Clustering Job Trends in the North of England

Clustering
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 253 341
Rank change year-on-year -60 +88 +17
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 4 10 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.023% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.079% 0.39% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 32
10th Percentile - £52,365 £25,950
25th Percentile - £60,649 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £71,991 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.16% +73.47% -7.78%
75th Percentile - £73,886 £52,500
90th Percentile - £75,693 £60,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,077 2,594 5,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.50% 38.00% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 1,364 3,920
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Clustering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Clustering

Clustering
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North East - 2 £51,000 - 1
North West -19 1 - - 7
Yorkshire -65 1 - -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Looker
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (25.00%) pgvector
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Presales
3 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Semantic Search
3 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) RedGate
1 2 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Zerto