Clustering Jobs 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 231 293
Rank change year-on-year -41 +62 -79
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 35 56 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.74% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 1.90% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27 27 79
10th Percentile £30,350 £39,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,500 £64,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £59,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.64% +4.76% -

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 3,410 2,942 5,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.35% 38.74% 41.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,936 1,477 2,999
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Clustering in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
West Midlands -14 19 £35,000 -41.67% 2
East Midlands -37 16 £45,000 -12.20%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 20 (57.14%) IIS
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (11.43%) MQSeries
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (11.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.57%) Google Workspace
4 3 (8.57%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (65.71%) Firewall
2 18 (51.43%) SAN
3 13 (37.14%) VPN
4 11 (31.43%) DNS
5 9 (25.71%) WAN
6 7 (20.00%) DHCP
7 5 (14.29%) LAN
8 4 (11.43%) BGP
8 4 (11.43%) HTTP
8 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
8 4 (11.43%) VLAN
9 3 (8.57%) Ethernet
9 3 (8.57%) SMTP
9 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (5.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (68.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.43%) DB2
3 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) Redis
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (28.57%) Law
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Games
4 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Support Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (22.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Applications Support
5 7 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Operations Support Engineer
6 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior
7 4 (11.43%) DB2 DBA
7 4 (11.43%) DBA
7 4 (11.43%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Administrator
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
1 4 (11.43%) .NET Core
1 4 (11.43%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (11.43%) PKI
4 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (77.14%) Windows
2 22 (62.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (22.86%) Linux
4 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) High Availability
2 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) Patch Management
4 8 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (17.14%) Load Balancing
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (14.29%) Line Management
6 5 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) Service Management
7 4 (11.43%) Data Management
7 4 (11.43%) Data Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
7 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (11.43%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.43%) Server Virtualisation
7 4 (11.43%) Task Automation
7 4 (11.43%) Threat Analysis
8 2 (5.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.86%) MCITP
4 1 (2.86%) MCSE
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
4 4 (11.43%) VMware Server
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (22.86%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (17.14%) SCOM
4 5 (14.29%) SCCM
5 4 (11.43%) SCOrch
5 4 (11.43%) vMotion
6 3 (8.57%) Autotask
6 3 (8.57%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
7 2 (5.71%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (88.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (60.00%) VMware
3 9 (25.71%) Dell
4 7 (20.00%) Veeam
5 5 (14.29%) Datto
5 5 (14.29%) EqualLogic
5 5 (14.29%) NetApp
5 5 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
6 4 (11.43%) IBM
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle
6 4 (11.43%) Splunk
7 3 (8.57%) Apple
7 3 (8.57%) Draytek
7 3 (8.57%) Sage
7 3 (8.57%) Sophos
7 3 (8.57%) Webroot
8 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
8 2 (5.71%) EMC
8 2 (5.71%) HP
8 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow