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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 479 697
Rank change year-on-year +32 +218 -235
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 154 172 197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.45% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 1.14% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 142 121 132
10th Percentile £47,600 £45,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,938 £52,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £117,813 £64,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £75,000 £82,500
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 12,212 15,042 35,314
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.10% 39.03% 47.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,277 11,134 17,177
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,544 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,547 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +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 2 June 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 73 (47.40%) AWS
2 54 (35.06%) dbt
2 54 (35.06%) Snowflake
3 52 (33.77%) Azure
4 29 (18.83%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (12.34%) Entra ID
6 13 (8.44%) GCP
7 9 (5.84%) 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%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.65%) SaaS
12 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.99%) Internet
2 16 (10.39%) TCP/IP
3 15 (9.74%) DNS
4 14 (9.09%) Firewall
5 10 (6.49%) SAN
6 8 (5.19%) SNMP
6 8 (5.19%) 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%) Skype
12 1 (0.65%) VPN
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 14 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (5.84%) MySQL
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 5 (3.25%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 19 (12.34%) Git
1 19 (12.34%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.39%) JIRA
3 10 (6.49%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (65.58%) Finance
2 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.19%) 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 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (11.04%) Senior
5 16 (10.39%) SQL DBA
6 13 (8.44%) Lead
6 13 (8.44%) SQL Server DBA
7 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) Support Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) VMware Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) VMware Support Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Administrator
8 9 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.06%) gRPC
1 54 (35.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 9 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.19%) YAML
4 2 (1.30%) WSH
5 1 (0.65%) LAMP
5 1 (0.65%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (0.65%) Middleware
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%) Robotics
9 1 (0.65%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 63 (40.91%) 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 11 (7.14%) Solaris
7 10 (6.49%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.60%) Unix
8 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.30%) CentOS
10 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.65%) AIX
11 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.51%) DevOps
2 56 (36.36%) Asset Management
2 56 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 54 (35.06%) Investment Management
4 43 (27.92%) High Availability
5 39 (25.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 36 (23.38%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (12.99%) Systems Engineering
9 19 (12.34%) CI/CD
10 18 (11.69%) Information Security
10 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (11.69%) Security Hardening
11 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (11.04%) Problem Management
12 16 (10.39%) Backlog Management
12 16 (10.39%) Performance Management
12 16 (10.39%) Resource Management
13 15 (9.74%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 79 (51.30%) PowerShell
2 78 (50.65%) Python
3 55 (35.71%) Go
3 55 (35.71%) Java
4 54 (35.06%) JavaScript
5 30 (19.48%) SQL
6 20 (12.99%) Bash
7 14 (9.09%) VB
8 13 (8.44%) T-SQL
9 12 (7.79%) ActionScript
10 10 (6.49%) C#
11 8 (5.19%) 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 37 (24.03%) VMware ESXi
3 21 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (12.99%) Docker
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%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (49.35%) Terraform
2 69 (44.81%) Kubernetes
3 61 (39.61%) Prometheus
4 37 (24.03%) vCenter Server
5 35 (22.73%) Microsoft Clustering
6 28 (18.18%) Ansible
7 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (11.69%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (10.39%) Nagios
10 15 (9.74%) Grafana
11 12 (7.79%) IBM BigFix
11 12 (7.79%) PowerCLI
12 9 (5.84%) HAProxy
12 9 (5.84%) Puppet
12 9 (5.84%) SCCM
13 8 (5.19%) Graphite
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 39 (25.32%) VMware
2 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.69%) ServiceNow
4 17 (11.04%) Commvault
5 16 (10.39%) Sun
6 15 (9.74%) Oracle
7 12 (7.79%) Citrix
7 12 (7.79%) IBM
8 10 (6.49%) Serena
9 8 (5.19%) HP
10 7 (4.55%) ArcSight
10 7 (4.55%) Google
10 7 (4.55%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.60%) Adobe
11 4 (2.60%) Cisco
11 4 (2.60%) Coremetrics
12 2 (1.30%) Remedy
12 2 (1.30%) Veeam
13 1 (0.65%) F5
13 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds