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 10 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 564 488
Rank change year-on-year +21 -76 +165
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 79 146 204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.24% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.73% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 75 90 186
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £51,098 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.67% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £115,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,000 £51,098 £51,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +0.19% -2.86%

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 16,999 20,021 18,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 38.25% 33.16% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,533 9,563 13,834
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,459 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.90% -4.00% -

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 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
North of England +35 35 £36,500 -17.56% 5
London +25 14 £70,000 -20.00% 47
Yorkshire +27 13 £36,500 -17.56%
North East +9 12 £51,000 +15.19% 4
Midlands +49 11 £45,000 - 3
North West +24 10 £70,000 +40.00% 2
South West +26 8 £42,500 -19.05% 2
East Midlands +27 6 £45,000 - 1
South East +2 6 £55,000 +13.40% 45
West Midlands +32 5 £47,500 +5.56% 2
East of England +25 5 £55,000 +4.76% 5
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 (29.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (18.99%) IIS
3 8 (10.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (79.75%) Azure
2 34 (43.04%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (30.38%) Entra ID
4 18 (22.78%) AWS
5 8 (10.13%) SaaS
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub
6 6 (7.59%) iPaaS
7 5 (6.33%) IaaS
8 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.80%) PaaS
10 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.27%) Asana
11 1 (1.27%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (45.57%) Firewall
2 32 (40.51%) SAN
3 25 (31.65%) VLAN
4 24 (30.38%) VoIP
5 23 (29.11%) DNS
6 19 (24.05%) DHCP
7 15 (18.99%) TCP/IP
7 15 (18.99%) VPN
8 13 (16.46%) WAN
9 10 (12.66%) LAN
10 6 (7.59%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (7.59%) IPsec
10 6 (7.59%) Wireless
11 5 (6.33%) Internet
11 5 (6.33%) SSL
11 5 (6.33%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (3.80%) SD-WAN
13 2 (2.53%) Fibre Channel
14 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
14 1 (1.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (49.37%) SQL Server
2 18 (22.78%) MongoDB
3 15 (18.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.13%) MySQL
5 8 (10.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.59%) RDBMS
7 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.06%) Power BI
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.53%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.27%) Git
3 1 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
2 9 (11.39%) Law
2 9 (11.39%) Manufacturing
3 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Electronics
4 5 (6.33%) Legal
4 5 (6.33%) Marketing
4 5 (6.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.06%) Advertising
6 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) IT Support
2 19 (24.05%) Support Engineer
3 17 (21.52%) Senior
4 16 (20.25%) IT Engineer
4 16 (20.25%) Lead
5 15 (18.99%) DBA
6 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (16.46%) Support Technician
7 12 (15.19%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (15.19%) SQL DBA
8 10 (12.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (11.39%) .NET Developer
9 9 (11.39%) Developer
9 9 (11.39%) Lead .NET Developer
9 9 (11.39%) Lead Developer
10 8 (10.13%) Administrator
11 7 (8.86%) Senior Support Technician
11 7 (8.86%) Senior Technician
12 6 (7.59%) Field Support Technician
12 6 (7.59%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) .NET
2 5 (6.33%) Blazor
3 3 (3.80%) SAML
4 1 (1.27%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.27%) LDAP
4 1 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (7.59%) Replication
3 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.06%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) CCTV
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (63.29%) Windows
2 34 (43.04%) Linux
3 33 (41.77%) Windows Server
4 17 (21.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (16.46%) Windows 10
6 6 (7.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.53%) VMS
9 1 (1.27%) AIX
9 1 (1.27%) CentOS
9 1 (1.27%) Solaris
9 1 (1.27%) Unix
9 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (20.25%) High Availability
3 14 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (13.92%) ITIL
4 11 (13.92%) Roadmaps
5 10 (12.66%) Microservices
5 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
7 8 (10.13%) Change Control
7 8 (10.13%) Migration
7 8 (10.13%) Server Building
8 7 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (8.86%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (8.86%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (8.86%) Containerisation
8 7 (8.86%) ETL
8 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (8.86%) Release Management
8 7 (8.86%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.32%) SQL
2 16 (20.25%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.92%) T-SQL
4 10 (12.66%) C#
5 7 (8.86%) Python
6 3 (3.80%) Bash
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) Bourne shell
7 1 (1.27%) C-shell
7 1 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (7.59%) ACMT
2 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (5.06%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CCNA
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.27%) MCITP
5 1 (1.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (7.59%) GDPR
2 3 (3.80%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (43.04%) Hyper-V
2 31 (39.24%) Active Directory
3 18 (22.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (13.92%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (10.13%) Docker
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (34.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (13.92%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (7.59%) Autotask
3 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.59%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.80%) Nagios
5 3 (3.80%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.80%) Terraform
6 2 (2.53%) Backup Exec
6 2 (2.53%) Puppet
6 2 (2.53%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (1.27%) Ansible
7 1 (1.27%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.27%) SCOM
7 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (63.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (24.05%) VMware
3 17 (21.52%) HP
4 14 (17.72%) Dell
5 13 (16.46%) SonicWALL
5 13 (16.46%) Supermicro
6 12 (15.19%) Veeam
7 11 (13.92%) Cisco
8 9 (11.39%) Oracle
9 8 (10.13%) RedGate
10 7 (8.86%) Datto
11 6 (7.59%) Apple
11 6 (7.59%) Informatica
11 6 (7.59%) SAP
11 6 (7.59%) Sophos
11 6 (7.59%) Talend
12 3 (3.80%) Nimble Storage
13 2 (2.53%) Aderant
13 2 (2.53%) iManage
13 2 (2.53%) Intapp