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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 535 551
Rank change year-on-year -83 +16 -47
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 130 119 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.65% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 83 113 177
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £38,572
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -8.80% +16.28%
75th Percentile £75,625 £72,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,250 £128,750
UK median annual salary £50,101 £56,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -10.40% +19.05%

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 24,444 18,372 23,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.66% 42.05% 32.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16,046 9,315 14,141
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 40 £77,500 +6.90% 6
Midlands -17 30 £45,500 -4.21% 1
East Midlands - 25 £45,000 -
East of England 0 22 £80,000 +45.45% 1
South East -47 20 £40,000 -27.27% 6
North of England -65 14 £48,801 +33.70% 3
North West -20 13 £48,801 -30.29% 3
West Midlands -37 5 £67,500 +42.11% 1
South West -72 4 £63,750 +50.00% 4
Yorkshire -52 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 (20.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (18.46%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (17.69%) Apache Spark
4 20 (15.38%) SharePoint
5 9 (6.92%) IIS
6 6 (4.62%) SAS
7 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.77%) Apache
8 1 (0.77%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.77%) Site Server
8 1 (0.77%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 54 (41.54%) Azure
2 37 (28.46%) AWS
3 36 (27.69%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (20.77%) Snowflake
5 26 (20.00%) dbt
6 25 (19.23%) GCP
7 24 (18.46%) Power Platform
8 23 (17.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (12.31%) Entra ID
10 15 (11.54%) SaaS
11 9 (6.92%) Mimecast
12 6 (4.62%) Cloudflare
12 6 (4.62%) PaaS
13 4 (3.08%) GitHub
13 4 (3.08%) Nutanix
14 3 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.31%) Azure Stack
14 3 (2.31%) Datadog
15 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.85%) Firewall
1 18 (13.85%) SAN
2 14 (10.77%) DNS
3 13 (10.00%) DHCP
4 9 (6.92%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (5.38%) Internet
5 7 (5.38%) Network Security
5 7 (5.38%) Wireless
6 6 (4.62%) 5G
6 6 (4.62%) Broadband
6 6 (4.62%) VLAN
7 5 (3.85%) VPN
8 4 (3.08%) NAS
8 4 (3.08%) VSAN
8 4 (3.08%) WAN
9 3 (2.31%) LAN
9 3 (2.31%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.54%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.54%) SSL
10 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.54%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (19.23%) BigQuery
3 25 (19.23%) Snowflake Schema
4 24 (18.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (18.46%) Data Lake
4 24 (18.46%) Power BI
5 23 (17.69%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (17.69%) Looker
5 23 (17.69%) Tableau
6 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.08%) Redis
9 2 (1.54%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.77%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.77%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.77%) Metadata
10 1 (0.77%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.77%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (18.46%) MLflow
2 3 (2.31%) Git
3 1 (0.77%) GitLab
3 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.92%) Banking
3 9 (6.92%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.15%) Finance
5 7 (5.38%) Legal
6 6 (4.62%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.85%) Law
7 5 (3.85%) Retail
8 4 (3.08%) Games
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Military
9 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Marketing
9 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Aviation
10 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (33.08%) Senior
2 36 (27.69%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (20.00%) Administrator
4 24 (18.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (12.31%) IT Administrator
7 16 (12.31%) IT Systems Administrator
8 15 (11.54%) IT Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Support Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) DBA
10 8 (6.15%) IT Support
11 7 (5.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Network Administrator
11 7 (5.38%) Network Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Senior IT Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Senior IT Support
11 7 (5.38%) Senior Support Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.00%) pgvector
2 24 (18.46%) LangChain
2 24 (18.46%) PyTorch
2 24 (18.46%) scikit-learn
2 24 (18.46%) TensorFlow
3 23 (17.69%) Kafka
3 23 (17.69%) LlamaIndex
4 13 (10.00%) Terraform
5 6 (4.62%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.31%) JSON
6 3 (2.31%) Node.js
6 3 (2.31%) PostGIS
7 2 (1.54%) Snowpark
7 2 (1.54%) Web Services
8 1 (0.77%) Keras
8 1 (0.77%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.77%) LDAP
8 1 (0.77%) NumPy
8 1 (0.77%) Pandas
8 1 (0.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.69%) Public Cloud
3 14 (10.77%) Replication
4 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.62%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.62%) Driving Licence
6 6 (4.62%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.31%) NHS
8 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.54%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.54%) Robotics
9 2 (1.54%) Social Media
10 1 (0.77%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.77%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.23%) Windows
2 37 (28.46%) Windows Server
3 16 (12.31%) Linux
4 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.31%) Debian
5 3 (2.31%) Gentoo
5 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.54%) Android
6 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.77%) CentOS
7 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.85%) AI
2 40 (30.77%) High Availability
3 38 (29.23%) Analytics
4 35 (26.92%) Machine Learning
4 35 (26.92%) Performance Tuning
5 34 (26.15%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (26.15%) Data Science
5 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (23.85%) Use Case
7 30 (23.08%) Data Modelling
7 30 (23.08%) Predictive Modelling
8 29 (22.31%) Feature Engineering
9 27 (20.77%) Systems Engineering
10 26 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 25 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (19.23%) Data Engineering
11 25 (19.23%) ETL
11 25 (19.23%) Generative AI
11 25 (19.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 24 (18.46%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (60.77%) SQL
2 46 (35.38%) Python
3 20 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.38%) Bash
5 6 (4.62%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (4.62%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.08%) Java
7 3 (2.31%) Go
7 3 (2.31%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.31%) R
7 3 (2.31%) Ruby
8 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) C#
9 1 (0.77%) C++
9 1 (0.77%) Perl
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.00%) Degree
2 13 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.62%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.08%) MCSA
7 4 (3.08%) MCSE
8 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.77%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.77%) IISP
9 1 (0.77%) ISACA
9 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.77%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.77%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.31%) GDPR
2 23 (17.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (6.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.31%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (31.54%) Active Directory
2 39 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 13 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.92%) Docker
5 5 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.85%) vSphere
6 3 (2.31%) Firmware
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.77%) Ceph
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.23%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (10.77%) Ansible
2 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.62%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.85%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.31%) Podman
6 3 (2.31%) VxRail
7 2 (1.54%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.77%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.77%) Nagios
8 1 (0.77%) Netcool
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.77%) SCOM
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 49 (37.69%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.77%) Dell
3 26 (20.00%) Databricks
4 23 (17.69%) Cloudera
5 14 (10.77%) VMware
6 13 (10.00%) Veeam
7 7 (5.38%) SonicWALL
7 7 (5.38%) Splunk
8 5 (3.85%) Oracle
9 4 (3.08%) Cisco
10 3 (2.31%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.31%) Citrix
11 2 (1.54%) Apple
12 1 (0.77%) Commvault
12 1 (0.77%) F5
12 1 (0.77%) NetApp
12 1 (0.77%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.77%) Sybase