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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 564 511
Rank change year-on-year +29 -53 +117
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 70 120 173
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.65% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62 69 166
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,724 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,238 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +0.98% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,625 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £86,250 £70,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -7.41%

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 18,698 18,557 16,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.68% 37.22% 37.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,431 8,938 12,610
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,588 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +22 22 £36,500 -17.56% 8
London +43 19 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Midlands +20 11 £45,000 -
South West +14 9 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Yorkshire -2 9 £36,500 -17.56%
North East +16 8 £43,000 -2.88%
East Midlands -1 6 £45,000 +12.50%
West Midlands +29 5 £65,000 +44.44%
North West +17 5 £70,000 +40.00% 8
South East +5 5 £57,500 +11.65% 5
East of England +27 4 £55,250 +5.24% 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 22 (31.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (18.57%) IIS
3 8 (11.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.86%) SAS
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (70.00%) Azure
2 30 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (34.29%) AWS
4 17 (24.29%) Entra ID
5 8 (11.43%) SaaS
6 6 (8.57%) iPaaS
6 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub
8 3 (4.29%) IaaS
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.86%) PaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Asana
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (40.00%) Firewall
2 27 (38.57%) SAN
3 22 (31.43%) DNS
4 21 (30.00%) VLAN
5 19 (27.14%) VoIP
6 18 (25.71%) DHCP
7 16 (22.86%) TCP/IP
8 11 (15.71%) VPN
9 8 (11.43%) WAN
10 7 (10.00%) LAN
11 6 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (8.57%) IPsec
11 6 (8.57%) Wireless
12 4 (5.71%) Internet
12 4 (5.71%) SSL
13 2 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (2.86%) NetScaler
13 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
13 2 (2.86%) VSAN
13 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.57%) MongoDB
2 13 (18.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (10.00%) MySQL
4 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.57%) Power BI
5 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (5.71%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.86%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.86%) Big Data
8 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.86%) Impala
8 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.86%) Tableau
9 1 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Law
4 8 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Legal
5 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.00%) Marketing
5 7 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.14%) Electronics
7 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.29%) Retail
9 2 (2.86%) Advertising
9 2 (2.86%) Banking
10 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Support Engineer
2 16 (22.86%) IT Support
3 14 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 13 (18.57%) DBA
4 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (18.57%) Senior
5 12 (17.14%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (14.29%) Lead
8 9 (12.86%) SQL DBA
8 9 (12.86%) Support Technician
9 8 (11.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) Administrator
10 7 (10.00%) Unix Support
11 6 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
11 6 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (8.57%) Senior IT Engineer
11 6 (8.57%) Senior IT Support
11 6 (8.57%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.43%) Blazor
3 1 (1.43%) LDAP
3 1 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Data Centre
1 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Replication
3 2 (2.86%) PKI
4 1 (1.43%) CCTV
4 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (61.43%) Windows
2 35 (50.00%) Linux
3 30 (42.86%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (12.86%) Windows 10
4 9 (12.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (11.43%) Unix
6 6 (8.57%) Mac OS
7 5 (7.14%) VMS
8 1 (1.43%) AIX
8 1 (1.43%) Solaris
8 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (25.71%) ITIL
3 12 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.29%) High Availability
6 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (12.86%) Change Control
6 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.43%) Coaching
7 8 (11.43%) Server Building
8 7 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.00%) Migration
8 7 (10.00%) Programme Management
8 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 7 (10.00%) Server Management
9 6 (8.57%) Change Management
9 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
9 6 (8.57%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) SQL
2 14 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.14%) Python
4 9 (12.86%) T-SQL
5 6 (8.57%) C#
6 3 (4.29%) Bash
7 2 (2.86%) R
8 1 (1.43%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) Bourne shell
8 1 (1.43%) C-shell
8 1 (1.43%) Perl
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (8.57%) ACMT
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.43%) CCNA
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.43%) MCITP
5 1 (1.43%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) SLA
2 6 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (8.57%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (41.43%) Hyper-V
2 24 (34.29%) Active Directory
3 19 (27.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (11.43%) Docker
6 5 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (31.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (11.43%) vCenter Server
4 7 (10.00%) Ansible
5 6 (8.57%) Autotask
5 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (5.71%) Nagios
7 3 (4.29%) NetBackup
7 3 (4.29%) Terraform
7 3 (4.29%) VxRail
8 2 (2.86%) Backup Exec
8 2 (2.86%) Data Guard
8 2 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.86%) Puppet
8 2 (2.86%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (1.43%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.43%) SCOM
9 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (30.00%) VMware
3 14 (20.00%) Veeam
4 13 (18.57%) HP
5 12 (17.14%) Dell
6 11 (15.71%) Cisco
7 10 (14.29%) Oracle
8 9 (12.86%) SonicWALL
8 9 (12.86%) Supermicro
9 8 (11.43%) Red Hat
10 7 (10.00%) Datto
10 7 (10.00%) Symantec
11 6 (8.57%) Apple
11 6 (8.57%) RedGate
11 6 (8.57%) SAP
11 6 (8.57%) Sophos
12 4 (5.71%) Informatica
12 4 (5.71%) Talend
13 3 (4.29%) NetApp
14 2 (2.86%) EMC