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 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 564 531
Rank change year-on-year -5 -33 +98
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 47 101 214
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.57% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40 51 202
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,240 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,125 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £78,646
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.84% -7.27%

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 18,866 17,650 21,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.12% 37.49% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,567 8,185 16,522
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +7.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +31 16 £87,500 +25.00% 12
North of England +17 11 £52,500 +8.23% 10
Midlands +3 10 £45,000 - 7
East Midlands -13 6 £45,000 -5.26% 5
North West +27 5 £70,000 - 4
South East -7 5 £57,500 +11.65% 20
West Midlands +22 4 £65,000 +44.44% 1
South West +2 4 £42,500 -17.87% 7
North East 0 3 £51,000 - 1
Yorkshire -13 3 £36,500 -24.75% 5
East of England +21 1 £43,000 -18.10% 7
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 12 (25.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (14.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (10.64%) IIS
4 2 (4.26%) SAS
5 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (72.34%) Azure
2 19 (40.43%) AWS
3 15 (31.91%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.89%) SaaS
5 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.77%) iPaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub
6 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.26%) IaaS
7 2 (4.26%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) DNS
1 14 (29.79%) Firewall
2 13 (27.66%) DHCP
3 12 (25.53%) SAN
4 11 (23.40%) TCP/IP
4 11 (23.40%) VLAN
5 5 (10.64%) VoIP
5 5 (10.64%) VPN
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (4.26%) IPsec
6 2 (4.26%) LAN
6 2 (4.26%) NetScaler
6 2 (4.26%) VSAN
6 2 (4.26%) WAN
6 2 (4.26%) Wireless
7 1 (2.13%) IPv4
7 1 (2.13%) IPv6
7 1 (2.13%) MPLS
7 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (38.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (25.53%) MongoDB
3 8 (17.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (12.77%) MySQL
4 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
6 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
7 3 (6.38%) Power BI
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (4.26%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.26%) Big Data
8 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.26%) Impala
8 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (4.26%) Tableau
9 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.13%) SAP HANA
9 1 (2.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.79%) Finance
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Law
4 5 (10.64%) Legal
5 4 (8.51%) Marketing
6 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.26%) Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Electronics
7 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.13%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) DBA
1 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure Support
2 10 (21.28%) Lead
3 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) IT Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) IT Support
4 8 (17.02%) SQL DBA
4 8 (17.02%) Support Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Unix Support
6 6 (12.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior
7 5 (10.64%) .NET Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Lead .NET Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Lead Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Administrator
8 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (8.51%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) PySpark
2 2 (4.26%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (12.77%) Replication
4 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (46.81%) Linux
1 22 (46.81%) Windows
2 19 (40.43%) Windows Server
3 9 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (14.89%) Unix
5 5 (10.64%) VMS
6 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (25.53%) ITIL
3 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.15%) High Availability
4 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.77%) Risk Management
6 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.64%) Change Management
7 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.64%) Microservices
7 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 4 (8.51%) Analytics
8 4 (8.51%) Change Control
8 4 (8.51%) Coaching
8 4 (8.51%) Information Security
8 4 (8.51%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.02%) T-SQL
5 7 (14.89%) C#
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) R
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) Korn
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
1 5 (10.64%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) ACMT
3 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (2.13%) LPIC
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) GDPR
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Hyper-V
2 12 (25.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.64%) Docker
4 5 (10.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (10.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (14.89%) Ansible
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.51%) vCenter Server
4 3 (6.38%) Nagios
4 3 (6.38%) Terraform
5 2 (4.26%) Autotask
5 2 (4.26%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.26%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.26%) VxRail
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.13%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) SCOM
6 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.66%) VMware
3 10 (21.28%) Veeam
4 8 (17.02%) Red Hat
5 7 (14.89%) Symantec
6 6 (12.77%) Dell
6 6 (12.77%) Oracle
7 4 (8.51%) Cisco
7 4 (8.51%) HP
8 3 (6.38%) Informatica
8 3 (6.38%) RedGate
8 3 (6.38%) SAP
8 3 (6.38%) SonicWALL
8 3 (6.38%) Supermicro
8 3 (6.38%) Talend
9 2 (4.26%) Citrix
9 2 (4.26%) Datto
9 2 (4.26%) Google
9 2 (4.26%) NetApp
9 2 (4.26%) Sophos