Containerisation Job Trends in Birmingham

Containerization
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 96 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +19
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 14 29 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.80% 1.58% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.70% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 13
10th Percentile £55,860 - £42,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £69,308 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -18.46% +21.43%
75th Percentile £195,000 £93,750 -
90th Percentile - £108,500 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,393 1,706 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.60% 92.77% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 986 795 958
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,053
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Containerisation
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in Birmingham

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) CMS
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JUnit
1 3 (21.43%) Maven
1 3 (21.43%) Mockito
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) Locust
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Advertising
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Chief Technology Officer
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) EDI
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) AI
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Observability
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (35.71%) Workflow
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Monetization
4 4 (28.57%) Personalization
4 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) C
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) R
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CBAP
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft