Lustre Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lustre
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Lustre skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 587 566
Rank change year-on-year +56 -21 +245
Permanent jobs citing Lustre 5 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.014% 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.14% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £109,750 - -
25th Percentile £113,125 £53,818 £48,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £80,000 £50,803
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% +57.47% +3.36%
75th Percentile £128,125 £82,500 £66,706
90th Percentile £129,250 - £74,682
UK median annual salary £122,500 £80,000 £65,402
% change year-on-year +53.13% +22.32% +31.92%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Lustre falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,739 5,033 5,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 10.40% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,249 2,827 4,610
10th Percentile £26,450 £28,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -

Lustre
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Lustre job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lustre
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Lustre
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 Lustre within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 October 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 +34 4 £115,000 +113.68%
South West +42 1 £130,000 +62.50% 1
Lustre
UK

Lustre
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Weka
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) InfiniBand
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Management
1 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) LPIC
1 3 (60.00%) MCSE
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (60.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) GPFS
1 3 (60.00%) NFS
2 2 (40.00%) Ceph
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform