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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 532 556
Rank change year-on-year -74 +24 -61
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 131 117 216
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.64% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 84 112 179
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £38,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,301 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -10.40% +16.28%
75th Percentile £74,688 £72,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,375 £123,750
UK median annual salary £50,051 £55,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -9.00% -10.20% +16.67%

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 24,485 18,416 23,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.75% 42.04% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16,050 9,336 14,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,385
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,500
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 £105,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.20%

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 18 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 18 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 -25 40 £77,500 +6.90% 4
Midlands -9 31 £45,250 -4.74% 1
East Midlands - 26 £45,000 -
East of England -12 22 £80,000 +45.45% 1
South East -38 20 £40,000 -27.27% 4
North of England -59 14 £48,801 +33.70% 3
North West 0 13 £48,801 -30.29% 3
West Midlands -26 5 £67,500 +42.11% 1
South West -70 4 £63,750 +50.00% 3
Yorkshire -43 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 29 (22.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (18.32%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (17.56%) Apache Spark
4 21 (16.03%) SharePoint
5 9 (6.87%) IIS
6 6 (4.58%) SAS
7 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.76%) Apache
8 1 (0.76%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.76%) Site Server
8 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 55 (41.98%) Azure
2 37 (28.24%) AWS
2 37 (28.24%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (20.61%) Snowflake
4 26 (19.85%) dbt
5 25 (19.08%) GCP
6 24 (18.32%) Power Platform
7 23 (17.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (12.98%) Entra ID
9 14 (10.69%) SaaS
10 10 (7.63%) Mimecast
11 6 (4.58%) Cloudflare
11 6 (4.58%) PaaS
12 4 (3.05%) GitHub
12 4 (3.05%) Nutanix
13 3 (2.29%) Azure Stack
14 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (1.53%) Datadog
14 2 (1.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.50%) Firewall
1 19 (14.50%) SAN
2 14 (10.69%) DNS
3 13 (9.92%) DHCP
4 10 (7.63%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (6.11%) Internet
5 8 (6.11%) Network Security
6 7 (5.34%) Wireless
7 6 (4.58%) 5G
7 6 (4.58%) Broadband
7 6 (4.58%) VLAN
8 5 (3.82%) VPN
9 4 (3.05%) NAS
9 4 (3.05%) VSAN
9 4 (3.05%) WAN
10 3 (2.29%) LAN
10 3 (2.29%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.53%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.53%) SSL
11 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.14%) SQL Server
2 26 (19.85%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (19.08%) BigQuery
3 25 (19.08%) Snowflake Schema
4 24 (18.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (18.32%) Data Lake
4 24 (18.32%) Power BI
5 23 (17.56%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (17.56%) Looker
5 23 (17.56%) Tableau
6 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.29%) Redis
10 2 (1.53%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.76%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.76%) Metadata
11 1 (0.76%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (18.32%) MLflow
2 3 (2.29%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (30.53%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.87%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.11%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Finance
5 7 (5.34%) Legal
6 6 (4.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.82%) Law
7 5 (3.82%) Retail
8 4 (3.05%) Games
8 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.05%) Military
9 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Marketing
9 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Aviation
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (32.82%) Senior
2 37 (28.24%) Systems Engineer
3 27 (20.61%) Administrator
4 24 (18.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (16.03%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (12.21%) IT Administrator
7 16 (12.21%) IT Systems Administrator
8 15 (11.45%) IT Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Support Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) DBA
10 8 (6.11%) IT Support
10 8 (6.11%) Network Administrator
10 8 (6.11%) Network Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior IT Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior IT Support
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Support Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.85%) pgvector
2 24 (18.32%) LangChain
2 24 (18.32%) PyTorch
2 24 (18.32%) scikit-learn
2 24 (18.32%) TensorFlow
3 23 (17.56%) Kafka
3 23 (17.56%) LlamaIndex
4 6 (4.58%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.29%) JSON
5 3 (2.29%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.53%) Node.js
6 2 (1.53%) Snowpark
6 2 (1.53%) Web Services
7 1 (0.76%) Keras
7 1 (0.76%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.76%) LDAP
7 1 (0.76%) NumPy
7 1 (0.76%) Pandas
7 1 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.56%) Public Cloud
3 15 (11.45%) Replication
4 10 (7.63%) Data Centre
5 9 (6.87%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (5.34%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.58%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.58%) Driving Licence
7 6 (4.58%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.29%) NHS
10 2 (1.53%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.53%) Robotics
10 2 (1.53%) Social Media
10 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 39 (29.77%) Windows
2 37 (28.24%) Windows Server
3 17 (12.98%) Linux
4 6 (4.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.29%) Debian
5 3 (2.29%) Gentoo
5 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.53%) Android
6 2 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.76%) CentOS
7 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.59%) AI
2 40 (30.53%) High Availability
3 38 (29.01%) Analytics
4 35 (26.72%) Machine Learning
4 35 (26.72%) Performance Tuning
5 34 (25.95%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (25.95%) Data Science
5 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (23.66%) Use Case
7 30 (22.90%) Data Modelling
7 30 (22.90%) Predictive Modelling
8 29 (22.14%) Feature Engineering
9 27 (20.61%) Systems Engineering
10 26 (19.85%) Data Governance
11 25 (19.08%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (19.08%) Data Engineering
11 25 (19.08%) ETL
11 25 (19.08%) Generative AI
11 25 (19.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 24 (18.32%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 81 (61.83%) SQL
2 45 (34.35%) Python
3 21 (16.03%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.34%) Bash
5 6 (4.58%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (4.58%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.29%) Java
6 3 (2.29%) R
6 3 (2.29%) Ruby
7 2 (1.53%) Go
7 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.76%) C
8 1 (0.76%) C#
8 1 (0.76%) C++
8 1 (0.76%) Perl
8 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.92%) Degree
2 13 (9.92%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.58%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.05%) MCSA
7 4 (3.05%) MCSE
8 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.76%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.76%) IISP
9 1 (0.76%) ISACA
9 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.76%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.37%) GDPR
2 23 (17.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (32.06%) Active Directory
2 40 (30.53%) Hyper-V
3 13 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.87%) Docker
5 5 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.82%) vSphere
6 3 (2.29%) Firmware
6 3 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.29%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.76%) Ceph
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.08%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (10.69%) Ansible
2 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Clustering
3 12 (9.16%) Terraform
4 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.82%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.29%) Podman
7 3 (2.29%) VxRail
8 2 (1.53%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.53%) Puppet
9 1 (0.76%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.76%) Nagios
9 1 (0.76%) Netcool
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.76%) SCOM
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (38.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.61%) Dell
3 26 (19.85%) Databricks
4 23 (17.56%) Cloudera
5 14 (10.69%) Veeam
5 14 (10.69%) VMware
6 8 (6.11%) SonicWALL
7 7 (5.34%) Splunk
8 5 (3.82%) Oracle
9 4 (3.05%) Cisco
10 3 (2.29%) Citrix
11 2 (1.53%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.53%) Apple
12 1 (0.76%) Amplitude
12 1 (0.76%) Commvault
12 1 (0.76%) NetApp
12 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.76%) Zerto