Clustering Jobs

Clustering
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 603 508 799
Rank change year-on-year -95 +291 -247
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 315 519 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.28% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 275 249 324
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £93,750 £62,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £118,750 £75,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +14.44% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,313 40,517 83,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 43.16% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 23,344 22,343 34,665
10th Percentile £28,179 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the UK

Clustering
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the UK over the 6 months to 6 June 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
England -62 292 £60,000 +9.09% 49
UK excluding London -186 181 £48,500 -5.83% 26
Work from Home +25 154 £85,000 +47.83% 25
London +108 130 £87,500 +52.17% 20
Midlands -23 55 £42,500 -22.73% 5
West Midlands -25 38 £42,500 -29.17% 2
South East -9 37 £48,500 -10.19% 8
North of England -45 33 £46,250 +2.78% 8
South West -57 24 £57,000 +14.00% 3
East Midlands -33 17 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +30 14 £47,500 +25.00% 2
East of England -47 13 £55,000 -4.35%
Scotland -99 12 £32,500 -53.20% 2
North East -16 11 £34,000 -43.33% 4
North West -37 8 £50,000 -12.44% 2
Wales -3 5 £51,000 +32.47%
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 57 (18.10%) IIS
2 54 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.90%) SAS
5 3 (0.95%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.63%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Maximo
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 151 (47.94%) Azure
2 117 (37.14%) AWS
3 80 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (19.05%) Snowflake
5 54 (17.14%) dbt
6 33 (10.48%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.40%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (4.76%) GCP
8 15 (4.76%) SaaS
9 13 (4.13%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.81%) IaaS
11 11 (3.49%) GitHub
11 11 (3.49%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.90%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.90%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.90%) PaaS
14 4 (1.27%) OCI
14 4 (1.27%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 73 (23.17%) Firewall
2 60 (19.05%) WAN
3 43 (13.65%) SAN
4 41 (13.02%) DNS
5 31 (9.84%) TCP/IP
6 26 (8.25%) VPN
7 25 (7.94%) DHCP
8 24 (7.62%) Internet
9 18 (5.71%) LAN
9 18 (5.71%) VLAN
10 12 (3.81%) VoIP
10 12 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (3.49%) BGP
11 11 (3.49%) Wireless
12 9 (2.86%) VSAN
13 8 (2.54%) HTTP
13 8 (2.54%) SNMP
13 8 (2.54%) tcpdump
14 7 (2.22%) MPLS
14 7 (2.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 56 (17.78%) Dremio
3 55 (17.46%) Big Data
3 55 (17.46%) Data Lake
4 54 (17.14%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (17.14%) Apache Arrow
5 24 (7.62%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.40%) MySQL
8 16 (5.08%) MongoDB
9 15 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.49%) Power BI
13 9 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (2.22%) InfluxDB
15 6 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 6 (1.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (9.21%) Git
2 22 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.35%) JIRA
4 12 (3.81%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.95%) GitLab
6 2 (0.63%) Subversion
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 124 (39.37%) Finance
2 67 (21.27%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (3.81%) Law
7 10 (3.17%) Games
7 10 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.22%) Marketing
9 6 (1.90%) Banking
10 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.95%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.32%) Back Office
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Military
12 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (17.78%) Site Engineer
1 56 (17.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 55 (17.46%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (17.14%) Big Data Engineer
4 53 (16.83%) Support Engineer
5 40 (12.70%) DBA
5 40 (12.70%) Senior
6 37 (11.75%) Systems Engineer
7 29 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (7.62%) Administrator
9 19 (6.03%) SQL DBA
10 17 (5.40%) 3rd Line Support
10 17 (5.40%) Analyst
11 15 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
11 15 (4.76%) Lead
12 14 (4.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 14 (4.44%) SQL Server DBA
13 13 (4.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 13 (4.13%) VMware Engineer
13 13 (4.13%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.14%) gRPC
1 54 (17.14%) Protocol Buffers
2 22 (6.98%) REST
3 17 (5.40%) WebRTC
4 10 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.54%) YAML
6 7 (2.22%) .NET
7 6 (1.90%) XML
8 4 (1.27%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.27%) JSON
8 4 (1.27%) Middleware
8 4 (1.27%) Node.js
9 3 (0.95%) React
10 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.63%) WSH
11 1 (0.32%) J2EE
11 1 (0.32%) LAMP
11 1 (0.32%) LEMP Stack
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.14%) Hedge funds
2 45 (14.29%) Replication
3 33 (10.48%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.35%) PKI
5 16 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 14 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.86%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.54%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.90%) PMI
11 5 (1.59%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 167 (53.02%) Windows
2 122 (38.73%) Windows Server
3 56 (17.78%) Linux
4 30 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 28 (8.89%) Windows 10
6 16 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.44%) AIX
8 14 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (3.81%) Oracle Linux
9 12 (3.81%) Solaris
10 10 (3.17%) Unix
11 9 (2.86%) Mac OS
12 8 (2.54%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.27%) CentOS
14 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (34.92%) High Availability
2 96 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (24.76%) DevOps
4 58 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (18.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 57 (18.10%) Disaster Recovery
6 56 (17.78%) Asset Management
7 54 (17.14%) Investment Management
8 46 (14.60%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (12.06%) CI/CD
10 36 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (9.84%) Load Balancing
12 28 (8.89%) Customer Requirements
13 26 (8.25%) Capacity Planning
13 26 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (8.25%) ITIL
13 26 (8.25%) Systems Engineering
14 25 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (7.94%) Migration
14 25 (7.94%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 122 (38.73%) PowerShell
2 118 (37.46%) SQL
3 94 (29.84%) Python
4 76 (24.13%) Java
5 58 (18.41%) JavaScript
6 55 (17.46%) Go
7 26 (8.25%) Bash
8 16 (5.08%) T-SQL
8 16 (5.08%) VB
9 14 (4.44%) ActionScript
9 14 (4.44%) C#
10 12 (3.81%) Perl
11 6 (1.90%) R
12 5 (1.59%) VBScript
13 3 (0.95%) Ruby
14 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Scala
15 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 52 (16.51%) Degree
2 51 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 32 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.81%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.54%) A+ Certification
5 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.90%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.59%) MCSE
8 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.27%) MCP
8 4 (1.27%) MCSA
9 3 (0.95%) HNC
9 3 (0.95%) HND
9 3 (0.95%) MCITP
10 2 (0.63%) CCNA
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.57%) SLA
2 12 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.86%) GDPR
4 5 (1.59%) SOC 1
4 5 (1.59%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.95%) QA
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 118 (37.46%) Active Directory
2 103 (32.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (17.46%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (16.83%) Hyper-V
5 30 (9.52%) Docker
6 27 (8.57%) VMware NSX
7 18 (5.71%) vSphere
8 14 (4.44%) OpenSSH
8 14 (4.44%) XenApp
9 6 (1.90%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.27%) VirtualBox
10 4 (1.27%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.63%) Ceph
11 2 (0.63%) Firmware
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.63%) PowerHA
11 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 83 (26.35%) Terraform
2 81 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.68%) Prometheus
4 61 (19.37%) Microsoft Clustering
5 48 (15.24%) Failover Clustering
6 45 (14.29%) vCenter Server
7 41 (13.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (10.79%) Ansible
9 22 (6.98%) SCCM
10 21 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (5.71%) Grafana
12 17 (5.40%) Nagios
13 16 (5.08%) Backup Exec
13 16 (5.08%) SCOM
14 14 (4.44%) IBM BigFix
14 14 (4.44%) PowerCLI
14 14 (4.44%) Puppet
15 12 (3.81%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (3.81%) NetBackup
16 11 (3.49%) Autotask
Vendors
1 149 (47.30%) VMware
2 146 (46.35%) Microsoft
3 39 (12.38%) Oracle
4 28 (8.89%) IBM
5 24 (7.62%) Commvault
6 22 (6.98%) ServiceNow
7 19 (6.03%) NetApp
8 18 (5.71%) Cisco
8 18 (5.71%) Sun
9 16 (5.08%) Veritas
10 15 (4.76%) Citrix
11 14 (4.44%) Datto
12 13 (4.13%) HP
12 13 (4.13%) Veeam
13 12 (3.81%) Dell
13 12 (3.81%) Google
13 12 (3.81%) Hitachi
13 12 (3.81%) Serena
13 12 (3.81%) Snow
14 11 (3.49%) Aruba