Clustering Job Trends 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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 447 518
Rank change year-on-year -74 +71 -23
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 40 56 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.58% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28 46 192
10th Percentile £40,125 - £31,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £37,500 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,297 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £55,500
90th Percentile £74,425 £73,886 £61,700
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +6.48% -1.82%

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 16,505 9,661 23,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 36.39% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,018 5,240 15,226
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +9.09% -15.38%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Clustering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 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
Midlands -34 13 £45,000 -0.33% 6
South East -68 10 £67,500 +22.73% 16
East Midlands -52 9 £42,500 -10.53% 4
East of England - 8 £57,750 - 5
West Midlands -23 4 £65,000 +43.97% 2
North of England -68 4 £51,000 -29.16% 12
Wales -25 2 £52,297 +23.05%
South West -54 2 - - 6
North East - 2 £51,000 - 1
North West -23 1 - - 10
Scotland -31 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -57 1 - - 1
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (17.50%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (17.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (10.00%) OpenStack
5 2 (5.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (25.00%) AWS
4 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
5 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 7 (17.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (17.50%) dbt
6 7 (17.50%) GCP
6 7 (17.50%) Snowflake
7 5 (12.50%) Mimecast
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.00%) GitHub
9 2 (5.00%) IaaS
9 2 (5.00%) PaaS
9 2 (5.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) SAN
2 8 (20.00%) Firewall
3 5 (12.50%) Internet
3 5 (12.50%) Network Security
3 5 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (10.00%) DHCP
4 4 (10.00%) DNS
5 3 (7.50%) VSAN
6 2 (5.00%) NetScaler
6 2 (5.00%) VPN
6 2 (5.00%) WAN
7 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.50%) IPv4
7 1 (2.50%) IPv6
7 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.50%) LAN
7 1 (2.50%) MPLS
7 1 (2.50%) NAS
7 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (22.50%) Power BI
3 7 (17.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (17.50%) BigQuery
3 7 (17.50%) Data Lake
3 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (17.50%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (17.50%) Looker
3 7 (17.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (17.50%) Tableau
4 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.00%) MySQL
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) MLflow
2 3 (7.50%) GitLab
3 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Aviation
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Senior
2 11 (27.50%) Administrator
3 9 (22.50%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) DBA
4 8 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (17.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) IT Administrator
6 6 (15.00%) IT Systems Administrator
7 5 (12.50%) SQL DBA
8 4 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Architect
9 3 (7.50%) ITSM Architect
9 3 (7.50%) Project Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Project Leader
9 3 (7.50%) Senior Architect
9 3 (7.50%) Senior Project Leader
9 3 (7.50%) Team Leader
9 3 (7.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Kafka
1 7 (17.50%) LangChain
1 7 (17.50%) LlamaIndex
1 7 (17.50%) pgvector
1 7 (17.50%) PyTorch
1 7 (17.50%) scikit-learn
1 7 (17.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
1 7 (17.50%) Public Cloud
2 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.50%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
1 12 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 10 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) VMS
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) CentOS
5 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (22.50%) Analytics
2 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (22.50%) ETL
2 9 (22.50%) ITIL
3 7 (17.50%) AI
3 7 (17.50%) Data Engineering
3 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
3 7 (17.50%) Data Management
3 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
3 7 (17.50%) Data Science
3 7 (17.50%) Dimensional Modelling
3 7 (17.50%) Knowledge Management
3 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
3 7 (17.50%) Patch Management
3 7 (17.50%) Predictive Modelling
3 7 (17.50%) Presales
3 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Semantic Search
3 7 (17.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) SQL
2 13 (32.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.00%) Perl
8 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 2 (5.00%) LPIC
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) IISP
2 1 (2.50%) ISACA
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) GDPR
2 7 (17.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) Hyper-V
3 5 (12.50%) Docker
3 5 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Puppet
3 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
4 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
4 2 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.00%) Nagios
4 2 (5.00%) VxRail
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Dell
3 8 (20.00%) Databricks
3 8 (20.00%) Veeam
4 7 (17.50%) Cloudera
5 6 (15.00%) VMware
6 5 (12.50%) SonicWALL
7 3 (7.50%) BMC
7 3 (7.50%) NetApp
7 3 (7.50%) Remedy
7 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (5.00%) Citrix
8 2 (5.00%) Informatica
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle
8 2 (5.00%) RedGate
8 2 (5.00%) Talend
9 1 (2.50%) Cisco
9 1 (2.50%) Commvault
9 1 (2.50%) EMC
9 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds