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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 544 551
Rank change year-on-year -55 +7 +75
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 56 82 254
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.084% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.55% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 35 55 224
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +3.29% -3.18%
75th Percentile £85,625 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,750 £87,500
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 20,718 14,781 26,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.06% 38.99% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,681 8,030 19,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -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 20 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 20 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 -13 25 £87,500 +25.00% 14
South East -32 10 £67,500 +38.46% 16
Midlands -29 9 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands -51 6 £45,000 -5.26% 1
East of England -9 5 £57,750 +10.00% 2
North of England -45 5 £51,000 -29.16% 4
West Midlands +3 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
South West -30 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £51,000 - 2
North West - 2 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire -51 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 13 (23.21%) Apache Airflow
1 13 (23.21%) Apache Spark
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (7.14%) OpenStack
3 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.57%) SAS
5 1 (1.79%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) Azure
2 28 (50.00%) AWS
3 18 (32.14%) Power Platform
4 14 (25.00%) GCP
4 14 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 13 (23.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (23.21%) dbt
6 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.36%) SaaS
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub
9 2 (3.57%) iPaaS
9 2 (3.57%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.79%) IaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) DHCP
1 7 (12.50%) DNS
1 7 (12.50%) SAN
2 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.36%) VLAN
4 2 (3.57%) Internet
4 2 (3.57%) LAN
4 2 (3.57%) NetScaler
4 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 2 (3.57%) VPN
4 2 (3.57%) VSAN
4 2 (3.57%) WAN
4 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.79%) IPv4
5 1 (1.79%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.79%) MPLS
5 1 (1.79%) NAS
5 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) Power BI
2 17 (30.36%) SQL Server
3 15 (26.79%) Tableau
4 13 (23.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (23.21%) BigQuery
4 13 (23.21%) Data Lake
4 13 (23.21%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (23.21%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (23.21%) Looker
4 13 (23.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (8.93%) MySQL
8 2 (3.57%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.57%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) MLflow
2 3 (5.36%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Finance
3 9 (16.07%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
6 3 (5.36%) Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Law
7 2 (3.57%) Marketing
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Advertising
8 1 (1.79%) Aviation
8 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Senior
2 14 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (23.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) DBA
5 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Support
6 8 (14.29%) SQL DBA
7 7 (12.50%) Administrator
7 7 (12.50%) Unix Support
8 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.71%) Lead
9 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 4 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (7.14%) Linux Support
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Support Specialist
9 4 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (7.14%) Unix Specialist
9 4 (7.14%) Unix Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) Kafka
1 13 (23.21%) LangChain
1 13 (23.21%) LlamaIndex
1 13 (23.21%) pgvector
1 13 (23.21%) PyTorch
1 13 (23.21%) scikit-learn
1 13 (23.21%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.57%) PySpark
2 2 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) LDAP
3 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
1 13 (23.21%) Public Cloud
2 11 (19.64%) Data Centre
3 9 (16.07%) Replication
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Linux
2 14 (25.00%) Windows
3 13 (23.21%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (12.50%) Unix
6 5 (8.93%) VMS
7 1 (1.79%) CentOS
7 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (32.14%) Analytics
3 17 (30.36%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (28.57%) Data Science
4 16 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 15 (26.79%) ETL
5 15 (26.79%) Generative AI
5 15 (26.79%) ITIL
6 14 (25.00%) AI
6 14 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
6 14 (25.00%) Use Case
7 13 (23.21%) Data Governance
7 13 (23.21%) Data Management
7 13 (23.21%) Data Modelling
7 13 (23.21%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (23.21%) Dimensional Modelling
7 13 (23.21%) Feature Engineering
7 13 (23.21%) Knowledge Management
7 13 (23.21%) Prompt Engineering
7 13 (23.21%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 36 (64.29%) SQL
2 27 (48.21%) Python
3 12 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 9 (16.07%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.93%) Bash
5 5 (8.93%) C#
6 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.57%) Perl
7 2 (3.57%) R
8 1 (1.79%) Korn
8 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.93%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (3.57%) LPIC
3 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.57%) GDPR
2 13 (23.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (10.71%) SLA
4 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 8 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.71%) Docker
4 5 (8.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Ansible
2 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Terraform
4 4 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.36%) Puppet
5 3 (5.36%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.57%) Data Guard
6 2 (3.57%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.57%) Nagios
6 2 (3.57%) VxRail
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.79%) Netcool
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (28.57%) Dell
3 14 (25.00%) Databricks
4 13 (23.21%) Cloudera
5 11 (19.64%) VMware
6 8 (14.29%) Red Hat
7 7 (12.50%) Symantec
7 7 (12.50%) Veeam
8 4 (7.14%) Oracle
9 3 (5.36%) BMC
9 3 (5.36%) NetApp
9 3 (5.36%) Remedy
9 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
10 2 (3.57%) Citrix
10 2 (3.57%) Google
10 2 (3.57%) Informatica
10 2 (3.57%) RedGate
10 2 (3.57%) SonicWALL
10 2 (3.57%) Sybase
10 2 (3.57%) Talend