Clustering Job Trends 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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 197 129
Rank change year-on-year +28 -68 +96
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 5 9 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.21% 1.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.57% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 47
10th Percentile £51,875 - -
25th Percentile £60,313 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £48,098 £53,750
90th Percentile - £49,957 -
England median annual salary £52,750 £51,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.43% +0.98% -5.56%

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 1,988 1,568 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.71% 36.50% 36.55%
Number of salaries quoted 690 635 1,054
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,500 £27,578
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clustering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Clustering job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Clustering

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the West Midlands

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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 3 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
Birmingham +28 4 £65,000 +26.96%
Worcestershire - 1 £47,500 -
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Control
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VMware