Clustering Jobs in the West Midlands

Clustering
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 159 242
Rank change year-on-year -42 +83 -61
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 10 27 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.77% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 2.14% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 25 64
10th Percentile - - £31,475
25th Percentile - £31,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £48,098 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £49,957 £62,500 £61,750
England median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,733 1,263 3,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.71% 36.00% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 672 1,020 1,713
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,216 £38,125 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,170
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.63% +4.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,875 £82,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,968
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.80% +8.28%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

Clustering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Clustering in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

Clustering
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Warwickshire -29 6 - - 3
Staffordshire -22 2 £45,000 -5.26% 2
Birmingham -28 2 £51,196 -14.67%
Clustering
England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SAN
2 5 (50.00%) DHCP
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) VSAN
2 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DB2 DBA
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (20.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 5 (50.00%) Time Management
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Email Filtering
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Server Management
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (20.00%) MCSA
4 2 (20.00%) MCSE
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) SCCM
1 7 (70.00%) SCOM
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 5 (50.00%) VxRail
4 2 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) Dell
3 5 (50.00%) EMC
3 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (50.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle