Clustering Job Trends

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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 596 515
Rank change year-on-year +21 -81 +129
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 70 117 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.58% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59 63 200
10th Percentile £35,100 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,125 £45,000 £37,425
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,794 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £70,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,250 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +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 20,543 20,099 19,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.80% 36.94% 37.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,286 9,504 14,353
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -12.96% -0.92% -0.91%

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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 16 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 4 January 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 +42 65 £53,000 +0.95% 17
UK excluding London +45 52 £49,250 -1.50% 15
North of England +26 20 £36,500 -17.56% 7
London +36 18 £85,000 +21.43% 5
Work from Home +59 15 £65,000 +28.71% 5
Midlands +18 11 £45,000 -
Yorkshire 0 8 £36,500 -17.56%
South West +13 7 £42,500 -19.05%
North East +9 7 £51,000 +15.19%
East Midlands +1 6 £45,000 +12.50%
North West +27 5 £70,000 +40.00% 7
West Midlands +27 5 £65,000 +44.44%
South East -4 5 £57,500 +11.65% 4
East of England +24 4 £55,250 +5.24% 3
Scotland -1 3 - -
Wales - 2 £52,297 - 2

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 20 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (14.29%) IIS
3 7 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.86%) SAS
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (64.29%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) AWS
3 26 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (21.43%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.00%) SaaS
6 6 (8.57%) iPaaS
6 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.14%) PaaS
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.71%) GitHub
9 3 (4.29%) IaaS
9 3 (4.29%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (34.29%) Firewall
1 24 (34.29%) SAN
2 19 (27.14%) DNS
3 18 (25.71%) VLAN
4 15 (21.43%) DHCP
4 15 (21.43%) VoIP
5 14 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 9 (12.86%) VPN
7 6 (8.57%) WAN
8 5 (7.14%) LAN
9 4 (5.71%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (5.71%) IPsec
9 4 (5.71%) Wireless
10 3 (4.29%) Internet
10 3 (4.29%) SSL
11 2 (2.86%) NetScaler
11 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.86%) VSAN
12 1 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (1.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.57%) MongoDB
3 12 (17.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (10.00%) MySQL
5 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (8.57%) Power BI
6 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.71%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.86%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.86%) Big Data
9 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.86%) Impala
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.86%) Tableau
10 1 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Law
4 8 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Legal
5 7 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Marketing
7 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.71%) Electronics
8 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.29%) Retail
10 2 (2.86%) Advertising
10 2 (2.86%) Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 13 (18.57%) DBA
2 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure Support
2 13 (18.57%) IT Support
2 13 (18.57%) Senior
3 12 (17.14%) IT Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Lead
5 9 (12.86%) SQL DBA
6 8 (11.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Support Technician
7 7 (10.00%) Administrator
7 7 (10.00%) Unix Support
8 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Senior Support Technician
9 5 (7.14%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) .NET
2 2 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.43%) Blazor
3 1 (1.43%) LDAP
3 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Data Centre
1 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.57%) Replication
3 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (57.14%) Windows
2 32 (45.71%) Linux
3 28 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (11.43%) Unix
5 8 (11.43%) Windows 10
5 8 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (7.14%) VMS
7 4 (5.71%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.43%) AIX
8 1 (1.43%) Solaris
8 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (22.86%) ITIL
3 14 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.29%) High Availability
6 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (11.43%) Change Control
7 7 (10.00%) DevOps
7 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.57%) Change Management
8 6 (8.57%) Coaching
8 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.57%) Programme Management
8 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
8 6 (8.57%) Server Building
9 5 (7.14%) Analytics
9 5 (7.14%) Microservices
9 5 (7.14%) Migration
9 5 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) SQL
2 12 (17.14%) Python
3 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.86%) T-SQL
5 6 (8.57%) C#
6 3 (4.29%) Bash
7 2 (2.86%) R
8 1 (1.43%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) Bourne shell
8 1 (1.43%) C-shell
8 1 (1.43%) Perl
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) ACMT
4 4 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) SLA
2 6 (8.57%) GDPR
3 4 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (35.71%) Hyper-V
2 22 (31.43%) Active Directory
3 18 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (12.86%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (8.57%) Docker
6 5 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (10.00%) Ansible
3 7 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.57%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.71%) Autotask
5 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (5.71%) Nagios
6 3 (4.29%) NetBackup
6 3 (4.29%) Terraform
6 3 (4.29%) VxRail
7 2 (2.86%) Data Guard
7 2 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.86%) Puppet
7 2 (2.86%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.43%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.43%) SCOM
8 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (47.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (28.57%) VMware
3 12 (17.14%) HP
3 12 (17.14%) Veeam
4 11 (15.71%) Dell
5 8 (11.43%) Cisco
5 8 (11.43%) Oracle
5 8 (11.43%) Red Hat
5 8 (11.43%) SonicWALL
5 8 (11.43%) Supermicro
6 7 (10.00%) Symantec
7 6 (8.57%) RedGate
8 5 (7.14%) SAP
9 4 (5.71%) Apple
9 4 (5.71%) Datto
9 4 (5.71%) Informatica
9 4 (5.71%) Sophos
9 4 (5.71%) Talend
10 3 (4.29%) NetApp
11 2 (2.86%) Citrix