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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 524 550
Rank change year-on-year -114 +26 -36
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 113 115 203
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 0.64% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 80 110 152
10th Percentile £37,750 £34,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -4.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,313 £72,188 £115,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £76,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% -4.58% +14.29%

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 26,562 18,029 22,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.95% 41.99% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 17,270 9,139 11,668
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 21 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 21 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 32 £77,500 +10.71% 57
Midlands -38 27 £48,750 +5.24% 4
East Midlands -14 22 £46,500 +3.33%
South East -60 21 £40,000 -30.43% 19
East of England -24 17 £80,000 +45.45% 5
North West -34 12 £48,801 -30.29% 8
North of England -93 12 £48,801 -4.31% 9
West Midlands -51 5 £67,500 +42.11% 4
South West -74 4 £63,750 +50.00% 8
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 26 (23.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (16.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (7.08%) Apache Spark
4 8 (7.08%) IIS
5 6 (5.31%) SAS
6 3 (2.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.77%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.88%) Apache
8 1 (0.88%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.88%) Site Server
8 1 (0.88%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.86%) Azure
2 33 (29.20%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (17.70%) AWS
4 17 (15.04%) SaaS
5 15 (13.27%) Entra ID
6 11 (9.73%) dbt
6 11 (9.73%) Snowflake
7 9 (7.96%) GCP
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (7.08%) Mimecast
8 8 (7.08%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.31%) Cloudflare
9 6 (5.31%) PaaS
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.42%) Datadog
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.54%) GitHub
11 4 (3.54%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) Firewall
1 16 (14.16%) SAN
2 12 (10.62%) DNS
3 11 (9.73%) DHCP
4 8 (7.08%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (6.19%) Wireless
6 6 (5.31%) 5G
6 6 (5.31%) Broadband
6 6 (5.31%) Internet
6 6 (5.31%) Network Security
7 5 (4.42%) VLAN
7 5 (4.42%) VSAN
8 4 (3.54%) VPN
8 4 (3.54%) WAN
9 3 (2.65%) LAN
9 3 (2.65%) NAS
9 3 (2.65%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.77%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.77%) IP Telephony
10 2 (1.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.24%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.85%) BigQuery
3 10 (8.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (7.96%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (7.08%) Looker
5 8 (7.08%) Milvus
5 8 (7.08%) Power BI
5 8 (7.08%) Tableau
6 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.31%) Redis
8 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.77%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.88%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.88%) Metadata
10 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) MLflow
2 3 (2.65%) Git
2 3 (2.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) Flyway
General
1 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.85%) Banking
3 10 (8.85%) Finance
4 9 (7.96%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.19%) Legal
6 6 (5.31%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.42%) Law
7 5 (4.42%) Retail
8 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Games
8 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.54%) Military
9 3 (2.65%) Marketing
9 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (23.89%) Senior
2 23 (20.35%) Administrator
3 21 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (18.58%) Systems Engineer
4 17 (15.04%) Systems Administrator
5 15 (13.27%) IT Engineer
6 13 (11.50%) IT Administrator
6 13 (11.50%) IT Systems Administrator
7 10 (8.85%) Support Engineer
8 9 (7.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) IT Support
10 7 (6.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) DBA
10 7 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Network Administrator
10 7 (6.19%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (6.19%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (5.31%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) Terraform
2 11 (9.73%) pgvector
3 9 (7.96%) LangChain
3 9 (7.96%) PyTorch
3 9 (7.96%) scikit-learn
3 9 (7.96%) TensorFlow
4 8 (7.08%) Kafka
4 8 (7.08%) LlamaIndex
5 6 (5.31%) Streamlit
6 5 (4.42%) Node.js
7 3 (2.65%) JSON
7 3 (2.65%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.77%) Snowpark
8 2 (1.77%) Web Services
9 1 (0.88%) Keras
9 1 (0.88%) LangGraph
9 1 (0.88%) Middleware
9 1 (0.88%) NumPy
9 1 (0.88%) Pandas
9 1 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.96%) Replication
2 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Storage
2 8 (7.08%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.08%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.31%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.31%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.31%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.42%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.65%) NHS
7 2 (1.77%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.77%) Robotics
7 2 (1.77%) Social Media
8 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (32.74%) Windows
2 36 (31.86%) Windows Server
3 17 (15.04%) Linux
4 6 (5.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.65%) Debian
6 3 (2.65%) Gentoo
7 2 (1.77%) Android
7 2 (1.77%) Unix
8 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.51%) High Availability
2 34 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (26.55%) AI
4 23 (20.35%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (19.47%) Analytics
5 22 (19.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (18.58%) Machine Learning
7 19 (16.81%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (16.81%) Data Science
8 18 (15.93%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (15.04%) Mentoring
9 17 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (14.16%) Data Modelling
10 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (14.16%) Use Case
11 15 (13.27%) Predictive Modelling
12 14 (12.39%) Business Continuity
12 14 (12.39%) Feature Engineering
12 14 (12.39%) Storage Management
13 12 (10.62%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (53.10%) SQL
2 33 (29.20%) Python
3 18 (15.93%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.08%) Bash
5 6 (5.31%) Java
5 6 (5.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (5.31%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (4.42%) Go
6 5 (4.42%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.65%) Perl
7 3 (2.65%) R
7 3 (2.65%) Ruby
8 1 (0.88%) C
8 1 (0.88%) C++
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.39%) Degree
3 13 (11.50%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.73%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.31%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.54%) MCSA
7 4 (3.54%) MCSE
7 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.88%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.88%) IISP
9 1 (0.88%) ISACA
9 1 (0.88%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.27%) GDPR
2 9 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 8 (7.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (4.42%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (31.86%) Active Directory
2 35 (30.97%) Hyper-V
3 13 (11.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.08%) Docker
5 5 (4.42%) vSphere
6 4 (3.54%) Firmware
6 4 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.54%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.88%) Ceph
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (21.24%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (12.39%) Ansible
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.42%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.54%) VxRail
7 3 (2.65%) Podman
7 3 (2.65%) Puppet
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.77%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.88%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.88%) Nagios
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) VMware
3 12 (10.62%) Dell
3 12 (10.62%) Veeam
4 10 (8.85%) Databricks
5 8 (7.08%) Cloudera
6 6 (5.31%) SonicWALL
6 6 (5.31%) Splunk
7 5 (4.42%) AppDynamics
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle
8 3 (2.65%) Cisco
8 3 (2.65%) Citrix
8 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.77%) Apple
10 1 (0.88%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.88%) F5
10 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.88%) OpenAI