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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 536 566
Rank change year-on-year -60 +30 -36
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 115 115 276
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 0.64% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 80 102 236
10th Percentile £37,725 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £76,250 £118,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.88% +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 22,550 18,011 29,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.76% 41.50% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14,928 8,993 19,785
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

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 12 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 12 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 -11 37 £90,000 +28.57% 15
Midlands -8 31 £45,250 -4.74%
East Midlands -3 26 £45,000 -21.05%
South East -40 21 £52,500 -4.55% 11
East of England -3 17 £80,000 +42.22% 2
North of England -39 7 £47,500 -20.83% 4
North West -16 6 £47,500 -33.33% 2
West Midlands -20 5 £67,500 +42.11%
South West -61 2 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Yorkshire -42 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 24 (20.87%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 23 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (13.04%) SharePoint
4 9 (7.83%) IIS
5 6 (5.22%) SAS
6 3 (2.61%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.87%) Apache
7 1 (0.87%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.87%) Site Server
7 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) Azure
2 36 (31.30%) AWS
3 35 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (23.48%) Snowflake
5 26 (22.61%) dbt
6 25 (21.74%) GCP
6 25 (21.74%) Power Platform
7 23 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (14.78%) Entra ID
9 11 (9.57%) SaaS
10 10 (8.70%) Mimecast
11 6 (5.22%) Cloudflare
11 6 (5.22%) PaaS
12 3 (2.61%) GitHub
13 2 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.74%) IaaS
14 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.87%) Nutanix
14 1 (0.87%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.78%) SAN
2 15 (13.04%) Firewall
3 11 (9.57%) DNS
4 10 (8.70%) DHCP
5 8 (6.96%) Internet
5 8 (6.96%) Network Security
5 8 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (5.22%) 5G
6 6 (5.22%) Broadband
7 5 (4.35%) Wireless
8 4 (3.48%) WAN
9 3 (2.61%) LAN
9 3 (2.61%) NetScaler
9 3 (2.61%) VPN
10 2 (1.74%) NAS
11 1 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.87%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.48%) SQL Server
2 26 (22.61%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (21.74%) BigQuery
3 25 (21.74%) Power BI
3 25 (21.74%) Snowflake Schema
4 24 (20.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (20.87%) Data Lake
5 23 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (20.00%) Looker
5 23 (20.00%) Tableau
6 5 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.87%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.87%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (20.87%) MLflow
2 2 (1.74%) Git
2 2 (1.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) JIRA
3 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Finance
4 6 (5.22%) Banking
4 6 (5.22%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.35%) Law
5 5 (4.35%) Retail
6 4 (3.48%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.48%) Legal
7 3 (2.61%) Games
7 3 (2.61%) Marketing
7 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Advertising
8 1 (0.87%) Aviation
8 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (41.74%) Senior
2 37 (32.17%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (22.61%) Administrator
4 24 (20.87%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 21 (18.26%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (13.91%) IT Administrator
7 16 (13.91%) IT Systems Administrator
8 15 (13.04%) IT Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) IT Support
9 8 (6.96%) Network Administrator
9 8 (6.96%) Network Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Support Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (6.09%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.87%) LangChain
1 24 (20.87%) PyTorch
1 24 (20.87%) scikit-learn
1 24 (20.87%) TensorFlow
2 23 (20.00%) Kafka
2 23 (20.00%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (20.00%) pgvector
3 6 (5.22%) Streamlit
4 2 (1.74%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.87%) Keras
5 1 (0.87%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.87%) LDAP
5 1 (0.87%) NumPy
5 1 (0.87%) Pandas
5 1 (0.87%) PySpark
5 1 (0.87%) REST
5 1 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 23 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 13 (11.30%) Replication
4 12 (10.43%) Data Centre
5 9 (7.83%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (5.22%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.48%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.61%) NHS
9 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.87%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.87%) iSeries
10 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.43%) Windows
2 33 (28.70%) Windows Server
3 15 (13.04%) Linux
4 6 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.61%) Debian
5 3 (2.61%) Gentoo
6 1 (0.87%) CentOS
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.04%) AI
1 38 (33.04%) Analytics
2 34 (29.57%) Performance Tuning
3 33 (28.70%) Machine Learning
4 31 (26.96%) Data Science
5 30 (26.09%) Predictive Modelling
6 29 (25.22%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (25.22%) Feature Engineering
6 29 (25.22%) Use Case
7 27 (23.48%) Data Modelling
7 27 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (23.48%) Systems Engineering
8 26 (22.61%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (22.61%) Data Governance
8 26 (22.61%) High Availability
9 25 (21.74%) Data Engineering
9 25 (21.74%) ETL
9 25 (21.74%) Generative AI
9 25 (21.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 24 (20.87%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (73.91%) SQL
2 45 (39.13%) Python
3 18 (15.65%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.22%) Bash
5 4 (3.48%) C#
5 4 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (3.48%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (3.48%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.61%) R
6 3 (2.61%) Ruby
7 1 (0.87%) C
7 1 (0.87%) C++
7 1 (0.87%) Java
7 1 (0.87%) Perl
7 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.96%) Degree
3 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.48%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.48%) MCSA
5 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.87%) IISP
6 1 (0.87%) ISACA
6 1 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.87%) LPIC
6 1 (0.87%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.61%) GDPR
2 23 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (37.39%) Active Directory
2 37 (32.17%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.83%) Docker
3 9 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (19.13%) Failover Clustering
2 12 (10.43%) Ansible
3 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (7.83%) Terraform
5 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.61%) Podman
8 2 (1.74%) Puppet
8 2 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.87%) Netcool
9 1 (0.87%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.87%) SCOM
9 1 (0.87%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 43 (37.39%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.61%) Databricks
3 24 (20.87%) Dell
4 23 (20.00%) Cloudera
5 11 (9.57%) Veeam
6 10 (8.70%) VMware
7 8 (6.96%) SonicWALL
8 5 (4.35%) Splunk
9 4 (3.48%) Oracle
10 3 (2.61%) BMC
10 3 (2.61%) Citrix
10 3 (2.61%) Remedy
10 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.87%) Cisco
11 1 (0.87%) Commvault
11 1 (0.87%) F5
11 1 (0.87%) NetApp
11 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.87%) Sybase
11 1 (0.87%) Zerto