Clustering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 457 484
Rank change year-on-year +94 +27 +194
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 34 135 193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 1.12% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25 129 131
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +54.55% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £102,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £118,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.09%

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 5,843 12,025 16,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.07% 35.54% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 9,250 11,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Clustering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Clustering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Clustering.

Clustering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Clustering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Clustering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) IIS
3 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 2 (5.88%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) AWS
2 12 (35.29%) GCP
3 11 (32.35%) Azure
4 8 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (14.71%) Nutanix
6 4 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (11.76%) Datadog
7 3 (8.82%) IaaS
7 3 (8.82%) PaaS
7 3 (8.82%) SaaS
8 2 (5.88%) GitHub
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) SAN
1 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
2 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 7 (20.59%) NAS
3 3 (8.82%) DHCP
3 3 (8.82%) DNS
3 3 (8.82%) Unified Communications
3 3 (8.82%) VPN
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (5.88%) FCoE
4 2 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) Multicast
4 2 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
1 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Games
4 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (11.76%) IT Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Unix Support
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Support
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Linux Support
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Unix Support
5 3 (8.82%) Server Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Service Operations Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.82%) Plotly
2 3 (8.82%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) LDAP
3 2 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) Replication
2 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
3 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
4 4 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Linux
1 19 (55.88%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Unix
2 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (11.76%) Solaris
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (44.12%) High Availability
3 13 (38.24%) DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Computer Science
5 10 (29.41%) ITIL
6 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Change Management
7 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (17.65%) Security Hardening
9 5 (14.71%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (14.71%) Server Building
9 5 (14.71%) Server Patching
9 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (14.71%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (11.76%) Agile
10 4 (11.76%) Observability
10 4 (11.76%) Project Delivery
10 4 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) Bash
5 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
6 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.88%) Java
7 2 (5.88%) Perl
8 1 (2.94%) R
8 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) SLA
2 8 (23.53%) GDPR
3 2 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (41.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (20.59%) Hyper-V
3 7 (20.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (14.71%) Docker
4 5 (14.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.88%) KVM
5 2 (5.88%) NFS
5 2 (5.88%) SRDF
5 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.88%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Ansible
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.71%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (14.71%) Puppet
4 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.76%) Terraform
5 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (67.65%) VMware
2 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 8 (23.53%) EMC
5 7 (20.59%) Symantec
6 6 (17.65%) Cisco
6 6 (17.65%) Oracle
7 5 (14.71%) Veritas
8 3 (8.82%) Remedy
8 3 (8.82%) SaltStack
8 3 (8.82%) TOWER Software
9 2 (5.88%) F5
9 2 (5.88%) Google
9 2 (5.88%) NetApp