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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 212 215
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 +47
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 6 43 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.55% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 1.67% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4 38 24
10th Percentile £45,478 £30,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,974 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £64,000
90th Percentile - £60,750 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.42% +8.64% +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 1,315 2,573 2,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.72% 32.67% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 660 1,692 968
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
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 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
Worcestershire +25 3 £47,500 +58.33% 6
Birmingham +38 2 - - 9
Staffordshire +22 1 £45,147 -9.71% 3
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GDB
1 1 (16.67%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (16.67%) WinDbg
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Associate Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) libvirt
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Availability Management
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) LLM
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) CodeQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware