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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 106 123
Rank change year-on-year -89 +17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,511 3,142 5,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 3.23% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 3.38% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 1,374 2,010
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% - +6.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,000 £102,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.24% +6.40%

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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
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% +9.38%

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 28 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 28 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 1,342 £72,500 +0.69% 359
UK excluding London -102 965 £62,500 -3.85% 192
Work from Home -73 618 £70,000 - 205
London -48 492 £84,000 +4.62% 177
North of England -35 261 £60,000 +0.80% 59
South East -65 220 £70,000 +7.69% 42
South West -66 171 £72,500 +7.41% 38
North West -47 129 £64,250 -1.15% 29
Midlands -71 123 £60,000 -1.64% 22
Yorkshire +17 118 £60,000 +22.45% 26
West Midlands -22 80 £60,000 -4.00% 10
East of England -7 68 £65,000 -13.33% 17
Scotland -171 59 £72,500 +11.54% 11
East Midlands -80 43 £60,000 +14.83% 12
Wales -68 38 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Northern Ireland -19 20 £60,000 -18.64% 2
North East -9 14 £57,500 -11.54% 5
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 95 (6.29%) Apache
2 62 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.32%) nginx
4 26 (1.72%) Confluence
4 26 (1.72%) WebLogic
5 24 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (1.13%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.60%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.40%) JBoss
9 6 (0.40%) 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%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.066%) Jetty
13 1 (0.066%) Mule
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.40%) 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
1 896 (59.30%) AWS
2 646 (42.75%) Azure
3 295 (19.52%) GCP
4 239 (15.82%) Serverless
5 181 (11.98%) Amazon S3
6 167 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
7 149 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
8 148 (9.79%) GitHub
9 147 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
10 123 (8.14%) SaaS
11 108 (7.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 99 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
13 89 (5.89%) Cloud Computing
14 81 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
15 78 (5.16%) OpenShift
16 76 (5.03%) Route 53
17 72 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (4.57%) OCI
19 66 (4.37%) PaaS
20 59 (3.90%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.16%) Firewall
2 59 (3.90%) DNS
3 53 (3.51%) TCP/IP
4 43 (2.85%) VPN
5 39 (2.58%) Network Security
6 31 (2.05%) LAN
7 28 (1.85%) AMQP
8 27 (1.79%) Internet
9 26 (1.72%) WAN
10 20 (1.32%) HTTP
11 16 (1.06%) DHCP
12 14 (0.93%) BGP
12 14 (0.93%) IPv4
13 11 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.73%) MPLS
13 11 (0.73%) SNMP
14 10 (0.66%) SMTP
14 10 (0.66%) WLAN
15 9 (0.60%) tcpdump
16 7 (0.46%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.94%) Amazon RDS
1 120 (7.94%) NoSQL
2 104 (6.88%) SQL Server
3 93 (6.15%) Relational Database
4 89 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
5 77 (5.10%) Big Data
6 71 (4.70%) MySQL
7 70 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (3.71%) Hadoop
9 52 (3.44%) RDBMS
10 51 (3.38%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.51%) Redis
12 28 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
12 28 (1.85%) Data Lake
13 25 (1.65%) Oracle Database
14 24 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (1.32%) DynamoDB
16 18 (1.19%) BigQuery
16 18 (1.19%) Power BI
16 18 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 300 (19.85%) Git
2 267 (17.67%) Jenkins
3 180 (11.91%) GitLab
4 74 (4.90%) JIRA
5 67 (4.43%) CircleCI
6 49 (3.24%) Selenium
7 37 (2.45%) JUnit
8 33 (2.18%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 24 (1.59%) JDeveloper
11 23 (1.52%) TeamCity
12 22 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 19 (1.26%) TestNG
14 18 (1.19%) WebDriver
15 16 (1.06%) REST Assured
16 14 (0.93%) Robot Framework
17 13 (0.86%) Bitbucket
17 13 (0.86%) Storybook
18 12 (0.79%) Maven
18 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 392 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 282 (18.66%) Finance
3 160 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 140 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (5.36%) Banking
7 54 (3.57%) Retail
8 48 (3.18%) Games
9 47 (3.11%) Law
10 43 (2.85%) Aerospace
11 37 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.18%) Marketing
12 33 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.72%) Police
14 21 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.13%) Automotive
15 17 (1.13%) Front Office
16 12 (0.79%) Back Office
16 12 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 378 (25.02%) Senior
2 340 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 313 (20.71%) Developer
4 203 (13.43%) Software Engineer
5 149 (9.86%) Architect
6 147 (9.73%) Lead
7 121 (8.01%) Senior DevOps
8 111 (7.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 92 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
10 76 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 68 (4.50%) Full Stack Developer
12 67 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
13 66 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
14 65 (4.30%) Lead DevOps
15 60 (3.97%) Data Engineer
16 58 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 57 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 57 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
17 57 (3.77%) Senior Developer
18 53 (3.51%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (17.07%) React
2 204 (13.50%) .NET
3 177 (11.71%) Spring
4 156 (10.32%) Node.js
5 148 (9.79%) AngularJS
6 130 (8.60%) REST
7 129 (8.54%) RESTful
8 103 (6.82%) Spring Boot
9 99 (6.55%) HTML
10 82 (5.43%) .NET Core
11 77 (5.10%) CSS
12 65 (4.30%) Kafka
13 61 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (3.97%) YAML
15 49 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
16 48 (3.18%) ARM Templates
17 47 (3.11%) ASP.NET
18 45 (2.98%) .NET Framework
18 45 (2.98%) JSON
19 44 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.34%) Cloud Native
2 91 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 77 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
5 69 (4.57%) Private Cloud
6 60 (3.97%) Blockchain
7 58 (3.84%) e-Learning
8 57 (3.77%) Management Information System
9 46 (3.04%) Data Centre
9 46 (3.04%) Product Ownership
10 42 (2.78%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.59%) Clustering
13 23 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (1.32%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.32%) Client/Server
17 19 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
18 18 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 367 (24.29%) Linux
2 135 (8.93%) Windows
3 71 (4.70%) Unix
4 68 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (3.18%) CentOS
6 42 (2.78%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.71%) Debian
8 40 (2.65%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.33%) Android
11 5 (0.33%) Solaris
11 5 (0.33%) VMS
12 4 (0.26%) Rocky
13 3 (0.20%) SUSE
13 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (54.60%) DevOps
2 667 (44.14%) CI/CD
3 606 (40.11%) Agile
4 446 (29.52%) Software Engineering
5 440 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
6 414 (27.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 394 (26.08%) Microservices
8 273 (18.07%) Test Automation
9 237 (15.68%) Continuous Integration
10 212 (14.03%) Mentoring
11 197 (13.04%) Scrum
12 194 (12.84%) Computer Science
13 162 (10.72%) Open Source
14 158 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
15 152 (10.06%) Coaching
16 140 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 137 (9.07%) Deployment Automation
18 124 (8.21%) Configuration Management
19 120 (7.94%) Migration
20 119 (7.88%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 580 (38.39%) Python
2 426 (28.19%) Java
3 257 (17.01%) SQL
4 237 (15.68%) JavaScript
5 202 (13.37%) Bash
6 196 (12.97%) C#
7 166 (10.99%) TypeScript
8 146 (9.66%) PowerShell
9 80 (5.29%) Go
10 68 (4.50%) Ruby
11 58 (3.84%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.78%) Perl
13 37 (2.45%) C
13 37 (2.45%) C++
14 34 (2.25%) PHP
15 33 (2.18%) Bicep
16 24 (1.59%) Groovy
17 17 (1.13%) Scala
18 15 (0.99%) Rust
19 12 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 296 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 247 (16.35%) Degree
3 200 (13.24%) SC Cleared
4 150 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 94 (6.22%) AWS Certification
6 83 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 51 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 44 (2.91%) Azure Certification
9 42 (2.78%) Master's Degree
10 37 (2.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.73%) CCNA
15 9 (0.60%) PhD
16 8 (0.53%) CISSP
17 7 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 5 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.02%) QA
2 28 (1.85%) SLA
3 19 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.13%) GDPR
5 10 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.60%) NCSC
7 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.53%) PMO
7 8 (0.53%) PSD2
8 6 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.13%) WAI
10 2 (0.13%) WCAG
11 1 (0.066%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.066%) NIST
System Software
1 835 (55.26%) Docker
2 63 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 49 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.91%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.66%) Firmware
8 10 (0.66%) KVM
9 8 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
10 7 (0.46%) HDFS
10 7 (0.46%) VirtualBox
10 7 (0.46%) Xen
11 6 (0.40%) vSphere
12 5 (0.33%) Ceph
13 3 (0.20%) Gluster
13 3 (0.20%) oVirt
13 3 (0.20%) QEMU
13 3 (0.20%) XenApp
14 2 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 864 (57.18%) Kubernetes
2 502 (33.22%) Terraform
3 228 (15.09%) Ansible
4 126 (8.34%) Prometheus
5 111 (7.35%) Puppet
6 73 (4.83%) Grafana
7 32 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.92%) HAProxy
10 28 (1.85%) Nagios
11 26 (1.72%) OpenSSO
12 19 (1.26%) Kibana
13 18 (1.19%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.99%) Consul
15 11 (0.73%) SCOM
16 10 (0.66%) ZABBIX
17 9 (0.60%) Graphite
17 9 (0.60%) SCCM
18 7 (0.46%) Istio
18 7 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 191 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 158 (10.46%) Google
3 141 (9.33%) Oracle
4 114 (7.54%) Red Hat
5 66 (4.37%) Dynatrace
6 64 (4.24%) IBM
7 58 (3.84%) VMware
8 37 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.25%) Splunk
10 28 (1.85%) SaltStack
11 26 (1.72%) Remedy
12 25 (1.65%) Cisco
13 17 (1.13%) SolarWinds
14 16 (1.06%) Atlassian
14 16 (1.06%) ForgeRock
14 16 (1.06%) Sitecore
15 15 (0.99%) Databricks
15 15 (0.99%) Sybase
16 14 (0.93%) Citrix
17 12 (0.79%) New Relic