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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 112 136
Rank change year-on-year -72 +24 -7
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,582 3,204 4,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 3.08% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 3.22% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 1,500 2,011
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +2.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 April 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 April 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 -57 1,371 £72,500 - 324
UK excluding London -69 1,032 £65,000 - 184
Work from Home -59 684 £70,000 -3.45% 178
London -57 484 £82,500 +2.75% 163
North of England -6 281 £61,250 +2.90% 46
South East -38 223 £70,000 +5.66% 34
South West -52 176 £72,500 +11.54% 28
North West -23 141 £65,000 -5.55% 21
Midlands -68 137 £60,000 -4.00% 34
Yorkshire +36 121 £60,000 +22.45% 23
West Midlands +5 87 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Scotland -142 76 £76,250 +17.31% 17
East of England +4 64 £65,000 -16.13% 14
East Midlands -73 50 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Wales -40 48 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Northern Ireland -3 24 £60,000 -17.24% 8
North East -4 19 £60,000 -7.69% 2
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 89 (5.63%) Apache
2 59 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.02%) nginx
4 29 (1.83%) WebLogic
5 25 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (1.52%) Confluence
7 17 (1.07%) Jupyter
8 14 (0.88%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.25%) CMS
12 3 (0.19%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) JBoss
13 2 (0.13%) Mule
14 1 (0.063%) Jetty
Applications
1 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 880 (55.63%) AWS
2 652 (41.21%) Azure
3 300 (18.96%) GCP
4 270 (17.07%) Serverless
5 181 (11.44%) Amazon S3
6 172 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
7 147 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
8 146 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
9 141 (8.91%) GitHub
10 121 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 119 (7.52%) SaaS
12 89 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
12 89 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
13 87 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
14 77 (4.87%) Route 53
15 72 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
16 71 (4.49%) OpenShift
17 67 (4.24%) PaaS
18 65 (4.11%) OCI
19 58 (3.67%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.61%) Firewall
2 58 (3.67%) DNS
3 52 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.84%) VPN
5 37 (2.34%) Network Security
6 30 (1.90%) LAN
7 26 (1.64%) Internet
8 24 (1.52%) AMQP
8 24 (1.52%) WAN
9 21 (1.33%) HTTP
10 18 (1.14%) DHCP
11 15 (0.95%) BGP
12 13 (0.82%) IPv4
13 12 (0.76%) SNMP
14 11 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.70%) MPLS
15 10 (0.63%) tcpdump
16 9 (0.57%) SMTP
16 9 (0.57%) WLAN
17 7 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (8.22%) NoSQL
2 125 (7.90%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (7.08%) Relational Database
4 104 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 97 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (4.93%) Big Data
7 77 (4.87%) MySQL
8 74 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
9 63 (3.98%) RDBMS
10 54 (3.41%) MongoDB
11 53 (3.35%) Hadoop
12 42 (2.65%) Redis
13 37 (2.34%) Oracle Database
14 30 (1.90%) Data Lake
15 27 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
16 24 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
17 20 (1.26%) DynamoDB
18 19 (1.20%) InfluxDB
18 19 (1.20%) Power BI
18 19 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 317 (20.04%) Git
2 284 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 201 (12.71%) GitLab
4 72 (4.55%) JIRA
5 58 (3.67%) CircleCI
6 48 (3.03%) Selenium
7 42 (2.65%) SonarQube
8 36 (2.28%) JDeveloper
8 36 (2.28%) JUnit
9 35 (2.21%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.20%) TestNG
11 18 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 18 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (1.14%) WebDriver
12 16 (1.01%) Maven
12 16 (1.01%) REST Assured
13 15 (0.95%) Artifactory
14 13 (0.82%) Storybook
15 12 (0.76%) Jasmine
General
1 388 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 320 (20.23%) Finance
3 140 (8.85%) Public Sector
4 132 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (7.52%) Banking
7 56 (3.54%) Games
8 55 (3.48%) Retail
9 40 (2.53%) Law
10 36 (2.28%) Marketing
11 35 (2.21%) Aerospace
12 33 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.64%) Police
14 23 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.20%) Retail Banking
17 14 (0.88%) Automotive
18 12 (0.76%) Front Office
19 11 (0.70%) Manufacturing
20 10 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 372 (23.51%) Senior
2 351 (22.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 341 (21.55%) Developer
4 237 (14.98%) Software Engineer
5 165 (10.43%) Architect
6 132 (8.34%) Lead
7 112 (7.08%) Senior DevOps
8 106 (6.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 89 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
10 75 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 72 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
12 68 (4.30%) Java Developer
13 67 (4.24%) Data Engineer
13 67 (4.24%) Senior Developer
14 66 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
16 63 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
17 57 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 57 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
18 55 (3.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (17.64%) React
2 196 (12.39%) .NET
3 192 (12.14%) Spring
4 171 (10.81%) Node.js
5 150 (9.48%) AngularJS
6 130 (8.22%) RESTful
7 121 (7.65%) REST
8 103 (6.51%) Spring Boot
9 102 (6.45%) HTML
10 80 (5.06%) CSS
11 72 (4.55%) .NET Core
12 69 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
13 63 (3.98%) Kafka
13 63 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (3.79%) YAML
15 51 (3.22%) J2EE
16 47 (2.97%) JSON
17 45 (2.84%) ASP.NET
18 43 (2.72%) Web Services
19 42 (2.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 93 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 88 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 76 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 65 (4.11%) Private Cloud
6 64 (4.05%) Blockchain
7 57 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 56 (3.54%) e-Learning
9 47 (2.97%) Product Ownership
10 42 (2.65%) Data Centre
11 40 (2.53%) Mobile App
12 31 (1.96%) Onboarding
13 26 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (1.45%) Algorithms
15 23 (1.45%) Clustering
16 20 (1.26%) Client/Server
16 20 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (1.14%) Reference Data
18 17 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 383 (24.21%) Linux
2 149 (9.42%) Windows
3 78 (4.93%) Unix
4 59 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.72%) CentOS
6 39 (2.47%) Debian
6 39 (2.47%) Ubuntu
7 34 (2.15%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.44%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.44%) zOS
9 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.32%) Android
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.32%) VMS
11 4 (0.25%) Solaris
12 3 (0.19%) SUSE
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (53.03%) DevOps
2 652 (41.21%) CI/CD
3 632 (39.95%) Agile
4 491 (31.04%) Software Engineering
5 485 (30.66%) Problem-Solving
6 440 (27.81%) Microservices
7 415 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 292 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
9 250 (15.80%) Test Automation
10 244 (15.42%) Mentoring
11 200 (12.64%) Computer Science
12 198 (12.52%) Scrum
13 170 (10.75%) Coaching
14 166 (10.49%) Full Stack Development
15 157 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
16 152 (9.61%) Open Source
17 139 (8.79%) Code Quality
18 136 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 125 (7.90%) Deployment Automation
20 119 (7.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 605 (38.24%) Python
2 473 (29.90%) Java
3 264 (16.69%) SQL
4 248 (15.68%) JavaScript
5 227 (14.35%) Bash
6 217 (13.72%) C#
7 159 (10.05%) TypeScript
8 157 (9.92%) PowerShell
9 104 (6.57%) Ruby
10 98 (6.19%) Go
11 64 (4.05%) Shell Script
12 54 (3.41%) Perl
13 36 (2.28%) C
14 35 (2.21%) Bicep
14 35 (2.21%) C++
15 33 (2.09%) PHP
16 22 (1.39%) Groovy
17 18 (1.14%) Rust
18 16 (1.01%) Scala
19 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 293 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 253 (15.99%) Degree
3 191 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 156 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (5.82%) AWS Certification
6 78 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 52 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 46 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 40 (2.53%) Azure Certification
10 39 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 31 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
14 16 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.70%) CCNA
16 10 (0.63%) PhD
17 8 (0.51%) CISSP
18 7 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 6 (0.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.13%) QA
2 31 (1.96%) SLA
3 21 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (0.95%) GDPR
5 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.51%) NCSC
6 8 (0.51%) PMO
6 8 (0.51%) PSD2
7 4 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.25%) WAI
8 3 (0.19%) ISO 9000
9 2 (0.13%) WCAG
10 1 (0.063%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.063%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.063%) NIST
System Software
1 862 (54.49%) Docker
2 70 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
3 50 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (3.10%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.57%) Firmware
8 8 (0.51%) HDFS
8 8 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.38%) Ceph
10 6 (0.38%) KVM
10 6 (0.38%) VirtualBox
10 6 (0.38%) vSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Gluster
11 3 (0.19%) oVirt
11 3 (0.19%) Xen
11 3 (0.19%) XenApp
12 2 (0.13%) QEMU
12 2 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 852 (53.86%) Kubernetes
2 487 (30.78%) Terraform
3 228 (14.41%) Ansible
4 138 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 103 (6.51%) Puppet
6 89 (5.63%) Grafana
7 32 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.90%) HAProxy
9 29 (1.83%) OpenSSO
10 28 (1.77%) Progress Chef
11 25 (1.58%) Nagios
12 20 (1.26%) Kibana
12 20 (1.26%) vCenter Server
13 15 (0.95%) Consul
14 11 (0.70%) SCOM
15 10 (0.63%) Graphite
15 10 (0.63%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.51%) SCCM
17 7 (0.44%) CA Endevor
17 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 197 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 176 (11.13%) Google
3 162 (10.24%) Oracle
4 104 (6.57%) Red Hat
5 70 (4.42%) IBM
6 63 (3.98%) Dynatrace
7 57 (3.60%) VMware
8 33 (2.09%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.90%) Splunk
10 29 (1.83%) Remedy
11 26 (1.64%) SaltStack
12 25 (1.58%) Cisco
13 18 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 17 (1.07%) Databricks
15 16 (1.01%) SolarWinds
16 15 (0.95%) Sitecore
17 14 (0.88%) Citrix
17 14 (0.88%) ForgeRock
18 13 (0.82%) Sybase
19 11 (0.70%) CyberArk