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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 534 564
Rank change year-on-year -86 +30 -71
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 116 115 203
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.63% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 79 110 156
10th Percentile £37,750 £34,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.81% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £76,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -11.81% +20.95%

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 25,618 18,128 22,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.59% 41.92% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 9,173 11,967
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -46 33 £77,500 +10.71% 53
Midlands -31 27 £48,750 +2.63% 7
East Midlands -12 22 £46,500 +3.33% 1
South East -44 21 £40,000 -30.43% 22
East of England -12 19 £80,000 +45.45% 7
North West -17 12 £48,801 -30.29% 8
North of England -81 12 £48,801 +11.54% 11
West Midlands -39 5 £67,500 +42.11% 6
South West -81 4 £63,750 +50.00% 10
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 26 (22.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (16.38%) SharePoint
3 15 (12.93%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (12.07%) Apache Spark
5 8 (6.90%) IIS
6 6 (5.17%) SAS
7 3 (2.59%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.86%) Apache
8 1 (0.86%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.86%) Site Server
8 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.21%) Azure
2 33 (28.45%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (21.55%) AWS
4 17 (14.66%) dbt
4 17 (14.66%) Snowflake
5 16 (13.79%) SaaS
6 15 (12.93%) Entra ID
6 15 (12.93%) GCP
7 14 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (12.07%) Power Platform
8 8 (6.90%) Mimecast
9 6 (5.17%) Cloudflare
9 6 (5.17%) PaaS
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.45%) Azure Stack
10 4 (3.45%) Datadog
10 4 (3.45%) GitHub
10 4 (3.45%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.79%) Firewall
1 16 (13.79%) SAN
2 12 (10.34%) DNS
3 11 (9.48%) DHCP
4 8 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (6.03%) Wireless
6 6 (5.17%) 5G
6 6 (5.17%) Broadband
6 6 (5.17%) Internet
6 6 (5.17%) Network Security
7 5 (4.31%) VLAN
7 5 (4.31%) VSAN
8 4 (3.45%) VPN
8 4 (3.45%) WAN
9 3 (2.59%) LAN
9 3 (2.59%) NAS
9 3 (2.59%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.72%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.72%) IP Telephony
10 2 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 17 (14.66%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (13.79%) BigQuery
3 16 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 15 (12.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (12.93%) Data Lake
5 14 (12.07%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (12.07%) Looker
5 14 (12.07%) Milvus
5 14 (12.07%) Power BI
5 14 (12.07%) Tableau
6 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.31%) Redis
8 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.86%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.86%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.86%) Metadata
10 1 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) MLflow
2 3 (2.59%) GitLab
3 2 (1.72%) Git
General
1 31 (26.72%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.76%) Banking
3 9 (7.76%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.90%) Finance
5 7 (6.03%) Legal
6 6 (5.17%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.31%) Law
7 5 (4.31%) Retail
8 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Games
8 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.45%) Military
9 3 (2.59%) Marketing
9 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.86%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (27.59%) Senior
2 27 (23.28%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (19.83%) Administrator
4 21 (18.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (14.66%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (12.93%) IT Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) IT Administrator
7 13 (11.21%) IT Systems Administrator
8 10 (8.62%) Support Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) IT Support
10 7 (6.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Network Administrator
10 7 (6.03%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Analyst
11 6 (5.17%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.66%) pgvector
2 15 (12.93%) LangChain
2 15 (12.93%) PyTorch
2 15 (12.93%) scikit-learn
2 15 (12.93%) TensorFlow
3 14 (12.07%) Kafka
3 14 (12.07%) LlamaIndex
3 14 (12.07%) Terraform
4 6 (5.17%) Streamlit
5 4 (3.45%) Node.js
6 3 (2.59%) JSON
6 3 (2.59%) PostGIS
7 2 (1.72%) Snowpark
7 2 (1.72%) Web Services
8 1 (0.86%) Keras
8 1 (0.86%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.86%) NumPy
8 1 (0.86%) Pandas
8 1 (0.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.07%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.76%) Replication
4 8 (6.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (6.03%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.17%) Algorithms
6 6 (5.17%) Driving Licence
6 6 (5.17%) Security Posture
7 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.59%) NHS
10 2 (1.72%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.72%) Robotics
10 2 (1.72%) Social Media
11 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.86%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.90%) Windows
2 36 (31.03%) Windows Server
3 16 (13.79%) Linux
4 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.59%) Debian
6 3 (2.59%) Gentoo
7 2 (1.72%) Android
8 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.62%) High Availability
2 35 (30.17%) AI
3 33 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (24.14%) Analytics
5 26 (22.41%) Machine Learning
6 25 (21.55%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (21.55%) Data Science
7 24 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (18.97%) Use Case
10 21 (18.10%) Data Modelling
10 21 (18.10%) Predictive Modelling
11 20 (17.24%) Feature Engineering
12 18 (15.52%) Systems Engineering
13 17 (14.66%) Data Governance
13 17 (14.66%) Lakehouse
14 16 (13.79%) Data Engineering
14 16 (13.79%) ETL
14 16 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.03%) SQL
2 38 (32.76%) Python
3 18 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.90%) Bash
5 6 (5.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (5.17%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (4.31%) Java
7 4 (3.45%) Go
7 4 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.59%) Perl
8 3 (2.59%) R
8 3 (2.59%) Ruby
9 1 (0.86%) C
9 1 (0.86%) C++
9 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) Degree
2 13 (11.21%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.17%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.45%) MCSA
7 4 (3.45%) MCSE
7 4 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.86%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.86%) IISP
9 1 (0.86%) ISACA
9 1 (0.86%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.86%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.24%) GDPR
2 14 (12.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 35 (30.17%) Hyper-V
3 13 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.90%) Docker
5 5 (4.31%) vSphere
6 4 (3.45%) Firmware
6 4 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.45%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.59%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.86%) Ceph
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.69%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (12.07%) Ansible
2 14 (12.07%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.31%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.45%) VxRail
7 3 (2.59%) Podman
7 3 (2.59%) Puppet
8 2 (1.72%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.86%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.86%) Nagios
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.52%) Dell
3 16 (13.79%) Databricks
4 14 (12.07%) Cloudera
5 13 (11.21%) VMware
6 12 (10.34%) Veeam
7 6 (5.17%) SonicWALL
7 6 (5.17%) Splunk
8 4 (3.45%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.45%) Oracle
9 3 (2.59%) Cisco
9 3 (2.59%) Citrix
9 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.72%) Apple
11 1 (0.86%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.86%) F5
11 1 (0.86%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.86%) OpenAI