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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 526 543
Rank change year-on-year -79 +17 +43
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 90 99 296
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.60% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 52 82 262
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +0.84% +8.18%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £82,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +5.26% +3.64%

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 22,514 16,489 29,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.07% 43.24% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,071 7,805 20,877
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 May 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 28 May 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 -41 36 £87,500 +25.00% 16
Midlands -20 20 £45,000 -5.26% 4
East Midlands -14 14 £43,750 -23.25% 3
South East -39 14 £65,000 +15.56% 16
East of England -18 11 £72,500 +31.82% 8
North of England -49 7 £47,500 -34.02% 2
North West -6 6 £47,500 -28.30% 1
West Midlands -32 6 £65,000 +36.84% 1
South West -57 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -57 1 - - 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 24 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (25.56%) Apache Spark
3 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 8 (8.89%) SAS
6 4 (4.44%) IIS
6 4 (4.44%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.11%) Apache
7 1 (1.11%) OpenEdge
7 1 (1.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.11%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 49 (54.44%) Azure
2 34 (37.78%) AWS
3 27 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 25 (27.78%) GCP
5 24 (26.67%) dbt
5 24 (26.67%) Snowflake
6 23 (25.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (12.22%) Entra ID
9 8 (8.89%) Mimecast
10 7 (7.78%) SaaS
11 3 (3.33%) PaaS
12 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
13 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (1.11%) Cloudflare
13 1 (1.11%) IaaS
13 1 (1.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.67%) SAN
2 10 (11.11%) Firewall
3 8 (8.89%) Internet
3 8 (8.89%) Network Security
3 8 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (6.67%) 5G
4 6 (6.67%) Broadband
5 3 (3.33%) DHCP
5 3 (3.33%) DNS
5 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.22%) NetScaler
6 2 (2.22%) WAN
7 1 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.11%) LAN
7 1 (1.11%) NAS
7 1 (1.11%) VLAN
7 1 (1.11%) VPN
7 1 (1.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.00%) Power BI
2 25 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (27.78%) Tableau
3 24 (26.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (26.67%) BigQuery
3 24 (26.67%) Data Lake
4 23 (25.56%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (25.56%) Looker
4 23 (25.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 22 (24.44%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.22%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.22%) Big Data
9 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (25.56%) MLflow
2 3 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.22%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Banking
4 5 (5.56%) Legal
4 5 (5.56%) Marketing
4 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Aviation
7 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Senior
2 30 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (25.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 16 (17.78%) Administrator
5 13 (14.44%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) IT Administrator
6 11 (12.22%) IT Systems Administrator
7 10 (11.11%) DBA
8 9 (10.00%) IT Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) SQL DBA
10 4 (4.44%) Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Lead
10 4 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Support
11 3 (3.33%) ITSM Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.67%) LangChain
1 24 (26.67%) PyTorch
1 24 (26.67%) scikit-learn
1 24 (26.67%) TensorFlow
2 23 (25.56%) Kafka
2 23 (25.56%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (25.56%) pgvector
3 6 (6.67%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.33%) PySpark
5 2 (2.22%) REST
6 1 (1.11%) Keras
6 1 (1.11%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.11%) LDAP
6 1 (1.11%) NumPy
6 1 (1.11%) Pandas
6 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 23 (25.56%) Public Cloud
3 13 (14.44%) Data Centre
4 11 (12.22%) Replication
5 6 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.44%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.33%) NHS
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.11%) Housing Association
9 1 (1.11%) PKI
9 1 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.22%) Windows
2 18 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (16.67%) Linux
4 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.44%) Unix
6 3 (3.33%) VMS
6 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.11%) CentOS
7 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Analytics
2 33 (36.67%) Data Science
3 32 (35.56%) AI
3 32 (35.56%) Machine Learning
3 32 (35.56%) Performance Tuning
4 29 (32.22%) Feature Engineering
4 29 (32.22%) Predictive Modelling
5 28 (31.11%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (30.00%) Systems Engineering
7 26 (28.89%) Generative AI
8 24 (26.67%) Data Governance
8 24 (26.67%) Data Management
8 24 (26.67%) Data Modelling
8 24 (26.67%) ETL
8 24 (26.67%) Prompt Engineering
8 24 (26.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 24 (26.67%) Semantic Search
9 23 (25.56%) Dimensional Modelling
9 23 (25.56%) Knowledge Management
9 23 (25.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 72 (80.00%) SQL
2 46 (51.11%) Python
3 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.78%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.56%) Bash
5 5 (5.56%) R
6 4 (4.44%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) Perl
8 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) C
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Java
9 1 (1.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) Degree
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.44%) MCSA
3 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.22%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (2.22%) LPIC
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) IISP
5 1 (1.11%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.78%) GDPR
2 23 (25.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (21.11%) Hyper-V
3 9 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.78%) Docker
5 3 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) Ansible
2 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (6.67%) Terraform
4 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.33%) Puppet
6 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.11%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.11%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.11%) Nagios
7 1 (1.11%) Netcool
7 1 (1.11%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (32.22%) Microsoft
2 25 (27.78%) Databricks
2 25 (27.78%) Dell
3 23 (25.56%) Cloudera
4 11 (12.22%) VMware
5 10 (11.11%) Veeam
6 8 (8.89%) SonicWALL
7 5 (5.56%) Oracle
8 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.33%) BMC
9 3 (3.33%) Remedy
9 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.33%) Symantec
10 2 (2.22%) Citrix
10 2 (2.22%) Google
10 2 (2.22%) NetApp
10 2 (2.22%) Sybase
11 1 (1.11%) Commvault
11 1 (1.11%) Intel
11 1 (1.11%) SAP