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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 524 544
Rank change year-on-year -73 +20 +25
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 88 99 296
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.60% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 51 82 262
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%
75th Percentile £78,000 £73,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £57,125 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -4.79% +5.26% +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 22,220 16,496 29,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.87% 43.08% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,832 7,837 20,870
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,325 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -23 35 £87,500 +25.00% 8
Midlands -23 20 £45,000 -5.26% 4
East Midlands -12 14 £43,750 -23.25% 2
South East -38 14 £65,000 +18.18% 15
East of England -5 11 £72,500 +31.82% 6
West Midlands -30 6 £65,000 +36.84% 2
North of England -43 6 £47,500 -34.02% 6
North West -2 5 £47,500 -28.30% 4
South West -57 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -54 1 - - 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 23 (26.14%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (26.14%) Apache Spark
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (11.36%) SharePoint
4 8 (9.09%) SAS
5 4 (4.55%) IIS
5 4 (4.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.68%) Azure
2 35 (39.77%) AWS
3 27 (30.68%) Power Platform
4 25 (28.41%) GCP
5 24 (27.27%) Snowflake
6 23 (26.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (26.14%) dbt
7 20 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (13.64%) Entra ID
9 8 (9.09%) Mimecast
10 7 (7.95%) SaaS
11 3 (3.41%) PaaS
12 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
13 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (1.14%) Cloudflare
13 1 (1.14%) IaaS
13 1 (1.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.18%) SAN
2 10 (11.36%) Firewall
3 8 (9.09%) Internet
3 8 (9.09%) Network Security
3 8 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (6.82%) 5G
4 6 (6.82%) Broadband
5 4 (4.55%) DHCP
5 4 (4.55%) DNS
5 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.41%) NetScaler
7 2 (2.27%) VSAN
7 2 (2.27%) WAN
8 1 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.14%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.14%) LAN
8 1 (1.14%) NAS
8 1 (1.14%) VLAN
8 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.68%) Power BI
2 25 (28.41%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (28.41%) Tableau
3 24 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (27.27%) Data Lake
4 23 (26.14%) BigQuery
4 23 (26.14%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (26.14%) Looker
4 23 (26.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 19 (21.59%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.27%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.27%) MySQL
9 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.27%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (26.14%) MLflow
2 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Legal
5 5 (5.68%) Marketing
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Aviation
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (43.18%) Senior
2 29 (32.95%) Systems Engineer
3 23 (26.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Administrator
5 13 (14.77%) Systems Administrator
6 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (12.50%) IT Administrator
7 11 (12.50%) IT Systems Administrator
8 9 (10.23%) DBA
9 8 (9.09%) IT Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) SQL DBA
11 4 (4.55%) Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Architect
11 4 (4.55%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
11 4 (4.55%) Lead
11 4 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Unix Support
12 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) LangChain
1 24 (27.27%) PyTorch
1 24 (27.27%) scikit-learn
1 24 (27.27%) TensorFlow
2 23 (26.14%) Kafka
2 23 (26.14%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (26.14%) pgvector
3 6 (6.82%) Streamlit
4 3 (3.41%) PySpark
5 2 (2.27%) REST
6 1 (1.14%) Keras
6 1 (1.14%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.14%) LDAP
6 1 (1.14%) NumPy
6 1 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 23 (26.14%) Public Cloud
3 13 (14.77%) Data Centre
4 10 (11.36%) Replication
5 6 (6.82%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.55%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) NHS
8 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.14%) PKI
8 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Windows
2 18 (20.45%) Windows Server
3 16 (18.18%) Linux
4 5 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.55%) Unix
6 3 (3.41%) VMS
7 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.14%) CentOS
8 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) Analytics
2 33 (37.50%) Data Science
3 32 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 30 (34.09%) AI
4 30 (34.09%) Performance Tuning
5 29 (32.95%) Feature Engineering
5 29 (32.95%) Predictive Modelling
6 27 (30.68%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (30.68%) Systems Engineering
7 26 (29.55%) Generative AI
8 24 (27.27%) Data Governance
8 24 (27.27%) Data Management
8 24 (27.27%) Data Modelling
8 24 (27.27%) ETL
8 24 (27.27%) Prompt Engineering
8 24 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 24 (27.27%) Semantic Search
9 23 (26.14%) Data Engineering
9 23 (26.14%) Presales
9 23 (26.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 71 (80.68%) SQL
2 46 (52.27%) Python
3 14 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.95%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.68%) Bash
5 5 (5.68%) R
6 4 (4.55%) C#
7 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.27%) Perl
9 1 (1.14%) C
9 1 (1.14%) C++
9 1 (1.14%) Java
9 1 (1.14%) Korn
9 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (6.82%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.55%) MCSA
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.27%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (2.27%) LPIC
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) IISP
5 1 (1.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.27%) GDPR
2 23 (26.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.41%) SLA
4 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (30.68%) Active Directory
2 18 (20.45%) Hyper-V
3 10 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.95%) Docker
5 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Ansible
2 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.68%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) Terraform
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.41%) Puppet
5 3 (3.41%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.27%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (2.27%) VxRail
7 1 (1.14%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.14%) Nagios
7 1 (1.14%) Netcool
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (29.55%) Dell
3 25 (28.41%) Databricks
4 23 (26.14%) Cloudera
5 13 (14.77%) VMware
6 11 (12.50%) Veeam
7 8 (9.09%) SonicWALL
8 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.55%) Symantec
10 3 (3.41%) BMC
10 3 (3.41%) Citrix
10 3 (3.41%) NetApp
10 3 (3.41%) Oracle
10 3 (3.41%) Remedy
10 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.27%) Google
11 2 (2.27%) Sybase
12 1 (1.14%) SAP
12 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.14%) Splunk