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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 454 486
Rank change year-on-year +76 +32 +181
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 35 135 193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 1.12% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26 129 130
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £85,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% +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 5,850 12,021 16,469
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.09% 35.52% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 9,245 11,863
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 2 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) IIS
3 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) GCP
3 11 (31.43%) Azure
4 8 (22.86%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (14.29%) Nutanix
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (11.43%) Datadog
7 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 3 (8.57%) PaaS
7 3 (8.57%) SaaS
8 2 (5.71%) GitHub
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) SAN
1 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) NAS
3 4 (11.43%) DHCP
3 4 (11.43%) DNS
4 3 (8.57%) Unified Communications
4 3 (8.57%) VPN
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.71%) FCoE
5 2 (5.71%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (5.71%) iSCSI
5 2 (5.71%) LAN
5 2 (5.71%) Multicast
5 2 (5.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
1 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Games
4 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (11.43%) IT Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Unix Support
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Architect
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Unix Support
6 3 (8.57%) Server Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Server Support
6 3 (8.57%) Service Operations Specialist
6 3 (8.57%) Unix Specialist
6 3 (8.57%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.57%) Plotly
2 3 (8.57%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 2 (5.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Replication
2 10 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 7 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (8.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Linux
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 9 (25.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (22.86%) Unix
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (11.43%) Solaris
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (8.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (42.86%) High Availability
3 13 (37.14%) DevOps
4 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
5 11 (31.43%) ITIL
6 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
6 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.86%) Change Management
8 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (17.14%) Security Hardening
9 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
10 5 (14.29%) Server Building
10 5 (14.29%) Server Patching
10 5 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
11 4 (11.43%) Observability
11 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
11 4 (11.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (17.14%) Bash
5 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.71%) Java
7 2 (5.71%) Perl
8 1 (2.86%) R
8 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) SLA
2 8 (22.86%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (14.29%) Docker
4 5 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.71%) KVM
5 2 (5.71%) NFS
5 2 (5.71%) SRDF
5 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) Ansible
2 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (14.29%) Puppet
4 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.43%) Terraform
5 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) VMware
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 8 (22.86%) EMC
5 7 (20.00%) Symantec
6 6 (17.14%) Cisco
6 6 (17.14%) Oracle
7 5 (14.29%) Veritas
8 3 (8.57%) Remedy
8 3 (8.57%) SaltStack
8 3 (8.57%) TOWER Software
9 2 (5.71%) F5
9 2 (5.71%) Google
9 2 (5.71%) NetApp