Clustering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Clustering
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Clustering over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 476 681
Rank change year-on-year +40 +205 -243
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 154 176 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.44% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 1.15% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 142 124 129
10th Percentile £47,600 £47,500 £38,900
25th Percentile £51,938 £52,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +9.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £117,813 £63,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,156 15,341 34,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.30% 38.71% 47.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,256 11,181 17,054
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,925 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +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 29 May 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 (35.06%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.60%) SAS
4 3 (1.95%) IIS
5 2 (1.30%) nginx
5 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) AWS
2 54 (35.06%) dbt
2 54 (35.06%) Snowflake
3 53 (34.42%) Azure
4 29 (18.83%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (12.34%) Entra ID
6 14 (9.09%) GCP
7 10 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.19%) GitHub
8 8 (5.19%) IaaS
9 7 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (2.60%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.60%) OCI
11 2 (1.30%) PaaS
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.64%) Internet
2 17 (11.04%) TCP/IP
3 16 (10.39%) DNS
4 15 (9.74%) Firewall
5 10 (6.49%) SAN
6 9 (5.84%) SNMP
6 9 (5.84%) tcpdump
7 7 (4.55%) DHCP
8 6 (3.90%) Wireless
9 5 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (2.60%) SMS
11 2 (1.30%) BGP
11 2 (1.30%) HTTP
11 2 (1.30%) MPLS
11 2 (1.30%) OSPF
11 2 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.30%) WAN
12 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.65%) NAS
12 1 (0.65%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (35.71%) Dremio
2 54 (35.06%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (35.06%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (35.06%) Big Data
2 54 (35.06%) Data Lake
3 28 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.74%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (6.49%) MySQL
5 10 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (5.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (5.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.55%) Power BI
8 6 (3.90%) InfluxDB
8 6 (3.90%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.34%) Git
3 16 (10.39%) JIRA
4 10 (6.49%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (65.58%) Finance
2 29 (18.83%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.84%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.60%) Banking
5 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.60%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.60%) Marketing
6 3 (1.95%) Law
7 2 (1.30%) Games
7 2 (1.30%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Military
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (36.36%) Site Engineer
1 56 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 54 (35.06%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (35.06%) Big Data Engineer
3 26 (16.88%) DBA
4 18 (11.69%) Senior
5 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (10.39%) SQL DBA
7 13 (8.44%) Lead
7 13 (8.44%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (8.44%) SQL Server DBA
8 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Support
8 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Support Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) VMware Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) VMware Support Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (6.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.06%) gRPC
1 54 (35.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 10 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (5.84%) YAML
4 2 (1.30%) WSH
5 1 (0.65%) LAMP
5 1 (0.65%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 54 (35.06%) Hedge funds
2 27 (17.53%) Replication
3 14 (9.09%) PKI
4 7 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.90%) PMI
6 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) iPhone
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.65%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 64 (41.56%) Windows
2 50 (32.47%) Windows Server
3 28 (18.18%) Linux
4 16 (10.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (8.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (6.49%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (6.49%) Solaris
7 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.95%) Unix
8 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.30%) CentOS
9 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.65%) AIX
10 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (44.16%) DevOps
2 56 (36.36%) Asset Management
2 56 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 54 (35.06%) Investment Management
4 44 (28.57%) High Availability
5 40 (25.97%) Disaster Recovery
6 37 (24.03%) Performance Tuning
7 35 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (12.99%) CI/CD
9 20 (12.99%) Systems Engineering
10 19 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (12.34%) Security Hardening
11 18 (11.69%) Information Security
12 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (11.04%) Problem Management
13 16 (10.39%) Backlog Management
13 16 (10.39%) Business Continuity
13 16 (10.39%) Performance Management
13 16 (10.39%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.95%) PowerShell
2 79 (51.30%) Python
3 55 (35.71%) Go
3 55 (35.71%) Java
4 54 (35.06%) JavaScript
5 30 (19.48%) SQL
6 21 (13.64%) Bash
7 14 (9.09%) VB
8 13 (8.44%) T-SQL
9 12 (7.79%) ActionScript
10 10 (6.49%) C#
11 9 (5.84%) Perl
12 5 (3.25%) VBScript
13 4 (2.60%) R
14 1 (0.65%) Bicep
14 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (15.58%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) PMI Certification
3 5 (3.25%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.30%) MCSA
4 2 (1.30%) MCSE
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.30%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Architect
5 1 (0.65%) OCP
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.44%) SLA
2 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 38 (24.68%) VMware ESXi
3 21 (13.64%) Docker
4 20 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (9.09%) vSphere
6 12 (7.79%) OpenSSH
6 12 (7.79%) XenApp
7 7 (4.55%) Hyper-V
8 5 (3.25%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.65%) Ceph
9 1 (0.65%) Firmware
9 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (50.00%) Terraform
2 69 (44.81%) Kubernetes
3 61 (39.61%) Prometheus
4 38 (24.68%) vCenter Server
5 35 (22.73%) Microsoft Clustering
6 29 (18.83%) Ansible
7 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (11.69%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (10.39%) Grafana
9 16 (10.39%) Nagios
10 12 (7.79%) IBM BigFix
10 12 (7.79%) PowerCLI
11 10 (6.49%) HAProxy
11 10 (6.49%) Puppet
12 9 (5.84%) Graphite
12 9 (5.84%) SCCM
13 8 (5.19%) SCOM
14 7 (4.55%) Foglight
15 6 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (3.25%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 38 (24.68%) VMware
2 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.04%) Commvault
3 17 (11.04%) ServiceNow
4 16 (10.39%) Sun
5 14 (9.09%) Oracle
6 12 (7.79%) Citrix
6 12 (7.79%) IBM
7 10 (6.49%) Serena
8 8 (5.19%) HP
9 7 (4.55%) ArcSight
9 7 (4.55%) Google
9 7 (4.55%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.60%) Adobe
10 4 (2.60%) Cisco
10 4 (2.60%) Coremetrics
11 2 (1.30%) Remedy
11 2 (1.30%) Veeam
12 1 (0.65%) F5
12 1 (0.65%) iManage