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 have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 591 746
Rank change year-on-year -4 +155 -185
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 316 442 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 0.98% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 284 255 360
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,573 £55,000 £53,350
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +3.09% +5.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £70,750 £86,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +6.38% +4.44%

All Generic Skills
UK

Clustering is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,745 45,266 72,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 42.90% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 22,974 24,244 34,119
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 17 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 24 April 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 +35 281 £57,000 +3.64% 64
UK excluding London -55 204 £48,500 -3.00% 48
Work from Home +43 132 £85,000 +54.55% 28
London +153 106 £85,000 +47.83% 26
Midlands +4 68 £45,000 -18.18% 11
West Midlands +43 58 £46,250 -15.91% 6
South East +22 36 £48,500 -10.19% 9
North of England +18 34 £42,500 -5.56% 6
South West -34 24 £57,000 +9.62% 6
Scotland -52 22 £32,500 -53.20% 8
Yorkshire +58 17 £45,000 - 2
East of England -5 13 £55,000 +10.00% 8
East Midlands -28 10 £43,750 -16.67% 5
North East +8 9 £30,000 -52.00% 1
North West +5 8 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Wales +1 5 £51,000 +32.47% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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 69 (21.84%) IIS
2 61 (19.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (6.01%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.95%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.63%) Apache
8 1 (0.32%) Confluence
8 1 (0.32%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Maximo
1 3 (0.95%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 179 (56.65%) Azure
2 101 (31.96%) AWS
3 86 (27.22%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (11.71%) Entra ID
5 36 (11.39%) Snowflake
6 30 (9.49%) dbt
7 29 (9.18%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (5.70%) GCP
9 15 (4.75%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.11%) SaaS
11 11 (3.48%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.16%) GitHub
13 8 (2.53%) IaaS
13 8 (2.53%) PaaS
14 6 (1.90%) Adobe Analytics
14 6 (1.90%) Google Analytics
15 5 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.27%) OneDrive
17 3 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
17 3 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 79 (25.00%) WAN
2 77 (24.37%) Firewall
3 40 (12.66%) DNS
3 40 (12.66%) SAN
4 32 (10.13%) TCP/IP
5 26 (8.23%) DHCP
6 23 (7.28%) Internet
6 23 (7.28%) VPN
7 16 (5.06%) LAN
8 15 (4.75%) VLAN
9 13 (4.11%) Wireless
10 11 (3.48%) SNMP
10 11 (3.48%) tcpdump
11 10 (3.16%) VoIP
11 10 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (2.85%) BGP
13 8 (2.53%) VSAN
14 7 (2.22%) MPLS
14 7 (2.22%) NAS
14 7 (2.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (37.66%) SQL Server
2 36 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 32 (10.13%) Dremio
4 31 (9.81%) Big Data
4 31 (9.81%) Data Lake
5 30 (9.49%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (9.49%) Apache Arrow
6 23 (7.28%) MySQL
7 22 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (6.01%) MongoDB
10 18 (5.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (4.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (3.48%) Power BI
14 9 (2.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (2.22%) Relational Database
16 6 (1.90%) InfluxDB
17 4 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 27 (8.54%) Git
2 23 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.33%) JIRA
4 11 (3.48%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.95%) GitLab
6 2 (0.63%) Subversion
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 99 (31.33%) Finance
2 70 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.16%) Games
6 10 (3.16%) Law
7 7 (2.22%) Marketing
8 6 (1.90%) Banking
9 5 (1.58%) Military
10 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.95%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.95%) Retail
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
13 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (18.04%) Systems Engineer
2 55 (17.41%) Senior
3 46 (14.56%) Support Engineer
4 45 (14.24%) DBA
5 32 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (10.13%) Site Engineer
5 32 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 30 (9.49%) Administrator
6 30 (9.49%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (9.49%) Big Data Engineer
7 23 (7.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 21 (6.65%) SQL DBA
9 17 (5.38%) Analyst
10 16 (5.06%) Lead
11 14 (4.43%) Linux Engineer
11 14 (4.43%) SQL Server DBA
12 13 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.48%) Infrastructure Manager
13 11 (3.48%) IT Engineer
13 11 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.44%) REST
2 30 (9.49%) gRPC
2 30 (9.49%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (8.86%) WebRTC
4 11 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.48%) YAML
5 10 (3.16%) XML
6 9 (2.85%) .NET
7 5 (1.58%) JSON
7 5 (1.58%) Node.js
8 3 (0.95%) Middleware
8 3 (0.95%) React
9 2 (0.63%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.32%) J2EE
10 1 (0.32%) LAMP
10 1 (0.32%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 1 (0.32%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.51%) Replication
2 40 (12.66%) Public Cloud
3 30 (9.49%) Hedge funds
4 28 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.38%) PKI
6 16 (5.06%) Data Centre
7 14 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.16%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.85%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (2.53%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.90%) PMI
13 5 (1.58%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.58%) Fat Client
13 5 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.58%) Thin Client
14 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 166 (52.53%) Windows
2 116 (36.71%) Windows Server
3 56 (17.72%) Linux
4 32 (10.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 24 (7.59%) Windows 10
6 20 (6.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (6.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (4.75%) AIX
9 14 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (3.48%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (3.16%) Solaris
11 10 (3.16%) Unix
12 7 (2.22%) Mac OS
13 6 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (1.27%) CentOS
15 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (43.04%) High Availability
2 119 (37.66%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (21.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 59 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (18.35%) DevOps
6 51 (16.14%) CI/CD
7 49 (15.51%) Performance Tuning
8 45 (14.24%) Load Balancing
9 41 (12.97%) Capacity Planning
10 40 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (11.39%) Prototyping
12 34 (10.76%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 32 (10.13%) Asset Management
14 30 (9.49%) Investment Management
15 28 (8.86%) API Development
15 28 (8.86%) ITIL
15 28 (8.86%) Migration
15 28 (8.86%) Software Testing
15 28 (8.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 148 (46.84%) SQL
2 111 (35.13%) PowerShell
3 72 (22.78%) Python
4 64 (20.25%) Java
5 34 (10.76%) JavaScript
6 32 (10.13%) Go
7 29 (9.18%) Bash
8 20 (6.33%) T-SQL
9 17 (5.38%) C#
10 14 (4.43%) Perl
11 12 (3.80%) VB
12 10 (3.16%) ActionScript
13 6 (1.90%) R
14 4 (1.27%) VBScript
15 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.63%) Korn
15 2 (0.63%) PHP
15 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.63%) Ruby
15 2 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 49 (15.51%) Degree
3 45 (14.24%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.80%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.53%) A+ Certification
6 8 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.22%) MCSE
8 6 (1.90%) MCSA
8 6 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.27%) MCP
10 3 (0.95%) HNC
10 3 (0.95%) HND
10 3 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.95%) MCITP
10 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.54%) SLA
2 10 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.85%) GDPR
4 5 (1.58%) SOC 1
4 5 (1.58%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.95%) QA
7 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 120 (37.97%) Active Directory
2 112 (35.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (18.35%) Hyper-V
4 52 (16.46%) VMware ESXi
5 46 (14.56%) VMware NSX
6 32 (10.13%) Docker
7 17 (5.38%) vSphere
8 10 (3.16%) OpenSSH
8 10 (3.16%) XenApp
9 6 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (1.58%) Firmware
10 5 (1.58%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.95%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.63%) Ceph
12 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.63%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.63%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.32%) KVM
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (18.99%) Microsoft Clustering
2 58 (18.35%) Failover Clustering
2 58 (18.35%) Terraform
3 55 (17.41%) Kubernetes
4 43 (13.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (13.29%) vCenter Server
6 36 (11.39%) Prometheus
7 34 (10.76%) Ansible
8 25 (7.91%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (7.28%) SCCM
10 19 (6.01%) Nagios
11 18 (5.70%) Grafana
12 17 (5.38%) Puppet
13 16 (5.06%) SCOM
14 15 (4.75%) Backup Exec
15 13 (4.11%) FortiGate
16 12 (3.80%) NetBackup
17 11 (3.48%) HAProxy
18 10 (3.16%) Graphite
18 10 (3.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 174 (55.06%) Microsoft
2 170 (53.80%) VMware
3 36 (11.39%) Oracle
4 27 (8.54%) Commvault
5 25 (7.91%) IBM
6 21 (6.65%) Cisco
7 20 (6.33%) NetApp
8 19 (6.01%) ServiceNow
9 18 (5.70%) Sun
10 15 (4.75%) CheckPoint
10 15 (4.75%) Citrix
10 15 (4.75%) Veeam
10 15 (4.75%) Veritas
11 12 (3.80%) Aruba
11 12 (3.80%) Datto
11 12 (3.80%) Hitachi
11 12 (3.80%) HP
11 12 (3.80%) Snow
12 11 (3.48%) Dell
12 11 (3.48%) Serena