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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 537 548
Rank change year-on-year -75 +11 -54
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 127 122 221
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.66% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 82 115 182
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £38,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,051 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% -8.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -12.28% -6.94% +16.67%

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 24,283 18,478 23,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.85% 42.31% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15,875 9,324 14,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -36 40 £77,500 +6.90% 50
Midlands +4 31 £45,250 -4.74% 1
East Midlands - 26 £45,000 - 1
East of England -14 22 £80,000 +45.45% 3
South East -47 18 £40,000 -27.27% 20
North of England -75 13 £48,801 +11.54% 6
North West -20 12 £48,801 -30.29% 6
West Midlands -23 5 £67,500 +42.11%
South West -66 3 £52,500 +23.53% 6
Yorkshire -42 1 - -
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 28 (22.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (18.90%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (18.11%) Apache Spark
4 20 (15.75%) SharePoint
5 9 (7.09%) IIS
6 6 (4.72%) SAS
7 1 (0.79%) Apache
7 1 (0.79%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.79%) Site Server
7 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 53 (41.73%) Azure
2 37 (29.13%) AWS
2 37 (29.13%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.26%) Snowflake
4 26 (20.47%) dbt
5 25 (19.69%) GCP
6 24 (18.90%) Power Platform
7 23 (18.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (13.39%) Entra ID
9 13 (10.24%) SaaS
10 10 (7.87%) Mimecast
11 6 (4.72%) Cloudflare
11 6 (4.72%) PaaS
12 3 (2.36%) GitHub
12 3 (2.36%) Nutanix
13 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.57%) Azure Stack
13 2 (1.57%) Datadog
13 2 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.96%) Firewall
1 19 (14.96%) SAN
2 14 (11.02%) DNS
3 13 (10.24%) DHCP
4 10 (7.87%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (6.30%) Internet
5 8 (6.30%) Network Security
6 7 (5.51%) Wireless
7 6 (4.72%) 5G
7 6 (4.72%) Broadband
7 6 (4.72%) VLAN
8 5 (3.94%) VPN
9 4 (3.15%) NAS
9 4 (3.15%) WAN
10 3 (2.36%) LAN
10 3 (2.36%) NetScaler
10 3 (2.36%) VSAN
11 2 (1.57%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.57%) SSL
11 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.05%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.47%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (19.69%) BigQuery
3 25 (19.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 24 (18.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (18.90%) Data Lake
4 24 (18.90%) Power BI
5 23 (18.11%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (18.11%) Looker
5 23 (18.11%) Tableau
6 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.36%) Redis
10 2 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.79%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.79%) Metadata
11 1 (0.79%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.79%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (18.90%) MLflow
2 3 (2.36%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (30.71%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (15.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.30%) Banking
5 6 (4.72%) Aerospace
5 6 (4.72%) Finance
5 6 (4.72%) Legal
6 5 (3.94%) Law
6 5 (3.94%) Retail
7 4 (3.15%) Games
7 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Marketing
8 3 (2.36%) Military
8 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Aviation
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (33.86%) Senior
2 37 (29.13%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (20.47%) Administrator
4 24 (18.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 21 (16.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (16.54%) Systems Administrator
6 16 (12.60%) IT Administrator
6 16 (12.60%) IT Systems Administrator
7 15 (11.81%) IT Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Support Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) IT Support
9 8 (6.30%) Network Administrator
9 8 (6.30%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) DBA
10 7 (5.51%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.47%) pgvector
2 24 (18.90%) LangChain
2 24 (18.90%) PyTorch
2 24 (18.90%) scikit-learn
2 24 (18.90%) TensorFlow
3 23 (18.11%) Kafka
3 23 (18.11%) LlamaIndex
4 6 (4.72%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.36%) JSON
5 3 (2.36%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.57%) Node.js
6 2 (1.57%) Snowpark
6 2 (1.57%) Web Services
7 1 (0.79%) Keras
7 1 (0.79%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.79%) LDAP
7 1 (0.79%) NumPy
7 1 (0.79%) Pandas
7 1 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 23 (18.11%) Public Cloud
3 14 (11.02%) Replication
4 10 (7.87%) Data Centre
5 9 (7.09%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (5.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.72%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.72%) Driving Licence
7 6 (4.72%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.36%) NHS
10 2 (1.57%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.57%) Robotics
10 2 (1.57%) Social Media
10 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.79%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.79%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.92%) Windows
2 36 (28.35%) Windows Server
3 15 (11.81%) Linux
4 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.36%) Debian
5 3 (2.36%) Gentoo
6 2 (1.57%) Android
6 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.79%) CentOS
7 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.65%) AI
2 38 (29.92%) Analytics
3 37 (29.13%) High Availability
4 35 (27.56%) Machine Learning
5 34 (26.77%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (26.77%) Data Science
5 34 (26.77%) Performance Tuning
6 33 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (24.41%) Use Case
8 30 (23.62%) Data Modelling
8 30 (23.62%) Predictive Modelling
9 29 (22.83%) Feature Engineering
10 27 (21.26%) Systems Engineering
11 26 (20.47%) Data Governance
12 25 (19.69%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (19.69%) Data Engineering
12 25 (19.69%) ETL
12 25 (19.69%) Generative AI
12 25 (19.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 24 (18.90%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (62.99%) SQL
2 44 (34.65%) Python
3 19 (14.96%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.72%) Bash
4 6 (4.72%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (4.72%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (2.36%) Java
5 3 (2.36%) R
5 3 (2.36%) Ruby
6 2 (1.57%) Go
6 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.79%) C
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.24%) Degree
3 12 (9.45%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.72%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.15%) MCSA
9 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.36%) MCSE
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.79%) City & Guilds
10 1 (0.79%) IISP
10 1 (0.79%) ISACA
10 1 (0.79%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.05%) GDPR
2 23 (18.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (7.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (33.07%) Active Directory
2 40 (31.50%) Hyper-V
3 12 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.30%) Docker
5 4 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.15%) vSphere
6 3 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.57%) Firmware
7 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.79%) Ceph
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.69%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Clustering
3 13 (10.24%) Ansible
4 11 (8.66%) Terraform
5 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.94%) Kubernetes
7 4 (3.15%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.36%) Podman
9 2 (1.57%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.57%) VxRail
10 1 (0.79%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.79%) Nagios
10 1 (0.79%) Netcool
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.79%) Puppet
10 1 (0.79%) SCOM
10 1 (0.79%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 49 (38.58%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.47%) Databricks
2 26 (20.47%) Dell
3 23 (18.11%) Cloudera
4 13 (10.24%) Veeam
4 13 (10.24%) VMware
5 8 (6.30%) SonicWALL
6 7 (5.51%) Splunk
7 5 (3.94%) Oracle
8 4 (3.15%) Cisco
9 3 (2.36%) Citrix
10 2 (1.57%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.57%) Apple
11 1 (0.79%) Commvault
11 1 (0.79%) F5
11 1 (0.79%) NetApp
11 1 (0.79%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.79%) Sybase
11 1 (0.79%) Zerto