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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 533 552
Rank change year-on-year -79 +19 -29
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 125 121 239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.66% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 83 112 199
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,075 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,101 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £77,375 £118,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -3.36% +8.18%

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 23,481 18,271 25,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.72% 42.00% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,467 9,254 15,856
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,940 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £103,225
UK median annual salary £57,591 £56,811 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.37% +3.29% -13.39%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -31 38 £82,500 +13.79% 17
Midlands -17 31 £45,250 -4.74%
East Midlands - 26 £45,000 -
South East -48 22 £52,500 -4.55% 9
East of England -5 19 £72,500 +31.82% 3
North of England -52 12 £48,801 -7.05% 3
North West +2 11 £48,801 -30.29% 3
West Midlands -23 5 £67,500 +42.11%
South West -67 3 £52,500 +23.53% 3
Yorkshire -47 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 28 (22.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (19.20%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (18.40%) Apache Spark
4 20 (16.00%) SharePoint
5 9 (7.20%) IIS
6 6 (4.80%) SAS
7 3 (2.40%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.80%) Apache
8 1 (0.80%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.80%) Site Server
8 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.80%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.60%) Azure
2 37 (29.60%) AWS
2 37 (29.60%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.60%) Snowflake
4 26 (20.80%) dbt
5 25 (20.00%) GCP
5 25 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 23 (18.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (13.60%) Entra ID
8 11 (8.80%) SaaS
9 10 (8.00%) Mimecast
10 6 (4.80%) Cloudflare
10 6 (4.80%) PaaS
11 3 (2.40%) GitHub
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.60%) IaaS
12 2 (1.60%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.80%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.20%) Firewall
1 19 (15.20%) SAN
2 14 (11.20%) DNS
3 13 (10.40%) DHCP
4 10 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (6.40%) Internet
5 8 (6.40%) Network Security
6 7 (5.60%) Wireless
7 6 (4.80%) 5G
7 6 (4.80%) Broadband
7 6 (4.80%) VLAN
8 5 (4.00%) VPN
9 4 (3.20%) NAS
9 4 (3.20%) WAN
10 3 (2.40%) LAN
10 3 (2.40%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.60%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.60%) IP Telephony
11 2 (1.60%) SSL
11 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.80%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 25 (20.00%) Power BI
3 25 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 24 (19.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (19.20%) Data Lake
5 23 (18.40%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (18.40%) Looker
5 23 (18.40%) Tableau
6 7 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.60%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.80%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.80%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.80%) Metadata
10 1 (0.80%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.80%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (19.20%) MLflow
2 3 (2.40%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) JIRA
4 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (31.20%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.80%) Banking
4 6 (4.80%) Legal
5 5 (4.00%) Finance
5 5 (4.00%) Law
5 5 (4.00%) Retail
6 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.20%) Games
7 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.40%) Marketing
7 3 (2.40%) Military
7 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Advertising
8 1 (0.80%) Aviation
8 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (38.40%) Senior
2 37 (29.60%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (20.80%) Administrator
4 24 (19.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 21 (16.80%) Systems Administrator
6 20 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (12.80%) IT Administrator
7 16 (12.80%) IT Systems Administrator
8 15 (12.00%) IT Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) IT Support
9 8 (6.40%) Network Administrator
9 8 (6.40%) Network Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (5.60%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.00%) pgvector
2 24 (19.20%) LangChain
2 24 (19.20%) PyTorch
2 24 (19.20%) scikit-learn
2 24 (19.20%) TensorFlow
3 23 (18.40%) Kafka
3 23 (18.40%) LlamaIndex
4 6 (4.80%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.40%) Web Services
6 2 (1.60%) JSON
6 2 (1.60%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.60%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.80%) Keras
7 1 (0.80%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.80%) LDAP
7 1 (0.80%) NumPy
7 1 (0.80%) Pandas
7 1 (0.80%) PySpark
7 1 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 23 (18.40%) Public Cloud
3 14 (11.20%) Replication
4 12 (9.60%) Data Centre
5 9 (7.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (4.80%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.80%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.40%) NHS
9 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.60%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.60%) PKI
9 2 (1.60%) Robotics
9 2 (1.60%) Social Media
10 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (32.00%) Windows
2 38 (30.40%) Windows Server
3 17 (13.60%) Linux
4 6 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.40%) Debian
5 3 (2.40%) Gentoo
6 2 (1.60%) Android
6 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.80%) CentOS
7 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.40%) AI
2 38 (30.40%) Analytics
3 35 (28.00%) Machine Learning
4 34 (27.20%) High Availability
5 33 (26.40%) Data Science
6 32 (25.60%) Performance Tuning
7 31 (24.80%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (24.00%) Predictive Modelling
9 29 (23.20%) Data Modelling
9 29 (23.20%) Feature Engineering
9 29 (23.20%) Use Case
10 27 (21.60%) Systems Engineering
11 26 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (20.80%) Data Governance
12 25 (20.00%) Data Engineering
12 25 (20.00%) ETL
12 25 (20.00%) Generative AI
12 25 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 24 (19.20%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 83 (66.40%) SQL
2 44 (35.20%) Python
3 21 (16.80%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.40%) Bash
5 4 (3.20%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (3.20%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.40%) R
6 3 (2.40%) Ruby
7 2 (1.60%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.80%) C
8 1 (0.80%) C++
8 1 (0.80%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) Perl
8 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.00%) Degree
2 10 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.80%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.20%) MCSA
8 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.40%) MCSE
9 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.80%) IISP
10 1 (0.80%) ISACA
10 1 (0.80%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.80%) LPIC
10 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.80%) GDPR
2 23 (18.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (5.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 40 (32.00%) Hyper-V
3 11 (8.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (8.00%) Docker
5 3 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.40%) vSphere
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.80%) Ceph
7 1 (0.80%) Firmware
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Clustering
3 13 (10.40%) Ansible
4 9 (7.20%) Terraform
5 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.40%) Podman
7 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.60%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.60%) Puppet
9 1 (0.80%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.80%) Nagios
9 1 (0.80%) Netcool
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.80%) SCOM
9 1 (0.80%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 49 (39.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.80%) Databricks
3 25 (20.00%) Dell
4 23 (18.40%) Cloudera
5 12 (9.60%) Veeam
5 12 (9.60%) VMware
6 8 (6.40%) SonicWALL
7 5 (4.00%) Oracle
7 5 (4.00%) Splunk
8 4 (3.20%) Cisco
9 3 (2.40%) BMC
9 3 (2.40%) Citrix
9 3 (2.40%) Remedy
9 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.60%) Apple
11 1 (0.80%) Commvault
11 1 (0.80%) F5
11 1 (0.80%) NetApp
11 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.80%) Sybase