Hybrid/Remote Clustering Job Trends

Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 399 376
Rank change year-on-year -6 -23 +47
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 52 19 116
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 0.12% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.28% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35 19 100
10th Percentile £37,750 £47,900 £42,474
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -37.14% +52.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,875 £118,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £76,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £64,750
% change year-on-year -6.25% -13.51% +23.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,015 6,835 7,846
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.65% 42.13% 33.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,416 3,555 4,898
10th Percentile £33,250 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Clustering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Clustering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering

Clustering
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Clustering over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Clustering salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Clustering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.38%) IIS
3 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
4 6 (11.54%) SAS
5 3 (5.77%) Confluence
6 1 (1.92%) Apache
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.92%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (26.92%) SaaS
3 13 (25.00%) Azure
4 12 (23.08%) Entra ID
5 11 (21.15%) AWS
6 6 (11.54%) Cloudflare
6 6 (11.54%) GitHub
7 5 (9.62%) Mimecast
8 3 (5.77%) Datadog
8 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.77%) PaaS
8 3 (5.77%) Sentry
9 2 (3.85%) IaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.92%) dbt
10 1 (1.92%) GCP
10 1 (1.92%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) SAN
3 6 (11.54%) 5G
3 6 (11.54%) Broadband
4 4 (7.69%) Internet
4 4 (7.69%) Network Security
4 4 (7.69%) WAN
4 4 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (7.69%) Wireless
5 3 (5.77%) DNS
5 3 (5.77%) LAN
6 2 (3.85%) DHCP
7 1 (1.92%) NAS
7 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.92%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.92%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Appium
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) MLflow
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Legal
5 3 (5.77%) Games
5 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.77%) Legal Technology
6 2 (3.85%) Law
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Administrator
1 16 (30.77%) Senior
2 13 (25.00%) IT Administrator
2 13 (25.00%) IT Systems Administrator
2 13 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (17.31%) IT Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) IT Support
4 8 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) DBA
5 7 (13.46%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Senior IT Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Support Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Analyst
7 5 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Data Scientist
8 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 3 (5.77%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Streamlit
2 3 (5.77%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.77%) Jest
2 3 (5.77%) JSON
2 3 (5.77%) pgvector
2 3 (5.77%) PostGIS
2 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.77%) React
2 3 (5.77%) React Native
2 3 (5.77%) Symfony
3 1 (1.92%) Keras
3 1 (1.92%) LangChain
3 1 (1.92%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.92%) NumPy
3 1 (1.92%) Pandas
3 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.92%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Replication
2 6 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.77%) Blog
4 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.92%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
1 12 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 9 (17.31%) Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Android
3 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) AI
2 15 (28.85%) Analytics
3 14 (26.92%) High Availability
4 11 (21.15%) CRM
4 11 (21.15%) Data Science
4 11 (21.15%) Machine Learning
5 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 7 (13.46%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (13.46%) Data Analysis
6 7 (13.46%) Network Load Balancing
6 7 (13.46%) Predictive Modelling
6 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (13.46%) Server Management
6 7 (13.46%) Validation
7 6 (11.54%) Agile
7 6 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (11.54%) Exploratory Data Analysis
7 6 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (11.54%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 32 (61.54%) SQL
2 12 (23.08%) Python
3 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.77%) Kotlin
4 3 (5.77%) PHP
4 3 (5.77%) R
4 3 (5.77%) Swift
4 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.92%) C
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) IISP
4 1 (1.92%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 19 (36.54%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.77%) Grafana
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.92%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.92%) SCOM
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Sentry
5 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Veeam
3 4 (7.69%) SonicWALL
4 2 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.92%) YouTube