Clustering Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 456 674
Rank change year-on-year +56 +218 -221
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 135 124 242
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 0.97% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 122 90 161
10th Percentile £44,025 £47,655 £42,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £118,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £77,521 £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.36% +4.76% -

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 9,605 12,729 36,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 38.79% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,855 9,924 18,426
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Clustering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Clustering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Clustering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Clustering over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 54 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 62 (45.93%) AWS
2 54 (40.00%) dbt
2 54 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 39 (28.89%) Azure
4 25 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (8.15%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.41%) IaaS
6 10 (7.41%) Nutanix
7 6 (4.44%) GitHub
7 6 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.96%) OCI
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.48%) PaaS
9 2 (1.48%) SaaS
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.74%) GCP
10 1 (0.74%) Serverless
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.56%) DNS
2 16 (11.85%) Internet
3 14 (10.37%) SAN
4 10 (7.41%) DHCP
5 9 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.93%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (5.19%) Wireless
8 6 (4.44%) NAS
9 5 (3.70%) Skype
10 4 (2.96%) Firewall
11 1 (0.74%) HTTP
11 1 (0.74%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.74%) SMTP
11 1 (0.74%) SNMP
11 1 (0.74%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (40.74%) Dremio
2 54 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (40.00%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (40.00%) Big Data
2 54 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 16 (11.85%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.63%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.44%) Power BI
5 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (3.70%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.74%) QlikView
9 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) Git
2 12 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.41%) TeamCity
4 9 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 92 (68.15%) Finance
2 12 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.70%) Military
5 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.74%) Back Office
6 1 (0.74%) Games
6 1 (0.74%) Law
6 1 (0.74%) Legal
6 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (41.48%) Site Engineer
1 56 (41.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 54 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (40.00%) Big Data Engineer
3 32 (23.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) VMware Support Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) DBA
5 14 (10.37%) Wintel Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) SQL DBA
8 9 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
9 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.19%) 3rd Line Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (40.00%) gRPC
1 54 (40.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 10 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.48%) WSH
4 1 (0.74%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.74%) Middleware
4 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 22 (16.30%) Replication
3 21 (15.56%) PKI
4 10 (7.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.70%) Fat Client
5 5 (3.70%) Thin Client
6 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) PMI
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Robotics
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (46.67%) Windows
2 57 (42.22%) Windows Server
3 23 (17.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (15.56%) Linux
5 11 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (8.15%) Solaris
6 10 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.48%) Unix
9 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.74%) AIX
10 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.96%) DevOps
2 56 (41.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 54 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 54 (40.00%) Investment Management
4 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (17.04%) High Availability
7 22 (16.30%) Problem Management
8 21 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (12.59%) Service Management
11 16 (11.85%) Change Management
12 15 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
13 13 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (9.63%) Proactive Monitoring
14 12 (8.89%) CI/CD
15 11 (8.15%) Security Hardening
15 11 (8.15%) Systems Engineering
16 10 (7.41%) Converged Infrastructure
16 10 (7.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.04%) PowerShell
2 66 (48.89%) Python
3 54 (40.00%) Go
3 54 (40.00%) Java
3 54 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.59%) SQL
5 16 (11.85%) VB
6 15 (11.11%) ActionScript
7 12 (8.89%) Bash
8 10 (7.41%) C#
9 9 (6.67%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.22%) VBScript
11 1 (0.74%) Bicep
11 1 (0.74%) Perl
11 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.52%) Degree
2 7 (5.19%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.74%) CISM
4 1 (0.74%) CISSP
4 1 (0.74%) MCSA
4 1 (0.74%) MCSE
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Architect
4 1 (0.74%) OCP
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (37.78%) Active Directory
2 38 (28.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (27.41%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (15.56%) vSphere
5 15 (11.11%) OpenSSH
5 15 (11.11%) XenApp
6 11 (8.15%) Docker
7 9 (6.67%) Hyper-V
8 7 (5.19%) Terminal Services
9 5 (3.70%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.74%) Ceph
10 1 (0.74%) Firmware
10 1 (0.74%) pfSense
10 1 (0.74%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.74%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (49.63%) Terraform
2 65 (48.15%) Kubernetes
3 60 (44.44%) Prometheus
4 28 (20.74%) Ansible
4 28 (20.74%) Microsoft Clustering
5 27 (20.00%) vCenter Server
6 17 (12.59%) Failover Clustering
7 15 (11.11%) IBM BigFix
7 15 (11.11%) PowerCLI
8 13 (9.63%) SCCM
9 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (6.67%) SCOM
12 8 (5.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (5.19%) Grafana
13 7 (5.19%) Nagios
14 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 5 (3.70%) Foglight
16 4 (2.96%) Istio
17 1 (0.74%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (34.81%) VMware
2 20 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.11%) Citrix
3 15 (11.11%) IBM
4 14 (10.37%) Oracle
5 11 (8.15%) Commvault
5 11 (8.15%) ServiceNow
6 10 (7.41%) Serena
7 9 (6.67%) Sun
8 7 (5.19%) HP
9 5 (3.70%) ArcSight
9 5 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.22%) Google
11 2 (1.48%) Dell
12 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.74%) Cisco
12 1 (0.74%) SAP
12 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.74%) Veeam
12 1 (0.74%) WatchGuard