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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 602 405
Rank change year-on-year +86 -197 +231
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 71 174 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.21% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.68% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 61 141 155
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,147 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -7.62% +12.90%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £61,250 £66,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +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 13,629 25,605 23,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.24% 31.60% 42.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,071 15,561 10,779
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +85 34 £55,000 +13.40% 92
North of England +56 21 £60,000 +26.32% 69
Yorkshire +61 9 £71,991 +51.56% 26
North West +21 9 £72,500 +45.00% 36
Midlands +41 8 £47,500 +11.76% 57
West Midlands +46 7 £47,500 +11.76% 34
Scotland +105 3 - - 17
North East +42 3 £52,500 +54.41% 7
South West +94 2 £56,000 -1.75% 31
Wales +45 2 £42,500 -16.67% 3
East Midlands +37 1 £57,000 +26.67% 23
East of England +25 1 £55,000 +29.41% 38
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 26 (36.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.04%) IIS
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.41%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) Azure
2 25 (35.21%) AWS
3 11 (15.49%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.86%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.45%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub
8 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.82%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (38.03%) SAN
2 22 (30.99%) NAS
3 20 (28.17%) DNS
4 19 (26.76%) DHCP
5 18 (25.35%) Firewall
6 10 (14.08%) VPN
7 8 (11.27%) SMTP
7 8 (11.27%) WAN
8 6 (8.45%) LAN
8 6 (8.45%) Network Security
8 6 (8.45%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (8.45%) VSAN
9 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (2.82%) FCoE
10 2 (2.82%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.82%) Multicast
10 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.80%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.27%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.04%) MySQL
6 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.82%) Big Data
7 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
1 2 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) GDB
2 1 (1.41%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.41%) Subversion
2 1 (1.41%) WinDbg
General
1 12 (16.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (12.68%) Games
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Finance
6 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.23%) Advertising
7 3 (4.23%) Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (36.62%) Support Engineer
3 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure Support
3 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) DBA
4 9 (12.68%) IT Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) IT Support
4 9 (12.68%) Senior
5 7 (9.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Lead
5 7 (9.86%) SQL DBA
6 6 (8.45%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Support Specialist
6 6 (8.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (8.45%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (8.45%) VMware Support Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) .NET
2 5 (7.04%) Blazor
3 4 (5.63%) Middleware
4 3 (4.23%) Plotly
4 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.82%) Kafka
5 2 (2.82%) LDAP
5 2 (2.82%) WinForms
5 2 (2.82%) WPF
6 1 (1.41%) libvirt
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.41%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (11.27%) PKI
3 7 (9.86%) Replication
4 4 (5.63%) Operational Technology
5 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.82%) Online Games
6 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (56.34%) Windows
2 21 (29.58%) Linux
2 21 (29.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.63%) CentOS
5 3 (4.23%) Solaris
5 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.41%) AIX
7 1 (1.41%) Android
7 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.41%) Unix
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) High Availability
2 28 (39.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (29.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (29.58%) Virtual Environments
4 14 (19.72%) Computer Science
4 14 (19.72%) Incident Management
5 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (18.31%) Task Automation
6 11 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (15.49%) Kalman Filter
6 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (11.27%) Change Control
7 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
7 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
8 7 (9.86%) Agile
8 7 (9.86%) DevOps
8 7 (9.86%) ITIL
8 7 (9.86%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (8.45%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) PowerShell
2 22 (30.99%) SQL
3 9 (12.68%) Python
4 6 (8.45%) C#
5 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) C
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.41%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.99%) DV Cleared
3 14 (19.72%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) HND
4 6 (8.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) SLA
3 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (56.34%) Active Directory
2 33 (46.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (35.21%) Hyper-V
4 16 (22.54%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (18.31%) Docker
6 12 (16.90%) vSphere
7 8 (11.27%) BitLocker
7 8 (11.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (11.27%) Terminal Services
8 3 (4.23%) Xen
9 2 (2.82%) KVM
9 2 (2.82%) NFS
9 2 (2.82%) SRDF
9 2 (2.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (19.72%) Ansible
2 14 (19.72%) Puppet
2 14 (19.72%) vCenter Server
2 14 (19.72%) vMotion
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (8.45%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (8.45%) Nagios
4 6 (8.45%) PowerCLI
4 6 (8.45%) vRealize
5 1 (1.41%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) SCCM
5 1 (1.41%) SCOM
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
5 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (63.38%) Microsoft
2 40 (56.34%) VMware
3 14 (19.72%) Citrix
3 14 (19.72%) HP
4 8 (11.27%) Google
5 6 (8.45%) Symantec
5 6 (8.45%) Veeam
6 5 (7.04%) Oracle
7 3 (4.23%) NetApp
8 2 (2.82%) Cisco
8 2 (2.82%) Dell
8 2 (2.82%) EMC
8 2 (2.82%) F5
8 2 (2.82%) Informatica
8 2 (2.82%) RedGate
8 2 (2.82%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.82%) Splunk
8 2 (2.82%) Supermicro
8 2 (2.82%) Talend
9 1 (1.41%) Nimble Storage