Clustering Job Trends in England

Clustering
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 530 545
Rank change year-on-year -73 +15 +32
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 89 99 289
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.60% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 51 82 256
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,875 £73,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £57,125 £57,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -0.65% +0.88% +3.64%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,088 16,604 29,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.81% 43.26% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,717 7,889 20,817
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in England

Clustering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in England

Clustering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
London -32 38 £87,500 +25.00% 10
Midlands -25 20 £45,000 -12.20% 4
East Midlands -25 14 £43,750 -20.45% 1
South East -56 13 £63,750 +15.91% 16
East of England -5 11 £72,500 +31.82% 7
West Midlands -25 6 £65,000 +36.84% 3
North of England -45 5 £47,500 -34.02% 6
North West -6 4 £47,500 -28.30% 4
South West -58 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -50 1 - - 2
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 23 (25.84%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (25.84%) Apache Spark
2 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (11.24%) SharePoint
4 8 (8.99%) SAS
5 4 (4.49%) OpenStack
6 3 (3.37%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.93%) Azure
2 38 (42.70%) AWS
3 27 (30.34%) Power Platform
4 25 (28.09%) GCP
5 24 (26.97%) Snowflake
6 23 (25.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (25.84%) dbt
7 20 (22.47%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (12.36%) Entra ID
9 8 (8.99%) Mimecast
9 8 (8.99%) SaaS
10 4 (4.49%) PaaS
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.25%) IaaS
12 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.12%) Cloudflare
12 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) SAN
2 11 (12.36%) Firewall
3 8 (8.99%) Internet
3 8 (8.99%) Network Security
3 8 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (6.74%) 5G
4 6 (6.74%) Broadband
5 5 (5.62%) DHCP
5 5 (5.62%) DNS
6 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.37%) NetScaler
7 3 (3.37%) WAN
8 2 (2.25%) LAN
8 2 (2.25%) VPN
8 2 (2.25%) VSAN
9 1 (1.12%) IPv4
9 1 (1.12%) IPv6
9 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.12%) MPLS
9 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.34%) Power BI
2 25 (28.09%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (28.09%) Tableau
3 24 (26.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 23 (25.84%) BigQuery
4 23 (25.84%) Data Lake
4 23 (25.84%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (25.84%) Looker
4 23 (25.84%) Snowflake Schema
5 19 (21.35%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.25%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.25%) Big Data
9 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.25%) MySQL
9 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) MLflow
2 3 (3.37%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (40.45%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Finance
3 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Legal
5 5 (5.62%) Marketing
6 4 (4.49%) Banking
7 3 (3.37%) Retail
8 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
9 1 (1.12%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (41.57%) Senior
2 29 (32.58%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (25.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) Administrator
5 13 (14.61%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) IT Administrator
6 11 (12.36%) IT Systems Administrator
7 9 (10.11%) DBA
8 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (7.87%) IT Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Unix Support
9 6 (6.74%) SQL DBA
10 5 (5.62%) Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 4 (4.49%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Linux Specialist
11 4 (4.49%) Support Specialist
11 4 (4.49%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.97%) LangChain
1 24 (26.97%) PyTorch
1 24 (26.97%) scikit-learn
1 24 (26.97%) TensorFlow
2 23 (25.84%) Kafka
2 23 (25.84%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (25.84%) pgvector
3 6 (6.74%) Streamlit
4 2 (2.25%) PySpark
4 2 (2.25%) REST
5 1 (1.12%) Keras
5 1 (1.12%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.12%) LDAP
5 1 (1.12%) NumPy
5 1 (1.12%) Pandas
5 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.97%) Cloud Native
2 23 (25.84%) Public Cloud
3 15 (16.85%) Data Centre
4 10 (11.24%) Replication
5 6 (6.74%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.37%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) NHS
9 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.12%) PKI
9 1 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.35%) Linux
2 18 (20.22%) Windows
3 17 (19.10%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.87%) Unix
6 3 (3.37%) VMS
7 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.12%) CentOS
8 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) Analytics
2 32 (35.96%) Data Science
2 32 (35.96%) Machine Learning
3 30 (33.71%) AI
3 30 (33.71%) Performance Tuning
4 29 (32.58%) Feature Engineering
4 29 (32.58%) Predictive Modelling
5 27 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (29.21%) Generative AI
6 26 (29.21%) Systems Engineering
7 24 (26.97%) Prompt Engineering
7 24 (26.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 24 (26.97%) Semantic Search
8 23 (25.84%) Data Engineering
8 23 (25.84%) Data Modelling
8 23 (25.84%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (25.84%) ETL
8 23 (25.84%) Presales
8 23 (25.84%) RBAC
8 23 (25.84%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 69 (77.53%) SQL
2 45 (50.56%) Python
3 14 (15.73%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.87%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.62%) Bash
5 5 (5.62%) R
6 4 (4.49%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.25%) Perl
9 1 (1.12%) C
9 1 (1.12%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) Java
9 1 (1.12%) Korn
9 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.37%) MCSA
4 3 (3.37%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (2.25%) LPIC
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) IISP
6 1 (1.12%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.97%) GDPR
2 23 (25.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (6.74%) SLA
4 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (30.34%) Active Directory
2 19 (21.35%) Hyper-V
3 12 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.87%) Docker
5 5 (5.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.25%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Ansible
2 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (5.62%) Terraform
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.37%) Puppet
5 3 (3.37%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.25%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (2.25%) VxRail
7 1 (1.12%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.12%) Nagios
7 1 (1.12%) Netcool
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 26 (29.21%) Dell
3 24 (26.97%) Databricks
4 23 (25.84%) Cloudera
5 15 (16.85%) VMware
6 11 (12.36%) Veeam
7 8 (8.99%) Red Hat
7 8 (8.99%) SonicWALL
8 7 (7.87%) Symantec
9 3 (3.37%) BMC
9 3 (3.37%) Citrix
9 3 (3.37%) NetApp
9 3 (3.37%) Oracle
9 3 (3.37%) Remedy
9 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.25%) Google
10 2 (2.25%) Sybase
11 1 (1.12%) Cisco
11 1 (1.12%) Intel
11 1 (1.12%) SAP