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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 247 355
Rank change year-on-year -31 +108 -12
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 16 34 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.44% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 1.03% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 28
10th Percentile £38,650 - £35,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +13.40% -11.01%
75th Percentile £74,250 £58,750 -
90th Percentile £78,000 £70,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £56,750 £58,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% -2.08% +9.09%

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 3,464 3,289 6,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.72% 42.12% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 1,514 3,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
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 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 13 June 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 13 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
Hampshire -33 8 £47,500 -17.39% 2
West Sussex - 4 £66,250 -
Thames Valley +7 3 £55,750 -8.98% 4
Oxfordshire -7 2 £29,000 -58.57% 1
Berkshire +7 1 £82,500 +3.13% 3
Kent - 1 £56,750 - 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 4 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) VSAN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aviation
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) ITSM Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Project Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Project Leader
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Project Leader
3 3 (18.75%) Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Graduate
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) NHS
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
1 10 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.25%) CentOS
4 1 (6.25%) Debian
4 1 (6.25%) Gentoo
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (31.25%) ITSM
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) eTOM
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
7 1 (6.25%) Data Science
7 1 (6.25%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 6 (37.50%) Python
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Linux+ Certification
1 2 (12.50%) LPIC
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
1 5 (31.25%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (6.25%) Podman
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) BMC
2 3 (18.75%) Remedy
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam