Clustering Jobs

Clustering
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 599 595
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +154
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 102 314 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.90% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 79 282 252
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,074 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +2.47%
75th Percentile £73,818 £81,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% +6.24%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,692 34,920 45,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.28% 35.57% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,832 22,987 24,196
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,099 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering.

Salary trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +7 93 £57,500 +0.88% 70
UK excluding London +69 58 £55,000 +13.40% 32
London +51 40 £70,000 -17.65% 46
Work from Home +62 33 £68,750 -19.12% 40
South East +104 29 £55,000 +13.40% 12
North of England +55 11 £71,991 +69.39% 10
Midlands +15 9 £45,147 -4.95% 2
Yorkshire +63 8 £71,991 +59.98% 4
East Midlands +52 6 £47,500 -
Scotland +117 4 - - 2
South West +96 3 £55,000 -3.51% 1
North West +27 3 £75,000 +50.00% 6
West Midlands +15 3 £45,147 -2.38% 2
Wales +41 2 £42,500 -16.67% 3

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (21.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.80%) IIS
3 7 (6.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.96%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.98%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.98%) SAS
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.98%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.08%) Azure
2 35 (34.31%) AWS
3 18 (17.65%) GCP
4 14 (13.73%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.86%) PaaS
7 6 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.90%) IaaS
8 5 (4.90%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.90%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.90%) SaaS
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.92%) Datadog
9 4 (3.92%) GitHub
9 4 (3.92%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.98%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 33 (32.35%) SAN
2 28 (27.45%) Firewall
3 27 (26.47%) DNS
4 25 (24.51%) DHCP
5 20 (19.61%) NAS
6 15 (14.71%) TCP/IP
7 14 (13.73%) VPN
8 8 (7.84%) SSL
9 6 (5.88%) SMTP
10 5 (4.90%) Network Security
10 5 (4.90%) VSAN
11 4 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (3.92%) WAN
12 3 (2.94%) LAN
12 3 (2.94%) Unified Communications
13 2 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (1.96%) FCoE
13 2 (1.96%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (1.96%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.96%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.90%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.90%) MySQL
4 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.96%) Big Data
5 2 (1.96%) ClickHouse
5 2 (1.96%) Redis
5 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.98%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.98%) GDB
3 1 (0.98%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.98%) Subversion
3 1 (0.98%) WinDbg
General
1 25 (24.51%) Finance
2 19 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Games
5 8 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.90%) Banking
6 5 (4.90%) Law
7 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.98%) Advertising
8 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (22.55%) Support Engineer
3 18 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
4 16 (15.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 12 (11.76%) Senior
6 10 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) Analyst
7 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) IT Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Project Analyst
9 7 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) IT Manager
10 6 (5.88%) IT Support
10 6 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) DBA
11 5 (4.90%) Unix Support
11 5 (4.90%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.80%) Middleware
2 5 (4.90%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.94%) .NET
4 3 (2.94%) Plotly
4 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.94%) REST
4 3 (2.94%) SAML
5 2 (1.96%) Blazor
5 2 (1.96%) Kafka
5 2 (1.96%) LDAP
5 2 (1.96%) WinForms
5 2 (1.96%) WPF
5 2 (1.96%) YAML
6 1 (0.98%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.98%) libvirt
6 1 (0.98%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.57%) Replication
2 13 (12.75%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.88%) PKI
5 5 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.90%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.96%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.96%) Online Games
7 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.98%) Derivative
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 55 (53.92%) Windows
2 41 (40.20%) Linux
3 35 (34.31%) Windows Server
4 19 (18.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (16.67%) Unix
6 12 (11.76%) Solaris
7 11 (10.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (7.84%) zOS
9 7 (6.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (5.88%) Android
10 6 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (4.90%) Apple iOS
11 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.96%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.98%) AIX
14 1 (0.98%) CentOS
14 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.98%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.98%) High Availability
2 39 (38.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (29.41%) DevOps
3 30 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 18 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 17 (16.67%) Agile
8 15 (14.71%) Virtual Environments
9 14 (13.73%) ITIL
10 12 (11.76%) Server Building
11 11 (10.78%) Incident Management
11 11 (10.78%) Kalman Filter
11 11 (10.78%) Patch Management
11 11 (10.78%) Task Automation
12 10 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (9.80%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.80%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 45 (44.12%) PowerShell
2 23 (22.55%) SQL
3 21 (20.59%) Python
4 8 (7.84%) Bash
5 6 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.94%) C#
8 3 (2.94%) Perl
9 2 (1.96%) Java
9 2 (1.96%) R
10 1 (0.98%) C
10 1 (0.98%) C++
10 1 (0.98%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.98%) PHP
10 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.98%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.65%) Degree
2 18 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) HND
4 5 (4.90%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.94%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) CCIE
7 1 (0.98%) CCNP
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 10 (9.80%) SLA
2 8 (7.84%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (46.08%) Active Directory
2 43 (42.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 24 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (14.71%) Docker
6 9 (8.82%) vSphere
7 8 (7.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 6 (5.88%) BitLocker
8 6 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (5.88%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.94%) Xen
10 2 (1.96%) KVM
10 2 (1.96%) NFS
10 2 (1.96%) SRDF
10 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.98%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (26.47%) Ansible
2 25 (24.51%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
4 13 (12.75%) Puppet
4 13 (12.75%) vCenter Server
5 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (9.80%) SCCM
5 10 (9.80%) vMotion
6 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Clustering
6 9 (8.82%) Terraform
7 4 (3.92%) Nagios
7 4 (3.92%) PowerCLI
7 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.92%) SCOM
7 4 (3.92%) vRealize
8 3 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.94%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.96%) WSUS
10 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.98%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 53 (51.96%) VMware
2 52 (50.98%) Microsoft
3 21 (20.59%) Red Hat
4 12 (11.76%) Citrix
5 11 (10.78%) Cisco
5 11 (10.78%) Symantec
6 10 (9.80%) EMC
7 9 (8.82%) Oracle
8 8 (7.84%) HP
9 7 (6.86%) Google
9 7 (6.86%) Veritas
10 5 (4.90%) Palo Alto
10 5 (4.90%) Veeam
11 3 (2.94%) NetApp
11 3 (2.94%) Remedy
11 3 (2.94%) SaltStack
11 3 (2.94%) TOWER Software
12 2 (1.96%) Aruba
12 2 (1.96%) F5
13 1 (0.98%) Draytek