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 cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 504 797
Rank change year-on-year -116 +293 -231
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 310 509 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 1.27% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 269 245 319
10th Percentile £31,450 £36,350 £40,400
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £93,750 £63,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £118,750 £75,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +12.90% +3.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,819 40,020 83,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 43.09% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 23,488 22,252 34,538
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,591 £46,558 £45,372
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 11 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 11 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 -50 288 £60,000 +9.09% 68
UK excluding London -191 177 £48,500 -7.62% 33
Work from Home +22 153 £85,000 +47.83% 38
London +102 129 £87,500 +48.94% 30
Midlands -35 53 £42,500 -22.73% 4
South East -33 38 £48,500 -11.01% 14
West Midlands -13 36 £42,500 -29.17% 2
North of England -41 32 £47,500 +5.56% 10
South West -51 24 £57,000 +19.37% 2
East Midlands -47 17 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire +22 13 £47,500 +25.00% 2
East of England -39 12 £42,500 -26.09% 1
North East -19 11 £34,000 -43.33% 6
Scotland -88 11 £32,500 -53.20% 3
North West -45 8 £50,000 -8.76% 2
Wales -1 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 55 (17.74%) IIS
2 54 (17.42%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (17.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (3.55%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.94%) SAS
6 3 (0.97%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.97%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 3 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.65%) Apache
7 2 (0.65%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (8.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Maximo
2 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 146 (47.10%) Azure
2 114 (36.77%) AWS
3 79 (25.48%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (19.03%) Snowflake
5 54 (17.42%) dbt
6 33 (10.65%) Entra ID
7 16 (5.16%) SaaS
8 15 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (4.52%) GCP
10 13 (4.19%) IaaS
11 11 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.55%) GitHub
11 11 (3.55%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.94%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.94%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.94%) PaaS
14 4 (1.29%) OCI
14 4 (1.29%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.90%) Firewall
2 58 (18.71%) WAN
3 43 (13.87%) SAN
4 40 (12.90%) DNS
5 30 (9.68%) TCP/IP
6 26 (8.39%) VPN
7 24 (7.74%) DHCP
8 23 (7.42%) Internet
9 19 (6.13%) VLAN
10 18 (5.81%) LAN
11 12 (3.87%) VoIP
11 12 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (3.55%) BGP
13 10 (3.23%) Wireless
14 9 (2.90%) VSAN
15 8 (2.58%) HTTP
16 7 (2.26%) MPLS
16 7 (2.26%) SD-WAN
16 7 (2.26%) SNMP
16 7 (2.26%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (30.65%) SQL Server
2 56 (18.06%) Dremio
3 55 (17.74%) Big Data
4 54 (17.42%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (17.42%) Apache Arrow
4 54 (17.42%) Data Lake
5 22 (7.10%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.16%) MySQL
8 15 (4.84%) MongoDB
8 15 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (4.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (3.55%) Power BI
12 9 (2.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (2.26%) InfluxDB
14 6 (1.94%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (9.35%) Git
2 21 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.13%) JIRA
4 12 (3.87%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.97%) GitLab
6 2 (0.65%) Subversion
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 (40.00%) Finance
2 64 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (3.87%) Law
7 10 (3.23%) Games
8 9 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.26%) Marketing
10 6 (1.94%) Banking
11 4 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.97%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.32%) Back Office
13 1 (0.32%) Legal
13 1 (0.32%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (18.06%) Site Engineer
1 56 (18.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 55 (17.74%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (17.42%) Big Data Engineer
4 53 (17.10%) Support Engineer
5 40 (12.90%) DBA
6 38 (12.26%) Senior
7 34 (10.97%) Systems Engineer
8 29 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (7.74%) Administrator
10 19 (6.13%) SQL DBA
11 17 (5.48%) 3rd Line Support
11 17 (5.48%) Analyst
12 15 (4.84%) Infrastructure Support
12 15 (4.84%) Lead
13 14 (4.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 14 (4.52%) SQL Server DBA
14 13 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 13 (4.19%) VMware Engineer
14 13 (4.19%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.42%) gRPC
1 54 (17.42%) Protocol Buffers
2 21 (6.77%) REST
3 16 (5.16%) WebRTC
4 9 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.26%) .NET
5 7 (2.26%) YAML
6 5 (1.61%) XML
7 4 (1.29%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.29%) Middleware
7 4 (1.29%) Node.js
8 3 (0.97%) JSON
8 3 (0.97%) React
9 2 (0.65%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.65%) WSH
10 1 (0.32%) J2EE
10 1 (0.32%) LAMP
10 1 (0.32%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.42%) Hedge funds
2 45 (14.52%) Replication
3 31 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.45%) PKI
5 14 (4.52%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.90%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.90%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (2.58%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.94%) PMI
10 5 (1.61%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.61%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.97%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 166 (53.55%) Windows
2 122 (39.35%) Windows Server
3 55 (17.74%) Linux
4 29 (9.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 28 (9.03%) Windows 10
6 15 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (4.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (4.52%) AIX
8 13 (4.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (3.87%) Oracle Linux
9 12 (3.87%) Solaris
10 10 (3.23%) Unix
11 9 (2.90%) Mac OS
12 8 (2.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (1.29%) CentOS
14 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (33.87%) High Availability
2 90 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (25.16%) DevOps
4 58 (18.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 57 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (18.06%) Asset Management
7 55 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 54 (17.42%) Investment Management
9 45 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
10 36 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 35 (11.29%) CI/CD
12 29 (9.35%) Load Balancing
13 28 (9.03%) Customer Requirements
14 26 (8.39%) ITIL
14 26 (8.39%) Systems Engineering
15 25 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (7.74%) Information Security
16 24 (7.74%) Migration
16 24 (7.74%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 122 (39.35%) PowerShell
2 114 (36.77%) SQL
3 92 (29.68%) Python
4 74 (23.87%) Java
5 58 (18.71%) JavaScript
6 55 (17.74%) Go
7 25 (8.06%) Bash
8 16 (5.16%) T-SQL
8 16 (5.16%) VB
9 14 (4.52%) ActionScript
9 14 (4.52%) C#
10 11 (3.55%) Perl
11 6 (1.94%) R
12 5 (1.61%) VBScript
13 3 (0.97%) Ruby
14 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.65%) PHP
14 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.65%) Scala
15 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 52 (16.77%) Degree
2 48 (15.48%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.87%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (2.58%) A+ Certification
5 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.61%) MCSE
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.29%) MCP
8 4 (1.29%) MCSA
9 3 (0.97%) HNC
9 3 (0.97%) HND
9 3 (0.97%) MCITP
10 2 (0.65%) CCNA
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.39%) SLA
2 12 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.90%) GDPR
4 5 (1.61%) SOC 1
4 5 (1.61%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.97%) 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 (38.06%) Active Directory
2 101 (32.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (17.42%) VMware ESXi
4 52 (16.77%) Hyper-V
5 29 (9.35%) Docker
6 25 (8.06%) VMware NSX
7 18 (5.81%) vSphere
8 14 (4.52%) OpenSSH
8 14 (4.52%) XenApp
9 6 (1.94%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.29%) VirtualBox
10 4 (1.29%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.65%) Ceph
11 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.65%) PowerHA
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) KVM
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 83 (26.77%) Terraform
2 81 (26.13%) Kubernetes
3 62 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 62 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 47 (15.16%) Failover Clustering
5 44 (14.19%) vCenter Server
6 40 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (10.65%) Ansible
8 22 (7.10%) SCCM
9 21 (6.77%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (5.48%) Grafana
11 16 (5.16%) Backup Exec
11 16 (5.16%) Nagios
12 15 (4.84%) SCOM
13 14 (4.52%) IBM BigFix
13 14 (4.52%) PowerCLI
14 13 (4.19%) Puppet
15 12 (3.87%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (3.87%) NetBackup
16 11 (3.55%) Autotask
Vendors
1 145 (46.77%) VMware
2 142 (45.81%) Microsoft
3 38 (12.26%) Oracle
4 28 (9.03%) IBM
5 23 (7.42%) Commvault
6 22 (7.10%) ServiceNow
7 19 (6.13%) NetApp
8 18 (5.81%) Sun
9 17 (5.48%) Cisco
10 16 (5.16%) Veritas
11 14 (4.52%) Citrix
11 14 (4.52%) Datto
12 13 (4.19%) HP
13 12 (3.87%) Dell
13 12 (3.87%) Google
13 12 (3.87%) Hitachi
13 12 (3.87%) Serena
13 12 (3.87%) Snow
13 12 (3.87%) Veeam
14 10 (3.23%) Aruba