Clustering Jobs 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 364 359
Rank change year-on-year +89 -5 +72
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 34 35 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 0.60% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 33 28 25
10th Percentile - £35,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -10.19% +24.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,750 £58,250 £68,050
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% +4.76%

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 3,601 5,788 6,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 37.37% 34.31% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,833 3,739 3,153
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -13.27% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £73,963
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Clustering in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the South East

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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 18 May 2025. 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 +57 16 £57,500 +18.56% 5
Surrey - 11 £40,000 - 3
Thames Valley +66 7 £62,500 +4.17% 10
Berkshire +33 5 £55,000 - 7
Oxfordshire +42 2 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (58.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) IIS
3 1 (2.94%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (2.94%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) GCP
2 6 (17.65%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) SAN
2 18 (52.94%) DNS
2 18 (52.94%) NAS
3 17 (50.00%) DHCP
4 11 (32.35%) Firewall
5 8 (23.53%) SMTP
6 6 (17.65%) Network Security
6 6 (17.65%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (17.65%) VPN
6 6 (17.65%) VSAN
7 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
General
1 12 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (20.59%) Games
3 1 (2.94%) Advertising
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (73.53%) Support Engineer
2 19 (55.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure Support
3 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) IT Support
4 6 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Support Specialist
4 6 (17.65%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 6 (17.65%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) VMware Specialist
4 6 (17.65%) VMware Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Senior DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
1 1 (2.94%) Middleware
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Basis
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (2.94%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) PKI
2 7 (20.59%) Replication
3 6 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.88%) Online Games
6 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (85.29%) Windows
2 17 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (29.41%) Linux
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) High Availability
2 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
4 15 (44.12%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (35.29%) Incident Management
5 12 (35.29%) Task Automation
6 11 (32.35%) Computer Science
6 11 (32.35%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (23.53%) IT Strategy
8 7 (20.59%) Configuration Management
8 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.65%) Antivirus Management
9 6 (17.65%) Change Control
9 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (17.65%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (17.65%) Patch Management
9 6 (17.65%) Security Hardening
9 6 (17.65%) Server Building
9 6 (17.65%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 28 (82.35%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) DV Cleared
1 21 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) Degree
3 6 (17.65%) HND
3 6 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (85.29%) Active Directory
2 26 (76.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 14 (41.18%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (38.24%) Docker
6 12 (35.29%) vSphere
7 8 (23.53%) BitLocker
7 8 (23.53%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (23.53%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.94%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) vCenter Server
1 14 (41.18%) vMotion
2 12 (35.29%) Ansible
2 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (35.29%) Puppet
3 6 (17.65%) Nagios
3 6 (17.65%) PowerCLI
3 6 (17.65%) vRealize
4 4 (11.76%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 31 (91.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (76.47%) VMware
3 14 (41.18%) Citrix
4 12 (35.29%) HP
5 6 (17.65%) Google
5 6 (17.65%) Symantec
5 6 (17.65%) Veeam
6 3 (8.82%) Cisco
7 2 (5.88%) Oracle
8 1 (2.94%) SAP