Containerization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Containerisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Containerisation over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 106 127
Rank change year-on-year -84 +21 +2
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,524 3,167 5,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 3.22% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.36% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 1,413 1,985
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,911 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,852 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,237 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Containerisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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 -69 1,351 £72,500 +1.40% 439
UK excluding London -99 974 £65,000 - 283
Work from Home -68 627 £70,000 - 242
London -49 495 £84,000 +4.62% 267
North of England -25 263 £60,000 +0.80% 52
South East -55 220 £70,000 +7.69% 131
South West -57 174 £72,500 +11.54% 37
North West -48 131 £65,000 -5.11% 26
Midlands -77 125 £60,000 -3.23% 25
Yorkshire +14 115 £60,000 +22.45% 23
West Midlands -15 82 £60,000 -7.69% 13
East of England +6 67 £65,000 -13.33% 19
Scotland -167 61 £72,500 +11.54% 15
East Midlands -75 43 £60,000 +14.83% 12
Wales -61 39 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Northern Ireland -14 20 £60,000 -18.64% 1
North East -6 17 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 1

Containerisation
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 96 (6.30%) Apache
2 62 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.30%) nginx
4 26 (1.71%) Confluence
4 26 (1.71%) WebLogic
5 25 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.12%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.39%) JBoss
9 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 1 (0.066%) Jetty
13 1 (0.066%) Mule
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.066%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 902 (59.19%) AWS
2 647 (42.45%) Azure
3 296 (19.42%) GCP
4 242 (15.88%) Serverless
5 183 (12.01%) Amazon S3
6 165 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
7 151 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
7 151 (9.91%) GitHub
8 149 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (8.14%) SaaS
10 109 (7.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 101 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
12 89 (5.84%) Cloud Computing
13 84 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
14 78 (5.12%) OpenShift
15 76 (4.99%) Route 53
16 74 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (4.53%) OCI
17 69 (4.53%) PaaS
18 59 (3.87%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.12%) Firewall
2 60 (3.94%) DNS
3 53 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 44 (2.89%) VPN
5 39 (2.56%) Network Security
6 31 (2.03%) LAN
7 28 (1.84%) AMQP
8 27 (1.77%) Internet
9 26 (1.71%) WAN
10 21 (1.38%) HTTP
11 16 (1.05%) DHCP
12 15 (0.98%) IPv4
13 14 (0.92%) BGP
14 11 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.72%) MPLS
14 11 (0.72%) SNMP
15 10 (0.66%) SMTP
16 9 (0.59%) tcpdump
16 9 (0.59%) WLAN
17 7 (0.46%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (8.14%) NoSQL
2 123 (8.07%) Amazon RDS
3 103 (6.76%) SQL Server
4 96 (6.30%) Relational Database
5 88 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (5.18%) Big Data
7 72 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
8 68 (4.46%) MySQL
9 57 (3.74%) Hadoop
10 53 (3.48%) RDBMS
11 51 (3.35%) MongoDB
12 39 (2.56%) Redis
13 30 (1.97%) Data Lake
14 28 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
15 25 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.64%) Oracle Database
16 19 (1.25%) DynamoDB
17 18 (1.18%) BigQuery
17 18 (1.18%) Power BI
17 18 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 303 (19.88%) Git
2 275 (18.04%) Jenkins
3 184 (12.07%) GitLab
4 75 (4.92%) JIRA
5 67 (4.40%) CircleCI
6 49 (3.22%) Selenium
7 36 (2.36%) JUnit
8 33 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.03%) SonarQube
10 24 (1.57%) JDeveloper
10 24 (1.57%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (1.25%) TestNG
13 18 (1.18%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.05%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.92%) Robot Framework
15 14 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.85%) Bitbucket
16 13 (0.85%) Storybook
General
1 387 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 285 (18.70%) Finance
3 158 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 143 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (5.51%) Banking
7 53 (3.48%) Retail
8 49 (3.22%) Games
8 49 (3.22%) Law
9 43 (2.82%) Aerospace
10 35 (2.30%) Marketing
10 35 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.71%) Police
13 21 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.18%) Front Office
15 16 (1.05%) Automotive
16 12 (0.79%) Back Office
16 12 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 381 (25.00%) Senior
2 347 (22.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 315 (20.67%) Developer
4 205 (13.45%) Software Engineer
5 153 (10.04%) Architect
6 147 (9.65%) Lead
7 121 (7.94%) Senior DevOps
8 112 (7.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 94 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
10 76 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 69 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
12 66 (4.33%) Full Stack Developer
13 65 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
13 65 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
14 63 (4.13%) Data Engineer
15 59 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 59 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 58 (3.81%) Senior Developer
17 55 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
18 54 (3.54%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (16.73%) React
2 208 (13.65%) .NET
3 177 (11.61%) Spring
4 157 (10.30%) Node.js
5 149 (9.78%) AngularJS
6 129 (8.46%) REST
7 126 (8.27%) RESTful
8 103 (6.76%) Spring Boot
9 100 (6.56%) HTML
10 82 (5.38%) .NET Core
11 79 (5.18%) CSS
12 66 (4.33%) Kafka
13 62 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (3.94%) YAML
15 52 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (3.08%) .NET Framework
16 47 (3.08%) ARM Templates
16 47 (3.08%) ASP.NET
16 47 (3.08%) JSON
17 43 (2.82%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 84 (5.51%) Public Cloud
4 77 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (4.72%) Private Cloud
6 61 (4.00%) Blockchain
7 58 (3.81%) e-Learning
7 58 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 49 (3.22%) Product Ownership
9 44 (2.89%) Data Centre
10 42 (2.76%) Mobile App
11 31 (2.03%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.51%) Clustering
14 22 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (1.38%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.31%) Client/Server
16 20 (1.31%) Hedge funds
16 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 373 (24.48%) Linux
2 134 (8.79%) Windows
3 70 (4.59%) Unix
4 68 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (3.08%) CentOS
6 42 (2.76%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.69%) Debian
8 39 (2.56%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.33%) Android
11 5 (0.33%) Solaris
11 5 (0.33%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) Rocky
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (54.59%) DevOps
2 674 (44.23%) CI/CD
3 615 (40.35%) Agile
4 453 (29.72%) Software Engineering
5 444 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
6 420 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 395 (25.92%) Microservices
8 268 (17.59%) Test Automation
9 242 (15.88%) Continuous Integration
10 213 (13.98%) Mentoring
11 201 (13.19%) Scrum
12 194 (12.73%) Computer Science
13 161 (10.56%) Open Source
14 160 (10.50%) Full Stack Development
15 152 (9.97%) Coaching
16 145 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (9.12%) Deployment Automation
18 124 (8.14%) Migration
19 121 (7.94%) Configuration Management
20 117 (7.68%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 583 (38.25%) Python
2 432 (28.35%) Java
3 261 (17.13%) SQL
4 240 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 202 (13.25%) Bash
6 200 (13.12%) C#
7 165 (10.83%) TypeScript
8 145 (9.51%) PowerShell
9 83 (5.45%) Go
10 69 (4.53%) Ruby
11 58 (3.81%) Shell Script
12 41 (2.69%) Perl
13 37 (2.43%) C
13 37 (2.43%) C++
14 34 (2.23%) Bicep
15 32 (2.10%) PHP
16 26 (1.71%) Groovy
17 17 (1.12%) Scala
18 16 (1.05%) Rust
19 12 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 299 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 246 (16.14%) Degree
3 200 (13.12%) SC Cleared
4 150 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (6.23%) AWS Certification
6 83 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 51 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 43 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 42 (2.76%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 29 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.72%) CCNA
16 9 (0.59%) PhD
17 8 (0.52%) CISSP
18 7 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 5 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (6.04%) QA
2 28 (1.84%) SLA
3 19 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.12%) GDPR
5 10 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.59%) NCSC
7 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.52%) PMO
7 8 (0.52%) PSD2
8 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.20%) WAI
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.13%) WCAG
12 1 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.066%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.066%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.066%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.066%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 843 (55.31%) Docker
2 64 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 50 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.89%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 17 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.66%) Firmware
9 9 (0.59%) KVM
10 8 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.52%) HDFS
11 6 (0.39%) Ceph
11 6 (0.39%) VirtualBox
11 6 (0.39%) vSphere
11 6 (0.39%) Xen
12 3 (0.20%) Gluster
12 3 (0.20%) oVirt
12 3 (0.20%) QEMU
12 3 (0.20%) XenApp
13 2 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 866 (56.82%) Kubernetes
2 503 (33.01%) Terraform
3 229 (15.03%) Ansible
4 129 (8.46%) Prometheus
5 112 (7.35%) Puppet
6 76 (4.99%) Grafana
7 32 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.03%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.90%) HAProxy
10 27 (1.77%) Nagios
11 26 (1.71%) OpenSSO
12 21 (1.38%) Kibana
13 19 (1.25%) vCenter Server
14 16 (1.05%) Consul
15 11 (0.72%) SCOM
16 10 (0.66%) ZABBIX
17 9 (0.59%) Graphite
18 8 (0.52%) SCCM
19 7 (0.46%) Istio
19 7 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 191 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 159 (10.43%) Google
3 142 (9.32%) Oracle
4 114 (7.48%) Red Hat
5 66 (4.33%) Dynatrace
5 66 (4.33%) IBM
6 58 (3.81%) VMware
7 37 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 34 (2.23%) Splunk
9 28 (1.84%) SaltStack
10 26 (1.71%) Remedy
11 25 (1.64%) Cisco
12 17 (1.12%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.05%) Databricks
13 16 (1.05%) ForgeRock
13 16 (1.05%) Sitecore
13 16 (1.05%) SolarWinds
14 15 (0.98%) Sybase
15 14 (0.92%) Citrix
16 12 (0.79%) New Relic