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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 536 563
Rank change year-on-year -65 +27 -10
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 95 99 292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.58% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57 85 252
10th Percentile £39,100 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £56,750 £58,750 £57,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.07% +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 20,552 17,009 30,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.10% 43.27% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,375 8,102 21,081
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +4.85% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 £88,750 +26.79% 9
Midlands -8 21 £45,000 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -10 15 £45,000 -21.05% 1
South East -36 15 £63,750 +15.91% 12
East of England +5 13 £72,500 +31.82% 2
North of England -52 7 £47,500 -28.03% 1
North West +4 6 £47,500 -28.30% 1
West Midlands -21 6 £65,000 +36.84% 2
South West -42 3 £52,500 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire -49 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 (25.26%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (24.21%) Apache Spark
3 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (11.58%) SharePoint
5 8 (8.42%) SAS
6 5 (5.26%) IIS
7 4 (4.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (1.05%) Apache
8 1 (1.05%) OpenEdge
8 1 (1.05%) Site Server
8 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.05%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.74%) Azure
2 36 (37.89%) AWS
3 27 (28.42%) Power Platform
4 25 (26.32%) dbt
4 25 (26.32%) GCP
4 25 (26.32%) Snowflake
5 23 (24.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (24.21%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (12.63%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.42%) Mimecast
8 7 (7.37%) SaaS
9 4 (4.21%) PaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.11%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.05%) IaaS
11 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.84%) SAN
2 11 (11.58%) Firewall
3 8 (8.42%) Internet
3 8 (8.42%) Network Security
3 8 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (6.32%) 5G
4 6 (6.32%) Broadband
5 4 (4.21%) DHCP
5 4 (4.21%) DNS
6 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.16%) WAN
7 2 (2.11%) LAN
7 2 (2.11%) NAS
7 2 (2.11%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.05%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.05%) VLAN
8 1 (1.05%) VPN
8 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.42%) Power BI
2 25 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (26.32%) Tableau
3 24 (25.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (25.26%) BigQuery
3 24 (25.26%) Data Lake
3 24 (25.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 23 (24.21%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (24.21%) Looker
4 23 (24.21%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.11%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.11%) Big Data
8 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.11%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (24.21%) MLflow
2 3 (3.16%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (37.89%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Banking
4 5 (5.26%) Marketing
4 5 (5.26%) Retail
5 4 (4.21%) Legal
5 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Aviation
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (44.21%) Senior
2 31 (32.63%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (24.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 17 (17.89%) Administrator
5 14 (14.74%) Systems Administrator
6 12 (12.63%) IT Administrator
6 12 (12.63%) IT Systems Administrator
7 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (10.53%) IT Engineer
9 9 (9.47%) DBA
10 5 (5.26%) Analyst
10 5 (5.26%) Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Lead
10 5 (5.26%) SQL DBA
11 4 (4.21%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.26%) LangChain
1 24 (25.26%) PyTorch
1 24 (25.26%) scikit-learn
1 24 (25.26%) TensorFlow
2 23 (24.21%) Kafka
2 23 (24.21%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (24.21%) pgvector
3 6 (6.32%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.16%) PySpark
5 2 (2.11%) REST
6 1 (1.05%) Keras
6 1 (1.05%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.05%) LDAP
6 1 (1.05%) NumPy
6 1 (1.05%) Pandas
6 1 (1.05%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 23 (24.21%) Public Cloud
3 13 (13.68%) Replication
4 12 (12.63%) Data Centre
5 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (6.32%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.21%) Driving Licence
8 3 (3.16%) NHS
9 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 1 (1.05%) AS400
10 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.05%) Educational Technology
10 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.05%) Housing Association
10 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.21%) Windows
2 21 (22.11%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.84%) Linux
4 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.16%) Unix
6 2 (2.11%) VMS
7 1 (1.05%) CentOS
7 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Analytics
2 33 (34.74%) AI
2 33 (34.74%) Data Science
2 33 (34.74%) Machine Learning
3 32 (33.68%) Performance Tuning
4 29 (30.53%) Feature Engineering
4 29 (30.53%) Predictive Modelling
5 28 (29.47%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (28.42%) Generative AI
6 27 (28.42%) Systems Engineering
7 25 (26.32%) Data Governance
7 25 (26.32%) Data Modelling
7 25 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (26.32%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 25 (26.32%) Use Case
8 24 (25.26%) Data Management
8 24 (25.26%) Dimensional Modelling
8 24 (25.26%) ETL
8 24 (25.26%) Prompt Engineering
8 24 (25.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 74 (77.89%) SQL
2 46 (48.42%) Python
3 15 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.32%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.26%) Bash
5 5 (5.26%) R
6 4 (4.21%) C#
7 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.11%) Perl
8 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.05%) C
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) Java
9 1 (1.05%) Korn
9 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.32%) Degree
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.21%) MCSA
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (2.11%) LPIC
5 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) IISP
6 1 (1.05%) ISACA
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.32%) GDPR
2 23 (24.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 21 (22.11%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.37%) Docker
5 3 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.11%) vSphere
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Ansible
1 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.42%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (7.37%) Terraform
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.16%) Puppet
6 3 (3.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.05%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.05%) Nagios
7 1 (1.05%) Netcool
7 1 (1.05%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (33.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (26.32%) Databricks
2 25 (26.32%) Dell
3 23 (24.21%) Cloudera
4 11 (11.58%) VMware
5 10 (10.53%) Veeam
6 8 (8.42%) SonicWALL
7 5 (5.26%) Oracle
8 3 (3.16%) BMC
8 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.16%) Remedy
8 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.11%) Citrix
9 2 (2.11%) Google
9 2 (2.11%) NetApp
9 2 (2.11%) Splunk
9 2 (2.11%) Sybase
9 2 (2.11%) Symantec
10 1 (1.05%) F5
10 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds