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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 530 555
Rank change year-on-year -127 +25 -39
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 105 111 196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.62% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 79 106 140
10th Percentile £37,750 £33,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,250 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -3.78% +13.33%
75th Percentile £80,625 £71,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £74,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,250 £59,500
% change year-on-year -3.93% -3.78% +13.33%

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 27,131 17,986 21,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.12% 41.82% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17,618 9,101 10,871
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,423 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% -8.33% -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 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 30 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 -65 27 £77,500 +10.71% 41
Midlands -44 26 £50,000 +8.11% 3
East Midlands -23 21 £47,500 +5.56% 1
South East -55 21 £40,000 -30.43% 15
East of England -24 15 £80,000 +45.45% 3
North West -33 12 £48,801 -30.29% 6
North of England -92 12 £48,801 -5.70% 7
West Midlands -48 5 £67,500 +42.11% 2
South West -80 4 £63,750 +50.00% 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 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (17.14%) SharePoint
3 8 (7.62%) IIS
4 6 (5.71%) SAS
5 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.86%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.90%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.95%) Apache
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.95%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.95%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.48%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (26.67%) Azure
3 17 (16.19%) SaaS
4 14 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 13 (12.38%) AWS
6 7 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (6.67%) Mimecast
7 6 (5.71%) Cloudflare
7 6 (5.71%) PaaS
8 5 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.76%) Datadog
9 4 (3.81%) Azure Stack
9 4 (3.81%) GitHub
9 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.86%) dbt
10 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.90%) IaaS
11 2 (1.90%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.29%) Firewall
1 15 (14.29%) SAN
2 12 (11.43%) DNS
3 11 (10.48%) DHCP
4 7 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (6.67%) Wireless
5 6 (5.71%) 5G
5 6 (5.71%) Broadband
6 5 (4.76%) Internet
6 5 (4.76%) Network Security
6 5 (4.76%) VLAN
6 5 (4.76%) VSAN
7 4 (3.81%) VPN
7 4 (3.81%) WAN
8 3 (2.86%) LAN
8 3 (2.86%) NAS
8 3 (2.86%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.90%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.90%) IP Telephony
9 2 (1.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Redis
4 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (1.90%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.95%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.95%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata
6 1 (0.95%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) GitLab
3 2 (1.90%) Flyway
4 1 (0.95%) MLflow
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.52%) Banking
3 10 (9.52%) Finance
4 9 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.67%) Legal
6 6 (5.71%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.76%) Law
7 5 (4.76%) Retail
8 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.81%) Games
8 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.81%) Military
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
9 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.95%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.95%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.95%) Administrator
2 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (18.10%) Senior
4 16 (15.24%) Systems Administrator
5 15 (14.29%) IT Engineer
6 13 (12.38%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (11.43%) IT Administrator
7 12 (11.43%) IT Systems Administrator
8 10 (9.52%) Support Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) DBA
9 8 (7.62%) IT Support
10 7 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Network Administrator
10 7 (6.67%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (6.67%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) Terraform
2 6 (5.71%) Streamlit
3 5 (4.76%) Node.js
4 3 (2.86%) JSON
4 3 (2.86%) pgvector
4 3 (2.86%) PostGIS
5 2 (1.90%) Middleware
5 2 (1.90%) Snowpark
5 2 (1.90%) Web Services
6 1 (0.95%) Keras
6 1 (0.95%) LangChain
6 1 (0.95%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.95%) NumPy
6 1 (0.95%) Pandas
6 1 (0.95%) PySpark
6 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.95%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Onboarding
1 9 (8.57%) Replication
2 8 (7.62%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.71%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.86%) NHS
7 2 (1.90%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.90%) Robotics
7 2 (1.90%) Social Media
8 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.95%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.95%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.24%) Windows
2 36 (34.29%) Windows Server
3 18 (17.14%) Linux
4 6 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.86%) Debian
6 3 (2.86%) Gentoo
6 3 (2.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.90%) Android
8 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.14%) High Availability
2 35 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (21.90%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (20.95%) AI
4 22 (20.95%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (17.14%) Mentoring
5 18 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (13.33%) Analytics
7 14 (13.33%) Business Continuity
8 13 (12.38%) Machine Learning
8 13 (12.38%) Storage Management
9 12 (11.43%) Capacity Planning
9 12 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 12 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (10.48%) Business Continuity Planning
10 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (49.52%) SQL
2 25 (23.81%) Python
3 18 (17.14%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.62%) Bash
5 6 (5.71%) Java
5 6 (5.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (5.71%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (4.76%) Go
6 5 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.86%) Perl
7 3 (2.86%) R
7 3 (2.86%) Ruby
8 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.95%) C
9 1 (0.95%) C++
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.33%) Degree
3 13 (12.38%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.71%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.81%) MCSA
7 4 (3.81%) MCSE
7 4 (3.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.95%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.95%) IISP
9 1 (0.95%) ISACA
9 1 (0.95%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.67%) GDPR
3 5 (4.76%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 34 (32.38%) Hyper-V
3 13 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.62%) Docker
5 5 (4.76%) vSphere
6 4 (3.81%) Firmware
6 4 (3.81%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.81%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.95%) Ceph
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (22.86%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (13.33%) Ansible
2 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.76%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.81%) VxRail
7 3 (2.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (2.86%) Podman
7 3 (2.86%) Puppet
8 2 (1.90%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.90%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.95%) Nagios
9 1 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) VMware
3 11 (10.48%) Veeam
4 6 (5.71%) Oracle
4 6 (5.71%) Splunk
5 5 (4.76%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.76%) SonicWALL
6 4 (3.81%) Dell
7 3 (2.86%) Cisco
7 3 (2.86%) Citrix
7 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.90%) Apple
8 2 (1.90%) Databricks
9 1 (0.95%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.95%) F5
9 1 (0.95%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.95%) OpenAI