Clustering Job Trends in the South West

Clustering
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 157 225
Rank change year-on-year -75 +68 -24
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 4 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.043% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.66% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 16
10th Percentile £53,375 £35,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £56,563 £35,938 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £42,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -25.44% +39.02%
75th Percentile £71,563 £50,813 £61,750
90th Percentile £75,125 £57,000 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -8.80% +19.05%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,105 1,220 2,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.74% 35.13% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 728 1,379
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,625 £29,469
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,875 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £83,116
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Clustering

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the South West over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £75,000 - 1
Bristol -38 1 £52,500 +23.53% 1
Cornwall - 1 - -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) 5G
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Server Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Extraction
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware