestion	40.0%	6
8	Data Pipeline	40.0%	6
8	Data Quality	40.0%	6
8	DV Cleared	40.0%	6
8	Infrastructure as Code	40.0%	6
8	Kusto Query Language	40.0%	6
8	Microsoft	40.0%	6
8	Microsoft 365	40.0%	6
8	Microsoft Exchange	40.0%	6
8	MITRE ATT&CK	40.0%	6
8	Performance Optimisation	40.0%	6
8	Performance Tuning	40.0%	6
8	Platform Engineering	40.0%	6
8	Proactive Monitoring	40.0%	6
8	Search Processing Language	40.0%	6
8	Security Cleared	40.0%	6
8	Security Operations	40.0%	6
8	SOAR	40.0%	6
8	Splunk	40.0%	6

Clustering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Onboarding	46.7%	7
2	Security Posture	40.0%	6