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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 549 493
Rank change year-on-year +13 -56 +197
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 114 203 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.92% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 109 155 199
10th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £64,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +22.86% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £115,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £143,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £64,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +22.86% -

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 18,040 22,074 22,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.81% 32.13% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9,145 11,748 16,089
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £64,811
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.42% +3.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,950 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
North of England +50 37 £51,000 +15.19% 8
London +3 26 £70,000 -36.36% 20
South East +34 24 £57,500 +18.56% 15
North West +20 14 £70,000 +40.00% 5
Yorkshire +24 13 £36,500 -17.56% 1
Midlands +45 12 £46,324 +2.94% 11
North East +19 10 £43,000 -2.88% 2
South West +61 8 £42,500 -25.44% 3
West Midlands +52 8 £47,500 - 3
East of England -2 5 £55,000 -8.71% 1
East Midlands +22 4 £45,000 - 7
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (29.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (14.91%) IIS
3 10 (8.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.88%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (75.44%) Azure
2 39 (34.21%) AWS
3 37 (32.46%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (24.56%) Entra ID
5 11 (9.65%) GCP
5 11 (9.65%) IaaS
6 10 (8.77%) SaaS
7 9 (7.89%) PaaS
8 7 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (6.14%) Nutanix
8 7 (6.14%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.39%) GitHub
10 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.51%) iPaaS
11 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.88%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 46 (40.35%) Firewall
2 44 (38.60%) DNS
3 41 (35.96%) SAN
4 38 (33.33%) DHCP
5 24 (21.05%) VoIP
6 23 (20.18%) VLAN
7 18 (15.79%) VPN
8 16 (14.04%) TCP/IP
9 14 (12.28%) WAN
10 11 (9.65%) LAN
11 9 (7.89%) NAS
12 8 (7.02%) SMTP
13 7 (6.14%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (5.26%) IPsec
14 6 (5.26%) Network Security
14 6 (5.26%) SSL
14 6 (5.26%) VSAN
14 6 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (38.60%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.04%) MongoDB
3 13 (11.40%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (11.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (8.77%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.39%) MySQL
8 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.63%) Power BI
10 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.88%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 12 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.77%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.14%) Law
5 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Advertising
7 5 (4.39%) Electronics
7 5 (4.39%) Marketing
7 5 (4.39%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Legal
9 2 (1.75%) Games
9 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (29.82%) Support Engineer
2 29 (25.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (18.42%) Senior
4 20 (17.54%) IT Support
5 16 (14.04%) IT Engineer
6 15 (13.16%) Lead
7 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure Support
7 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 13 (11.40%) Support Technician
8 12 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) DBA
8 12 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.77%) Developer
9 10 (8.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (8.77%) Lead Developer
9 10 (8.77%) SQL DBA
10 9 (7.89%) .NET Developer
10 9 (7.89%) Lead .NET Developer
11 7 (6.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.04%) .NET
2 7 (6.14%) Blazor
3 6 (5.26%) SAML
4 3 (2.63%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.75%) Kafka
5 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.75%) REST
5 2 (1.75%) WinForms
5 2 (1.75%) WPF
6 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.88%) LDAP
6 1 (0.88%) Middleware
6 1 (0.88%) Node.js
6 1 (0.88%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.88%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.88%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.91%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (8.77%) PKI
2 10 (8.77%) Replication
3 5 (4.39%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) CCTV
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (69.30%) Windows
2 57 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 49 (42.98%) Linux
4 29 (25.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (11.40%) Windows 10
6 6 (5.26%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (3.51%) CentOS
9 3 (2.63%) Android
9 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.75%) AIX
11 1 (0.88%) Solaris
11 1 (0.88%) SUSE
11 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.96%) High Availability
2 33 (28.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 31 (27.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (14.04%) ITIL
5 15 (13.16%) DevOps
6 14 (12.28%) Migration
6 14 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
7 13 (11.40%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (11.40%) Task Automation
7 13 (11.40%) Virtual Environments
8 12 (10.53%) Incident Management
9 11 (9.65%) CI/CD
9 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
9 11 (9.65%) Microservices
9 11 (9.65%) Roadmaps
9 11 (9.65%) Security Hardening
10 10 (8.77%) Change Control
10 10 (8.77%) Server Building
11 9 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 46 (40.35%) PowerShell
2 21 (18.42%) SQL
3 11 (9.65%) C#
4 9 (7.89%) T-SQL
5 7 (6.14%) Python
6 3 (2.63%) Bash
7 2 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) Bourne shell
8 1 (0.88%) C-shell
8 1 (0.88%) Java
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (6.14%) Degree
6 6 (5.26%) ACMT
6 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.51%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.75%) HND
8 2 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CCNA
9 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.88%) MCITP
9 1 (0.88%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.39%) GDPR
2 5 (4.39%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (49.12%) Active Directory
2 49 (42.98%) Hyper-V
3 47 (41.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (17.54%) Docker
6 12 (10.53%) vSphere
7 8 (7.02%) BitLocker
7 8 (7.02%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (7.02%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.88%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (27.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 20 (17.54%) Ansible
3 20 (17.54%) vCenter Server
4 14 (12.28%) Puppet
4 14 (12.28%) vMotion
5 13 (11.40%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (7.02%) Nagios
7 7 (6.14%) Terraform
8 6 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (5.26%) Autotask
8 6 (5.26%) PowerCLI
8 6 (5.26%) vRealize
9 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (3.51%) NetBackup
9 4 (3.51%) SCCM
10 3 (2.63%) Backup Exec
11 2 (1.75%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.88%) SCOM
12 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 53 (46.49%) VMware
3 29 (25.44%) HP
4 17 (14.91%) Citrix
5 16 (14.04%) Veeam
6 14 (12.28%) Dell
7 13 (11.40%) Oracle
7 13 (11.40%) SonicWALL
7 13 (11.40%) Supermicro
8 10 (8.77%) Cisco
9 7 (6.14%) Datto
9 7 (6.14%) SAP
10 6 (5.26%) Apple
10 6 (5.26%) EMC
10 6 (5.26%) Google
10 6 (5.26%) RedGate
10 6 (5.26%) Sophos
10 6 (5.26%) Symantec
11 4 (3.51%) Informatica
11 4 (3.51%) TOWER Software