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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 538 538
Rank change year-on-year -64 0 +91
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 52 93 239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.082% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.58% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 37 54 216
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £50,750 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £94,125 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -4.55%

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 20,412 15,909 25,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.01% 38.62% 35.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 7,862 18,717
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,040 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +11 22 £87,500 +25.00% 18
South East -35 10 £63,750 +21.43% 23
Midlands -15 9 £45,000 - 3
East Midlands -29 6 £45,000 -5.26% 1
North of England -36 6 £70,000 -2.77% 4
North West - 4 £70,000 - 2
East of England +3 3 £43,000 -18.10% 2
West Midlands -3 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
North East -10 2 £51,000 - 1
South West -17 2 - - 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 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (3.85%) IIS
5 2 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (65.38%) Azure
2 25 (48.08%) AWS
3 12 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 10 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (17.31%) GCP
5 9 (17.31%) Snowflake
6 8 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (15.38%) dbt
7 6 (11.54%) SaaS
8 5 (9.62%) iPaaS
9 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.85%) GitHub
10 2 (3.85%) IaaS
10 2 (3.85%) PaaS
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.92%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) DHCP
1 11 (21.15%) DNS
2 10 (19.23%) SAN
2 10 (19.23%) TCP/IP
3 9 (17.31%) Firewall
4 6 (11.54%) VLAN
5 3 (5.77%) VPN
6 2 (3.85%) LAN
6 2 (3.85%) NetScaler
6 2 (3.85%) VSAN
6 2 (3.85%) WAN
7 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.92%) IPv4
7 1 (1.92%) IPv6
7 1 (1.92%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.92%) NAS
7 1 (1.92%) Network Security
7 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.08%) Power BI
3 10 (19.23%) Tableau
4 9 (17.31%) MongoDB
5 8 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (15.38%) BigQuery
5 8 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 8 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (15.38%) Looker
5 8 (15.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (13.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (9.62%) MySQL
7 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.85%) Big Data
10 2 (3.85%) Impala
10 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
10 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) MLflow
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (13.46%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (9.62%) Law
7 4 (7.69%) Legal
8 3 (5.77%) Banking
9 2 (3.85%) Marketing
9 2 (3.85%) Retail
10 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Senior
2 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (19.23%) DBA
3 10 (19.23%) Lead
4 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Systems Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) SQL DBA
6 7 (13.46%) Unix Support
7 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) IT Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) IT Support
8 5 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 4 (7.69%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (7.69%) Linux Support
9 4 (7.69%) Unix Specialist
9 4 (7.69%) Unix Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) Kafka
1 8 (15.38%) LangChain
1 8 (15.38%) LlamaIndex
1 8 (15.38%) pgvector
1 8 (15.38%) PyTorch
1 8 (15.38%) scikit-learn
1 8 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) PySpark
3 2 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) LDAP
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Data Centre
2 9 (17.31%) Public Cloud
3 8 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (15.38%) Replication
4 7 (13.46%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (36.54%) Linux
1 19 (36.54%) Windows
2 18 (34.62%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (13.46%) Unix
5 5 (9.62%) VMS
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (26.92%) ITIL
3 12 (23.08%) Analytics
4 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (21.15%) Data Science
4 11 (21.15%) Machine Learning
5 10 (19.23%) ETL
5 10 (19.23%) Generative AI
6 9 (17.31%) AI
6 9 (17.31%) High Availability
6 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Predictive Modelling
6 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (17.31%) Use Case
7 8 (15.38%) Data Governance
7 8 (15.38%) Data Management
7 8 (15.38%) Dimensional Modelling
7 8 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
7 8 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) SQL
2 21 (40.38%) Python
3 12 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 7 (13.46%) C#
4 7 (13.46%) T-SQL
5 4 (7.69%) Bash
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) Perl
7 2 (3.85%) R
8 1 (1.92%) Bicep
8 1 (1.92%) Korn
8 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
1 5 (9.62%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (3.85%) LPIC
3 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.00%) GDPR
2 8 (15.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (11.54%) SLA
4 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.23%) Hyper-V
3 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (11.54%) Docker
5 5 (9.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Ansible
2 8 (15.38%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.62%) Terraform
4 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.85%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) Nagios
5 2 (3.85%) Puppet
5 2 (3.85%) VxRail
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Netcool
6 1 (1.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.08%) Dell
2 12 (23.08%) VMware
3 9 (17.31%) Veeam
4 8 (15.38%) Cloudera
4 8 (15.38%) Databricks
4 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 7 (13.46%) Symantec
6 4 (7.69%) Oracle
7 3 (5.77%) BMC
7 3 (5.77%) NetApp
7 3 (5.77%) Remedy
7 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.85%) Cisco
8 2 (3.85%) Citrix
8 2 (3.85%) Google
8 2 (3.85%) Informatica
8 2 (3.85%) RedGate
8 2 (3.85%) Sybase
8 2 (3.85%) Talend