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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 580 439
Rank change year-on-year +72 -141 +201
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 63 187 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.25% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.77% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53 161 153
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,147 £36,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% -7.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £59,500 £55,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £60,000 £66,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% +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 13,271 24,318 24,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.13% 33.02% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,777 15,252 11,013
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK 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 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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
South East +86 33 £56,250 +15.98% 26
North of England +22 15 £71,991 +59.98% 32
Yorkshire +53 7 £71,991 +51.56% 8
Midlands +7 7 £47,500 +11.76% 26
West Midlands +27 6 £47,500 +11.76% 17
North West -1 6 £66,250 +32.50% 19
Scotland +113 3 - - 5
South West +98 2 £56,000 -1.75% 12
Wales +44 2 £42,500 -16.67% 3
North East +40 2 £52,500 +64.06% 5
East of England +31 1 £55,000 - 17
East Midlands +23 1 £57,000 +26.67% 8
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 24 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.52%) IIS
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.17%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.59%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.59%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.59%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 30 (47.62%) Azure
2 25 (39.68%) AWS
3 11 (17.46%) GCP
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.94%) GitHub
6 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.17%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (39.68%) SAN
2 22 (34.92%) NAS
3 21 (33.33%) DNS
4 20 (31.75%) DHCP
5 17 (26.98%) Firewall
6 11 (17.46%) VPN
7 8 (12.70%) SMTP
8 7 (11.11%) WAN
9 6 (9.52%) Network Security
9 6 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (9.52%) VSAN
10 5 (7.94%) LAN
11 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
11 3 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (3.17%) FCoE
12 2 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (3.17%) iSCSI
12 2 (3.17%) Multicast
12 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.94%) MySQL
5 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Big Data
6 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
1 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.59%) GDB
2 1 (1.59%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.59%) Subversion
2 1 (1.59%) WinDbg
General
1 12 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (14.29%) Games
3 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Finance
6 3 (4.76%) Advertising
6 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (41.27%) Support Engineer
3 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
3 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) IT Support
6 6 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Senior
6 6 (9.52%) Support Specialist
6 6 (9.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (9.52%) VMware Support Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) DBA
8 4 (6.35%) Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.35%) Lead
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) .NET
1 4 (6.35%) Middleware
2 3 (4.76%) Blazor
2 3 (4.76%) Plotly
2 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) LDAP
3 2 (3.17%) WinForms
3 2 (3.17%) WPF
4 1 (1.59%) libvirt
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.59%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (12.70%) PKI
2 8 (12.70%) Replication
3 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Online Games
5 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (61.90%) Windows
2 22 (34.92%) Windows Server
3 19 (30.16%) Linux
4 3 (4.76%) CentOS
4 3 (4.76%) Solaris
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.59%) AIX
6 1 (1.59%) Android
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.59%) Unix
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (60.32%) High Availability
2 28 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (31.75%) Virtual Environments
4 18 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 14 (22.22%) Incident Management
6 13 (20.63%) Task Automation
7 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.46%) Kalman Filter
8 10 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (12.70%) Change Control
9 8 (12.70%) Configuration Management
9 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (11.11%) Agile
10 7 (11.11%) IT Strategy
10 7 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
11 6 (9.52%) Application Virtualisation
11 6 (9.52%) Disk Encryption
11 6 (9.52%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) PowerShell
2 17 (26.98%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Python
4 4 (6.35%) C#
5 3 (4.76%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Bash
6 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.59%) C
7 1 (1.59%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) CodeQL
7 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) PHP
7 1 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.92%) DV Cleared
3 14 (22.22%) Degree
4 6 (9.52%) HND
4 6 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) GDPR
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (63.49%) Active Directory
2 32 (50.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (39.68%) Hyper-V
4 16 (25.40%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (22.22%) Docker
6 12 (19.05%) vSphere
7 8 (12.70%) BitLocker
7 8 (12.70%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (12.70%) Terminal Services
8 3 (4.76%) Xen
9 2 (3.17%) KVM
9 2 (3.17%) NFS
9 2 (3.17%) SRDF
9 2 (3.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (3.17%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.59%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.22%) Ansible
2 14 (22.22%) Puppet
2 14 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 14 (22.22%) vMotion
3 8 (12.70%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (9.52%) Nagios
4 6 (9.52%) PowerCLI
4 6 (9.52%) vRealize
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.59%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.59%) Grafana
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.59%) SCCM
6 1 (1.59%) SCOM
6 1 (1.59%) Terraform
6 1 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (60.32%) VMware
3 14 (22.22%) Citrix
4 12 (19.05%) HP
5 8 (12.70%) Google
6 6 (9.52%) Symantec
6 6 (9.52%) Veeam
7 5 (7.94%) Oracle
8 4 (6.35%) Cisco
9 3 (4.76%) NetApp
10 2 (3.17%) EMC
10 2 (3.17%) F5
10 2 (3.17%) Informatica
10 2 (3.17%) RedGate
10 2 (3.17%) Splunk
10 2 (3.17%) Talend
11 1 (1.59%) Hitachi
11 1 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (1.59%) Snow
11 1 (1.59%) Ubiquiti