Clustering Jobs in the West Midlands

Clustering
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Clustering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 217 269
Rank change year-on-year -9 +52 -105
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 37 36 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 1.59% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 39
10th Percentile £29,675 £45,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £51,563 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +33.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £64,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,875 £65,100 £53,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,661 2,264 3,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.04% 39.18% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 979 1,851
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,400 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Clustering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Clustering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Clustering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Clustering in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Warwickshire +28 20 £42,500 -33.59%
Birmingham -19 6 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Solihull +3 5 - -
Worcestershire -26 4 £30,000 -50.00%
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
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England

Clustering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 21 (56.76%) IIS
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
4 4 (10.81%) MQSeries
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 4 (10.81%) WebSphere
5 2 (5.41%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (81.08%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.11%) Google Workspace
4 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.41%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (64.86%) WAN
2 17 (45.95%) Firewall
3 6 (16.22%) DHCP
3 6 (16.22%) DNS
4 5 (13.51%) LAN
5 4 (10.81%) HTTP
5 4 (10.81%) VLAN
5 4 (10.81%) VPN
5 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (8.11%) Ethernet
6 3 (8.11%) SAN
6 3 (8.11%) SMTP
6 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.41%) SMS
8 1 (2.70%) VoIP
8 1 (2.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (64.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.81%) DB2
3 4 (10.81%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Games
3 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Senior
1 14 (37.84%) Systems Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Support Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) DB2 DBA
5 4 (10.81%) DBA
6 3 (8.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Customer Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Customer Insight Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (5.41%) Insight Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) REST
1 12 (32.43%) WebRTC
2 4 (10.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Public Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) Client/Server
2 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (10.81%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) High Availability
1 23 (62.16%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (32.43%) Load Balancing
3 7 (18.92%) API Design
3 7 (18.92%) API Development
3 7 (18.92%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.92%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (18.92%) Performance Analysis
3 7 (18.92%) Prototyping
3 7 (18.92%) Software Testing
3 7 (18.92%) TDD
3 7 (18.92%) Validation
4 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (13.51%) Line Management
5 5 (13.51%) Service Management
5 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (64.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (35.14%) VMware NSX
3 12 (32.43%) Active Directory
4 11 (29.73%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (13.51%) SCCM
3 4 (10.81%) Autotask
3 4 (10.81%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) SCOM
4 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (83.78%) Microsoft
1 31 (83.78%) VMware
2 8 (21.62%) Dell
3 7 (18.92%) CheckPoint
4 6 (16.22%) Datto
4 6 (16.22%) Veeam
5 5 (13.51%) EqualLogic
5 5 (13.51%) NetApp
5 5 (13.51%) Nimble Storage
6 4 (10.81%) Apple
6 4 (10.81%) IBM
6 4 (10.81%) Oracle
7 3 (8.11%) Draytek
7 3 (8.11%) Sage
7 3 (8.11%) Sophos
7 3 (8.11%) Webroot
8 2 (5.41%) Aruba
8 2 (5.41%) Coremetrics
8 2 (5.41%) Google
8 2 (5.41%) HP