Containerisation Job Trends in County Antrim

Containerization
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +26
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 3 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.82% 2.76% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 3.30% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £64,471 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £69,308 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +23.21% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £74,144 £67,813
90th Percentile - - £79,625
Northern Ireland median annual salary - £64,654 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +12.44% -30.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 273 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 77.81% 83.74% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 155 99 185
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,900 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,625 £47,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +42.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,906 £82,500 £68,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £59,715 £49,500
% change year-on-year -16.27% +20.64% -1.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Containerisation
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Belfast +6 3 - - 3
Containerisation
Northern Ireland

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (66.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Product Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (66.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Telematics
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) COBOL
1 2 (66.67%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) RACF
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform