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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 520 672
Rank change year-on-year -115 +152 -56
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 132 217 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 1.11% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 76 206 300
10th Percentile £38,060 £31,250 £41,200
25th Percentile £42,238 £38,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -1.59%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,875 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

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 24,193 19,511 52,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 36.83% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,728 14,245 29,698
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.47% +7.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,125 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.59% - +10.00%

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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024. 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 -116 128 £50,750 -0.49% 32
UK excluding London -141 90 £50,000 +5.26% 12
Work from Home -7 47 £48,000 -18.30% 19
London -19 39 £70,000 +0.80% 21
South East -38 38 £48,500 +5.43% 2
North of England -43 21 £44,274 +28.33% 5
Midlands -81 15 £45,000 -10.00% 3
North West -34 10 £50,000 -4.76% 3
West Midlands -71 10 £45,000 -10.00% 1
South West -9 8 £52,500 +2.94%
North East -30 7 £44,274 -26.21%
East Midlands -33 5 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -6 4 £44,274 +28.33% 2
Scotland -24 4 - -
East of England -63 4 £52,500 +1.45% 1

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 28 (21.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.82%) IIS
3 8 (6.06%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.03%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.76%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 69 (52.27%) Azure
2 33 (25.00%) AWS
3 23 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (10.61%) Nutanix
5 10 (7.58%) GCP
6 9 (6.82%) IaaS
7 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.55%) Datadog
9 5 (3.79%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.79%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.79%) SaaS
10 4 (3.03%) Cohesity
10 4 (3.03%) PaaS
11 3 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.27%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.27%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 47 (35.61%) SAN
2 32 (24.24%) DNS
3 29 (21.97%) Firewall
3 29 (21.97%) NAS
4 20 (15.15%) VPN
5 19 (14.39%) DHCP
6 17 (12.88%) TCP/IP
7 12 (9.09%) LAN
7 12 (9.09%) WAN
8 10 (7.58%) iSCSI
8 10 (7.58%) SNMP
9 8 (6.06%) SSL
10 5 (3.79%) Skype
10 5 (3.79%) VSAN
11 4 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (2.27%) Internet
12 3 (2.27%) SMTP
12 3 (2.27%) Wireless
13 2 (1.52%) HTTP
13 2 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (38.64%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.88%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.79%) InfluxDB
5 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.03%) MySQL
7 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (2.27%) Power BI
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.52%) Tableau
8 2 (1.52%) Tableau Desktop
8 2 (1.52%) Tableau Server
9 1 (0.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.76%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
2 5 (3.79%) Git
2 5 (3.79%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (12.88%) Finance
3 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.06%) Law
5 5 (3.79%) Military
6 3 (2.27%) Advertising
6 3 (2.27%) Banking
6 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Legal
7 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Police
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (19.70%) IT Engineer
3 21 (15.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (14.39%) Senior
5 15 (11.36%) DBA
6 14 (10.61%) Wintel Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Administrator
9 11 (8.33%) Analyst
10 10 (7.58%) SQL DBA
10 10 (7.58%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Project Analyst
11 8 (6.06%) VMware Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Manager
12 7 (5.30%) IT Manager
12 7 (5.30%) Support Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
13 6 (4.55%) Production DBA
13 6 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) REST
2 9 (6.82%) Middleware
3 3 (2.27%) .NET
3 3 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.27%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.52%) LDAP
4 2 (1.52%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.76%) EDI
5 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Data Centre
2 16 (12.12%) Replication
3 10 (7.58%) Blackberry
3 10 (7.58%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.06%) PKI
5 5 (3.79%) Fat Client
5 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.79%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.79%) Thin Client
6 4 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.27%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.52%) Derivative
9 1 (0.76%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 89 (67.42%) Windows
2 63 (47.73%) Windows Server
3 46 (34.85%) Linux
4 18 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 17 (12.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (10.61%) Unix
7 10 (7.58%) Solaris
7 10 (7.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (6.06%) Windows 10
8 8 (6.06%) zOS
9 6 (4.55%) Ubuntu
10 5 (3.79%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.79%) SUSE
10 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (2.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (36.36%) High Availability
3 42 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (18.18%) Agile
6 23 (17.42%) DevOps
7 20 (15.15%) Kalman Filter
8 18 (13.64%) Computer Science
8 18 (13.64%) Operational Stability
8 18 (13.64%) Server Building
8 18 (13.64%) Virtual Environments
9 17 (12.88%) Customer Service
10 16 (12.12%) Change Management
10 16 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (11.36%) Business Strategy
12 14 (10.61%) CI/CD
13 13 (9.85%) Patch Management
13 13 (9.85%) Service Management
14 12 (9.09%) Mentoring
15 11 (8.33%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 74 (56.06%) PowerShell
2 39 (29.55%) SQL
3 23 (17.42%) Python
4 11 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 8 (6.06%) Bash
6 5 (3.79%) C
6 5 (3.79%) C#
6 5 (3.79%) Perl
7 3 (2.27%) ActionScript
7 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.27%) R
7 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.27%) VB
8 1 (0.76%) C++
8 1 (0.76%) Fortran
8 1 (0.76%) Julia
8 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (23.48%) Degree
2 15 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (7.58%) HND
6 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.79%) CCNP
8 5 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.03%) MCSE
10 3 (2.27%) CCNA
10 3 (2.27%) CISM
10 3 (2.27%) CISSP
11 2 (1.52%) CCIE
11 2 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.52%) MCITP
11 2 (1.52%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 8 (6.06%) SLA
2 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 70 (53.03%) Active Directory
2 61 (46.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (18.94%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (18.18%) Hyper-V
5 15 (11.36%) Docker
6 12 (9.09%) vSphere
7 10 (7.58%) VMware NSX
8 8 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (3.03%) XenApp
10 3 (2.27%) OpenSSH
10 3 (2.27%) pfSense
10 3 (2.27%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.76%) Firmware
11 1 (0.76%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (23.48%) Failover Clustering
2 24 (18.18%) Ansible
3 20 (15.15%) Microsoft Clustering
3 20 (15.15%) SCCM
4 13 (9.85%) Kubernetes
4 13 (9.85%) SCOM
5 11 (8.33%) Terraform
5 11 (8.33%) vCenter Server
6 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 8 (6.06%) Prometheus
8 7 (5.30%) IBM BigFix
9 5 (3.79%) Grafana
9 5 (3.79%) VxRail
10 4 (3.03%) Istio
10 4 (3.03%) SCOrch
11 3 (2.27%) PowerCLI
11 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.52%) Kibana
12 2 (1.52%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 68 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 66 (50.00%) VMware
3 16 (12.12%) Veeam
4 13 (9.85%) Cisco
5 12 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 12 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 11 (8.33%) Oracle
7 10 (7.58%) McAfee
8 8 (6.06%) Dell
9 7 (5.30%) Commvault
10 5 (3.79%) Citrix
10 5 (3.79%) EMC
10 5 (3.79%) Google
10 5 (3.79%) IBM
10 5 (3.79%) SAP
11 4 (3.03%) NetApp
11 4 (3.03%) Serena
12 3 (2.27%) CheckPoint
12 3 (2.27%) HP
12 3 (2.27%) WatchGuard