Clustering Job Trends in London

Clustering
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 384 396
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 +172
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 17 44 47
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.12% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 45
10th Percentile £61,250 £55,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £69,125 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +0.80% +15.75%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £115,000 £86,500
England median annual salary £54,875 £52,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year +4.52% +0.48% -3.24%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,789 6,772 7,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.05% 43.65% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,424 3,529 5,596
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Clustering job vacancy trend in London

Clustering
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in London

Clustering
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
East London -6 4 £87,500 +34.62%
Central London +36 3 £75,000 +11.11% 2
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (11.76%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) Impala
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Law
5 2 (11.76%) Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Support
1 7 (41.18%) Unix Support
2 5 (29.41%) DBA
3 4 (23.53%) Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) Linux Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) Linux Support
3 4 (23.53%) Support Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) Unix Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) Unix Support Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Managing Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) PySpark
1 2 (11.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Replication
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (41.18%) Unix
4 6 (35.29%) Windows
5 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Change Management
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Data Science
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Business Development
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
5 2 (11.76%) Physics
5 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) R
4 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Korn
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Certification
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Nagios
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Red Hat
3 7 (41.18%) Symantec
4 2 (11.76%) Aderant
4 2 (11.76%) Google
4 2 (11.76%) iManage
4 2 (11.76%) Intapp
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) RedGate
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Delphix
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Intel
5 1 (5.88%) Pure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Sybase