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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 561 589
Rank change year-on-year -119 +28 -75
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 129 108 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.54% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 79 99 120
10th Percentile £37,750 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £72,500 £95,938
90th Percentile £88,000 £75,050 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +6.19% +2.11%

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 32,034 19,927 22,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.07% 40.61% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19,610 10,171 11,328
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,239 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -14.29% -4.55%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Clustering job vacancy trend in the UK

Clustering
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 15 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 13 October 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
England -135 104 £55,000 - 90
UK excluding London -134 97 £50,000 -2.91% 39
Work from Home -15 51 £50,000 -9.09% 44
London -50 27 £77,500 +10.71% 55
Midlands -42 24 £50,000 +11.11% 2
South East -36 22 £45,000 -21.74% 13
East Midlands -19 19 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England -26 15 £80,000 +45.45% 3
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 1
North West -35 12 £48,801 -30.29% 6
North of England -89 12 £48,801 -4.31% 12
Scotland +5 5 - - 6
West Midlands -43 5 £67,500 +42.11% 1
South West -76 4 £63,750 +50.00% 2
Wales -72 1 £62,500 +47.06%

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 27 (20.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (15.50%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.20%) IIS
4 6 (4.65%) SAS
5 3 (2.33%) Confluence
5 3 (2.33%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.33%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.55%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (1.55%) Skype for Business
6 2 (1.55%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.78%) Apache
7 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.78%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.78%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.55%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.78%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 48 (37.21%) Azure
2 35 (27.13%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (22.48%) SaaS
4 19 (14.73%) GitHub
5 18 (13.95%) AWS
5 18 (13.95%) Entra ID
6 13 (10.08%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.20%) Datadog
8 7 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.43%) Mimecast
9 6 (4.65%) Cloudflare
9 6 (4.65%) PaaS
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.10%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.10%) Nutanix
12 3 (2.33%) dbt
12 3 (2.33%) GCP
12 3 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.33%) IaaS
12 3 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.63%) Firewall
1 15 (11.63%) SAN
2 14 (10.85%) DNS
3 11 (8.53%) DHCP
4 9 (6.98%) VSAN
5 7 (5.43%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (5.43%) Wireless
6 6 (4.65%) 5G
6 6 (4.65%) Broadband
6 6 (4.65%) VPN
7 5 (3.88%) Internet
7 5 (3.88%) Network Security
7 5 (3.88%) VLAN
8 4 (3.10%) WAN
9 3 (2.33%) LAN
9 3 (2.33%) NAS
9 3 (2.33%) NetScaler
9 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.55%) Skype
10 2 (1.55%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (31.01%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.65%) Redis
4 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.33%) MySQL
6 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.55%) Db2
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.55%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.78%) Metadata
7 1 (0.78%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) Appium
2 3 (2.33%) Flyway
2 3 (2.33%) GitLab
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
3 2 (1.55%) Fiddler
3 2 (1.55%) Postman
4 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 42 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.38%) Finance
3 20 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.73%) Legal
5 13 (10.08%) Legal Technology
6 10 (7.75%) Aerospace
6 10 (7.75%) Banking
7 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.65%) Military
9 5 (3.88%) Law
9 5 (3.88%) Retail
10 4 (3.10%) Games
11 3 (2.33%) Marketing
11 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (25.58%) Administrator
2 29 (22.48%) Senior
3 26 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (16.28%) DBA
5 15 (11.63%) IT Engineer
6 14 (10.85%) Systems Administrator
6 14 (10.85%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) IT Administrator
7 10 (7.75%) IT Systems Administrator
7 10 (7.75%) Support Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) IT Support
9 7 (5.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Analyst
9 7 (5.43%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Network Administrator
9 7 (5.43%) Network Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Senior IT Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Senior IT Support
9 7 (5.43%) Senior Support Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) Terraform
2 6 (4.65%) Streamlit
3 5 (3.88%) JSON
3 5 (3.88%) Node.js
4 3 (2.33%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.33%) Jest
4 3 (2.33%) pgvector
4 3 (2.33%) PostGIS
4 3 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.33%) React
4 3 (2.33%) React Native
4 3 (2.33%) Symfony
5 2 (1.55%) Middleware
5 2 (1.55%) REST
5 2 (1.55%) Snowpark
5 2 (1.55%) Web Services
5 2 (1.55%) XML
6 1 (0.78%) NumPy
6 1 (0.78%) Pandas
6 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.83%) Replication
2 12 (9.30%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (7.75%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.43%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 6 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.88%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.33%) Blog
7 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.33%) NHS
8 2 (1.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.55%) PKI
8 2 (1.55%) Robotics
8 2 (1.55%) Social Media
8 2 (1.55%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.88%) Windows
2 44 (34.11%) Windows Server
3 33 (25.58%) Linux
4 7 (5.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.88%) Android
7 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.33%) Debian
8 3 (2.33%) Gentoo
8 3 (2.33%) Unix
9 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (44.19%) High Availability
2 36 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (20.16%) AI
4 24 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (17.83%) DevOps
5 23 (17.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (17.05%) CRM
6 22 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (15.50%) Mentoring
9 19 (14.73%) Analytics
9 19 (14.73%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (13.95%) Server Management
11 17 (13.18%) Problem Management
12 16 (12.40%) CI/CD
12 16 (12.40%) Machine Learning
12 16 (12.40%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (10.85%) Business Continuity
13 14 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (10.85%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.16%) SQL
2 38 (29.46%) PowerShell
3 28 (21.71%) Python
4 10 (7.75%) Bash
5 8 (6.20%) Kotlin
6 7 (5.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (4.65%) Java
7 6 (4.65%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (3.88%) Go
9 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.33%) Perl
9 3 (2.33%) PHP
9 3 (2.33%) R
9 3 (2.33%) Ruby
9 3 (2.33%) Swift
9 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) C
11 1 (0.78%) C++
11 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.18%) Degree
3 16 (12.40%) DV Cleared
4 14 (10.85%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.43%) DBS Check
8 6 (4.65%) MCSE
9 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.10%) MCSA
10 4 (3.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.78%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.78%) IISP
12 1 (0.78%) ISACA
12 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) GDPR
2 9 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.88%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.55%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.55%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 35 (27.13%) Hyper-V
3 19 (14.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (8.53%) Docker
5 5 (3.88%) vSphere
6 4 (3.10%) Firmware
6 4 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.10%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.78%) Ceph
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (21.71%) Failover Clustering
2 14 (10.85%) Ansible
2 14 (10.85%) Microsoft Clustering
3 9 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.88%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.10%) VxRail
6 3 (2.33%) Grafana
6 3 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (2.33%) Podman
6 3 (2.33%) Puppet
7 2 (1.55%) Kibana
7 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.55%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.55%) SCOM
8 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (45.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.73%) VMware
3 11 (8.53%) Veeam
4 8 (6.20%) Oracle
4 8 (6.20%) Splunk
5 5 (3.88%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.88%) SonicWALL
6 4 (3.10%) Dell
6 4 (3.10%) EMC
7 3 (2.33%) Cisco
7 3 (2.33%) Citrix
7 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.55%) Apple
8 2 (1.55%) Databricks
8 2 (1.55%) Thales
9 1 (0.78%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.78%) F5
9 1 (0.78%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.78%) YouTube