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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 592 432
Rank change year-on-year +74 -160 +180
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 64 180 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.25% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.74% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 54 155 150
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,423 £35,500 £41,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £48,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -5.83% +10.75%
75th Percentile £59,313 £56,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £73,886 £60,750 £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 13,255 24,192 24,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.06% 33.72% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,786 15,192 11,069
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,313 £35,000 £40,371
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 £80,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +91 34 £55,000 +13.40% 27
North of England +35 14 £71,991 +51.56% 32
Midlands +6 8 £51,250 +20.59% 32
Yorkshire +60 7 £71,991 +51.56% 9
North West -2 6 £66,250 +32.50% 17
West Midlands +29 5 £47,500 +11.76% 20
Scotland +115 3 - - 5
East Midlands +17 3 £55,000 +22.22% 11
South West +83 2 £56,000 -1.75% 13
Wales +41 2 £42,500 -16.67% 5
North East +36 1 £52,500 +75.00% 6
East of England +28 1 £55,000 - 16
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 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (14.06%) IIS
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.56%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.56%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 31 (48.44%) Azure
2 26 (40.63%) AWS
3 11 (17.19%) GCP
4 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.25%) GitHub
7 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.13%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.19%) SAN
2 22 (34.38%) DNS
2 22 (34.38%) NAS
3 21 (32.81%) DHCP
4 19 (29.69%) Firewall
5 13 (20.31%) VPN
6 8 (12.50%) SMTP
7 6 (9.38%) Network Security
7 6 (9.38%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (9.38%) VSAN
7 6 (9.38%) WAN
8 4 (6.25%) LAN
8 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
9 2 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.13%) FCoE
9 2 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (3.13%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.13%) Multicast
9 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.25%) MySQL
6 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.13%) Big Data
8 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
1 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) GDB
2 1 (1.56%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.56%) Subversion
2 1 (1.56%) WinDbg
General
1 12 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (14.06%) Games
3 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Finance
6 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Advertising
7 2 (3.13%) Law
7 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (40.63%) Support Engineer
3 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure Support
3 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) IT Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) IT Support
6 6 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior
6 6 (9.38%) Support Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) VMware Support Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.25%) Architect
8 4 (6.25%) DBA
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) .NET
1 4 (6.25%) Middleware
2 3 (4.69%) Blazor
2 3 (4.69%) Plotly
2 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.13%) Kafka
3 2 (3.13%) LDAP
3 2 (3.13%) WinForms
3 2 (3.13%) WPF
4 1 (1.56%) libvirt
4 1 (1.56%) Node.js
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.56%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Replication
2 8 (12.50%) PKI
3 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Online Games
5 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 42 (65.63%) Windows
2 25 (39.06%) Windows Server
3 19 (29.69%) Linux
4 3 (4.69%) CentOS
4 3 (4.69%) Solaris
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.56%) AIX
6 1 (1.56%) Android
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.56%) Unix
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (62.50%) High Availability
2 28 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (29.69%) Virtual Environments
4 17 (26.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (21.88%) Computer Science
5 14 (21.88%) Incident Management
6 13 (20.31%) Task Automation
7 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.19%) Kalman Filter
8 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (12.50%) Change Control
10 8 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 8 (12.50%) IT Strategy
10 8 (12.50%) Patch Management
10 8 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (10.94%) Agile
11 7 (10.94%) Mobile Device Management
12 6 (9.38%) Security Hardening
12 6 (9.38%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 33 (51.56%) PowerShell
2 17 (26.56%) SQL
3 9 (14.06%) Python
4 4 (6.25%) C#
5 3 (4.69%) Java
6 2 (3.13%) Bash
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) CodeQL
7 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.56%) PHP
7 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) Degree
4 6 (9.38%) HND
4 6 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) SLA
3 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 31 (48.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (40.63%) Hyper-V
4 16 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (21.88%) Docker
6 12 (18.75%) vSphere
7 8 (12.50%) BitLocker
7 8 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (12.50%) Terminal Services
8 3 (4.69%) Xen
9 2 (3.13%) KVM
9 2 (3.13%) NFS
9 2 (3.13%) SRDF
9 2 (3.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.56%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.88%) Ansible
2 14 (21.88%) Puppet
2 14 (21.88%) vCenter Server
2 14 (21.88%) vMotion
3 9 (14.06%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (9.38%) Nagios
4 6 (9.38%) PowerCLI
4 6 (9.38%) vRealize
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.56%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.56%) Grafana
6 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.56%) SCCM
6 1 (1.56%) SCOM
6 1 (1.56%) Terraform
6 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 37 (57.81%) VMware
3 14 (21.88%) Citrix
4 12 (18.75%) HP
5 8 (12.50%) Google
6 6 (9.38%) Symantec
6 6 (9.38%) Veeam
7 5 (7.81%) Cisco
7 5 (7.81%) Oracle
8 3 (4.69%) NetApp
9 2 (3.13%) EMC
9 2 (3.13%) F5
9 2 (3.13%) Splunk
10 1 (1.56%) Draytek
10 1 (1.56%) IBM
10 1 (1.56%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.56%) RedGate
10 1 (1.56%) Talend
10 1 (1.56%) Veritas