Containerisation Job Trends in the East Midlands

Containerization
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands 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 119 108 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 -52 +30
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 17 21 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 0.91% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.04% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 46
10th Percentile - £54,700 £52,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,600 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -6.25% -1.54%
75th Percentile £71,500 £62,500 £80,813
90th Percentile £84,750 £77,862 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,016 2,023 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.97% 88.07% 88.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 859 1,117
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,662 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,125 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,500
90th Percentile £75,270 £75,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the East Midlands

Containerisation
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +11 7 £70,000 +20.69% 2
Derbyshire -11 6 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Leicestershire +11 2 £61,100 +1.83% 2
Nottinghamshire +7 1 £190,000 +216.67% 2
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) CMS
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
4 5 (29.41%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) npm
6 1 (5.88%) NuGet
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Broadband
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) NAS
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Architect
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Solution Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 5 (29.41%) GCP Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (23.53%) IT Support
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Leader
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Support
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Django
2 1 (5.88%) Flask
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) pytest
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) High Availability
3 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Business Transformation
4 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Coaching
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Line Management
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.88%) Monetization
7 1 (5.88%) Personalization
7 1 (5.88%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bash
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Delphi
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) VMware