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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 583 500
Rank change year-on-year +39 -83 +119
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 77 130 193
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.63% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 72 75 180
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,238 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £72,500 £75,250
UK median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% -1.96% -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 16,923 20,732 17,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.11% 34.46% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,716 10,089 13,027
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,414
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,383 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £77,688 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -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 27 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 27 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 +69 33 £36,500 -17.56% 1
London +37 15 £74,250 +6.07% 9
Yorkshire +14 13 £36,500 -17.56%
North East +21 11 £51,000 +15.19%
North West +56 9 £70,000 +40.00% 1
Midlands +40 9 £45,000 - 2
South West +23 8 £42,500 -19.05% 1
South East +20 7 £56,750 +17.01% 15
East Midlands +27 6 £45,000 +12.50%
East of England +34 5 £55,000 +4.76% 3
West Midlands +56 3 £47,500 +5.56% 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 25 (32.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (19.48%) IIS
3 8 (10.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (74.03%) Azure
2 34 (44.16%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 21 (27.27%) AWS
5 9 (11.69%) SaaS
6 6 (7.79%) iPaaS
7 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.49%) GitHub
8 4 (5.19%) IaaS
8 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.90%) PaaS
10 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.30%) Asana
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (44.16%) Firewall
2 32 (41.56%) SAN
3 25 (32.47%) VLAN
4 24 (31.17%) VoIP
5 22 (28.57%) DNS
6 18 (23.38%) DHCP
7 16 (20.78%) TCP/IP
8 13 (16.88%) VPN
9 11 (14.29%) WAN
10 9 (11.69%) LAN
11 6 (7.79%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (7.79%) IPsec
11 6 (7.79%) Wireless
12 5 (6.49%) Internet
12 5 (6.49%) SSL
13 3 (3.90%) SD-WAN
13 3 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
15 1 (1.30%) NetScaler
15 1 (1.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 16 (20.78%) MongoDB
3 14 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (10.39%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (9.09%) MySQL
6 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.49%) RDBMS
7 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.19%) Power BI
8 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.60%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Law
4 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.49%) Electronics
6 5 (6.49%) Legal
6 5 (6.49%) Marketing
6 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Advertising
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) IT Support
1 19 (24.68%) Support Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) IT Engineer
4 14 (18.18%) DBA
4 14 (18.18%) Lead
5 13 (16.88%) Support Technician
6 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (15.58%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (14.29%) SQL DBA
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (11.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (10.39%) .NET Developer
10 8 (10.39%) Administrator
10 8 (10.39%) Developer
10 8 (10.39%) Lead .NET Developer
10 8 (10.39%) Lead Developer
11 7 (9.09%) Senior Support Technician
11 7 (9.09%) Senior Technician
12 6 (7.79%) Field Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) .NET
2 4 (5.19%) Blazor
3 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.30%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (1.30%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.79%) Replication
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.60%) PKI
5 1 (1.30%) CCTV
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (62.34%) Windows
2 36 (46.75%) Linux
3 31 (40.26%) Windows Server
4 14 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (16.88%) Windows 10
6 6 (7.79%) Mac OS
6 6 (7.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.49%) Unix
8 2 (2.60%) VMS
9 1 (1.30%) AIX
9 1 (1.30%) CentOS
9 1 (1.30%) Solaris
9 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (20.78%) ITIL
3 15 (19.48%) High Availability
4 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
6 9 (11.69%) Mentoring
6 9 (11.69%) Microservices
6 9 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.39%) Change Control
7 8 (10.39%) Migration
7 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.39%) Server Building
8 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 7 (9.09%) Server Management
9 6 (7.79%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (7.79%) IT Strategy
9 6 (7.79%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (12.99%) T-SQL
4 9 (11.69%) C#
5 8 (10.39%) Python
6 3 (3.90%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) Bourne shell
7 1 (1.30%) C-shell
7 1 (1.30%) Perl
7 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (7.79%) ACMT
2 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (6.49%) Degree
4 4 (5.19%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.90%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CCNA
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) MCITP
7 1 (1.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (7.79%) GDPR
1 6 (7.79%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (44.16%) Hyper-V
2 27 (35.06%) Active Directory
3 17 (22.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (11.69%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (10.39%) Docker
6 3 (3.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (33.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 6 (7.79%) Autotask
4 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.19%) Ansible
5 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.90%) Nagios
6 3 (3.90%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.90%) Terraform
7 2 (2.60%) Backup Exec
7 2 (2.60%) Puppet
7 2 (2.60%) VxRail
7 2 (2.60%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.30%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.30%) SCOM
8 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (59.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (24.68%) VMware
3 17 (22.08%) HP
4 15 (19.48%) Dell
5 13 (16.88%) SonicWALL
5 13 (16.88%) Supermicro
5 13 (16.88%) Veeam
6 11 (14.29%) Cisco
7 9 (11.69%) Oracle
8 7 (9.09%) Datto
8 7 (9.09%) RedGate
9 6 (7.79%) Apple
9 6 (7.79%) SAP
9 6 (7.79%) Sophos
10 5 (6.49%) Informatica
10 5 (6.49%) Red Hat
10 5 (6.49%) Talend
11 4 (5.19%) Symantec
12 2 (2.60%) EMC
12 2 (2.60%) NetApp