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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 563 529
Rank change year-on-year -10 -34 +101
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 43 102 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.074% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.60% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36 51 213
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,125 £49,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,750 £70,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +7.84% -7.27%

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 19,237 17,020 23,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.22% 37.78% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,841 7,903 17,868
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £56,011
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.59% -13.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £56,021
% change year-on-year -11.29% +10.67% -13.81%

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 February 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 10 February 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 +8 15 £87,500 +25.00% 11
Midlands +7 10 £45,000 - 2
South East -7 8 £60,000 +16.50% 24
North of England -9 6 £61,250 +1.66% 2
East Midlands -12 6 £45,000 -5.26%
West Midlands +14 4 £65,000 +44.44% 2
North West +19 3 £70,000 - 2
North East -2 3 £51,000 -
South West -14 3 £42,500 -19.05% 1
East of England +19 1 £43,000 -18.10% 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 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
3 4 (9.30%) IIS
4 3 (6.98%) OpenStack
5 2 (4.65%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) AWS
3 11 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (16.28%) SaaS
5 6 (13.95%) iPaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) PaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.23%) DNS
2 12 (27.91%) DHCP
3 11 (25.58%) TCP/IP
4 10 (23.26%) Firewall
5 9 (20.93%) SAN
6 7 (16.28%) VLAN
7 4 (9.30%) VPN
8 2 (4.65%) LAN
8 2 (4.65%) NetScaler
8 2 (4.65%) VSAN
8 2 (4.65%) WAN
9 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.33%) IPsec
9 1 (2.33%) IPv4
9 1 (2.33%) IPv6
9 1 (2.33%) MPLS
9 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.33%) VoIP
9 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (23.26%) MongoDB
3 8 (18.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (13.95%) MySQL
4 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
6 3 (6.98%) Power BI
7 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
7 2 (4.65%) Big Data
7 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.65%) Impala
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.65%) Tableau
8 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
8 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Law
5 5 (11.63%) Legal
6 3 (6.98%) Marketing
7 2 (4.65%) Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.65%) Retail
8 1 (2.33%) Advertising
8 1 (2.33%) Electronics
8 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) DBA
1 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Support
2 10 (23.26%) Lead
3 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) SQL DBA
4 7 (16.28%) IT Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Support Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Unix Support
5 6 (13.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) IT Support
5 6 (13.95%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Administrator
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
7 4 (9.30%) Linux Specialist
7 4 (9.30%) Linux Support
7 4 (9.30%) Support Specialist
7 4 (9.30%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) .NET
2 2 (4.65%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Data Centre
2 8 (18.60%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (13.95%) Replication
4 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Linux
2 19 (44.19%) Windows
2 19 (44.19%) Windows Server
3 9 (20.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (16.28%) Unix
5 5 (11.63%) VMS
6 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (30.23%) ITIL
3 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.93%) High Availability
5 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (13.95%) Project Delivery
7 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
8 5 (11.63%) Change Management
8 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 4 (9.30%) Analytics
9 4 (9.30%) Change Control
9 4 (9.30%) Information Security
9 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.30%) Problem Management
9 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (6.98%) CI/CD
10 3 (6.98%) Data Science
10 3 (6.98%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) SQL
2 13 (30.23%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
4 8 (18.60%) T-SQL
5 5 (11.63%) Bash
5 5 (11.63%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Perl
6 2 (4.65%) R
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Korn
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
1 5 (11.63%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (4.65%) LPIC
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) ACMT
4 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) GDPR
1 6 (13.95%) SLA
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.58%) Hyper-V
3 9 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.95%) Docker
5 5 (11.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (4.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Ansible
1 9 (20.93%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.98%) Nagios
4 3 (6.98%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.65%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.65%) Puppet
5 2 (4.65%) VxRail
6 1 (2.33%) Autotask
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.33%) SCOM
6 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.58%) VMware
3 9 (20.93%) Veeam
4 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
5 7 (16.28%) Symantec
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle
7 3 (6.98%) Cisco
7 3 (6.98%) Dell
7 3 (6.98%) Informatica
7 3 (6.98%) RedGate
7 3 (6.98%) Talend
8 2 (4.65%) Citrix
8 2 (4.65%) Google
8 2 (4.65%) NetApp
8 2 (4.65%) SAP
9 1 (2.33%) Apple
9 1 (2.33%) HP
9 1 (2.33%) Intel
9 1 (2.33%) Remedy
9 1 (2.33%) Sybase