Clustering Jobs in the West Midlands

Clustering
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 194 234
Rank change year-on-year +1 +40 +15
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 3 53 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.067% 0.73% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 2.15% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 48 27
10th Percentile - £30,800 -
25th Percentile - £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,147 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% -22.73% +25.71%
75th Percentile - £53,750 £64,000
90th Percentile - £60,000 £67,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,338 2,470 3,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.97% 34.12% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,708 979
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +15.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

Clustering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

Clustering
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham +27 1 - - 2
Staffordshire +20 1 £45,147 -9.71% 1
Warwickshire -49 1 - - 2
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GDB
1 1 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (33.33%) WinDbg
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Associate Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) libvirt
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) LLM
1 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) CodeQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam