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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 584 474
Rank change year-on-year +49 -110 +158
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 73 131 192
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.64% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 68 76 179
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,238 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £50,250 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -3.37% -0.95%
75th Percentile £65,938 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,075 £72,500 £75,500
UK median annual salary £51,000 £50,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year +1.49% -1.47% -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 16,679 20,477 17,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.48% 34.92% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,559 9,976 13,108
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,329
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,628 £45,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% -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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +59 31 £36,500 -17.56% 1
London +45 15 £74,250 +6.07% 11
Yorkshire +20 13 £36,500 -17.56%
North West +49 9 £70,000 +40.00% 1
Midlands +45 9 £45,000 - 3
North East +11 9 £35,000 -20.95%
South West +31 8 £42,500 -19.05% 1
East Midlands +26 6 £45,000 +12.50%
East of England +35 5 £55,000 +4.76% 6
South East +14 5 £57,500 +18.56% 14
West Midlands +45 3 £47,500 +5.56% 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 25 (34.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (20.55%) IIS
3 8 (10.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 53 (72.60%) Azure
2 34 (46.58%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (30.14%) Entra ID
4 21 (28.77%) AWS
5 9 (12.33%) SaaS
6 6 (8.22%) iPaaS
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.48%) GitHub
7 4 (5.48%) IaaS
7 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.11%) PaaS
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.37%) Asana
10 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (46.58%) Firewall
2 32 (43.84%) SAN
3 25 (34.25%) VLAN
4 24 (32.88%) VoIP
5 22 (30.14%) DNS
6 18 (24.66%) DHCP
7 16 (21.92%) TCP/IP
8 13 (17.81%) VPN
9 11 (15.07%) WAN
10 9 (12.33%) LAN
11 6 (8.22%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (8.22%) IPsec
11 6 (8.22%) Wireless
12 5 (6.85%) Internet
12 5 (6.85%) SSL
13 3 (4.11%) SD-WAN
13 3 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (2.74%) Fibre Channel
15 1 (1.37%) iSCSI
15 1 (1.37%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (42.47%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.55%) MongoDB
3 12 (16.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
5 7 (9.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (8.22%) MySQL
7 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.48%) Power BI
8 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
8 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.37%) Git
3 1 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
3 9 (12.33%) Law
4 7 (9.59%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Electronics
6 5 (6.85%) Legal
6 5 (6.85%) Marketing
6 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) IT Support
1 19 (26.03%) Support Engineer
2 16 (21.92%) Senior
3 15 (20.55%) IT Engineer
4 14 (19.18%) Lead
5 13 (17.81%) Support Technician
6 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (16.44%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (13.70%) DBA
7 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Support
8 9 (12.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (10.96%) .NET Developer
9 8 (10.96%) Developer
9 8 (10.96%) Lead .NET Developer
9 8 (10.96%) Lead Developer
10 7 (9.59%) Senior Support Technician
10 7 (9.59%) Senior Technician
10 7 (9.59%) SQL DBA
11 6 (8.22%) Field Support Technician
11 6 (8.22%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) .NET
2 4 (5.48%) Blazor
3 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.37%) LDAP
3 1 (1.37%) REST
3 1 (1.37%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (9.59%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.85%) Replication
5 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.74%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) CCTV
6 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (65.75%) Windows
2 36 (49.32%) Linux
3 31 (42.47%) Windows Server
4 14 (19.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (17.81%) Windows 10
6 6 (8.22%) Mac OS
6 6 (8.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.85%) Unix
8 2 (2.74%) VMS
9 1 (1.37%) AIX
9 1 (1.37%) CentOS
9 1 (1.37%) Solaris
9 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (21.92%) ITIL
3 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (16.44%) High Availability
5 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (13.70%) Roadmaps
6 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.33%) Microservices
6 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.96%) Change Control
7 8 (10.96%) Migration
7 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.96%) Server Building
8 7 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (9.59%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (9.59%) Containerisation
8 7 (9.59%) Server Management
9 6 (8.22%) Coaching
9 6 (8.22%) Release Management
9 6 (8.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.18%) PowerShell
1 14 (19.18%) SQL
2 9 (12.33%) C#
3 8 (10.96%) Python
4 7 (9.59%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.11%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) Bourne shell
6 1 (1.37%) C-shell
6 1 (1.37%) Perl
6 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (8.22%) ACMT
2 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 4 (5.48%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.74%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.37%) CCNA
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.37%) MCITP
7 1 (1.37%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
1 6 (8.22%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (46.58%) Hyper-V
2 27 (36.99%) Active Directory
3 17 (23.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (12.33%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (10.96%) Docker
6 3 (4.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (35.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (15.07%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (9.59%) vCenter Server
4 6 (8.22%) Autotask
4 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.48%) Ansible
5 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (4.11%) Nagios
6 3 (4.11%) NetBackup
6 3 (4.11%) Terraform
7 2 (2.74%) Backup Exec
7 2 (2.74%) Puppet
7 2 (2.74%) VxRail
7 2 (2.74%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.37%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.37%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.37%) SCOM
8 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (61.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (26.03%) VMware
3 17 (23.29%) HP
4 15 (20.55%) Dell
5 13 (17.81%) SonicWALL
5 13 (17.81%) Supermicro
5 13 (17.81%) Veeam
6 11 (15.07%) Cisco
7 9 (12.33%) Oracle
8 7 (9.59%) Datto
9 6 (8.22%) Apple
9 6 (8.22%) RedGate
9 6 (8.22%) SAP
9 6 (8.22%) Sophos
10 5 (6.85%) Red Hat
11 4 (5.48%) Informatica
11 4 (5.48%) Symantec
11 4 (5.48%) Talend
12 2 (2.74%) EMC
12 2 (2.74%) NetApp