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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 605 520
Rank change year-on-year +1 -85 +262
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 107 322 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.91% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 87 287 248
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £118,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.53% -7.62% +16.67%

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 20,320 35,437 42,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 34.69% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,321 23,080 22,873
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,647
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,043 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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 -27 99 £60,000 +0.84% 152
UK excluding London +72 63 £57,000 +17.53% 131
London +28 39 £70,000 -20.00% 42
Work from Home +5 38 £65,000 -23.53% 121
South East +86 33 £56,250 +15.98% 38
North of England +22 15 £71,991 +59.98% 32
Yorkshire +53 7 £71,991 +51.56% 8
Midlands +7 7 £47,500 +11.76% 26
West Midlands +27 6 £47,500 +11.76% 17
North West -1 6 £66,250 +32.50% 19
Scotland +113 3 - - 5
South West +98 2 £56,000 -1.75% 12
Wales +44 2 £42,500 -16.67% 3
North East +40 2 £52,500 +64.06% 5
East of England +31 1 £55,000 - 17
East Midlands +23 1 £57,000 +26.67% 8

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 24 (22.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.61%) IIS
2 6 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.87%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.93%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (52.34%) Azure
2 44 (41.12%) AWS
3 20 (18.69%) GCP
4 15 (14.02%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.35%) Entra ID
7 9 (8.41%) PaaS
8 8 (7.48%) IaaS
9 7 (6.54%) GitHub
9 7 (6.54%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.61%) Nutanix
10 6 (5.61%) SaaS
11 5 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.67%) OneDrive
12 4 (3.74%) Datadog
13 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
15 1 (0.93%) Cohesity
15 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (30.84%) DNS
2 31 (28.97%) DHCP
2 31 (28.97%) SAN
3 27 (25.23%) Firewall
4 23 (21.50%) NAS
5 14 (13.08%) TCP/IP
6 11 (10.28%) VPN
7 8 (7.48%) SMTP
8 7 (6.54%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (6.54%) WAN
9 6 (5.61%) Network Security
9 6 (5.61%) VSAN
10 5 (4.67%) LAN
11 3 (2.80%) SSL
11 3 (2.80%) Unified Communications
11 3 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.87%) FCoE
12 2 (1.87%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (1.87%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.10%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.35%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.48%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.54%) MySQL
5 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.87%) Big Data
7 2 (1.87%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.87%) Redis
7 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
1 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.87%) JIRA
1 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.93%) GDB
2 1 (0.93%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (0.93%) Subversion
2 1 (0.93%) WinDbg
General
1 25 (23.36%) Finance
2 20 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.41%) Games
6 4 (3.74%) Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Advertising
7 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (31.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (24.30%) Support Engineer
3 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 14 (13.08%) Senior
6 13 (12.15%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) IT Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (6.54%) DBA
10 7 (6.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) IT Manager
10 7 (6.54%) IT Support
10 7 (6.54%) VMware Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 6 (5.61%) VMware Specialist
11 6 (5.61%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) SAML
2 5 (4.67%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.67%) Middleware
3 4 (3.74%) .NET
3 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.80%) Blazor
4 3 (2.80%) Plotly
4 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.80%) REST
5 2 (1.87%) Kafka
5 2 (1.87%) LDAP
5 2 (1.87%) WinForms
5 2 (1.87%) WPF
5 2 (1.87%) YAML
6 1 (0.93%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.93%) libvirt
6 1 (0.93%) Node.js
6 1 (0.93%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.93%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.50%) Replication
2 11 (10.28%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (8.41%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.48%) PKI
5 5 (4.67%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.67%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.80%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Online Games
7 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 59 (55.14%) Windows
2 44 (41.12%) Linux
3 38 (35.51%) Windows Server
4 16 (14.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (11.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (10.28%) Unix
7 7 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (5.61%) Android
8 6 (5.61%) Solaris
8 6 (5.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (4.67%) Apple iOS
9 5 (4.67%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (2.80%) CentOS
10 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.87%) zOS
12 1 (0.93%) AIX
12 1 (0.93%) SUSE
12 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (52.34%) High Availability
2 44 (41.12%) Disaster Recovery
3 38 (35.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (25.23%) DevOps
5 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
6 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.69%) Virtual Environments
7 19 (17.76%) Computer Science
8 16 (14.95%) ITIL
9 14 (13.08%) Incident Management
9 14 (13.08%) Task Automation
10 13 (12.15%) Agile
10 13 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (12.15%) Security Hardening
11 12 (11.21%) Server Building
12 11 (10.28%) Configuration Management
12 11 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.28%) Kalman Filter
12 11 (10.28%) Migration
13 10 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.60%) PowerShell
2 22 (20.56%) Python
2 22 (20.56%) SQL
3 8 (7.48%) Bash
4 6 (5.61%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.74%) C#
6 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.80%) Java
7 3 (2.80%) Perl
7 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.93%) C
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) CodeQL
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.56%) DV Cleared
3 19 (17.76%) Degree
4 6 (5.61%) HND
4 6 (5.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.67%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) SLA
2 8 (7.48%) GDPR
3 4 (3.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (53.27%) Active Directory
2 55 (51.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (34.58%) Hyper-V
4 32 (29.91%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (17.76%) Docker
6 13 (12.15%) vSphere
7 8 (7.48%) BitLocker
7 8 (7.48%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (7.48%) Terminal Services
7 8 (7.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (2.80%) Xen
9 2 (1.87%) KVM
9 2 (1.87%) NFS
9 2 (1.87%) SRDF
9 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.93%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (29.91%) Ansible
2 29 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 17 (15.89%) Failover Clustering
3 17 (15.89%) Puppet
4 16 (14.95%) vCenter Server
5 14 (13.08%) vMotion
6 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (9.35%) Terraform
8 9 (8.41%) SCCM
9 6 (5.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (5.61%) Nagios
9 6 (5.61%) PowerCLI
9 6 (5.61%) vRealize
10 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
11 3 (2.80%) SCOM
12 1 (0.93%) Grafana
12 1 (0.93%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (62.62%) VMware
2 57 (53.27%) Microsoft
3 17 (15.89%) Citrix
4 14 (13.08%) Red Hat
5 13 (12.15%) Symantec
6 12 (11.21%) HP
7 10 (9.35%) Cisco
7 10 (9.35%) EMC
7 10 (9.35%) Oracle
8 8 (7.48%) Google
9 7 (6.54%) Veritas
10 6 (5.61%) Veeam
11 5 (4.67%) Palo Alto
12 4 (3.74%) TOWER Software
13 3 (2.80%) NetApp
13 3 (2.80%) Remedy
13 3 (2.80%) SaltStack
14 2 (1.87%) Aruba
14 2 (1.87%) F5
14 2 (1.87%) RedGate