Clustering Job Trends in the South East

Clustering
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 271 258
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +128
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 6 31 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.058% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.98% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 30
10th Percentile £53,375 £43,125 £40,954
25th Percentile £53,469 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +11.96% -12.38%
75th Percentile £63,125 £57,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £73,125 £61,250 £63,875
England median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -2.78%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,094 3,166 2,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.00% 35.13% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,579 1,356 1,923
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,254 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.01% +2.28% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the South East

Clustering
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the South East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the South East

Clustering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley -3 3 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Berkshire -6 3 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Kent -11 2 £56,750 +19.47% 1
West Sussex - 1 £62,500 - 2
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Software Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) People Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (16.67%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 2 (33.33%) VxRail
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
2 2 (33.33%) VMware