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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 151 228
Rank change year-on-year -19 +77 +18
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 2 12 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.043% 0.43% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 1.21% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £49,600 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -26.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £61,875
90th Percentile - £75,000 £64,250
South East median annual salary £66,250 £51,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +28.64% +6.19% -7.18%

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 1,212 994 2,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.06% 35.41% 33.72%
Number of salaries quoted 722 478 1,397
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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

Clustering
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

Clustering
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 14 March 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 +2 1 - -
Berkshire -7 1 £57,500 +4.55% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft