Clustering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Clustering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 383 593
Rank change year-on-year -179 +210 -95
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 145 335 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.70% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 1.74% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 116 149 220
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £40,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,125 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £61,750 £64,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.36% +4.76% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,220 19,230 34,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.98% 39.94% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 10,409 17,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East -9 37 £48,500 -3.00% 5
Midlands -41 35 £45,000 -14.29% 2
South West -15 28 £57,000 +28.81% 5
North of England -53 26 £44,274 -1.61% 5
West Midlands -14 19 £35,000 -41.67% 2
East Midlands -37 16 £45,000 -12.20%
North East -12 10 £36,000 -40.00% 3
East of England -25 10 £30,000 -33.33% 3
North West -34 9 £50,000 -4.76% 2
Yorkshire +22 7 £44,274 +28.33%
Wales +15 5 £51,000 +32.47% 1
Scotland -78 3 £32,500 -53.20% 4
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 -
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (23.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (17.93%) IIS
3 11 (7.59%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.45%) Apache
5 4 (2.76%) MQSeries
5 4 (2.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 4 (2.76%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Maximo
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 72 (49.66%) Azure
2 50 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (13.10%) AWS
4 15 (10.34%) IaaS
5 13 (8.97%) Nutanix
6 9 (6.21%) SaaS
7 5 (3.45%) PaaS
8 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.76%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.38%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (35.86%) SAN
2 45 (31.03%) Firewall
3 39 (26.90%) DNS
4 28 (19.31%) WAN
5 25 (17.24%) VPN
6 23 (15.86%) DHCP
7 18 (12.41%) TCP/IP
8 17 (11.72%) Internet
8 17 (11.72%) LAN
9 13 (8.97%) VLAN
10 12 (8.28%) NAS
11 10 (6.90%) VSAN
12 9 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (6.21%) Wireless
13 8 (5.52%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (4.83%) VoIP
15 6 (4.14%) BGP
16 5 (3.45%) HTTP
16 5 (3.45%) Skype
16 5 (3.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.48%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.83%) MySQL
4 5 (3.45%) DB2
4 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.76%) Redis
6 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.69%) OrientDB
7 1 (0.69%) Power BI
7 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 36 (24.83%) Finance
2 27 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.90%) Law
6 8 (5.52%) Games
6 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.45%) Military
8 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (32.41%) Support Engineer
2 46 (31.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Support
3 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 16 (11.03%) 3rd Line Support
5 15 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) VMware Support Engineer
6 14 (9.66%) DBA
7 13 (8.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Senior
8 12 (8.28%) Wintel Engineer
9 11 (7.59%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Administrator
10 10 (6.90%) Analyst
10 10 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) IT Analyst
12 8 (5.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.28%) REST
2 6 (4.14%) Middleware
3 4 (2.76%) .NET
3 4 (2.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.38%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.69%) J2EE
5 1 (0.69%) LDAP
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.93%) PKI
2 17 (11.72%) Public Cloud
3 13 (8.97%) Replication
4 11 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (5.52%) Operational Technology
6 7 (4.83%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.14%) Driving Licence
7 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (4.14%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.45%) Blackberry
8 5 (3.45%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.45%) Fat Client
8 5 (3.45%) Thin Client
9 4 (2.76%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (83.45%) Windows
2 89 (61.38%) Windows Server
3 32 (22.07%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (16.55%) Linux
5 21 (14.48%) Windows 10
6 14 (9.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (8.97%) AIX
8 9 (6.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (4.14%) Mac OS
9 6 (4.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (2.07%) Unix
11 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.38%) Solaris
12 1 (0.69%) CentOS
12 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (23.45%) High Availability
4 30 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
5 26 (17.93%) ITIL
6 25 (17.24%) Problem Management
7 20 (13.79%) Service Management
8 17 (11.72%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (9.66%) Business Strategy
10 14 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (8.28%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.59%) Mobile Device Management
12 11 (7.59%) Patch Management
12 11 (7.59%) Proactive Monitoring
12 11 (7.59%) Project Management
13 10 (6.90%) Change Management
14 9 (6.21%) Mentoring
14 9 (6.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.41%) PowerShell
2 58 (40.00%) SQL
3 18 (12.41%) VB
4 17 (11.72%) ActionScript
5 9 (6.21%) Python
6 4 (2.76%) Java
7 2 (1.38%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.38%) R
8 1 (0.69%) Bicep
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) ProC
8 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) Degree
2 28 (19.31%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.28%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (5.52%) A+ Certification
6 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.83%) DBS Check
6 7 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.45%) HND
9 2 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.38%) CCNA
9 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.69%) CISM
10 1 (0.69%) CISSP
10 1 (0.69%) MCITP
10 1 (0.69%) OCP
10 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.00%) SLA
2 9 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.52%) GDPR
4 5 (3.45%) SOC 1
4 5 (3.45%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.07%) QA
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (66.21%) Active Directory
2 92 (63.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (28.28%) Hyper-V
4 35 (24.14%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (15.17%) vSphere
6 17 (11.72%) OpenSSH
6 17 (11.72%) XenApp
7 11 (7.59%) VMware NSX
8 7 (4.83%) Terminal Services
9 4 (2.76%) VMware Server
10 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.69%) Firmware
11 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.69%) pfSense
11 1 (0.69%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.69%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (27.59%) Failover Clustering
2 28 (19.31%) Microsoft Clustering
3 25 (17.24%) SCCM
4 21 (14.48%) IBM BigFix
5 19 (13.10%) vCenter Server
6 17 (11.72%) PowerCLI
7 16 (11.03%) Backup Exec
8 15 (10.34%) SCOM
9 13 (8.97%) Ansible
9 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (8.28%) NetBackup
11 9 (6.21%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (5.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (5.52%) Autotask
13 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 4 (2.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 4 (2.76%) SCOrch
14 4 (2.76%) Terraform
14 4 (2.76%) vMotion
15 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 101 (69.66%) VMware
2 98 (67.59%) Microsoft
3 31 (21.38%) IBM
4 22 (15.17%) Oracle
5 18 (12.41%) Citrix
6 17 (11.72%) NetApp
7 16 (11.03%) Veeam
7 16 (11.03%) Veritas
8 13 (8.97%) Cisco
8 13 (8.97%) Dell
9 12 (8.28%) Hitachi
9 12 (8.28%) Snow
10 10 (6.90%) Datto
11 9 (6.21%) Aruba
12 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
13 7 (4.83%) Sophos
14 6 (4.14%) HP
15 5 (3.45%) Apple
15 5 (3.45%) EqualLogic
15 5 (3.45%) McAfee