Clustering Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Clustering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 191 191
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 4 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.053% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.51% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile - £50,750 -
25th Percentile £28,500 £51,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £57,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -49.57% +11.65% +3.00%
75th Percentile £43,688 £71,875 £52,250
90th Percentile £69,225 £82,500 £59,900
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +18.56% +5.43%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,040 1,560 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.06% 40.79% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 673 599
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,120 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -2.70%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Clustering

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Oxfordshire - 3 £29,000 - 1
Berkshire +6 1 £82,500 +20.00% 2
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Graduate
1 3 (75.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Debian
1 3 (75.00%) Gentoo
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks