Clustering Job Trends in the Midlands

Clustering
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 217 284
Rank change year-on-year -10 +67 -37
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 21 8 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.37% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 47
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,699 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,313 £46,250 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £49,063 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,250 £54,125 £57,000
England median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% - +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,527 2,172 4,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.38% 43.22% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 1,055 2,678
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,375 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Clustering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 June 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 Midlands -3 16 £45,000 -21.05% 2
West Midlands -20 5 £65,000 +36.84% 1
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (52.38%) SharePoint
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (38.10%) Entra ID
2 8 (38.10%) Mimecast
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 4 (19.05%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
1 9 (42.86%) SAN
2 8 (38.10%) Internet
2 8 (38.10%) Network Security
2 8 (38.10%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.76%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (14.29%) Law
1 3 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Administrator
1 15 (71.43%) Systems Administrator
2 13 (61.90%) IT Administrator
2 13 (61.90%) IT Systems Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Database Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Mobile Device Management
1 8 (38.10%) Patch Management
1 8 (38.10%) Server Management
1 8 (38.10%) Storage Management
2 3 (14.29%) High Availability
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Web SSO
3 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.76%) Change Control
4 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.76%) Identity Management
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (4.76%) Runbook
4 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.76%) Task Automation
4 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) IISP
1 1 (4.76%) ISACA
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Active Directory
1 16 (76.19%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (38.10%) SonicWALL
2 8 (38.10%) Veeam
3 1 (4.76%) F5