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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 521 542
Rank change year-on-year -79 +21 +65
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 65 74 273
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.091% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.52% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 34 54 241
10th Percentile £42,900 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,594 £39,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £55,000 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +1.58% -1.55%
75th Percentile £86,563 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -4.55%

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 21,433 14,145 27,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.15% 38.70% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,119 8,056 20,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,985 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -3 32 £87,500 +20.69% 11
South East -46 10 £67,500 +68.75% 18
Midlands -36 9 £45,000 -0.33% 2
East of England - 8 £57,750 - 2
East Midlands -43 6 £43,750 -7.89% 2
North of England -69 4 £51,000 -29.16% 5
West Midlands -19 3 £65,000 +43.97%
South West -39 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £51,000 - 2
Yorkshire -64 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 3
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 23 (35.38%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (35.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (6.15%) OpenStack
4 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.08%) SAS
6 1 (1.54%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (63.08%) Azure
2 37 (56.92%) AWS
3 28 (43.08%) Power Platform
4 24 (36.92%) GCP
4 24 (36.92%) Snowflake
5 23 (35.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (35.38%) dbt
6 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.62%) Mimecast
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.08%) GitHub
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.54%) IaaS
10 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.54%) PaaS
10 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) SAN
2 5 (7.69%) DHCP
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) Firewall
3 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.62%) Internet
4 3 (4.62%) Network Security
4 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.08%) LAN
5 2 (3.08%) NetScaler
5 2 (3.08%) VPN
5 2 (3.08%) VSAN
5 2 (3.08%) WAN
6 1 (1.54%) IPv4
6 1 (1.54%) IPv6
6 1 (1.54%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.54%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.54%) MPLS
6 1 (1.54%) NAS
6 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (43.08%) Power BI
2 25 (38.46%) Tableau
3 23 (35.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (35.38%) BigQuery
3 23 (35.38%) Data Lake
3 23 (35.38%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (35.38%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (35.38%) Looker
3 23 (35.38%) Snowflake Schema
4 16 (24.62%) SQL Server
5 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
6 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.69%) MySQL
8 2 (3.08%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.08%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (35.38%) MLflow
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (44.62%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Legal
6 3 (4.62%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Marketing
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Advertising
8 1 (1.54%) Aviation
8 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (47.69%) Senior
2 24 (36.92%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (35.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 12 (18.46%) DBA
5 9 (13.85%) Administrator
6 8 (12.31%) SQL DBA
7 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (10.77%) Unix Support
8 6 (9.23%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (7.69%) IT Administrator
9 5 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
9 5 (7.69%) Lead
10 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Linux Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Linux Support
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Unix Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Unix Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.38%) Kafka
1 23 (35.38%) LangChain
1 23 (35.38%) LlamaIndex
1 23 (35.38%) pgvector
1 23 (35.38%) PyTorch
1 23 (35.38%) scikit-learn
1 23 (35.38%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.08%) PySpark
2 2 (3.08%) REST
3 1 (1.54%) LDAP
3 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.38%) Cloud Native
1 23 (35.38%) Public Cloud
2 11 (16.92%) Data Centre
3 9 (13.85%) Replication
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) Linux
2 12 (18.46%) Windows
3 11 (16.92%) Windows Server
4 9 (13.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.77%) Unix
6 5 (7.69%) VMS
7 1 (1.54%) CentOS
7 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Performance Tuning
2 28 (43.08%) Analytics
3 27 (41.54%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (40.00%) Data Science
4 26 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 25 (38.46%) ETL
5 25 (38.46%) Generative AI
6 24 (36.92%) AI
6 24 (36.92%) Predictive Modelling
6 24 (36.92%) Use Case
7 23 (35.38%) Data Engineering
7 23 (35.38%) Data Governance
7 23 (35.38%) Data Management
7 23 (35.38%) Data Modelling
7 23 (35.38%) Dimensional Modelling
7 23 (35.38%) Knowledge Management
7 23 (35.38%) Presales
7 23 (35.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 23 (35.38%) Semantic Search
7 23 (35.38%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (73.85%) SQL
2 37 (56.92%) Python
3 12 (18.46%) PowerShell
4 9 (13.85%) T-SQL
5 5 (7.69%) Bash
6 4 (6.15%) C#
7 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.08%) Perl
8 2 (3.08%) R
9 1 (1.54%) Korn
9 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.08%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (3.08%) LPIC
3 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.92%) GDPR
2 23 (35.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (9.23%) SLA
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.31%) Hyper-V
2 8 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.23%) Docker
4 5 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Ansible
2 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.69%) Terraform
4 3 (4.62%) Puppet
4 3 (4.62%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.08%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.08%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.08%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) Nagios
5 2 (3.08%) VxRail
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.54%) Netcool
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 26 (40.00%) Dell
2 24 (36.92%) Databricks
3 23 (35.38%) Cloudera
4 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
5 11 (16.92%) VMware
6 8 (12.31%) Red Hat
7 7 (10.77%) Symantec
8 6 (9.23%) Veeam
9 4 (6.15%) Oracle
10 3 (4.62%) BMC
10 3 (4.62%) NetApp
10 3 (4.62%) Remedy
10 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
10 3 (4.62%) SonicWALL
11 2 (3.08%) Citrix
11 2 (3.08%) Google
11 2 (3.08%) Informatica
11 2 (3.08%) RedGate
11 2 (3.08%) Sybase
11 2 (3.08%) Talend