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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 521 559
Rank change year-on-year -91 +38 -70
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 127 115 208
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 0.63% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 84 110 162
10th Percentile £37,750 £34,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.06% +23.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £76,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £51,301 £55,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% -13.39% +20.95%

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 24,857 18,266 23,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 41.86% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16,341 9,336 13,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -47 36 £72,500 +1.75% 38
Midlands -20 30 £45,500 -4.21% 4
East Midlands -4 25 £45,000 - 3
South East -44 23 £45,000 -18.18% 12
East of England -5 21 £80,000 +45.45% 7
North of England -73 13 £48,801 +33.70% 7
North West -14 12 £48,801 -30.29% 7
West Midlands -30 5 £67,500 +42.11% 1
South West -75 4 £63,750 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire -58 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 27 (21.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (15.75%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (15.75%) SharePoint
3 19 (14.96%) Apache Spark
4 9 (7.09%) IIS
5 6 (4.72%) SAS
6 4 (3.15%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.79%) Apache
7 1 (0.79%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.79%) Site Server
7 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 50 (39.37%) Azure
2 36 (28.35%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (25.20%) AWS
4 22 (17.32%) dbt
4 22 (17.32%) Snowflake
5 20 (15.75%) GCP
5 20 (15.75%) Power Platform
6 19 (14.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (12.60%) Entra ID
8 15 (11.81%) SaaS
9 9 (7.09%) Mimecast
10 6 (4.72%) Cloudflare
10 6 (4.72%) PaaS
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.15%) GitHub
11 4 (3.15%) Nutanix
12 3 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.36%) Datadog
13 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.17%) Firewall
2 17 (13.39%) SAN
3 13 (10.24%) DNS
4 12 (9.45%) DHCP
5 9 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (5.51%) Internet
6 7 (5.51%) Network Security
6 7 (5.51%) Wireless
7 6 (4.72%) 5G
7 6 (4.72%) Broadband
8 5 (3.94%) VLAN
8 5 (3.94%) VPN
8 5 (3.94%) VSAN
9 4 (3.15%) WAN
10 3 (2.36%) LAN
10 3 (2.36%) NAS
10 3 (2.36%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.57%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.57%) IP Telephony
11 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.26%) SQL Server
2 22 (17.32%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (16.54%) BigQuery
3 21 (16.54%) Snowflake Schema
4 20 (15.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 20 (15.75%) Data Lake
4 20 (15.75%) Power BI
5 19 (14.96%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (14.96%) Looker
5 19 (14.96%) Milvus
5 19 (14.96%) Tableau
6 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.15%) Redis
9 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.79%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.79%) Metadata
11 1 (0.79%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (15.75%) MLflow
2 3 (2.36%) GitLab
3 2 (1.57%) Git
General
1 36 (28.35%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.30%) Banking
5 7 (5.51%) Finance
5 7 (5.51%) Legal
6 6 (4.72%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.94%) Law
7 5 (3.94%) Retail
8 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Games
8 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.15%) Military
9 3 (2.36%) Marketing
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Aviation
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (30.71%) Senior
2 32 (25.20%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (20.47%) Administrator
4 21 (16.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) Systems Administrator
6 16 (12.60%) IT Administrator
6 16 (12.60%) IT Systems Administrator
7 15 (11.81%) IT Engineer
8 10 (7.87%) Support Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) DBA
9 8 (6.30%) IT Support
10 7 (5.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Network Administrator
10 7 (5.51%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.32%) pgvector
2 20 (15.75%) LangChain
2 20 (15.75%) PyTorch
2 20 (15.75%) scikit-learn
2 20 (15.75%) TensorFlow
3 19 (14.96%) Kafka
3 19 (14.96%) LlamaIndex
4 14 (11.02%) Terraform
5 6 (4.72%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.36%) JSON
6 3 (2.36%) Node.js
6 3 (2.36%) PostGIS
7 2 (1.57%) Snowpark
7 2 (1.57%) Web Services
8 1 (0.79%) Keras
8 1 (0.79%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.79%) NumPy
8 1 (0.79%) Pandas
8 1 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.96%) Public Cloud
3 12 (9.45%) Replication
4 9 (7.09%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.30%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (5.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.72%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.72%) Driving Licence
7 6 (4.72%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.36%) NHS
9 3 (2.36%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.57%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.57%) Robotics
10 2 (1.57%) Social Media
11 1 (0.79%) AS400
11 1 (0.79%) CUDA
11 1 (0.79%) iSeries
11 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.92%) Windows
2 37 (29.13%) Windows Server
3 18 (14.17%) Linux
4 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.36%) Debian
6 3 (2.36%) Gentoo
7 2 (1.57%) Android
7 2 (1.57%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.79%) CentOS
8 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.50%) AI
1 40 (31.50%) High Availability
2 34 (26.77%) Analytics
2 34 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (24.41%) Machine Learning
3 31 (24.41%) Performance Tuning
4 30 (23.62%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (23.62%) Data Science
5 27 (21.26%) Use Case
6 26 (20.47%) Data Modelling
6 26 (20.47%) Predictive Modelling
7 25 (19.69%) Feature Engineering
8 23 (18.11%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (18.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (18.11%) Systems Engineering
9 22 (17.32%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.32%) Lakehouse
10 21 (16.54%) Data Engineering
10 21 (16.54%) Generative AI
10 21 (16.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 75 (59.06%) SQL
2 43 (33.86%) Python
3 20 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.09%) Bash
5 6 (4.72%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (4.72%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.15%) Java
7 3 (2.36%) Go
7 3 (2.36%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.36%) Perl
7 3 (2.36%) R
7 3 (2.36%) Ruby
8 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) C++
9 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.24%) Degree
2 13 (10.24%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.72%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.15%) MCSA
6 4 (3.15%) MCSE
6 4 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.79%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.79%) IISP
8 1 (0.79%) ISACA
8 1 (0.79%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.69%) GDPR
2 19 (14.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (7.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.36%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (31.50%) Active Directory
2 39 (30.71%) Hyper-V
3 13 (10.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.87%) Docker
5 5 (3.94%) vSphere
6 4 (3.15%) Firmware
6 4 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.79%) Ceph
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.69%) Failover Clustering
2 15 (11.81%) Ansible
3 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.94%) vCenter Server
7 4 (3.15%) Puppet
7 4 (3.15%) VxRail
8 3 (2.36%) Podman
9 2 (1.57%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.79%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.79%) Nagios
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.79%) SCOM
10 1 (0.79%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 48 (37.80%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.11%) Dell
3 22 (17.32%) Databricks
4 19 (14.96%) Cloudera
5 13 (10.24%) Veeam
5 13 (10.24%) VMware
6 7 (5.51%) SonicWALL
7 6 (4.72%) Splunk
8 4 (3.15%) Cisco
8 4 (3.15%) Oracle
9 3 (2.36%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.36%) Citrix
9 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.57%) Apple
11 1 (0.79%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.79%) F5
11 1 (0.79%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds