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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 414 469
Rank change year-on-year -29 +55 +201
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 31 145 132
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 1.32% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 27 133 98
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,300 £47,620
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +52.17% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £118,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £143,750 £77,564
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +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 8,514 10,966 13,365
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.39% 34.58% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,866 8,036 10,306
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,544
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,275 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 17 July 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 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) IIS
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (25.81%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) IaaS
3 6 (19.35%) Nutanix
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
4 4 (12.90%) PaaS
4 4 (12.90%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) SAN
1 8 (25.81%) TCP/IP
2 6 (19.35%) NAS
3 4 (12.90%) DHCP
3 4 (12.90%) DNS
4 3 (9.68%) Firewall
4 3 (9.68%) VPN
4 3 (9.68%) WAN
5 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.23%) FCoE
6 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.23%) LAN
6 1 (3.23%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.68%) MySQL
3 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.68%) RDBMS
3 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Games
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Advertising
6 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) DBA
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) SQL DBA
3 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Server Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Linux Support
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Linux Support
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Unix Support
5 3 (9.68%) Server Support
5 3 (9.68%) Unix Support
6 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Plotly
2 2 (6.45%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) LDAP
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Replication
2 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Windows
2 12 (38.71%) Linux
2 12 (38.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (12.90%) CentOS
6 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (9.68%) Unix
8 2 (6.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (61.29%) High Availability
3 12 (38.71%) DevOps
4 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
5 8 (25.81%) ITIL
6 6 (19.35%) Security Hardening
6 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (16.13%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
7 5 (16.13%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (12.90%) Change Management
8 4 (12.90%) Data Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) ETL
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Server Building
8 4 (12.90%) Server Patching
9 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) PowerShell
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 8 (25.81%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.90%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
3 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) GDPR
2 4 (12.90%) SLA
3 2 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (38.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (19.35%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (16.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.23%) KVM
7 1 (3.23%) NFS
7 1 (3.23%) SRDF
7 1 (3.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) VMware
2 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) Oracle
4 5 (16.13%) EMC
4 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
5 4 (12.90%) Symantec
5 4 (12.90%) TOWER Software
5 4 (12.90%) Veritas
6 3 (9.68%) Informatica
6 3 (9.68%) RedGate
6 3 (9.68%) Talend
7 2 (6.45%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (3.23%) Cisco
8 1 (3.23%) F5
8 1 (3.23%) Google
8 1 (3.23%) NetApp