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 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 547 488
Rank change year-on-year 0 -59 +170
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 89 159 213
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.26% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.79% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 83 103 193
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
75th Percentile £63,750 £93,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £118,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%

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 17,121 20,180 19,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 39.87% 33.06% 39.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9,310 9,799 14,437
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,125 £34,087
25th Percentile £36,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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
North of England +30 35 £36,500 -17.56% 2
London +25 15 £70,000 -36.36% 6
Midlands +38 13 £45,000 - 4
Yorkshire +17 13 £36,500 -17.56%
North West +13 12 £70,000 +40.00%
South East +3 12 £57,500 +18.56% 6
North East +14 10 £43,000 -2.88% 2
South West +47 8 £42,500 -19.05% 1
West Midlands +52 7 £47,500 +5.56% 3
East Midlands +18 6 £45,000 - 1
East of England +10 5 £55,000 +4.76% 2
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 25 (28.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (19.10%) IIS
3 8 (8.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (76.40%) Azure
2 35 (39.33%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (30.34%) AWS
4 25 (28.09%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.11%) SaaS
6 6 (6.74%) IaaS
6 6 (6.74%) iPaaS
7 5 (5.62%) GitHub
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.49%) PaaS
8 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.37%) GCP
9 3 (3.37%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.12%) Asana
11 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (44.94%) Firewall
2 35 (39.33%) SAN
3 30 (33.71%) DNS
4 25 (28.09%) DHCP
4 25 (28.09%) VLAN
5 24 (26.97%) VoIP
6 16 (17.98%) TCP/IP
6 16 (17.98%) VPN
7 14 (15.73%) WAN
8 11 (12.36%) LAN
9 6 (6.74%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (6.74%) IPsec
9 6 (6.74%) SSL
9 6 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (6.74%) Wireless
10 5 (5.62%) Internet
11 3 (3.37%) NAS
11 3 (3.37%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (3.37%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (44.94%) SQL Server
2 16 (17.98%) MongoDB
3 13 (14.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (10.11%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (6.74%) MySQL
6 6 (6.74%) RDBMS
6 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.49%) Power BI
8 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.24%) Finance
2 10 (11.24%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.11%) Law
4 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Electronics
6 5 (5.62%) Legal
6 5 (5.62%) Marketing
6 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.49%) Advertising
7 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Support Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) IT Support
2 20 (22.47%) Senior
3 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) IT Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) Lead
5 13 (14.61%) DBA
5 13 (14.61%) Support Technician
6 12 (13.48%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (11.24%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (11.24%) SQL DBA
8 9 (10.11%) .NET Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Lead .NET Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Lead Developer
9 8 (8.99%) Administrator
9 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Support
9 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (7.87%) Senior Support Technician
10 7 (7.87%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) .NET
2 5 (5.62%) Blazor
3 3 (3.37%) SAML
4 1 (1.12%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.12%) LDAP
4 1 (1.12%) Middleware
4 1 (1.12%) Node.js
4 1 (1.12%) REST
4 1 (1.12%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.12%) SAP XI
4 1 (1.12%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.99%) Replication
3 6 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.62%) Operational Technology
5 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.49%) PKI
6 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) CCTV
7 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (66.29%) Windows
2 41 (46.07%) Windows Server
3 40 (44.94%) Linux
4 20 (22.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (14.61%) Windows 10
6 6 (6.74%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.37%) CentOS
7 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.12%) AIX
9 1 (1.12%) Solaris
9 1 (1.12%) Unix
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.21%) Disaster Recovery
2 23 (25.84%) High Availability
3 18 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (14.61%) ITIL
5 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (12.36%) Mentoring
6 11 (12.36%) Roadmaps
7 10 (11.24%) Microservices
7 10 (11.24%) Migration
8 8 (8.99%) Change Control
8 8 (8.99%) Server Building
9 7 (7.87%) Coaching
9 7 (7.87%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (7.87%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (7.87%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (7.87%) DevOps
9 7 (7.87%) Server Management
9 7 (7.87%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) PowerShell
2 21 (23.60%) SQL
3 10 (11.24%) C#
4 9 (10.11%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.99%) Python
6 3 (3.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.12%) Bicep
7 1 (1.12%) Bourne shell
7 1 (1.12%) C-shell
7 1 (1.12%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) Perl
7 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (6.74%) ACMT
4 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.62%) Degree
6 4 (4.49%) DBS Check
6 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CCNA
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.12%) MCITP
7 1 (1.12%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (6.74%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Active Directory
2 38 (42.70%) Hyper-V
3 26 (29.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (19.10%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (13.48%) Docker
6 4 (4.49%) vSphere
7 2 (2.25%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.25%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (13.48%) Failover Clustering
3 10 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.24%) vCenter Server
4 6 (6.74%) Ansible
4 6 (6.74%) Autotask
4 6 (6.74%) Puppet
5 5 (5.62%) Nagios
6 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (4.49%) Terraform
6 4 (4.49%) vMotion
7 3 (3.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.37%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.25%) Backup Exec
8 2 (2.25%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.25%) vRealize
8 2 (2.25%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (1.12%) Grafana
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (64.04%) Microsoft
2 29 (32.58%) VMware
3 21 (23.60%) HP
4 14 (15.73%) Dell
4 14 (15.73%) Veeam
5 13 (14.61%) SonicWALL
5 13 (14.61%) Supermicro
6 11 (12.36%) Cisco
7 10 (11.24%) Oracle
8 7 (7.87%) Datto
8 7 (7.87%) SAP
9 6 (6.74%) Apple
9 6 (6.74%) RedGate
9 6 (6.74%) Sophos
10 5 (5.62%) Citrix
11 4 (4.49%) Informatica
11 4 (4.49%) Talend
12 3 (3.37%) EMC
12 3 (3.37%) Nimble Storage
13 2 (2.25%) iManage