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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 486 673
Rank change year-on-year +62 +187 -231
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 152 175 188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 1.12% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 142 123 128
10th Percentile £47,600 £45,500 £38,725
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,000 £53,300
Median % change year-on-year +49.12% +6.94% -7.30%
75th Percentile £115,938 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £75,000 £78,250
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

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 12,088 15,642 33,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.75% 38.55% 46.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,258 11,441 17,056
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £109,865 £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 20 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 (35.53%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.63%) SAS
4 2 (1.32%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 72 (47.37%) AWS
2 54 (35.53%) dbt
2 54 (35.53%) Snowflake
3 52 (34.21%) Azure
4 28 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (13.16%) Entra ID
6 14 (9.21%) GCP
7 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.26%) GitHub
9 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.95%) IaaS
11 4 (2.63%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.63%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.63%) OCI
12 2 (1.32%) PaaS
13 1 (0.66%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.50%) Internet
2 16 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 15 (9.87%) Firewall
4 14 (9.21%) DNS
5 9 (5.92%) SAN
5 9 (5.92%) SNMP
5 9 (5.92%) tcpdump
6 5 (3.29%) DHCP
6 5 (3.29%) Wireless
7 4 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (2.63%) SMS
8 2 (1.32%) BGP
8 2 (1.32%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.32%) MPLS
8 2 (1.32%) OSPF
8 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.32%) WAN
9 1 (0.66%) HTTP
9 1 (0.66%) NAS
9 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (36.18%) Dremio
2 54 (35.53%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (35.53%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (35.53%) Big Data
2 54 (35.53%) Data Lake
3 29 (19.08%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.87%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (7.89%) MySQL
5 12 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (5.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (5.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (4.61%) Power BI
9 6 (3.95%) InfluxDB
9 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.63%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 19 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.84%) Git
3 16 (10.53%) JIRA
4 10 (6.58%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (66.45%) Finance
2 29 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.92%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.63%) Banking
5 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.63%) Marketing
6 3 (1.97%) Law
7 2 (1.32%) Games
7 2 (1.32%) Legal
7 2 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (0.66%) Back Office
8 1 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (36.84%) Site Engineer
1 56 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 54 (35.53%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (35.53%) Big Data Engineer
3 28 (18.42%) DBA
4 17 (11.18%) Senior
5 16 (10.53%) SQL DBA
6 14 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.55%) Lead
7 13 (8.55%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (8.55%) SQL Server DBA
8 11 (7.24%) Administrator
9 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Support Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) VMware Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) VMware Support Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.53%) gRPC
1 54 (35.53%) Protocol Buffers
2 9 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (5.92%) YAML
3 2 (1.32%) .NET
3 2 (1.32%) WSH
3 2 (1.32%) XML
4 1 (0.66%) LAMP
4 1 (0.66%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 54 (35.53%) Hedge funds
2 28 (18.42%) Replication
3 12 (7.89%) PKI
4 7 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.95%) PMI
6 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) iPhone
9 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.66%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 63 (41.45%) Windows
2 47 (30.92%) Windows Server
3 27 (17.76%) Linux
4 13 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (8.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (6.58%) Oracle Linux
5 10 (6.58%) Solaris
6 4 (2.63%) Unix
6 4 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.32%) CentOS
8 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.66%) AIX
9 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (44.08%) DevOps
2 56 (36.84%) Asset Management
2 56 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 54 (35.53%) Investment Management
4 43 (28.29%) High Availability
5 40 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 37 (24.34%) Performance Tuning
7 35 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (13.16%) Systems Engineering
9 19 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 19 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (12.50%) Security Hardening
10 18 (11.84%) Information Security
10 18 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.53%) Backlog Management
11 16 (10.53%) Business Continuity
11 16 (10.53%) Performance Management
11 16 (10.53%) Resource Management
12 15 (9.87%) Migration
13 14 (9.21%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (51.32%) Python
2 75 (49.34%) PowerShell
3 55 (36.18%) Go
3 55 (36.18%) Java
4 54 (35.53%) JavaScript
5 32 (21.05%) SQL
6 20 (13.16%) Bash
7 15 (9.87%) T-SQL
8 12 (7.89%) C#
8 12 (7.89%) VB
9 10 (6.58%) ActionScript
10 9 (5.92%) Perl
11 5 (3.29%) VBScript
12 4 (2.63%) R
13 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.82%) Degree
2 6 (3.95%) PMI Certification
3 4 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.97%) MCSA
4 3 (1.97%) MCSE
4 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Architect
6 1 (0.66%) OCP
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) SLA
2 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (26.97%) Active Directory
2 36 (23.68%) VMware ESXi
3 21 (13.82%) Docker
4 17 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (7.89%) vSphere
6 10 (6.58%) OpenSSH
6 10 (6.58%) XenApp
7 6 (3.95%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.63%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.66%) Ceph
9 1 (0.66%) Firmware
9 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (49.34%) Terraform
2 68 (44.74%) Kubernetes
3 60 (39.47%) Prometheus
4 36 (23.68%) Microsoft Clustering
4 36 (23.68%) vCenter Server
5 28 (18.42%) Ansible
6 19 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (11.84%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (10.53%) Nagios
9 15 (9.87%) Grafana
10 10 (6.58%) HAProxy
10 10 (6.58%) IBM BigFix
10 10 (6.58%) PowerCLI
10 10 (6.58%) Puppet
11 9 (5.92%) Graphite
12 8 (5.26%) SCCM
13 7 (4.61%) Foglight
13 7 (4.61%) SCOM
14 5 (3.29%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (23.03%) VMware
2 27 (17.76%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.18%) ServiceNow
4 16 (10.53%) Commvault
4 16 (10.53%) Sun
5 14 (9.21%) Oracle
6 10 (6.58%) Citrix
6 10 (6.58%) IBM
6 10 (6.58%) Serena
7 7 (4.61%) ArcSight
7 7 (4.61%) Google
7 7 (4.61%) HP
7 7 (4.61%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.63%) Adobe
8 4 (2.63%) Cisco
8 4 (2.63%) Coremetrics
9 2 (1.32%) Remedy
10 1 (0.66%) SAP
10 1 (0.66%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.66%) Veeam