Clustering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Clustering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 439 634
Rank change year-on-year -151 +195 -157
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 187 361 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.62% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% 1.51% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 160 154 184
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +13.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £55,625 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,125 £66,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Clustering is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,245 23,840 32,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.76% 41.04% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,258 10,953 15,965
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK excluding London

Clustering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -14 60 £42,500 -22.73% 9
West Midlands +12 43 £42,500 -29.17% 4
South East -3 36 £48,500 -11.82% 8
North of England -12 34 £45,000 - 9
South West -54 23 £57,000 +10.68% 6
East Midlands -26 17 £45,000 -14.29% 5
Yorkshire +42 16 £47,500 +7.95% 4
Scotland -79 14 £32,500 -53.20% 1
East of England -36 13 £55,000 -4.35% 1
North East -5 10 £32,000 -46.67% 3
North West -18 8 £50,000 -12.44% 2
Wales -10 5 £51,000 +32.47%
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -
Clustering
UK

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 59 (31.55%) IIS
2 36 (19.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (6.42%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.21%) SAS
5 3 (1.60%) MQSeries
5 3 (1.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (1.60%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (12.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Maximo
2 2 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 113 (60.43%) Azure
2 58 (31.02%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (20.86%) AWS
4 20 (10.70%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (6.42%) Entra ID
6 11 (5.88%) SaaS
7 7 (3.74%) IaaS
8 6 (3.21%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (3.21%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.14%) GCP
9 4 (2.14%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.14%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.60%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.07%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.07%) PaaS
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.53%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (34.76%) WAN
2 64 (34.22%) Firewall
3 41 (21.93%) SAN
4 30 (16.04%) DNS
5 24 (12.83%) VPN
6 23 (12.30%) DHCP
7 18 (9.63%) TCP/IP
8 16 (8.56%) LAN
8 16 (8.56%) VLAN
9 13 (6.95%) BGP
9 13 (6.95%) Internet
10 11 (5.88%) VoIP
10 11 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (5.35%) Wireless
12 9 (4.81%) MPLS
12 9 (4.81%) OSPF
12 9 (4.81%) SD-WAN
13 8 (4.28%) VSAN
14 6 (3.21%) HTTP
15 5 (2.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 26 (13.90%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.74%) MySQL
6 6 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.14%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.14%) Power BI
7 4 (2.14%) Redis
7 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.60%) DB2
9 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.53%) OrientDB
10 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Git
2 3 (1.60%) GitLab
3 2 (1.07%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 44 (23.53%) Finance
2 33 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.49%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.88%) Law
7 8 (4.28%) Games
8 6 (3.21%) Marketing
9 4 (2.14%) Banking
9 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 38 (20.32%) Systems Engineer
3 30 (16.04%) Senior
4 29 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (11.76%) DBA
6 19 (10.16%) Administrator
7 15 (8.02%) 3rd Line Support
8 14 (7.49%) Analyst
8 14 (7.49%) Infrastructure Support
8 14 (7.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) VMware Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) VMware Support Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) Operations Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) 2nd Line Support
13 8 (4.28%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.83%) REST
2 19 (10.16%) WebRTC
3 5 (2.67%) .NET
3 5 (2.67%) XML
4 4 (2.14%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.14%) JSON
5 3 (1.60%) Middleware
5 3 (1.60%) Node.js
5 3 (1.60%) React
6 1 (0.53%) J2EE
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.79%) Public Cloud
2 20 (10.70%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (10.70%) Replication
3 18 (9.63%) PKI
4 8 (4.28%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (4.28%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.74%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.74%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.21%) PMI
7 5 (2.67%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (60.43%) Windows
2 84 (44.92%) Windows Server
3 27 (14.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 22 (11.76%) Linux
4 22 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 14 (7.49%) AIX
5 14 (7.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (4.28%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.67%) Unix
8 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.60%) CentOS
10 2 (1.07%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (48.13%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (42.78%) High Availability
3 36 (19.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (13.90%) Customer Requirements
5 25 (13.37%) ITIL
6 24 (12.83%) Load Balancing
6 24 (12.83%) Prototyping
7 23 (12.30%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (12.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
9 21 (11.23%) CI/CD
10 20 (10.70%) API Design
10 20 (10.70%) API Development
10 20 (10.70%) Continuous Delivery
10 20 (10.70%) Performance Analysis
10 20 (10.70%) Problem Management
10 20 (10.70%) Software Testing
10 20 (10.70%) TDD
11 18 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 108 (57.75%) SQL
2 56 (29.95%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.30%) Java
4 15 (8.02%) VB
5 13 (6.95%) ActionScript
5 13 (6.95%) Python
6 6 (3.21%) R
7 4 (2.14%) Bash
7 4 (2.14%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.60%) VBScript
9 2 (1.07%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Bicep
10 1 (0.53%) C#
10 1 (0.53%) C++
10 1 (0.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.53%) ProC
Qualifications
1 56 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.99%) Degree
3 33 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.42%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (4.28%) A+ Certification
5 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.21%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.67%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.67%) MCSE
8 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.14%) MCP
8 4 (2.14%) MCSA
9 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.60%) HNC
9 3 (1.60%) HND
9 3 (1.60%) MCITP
10 2 (1.07%) CCNA
10 2 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.53%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.44%) SLA
2 9 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.28%) GDPR
4 5 (2.67%) SOC 1
4 5 (2.67%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.60%) QA
System Software
1 95 (50.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 91 (48.66%) Active Directory
3 52 (27.81%) Hyper-V
4 30 (16.04%) VMware NSX
5 21 (11.23%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (7.49%) vSphere
7 13 (6.95%) OpenSSH
7 13 (6.95%) XenApp
8 5 (2.67%) Terminal Services
9 4 (2.14%) VMware Server
10 3 (1.60%) Docker
10 3 (1.60%) VirtualBox
11 2 (1.07%) Firmware
11 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.53%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 41 (21.93%) Failover Clustering
2 25 (13.37%) Microsoft Clustering
3 20 (10.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (10.16%) SCCM
5 16 (8.56%) Backup Exec
6 13 (6.95%) IBM BigFix
6 13 (6.95%) PowerCLI
6 13 (6.95%) SCOM
6 13 (6.95%) vCenter Server
7 12 (6.42%) NetBackup
8 11 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (5.35%) Autotask
10 9 (4.81%) FortiGate
11 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
12 6 (3.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 4 (2.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (2.14%) SCOrch
13 4 (2.14%) vMotion
13 4 (2.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 143 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 127 (67.91%) VMware
3 27 (14.44%) IBM
4 21 (11.23%) Oracle
5 17 (9.09%) Cisco
5 17 (9.09%) NetApp
6 16 (8.56%) Veritas
7 15 (8.02%) Citrix
8 13 (6.95%) Datto
8 13 (6.95%) Veeam
9 12 (6.42%) Hitachi
9 12 (6.42%) Snow
10 11 (5.88%) Aruba
10 11 (5.88%) Dell
11 10 (5.35%) CheckPoint
12 9 (4.81%) Draytek
13 8 (4.28%) Apple
14 6 (3.21%) Adobe
14 6 (3.21%) HP
14 6 (3.21%) Sophos