Containerisation Job Trends in the North of England

Containerization
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 113 166
Rank change year-on-year -42 +53 +37
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 181 171 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 2.51% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 2.65% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 130 143 165
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,644 6,448 13,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.46% 94.46% 83.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,715 3,720 11,006
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,475 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the North of England

Containerisation
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North West -10 93 £65,000 +5.98% 41
Yorkshire -72 56 £65,000 -4.41% 22
North East -16 32 £49,222 -26.57% 13
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (2.76%) Apache
1 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 121 (66.85%) AWS
2 120 (66.30%) Azure
3 67 (37.02%) GCP
4 62 (34.25%) GitHub
5 55 (30.39%) Serverless
6 47 (25.97%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (25.41%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (18.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (18.23%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (14.36%) Amazon S3
10 24 (13.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (10.50%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
12 18 (9.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (9.39%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (9.39%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (6.63%) Datadog
16 10 (5.52%) OpenShift
16 10 (5.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.26%) Firewall
2 21 (11.60%) HTTP
2 21 (11.60%) TCP/IP
3 19 (10.50%) DNS
4 5 (2.76%) AMQP
5 3 (1.66%) VPN
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) LTE
7 1 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) SAN
7 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.28%) NoSQL
2 29 (16.02%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (14.36%) DynamoDB
4 19 (10.50%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.29%) MongoDB
6 14 (7.73%) MySQL
7 8 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.42%) Big Data
7 8 (4.42%) Metadata
8 5 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.76%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.10%) Power BI
9 2 (1.10%) Redis
10 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 40 (22.10%) Git
1 40 (22.10%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.18%) GitLab
3 11 (6.08%) JIRA
4 6 (3.31%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.31%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.31%) PHPUnit
5 5 (2.76%) JUnit
6 4 (2.21%) JMeter
7 3 (1.66%) Locust
7 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.55%) Gatling
9 1 (0.55%) MLflow
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 42 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.15%) Finance
3 18 (9.94%) Law
3 18 (9.94%) Telecoms
4 14 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.31%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.10%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (29.28%) Senior
2 49 (27.07%) Developer
3 34 (18.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (18.78%) Software Engineer
4 21 (11.60%) Lead
5 18 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (9.39%) Architect
7 14 (7.73%) .NET Developer
7 14 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.73%) Senior Developer
8 13 (7.18%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.52%) .NET Software Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.97%) Azure Architect
10 9 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) AWS Architect
11 8 (4.42%) AWS Solution Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) GCP Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.10%) RESTful
2 39 (21.55%) .NET
3 35 (19.34%) React
4 28 (15.47%) Spring
4 28 (15.47%) Spring Boot
5 22 (12.15%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (11.05%) Node.js
7 19 (10.50%) .NET Core
8 18 (9.94%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.84%) Vue
10 13 (7.18%) .NET Framework
10 13 (7.18%) ASP.NET
10 13 (7.18%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (7.18%) AWS CDK
10 13 (7.18%) Blazor
11 11 (6.08%) Flask
11 11 (6.08%) REST
12 10 (5.52%) Django
13 9 (4.97%) CSS
13 9 (4.97%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (30.39%) Cloud Native
2 35 (19.34%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.63%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.66%) Life Science
6 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.10%) NHS
7 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) IoT
8 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.36%) Linux
2 10 (5.52%) Windows
3 7 (3.87%) Debian
3 7 (3.87%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.76%) CentOS
4 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.21%) Unix
6 2 (1.10%) VMS
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (79.01%) CI/CD
2 124 (68.51%) DevOps
3 90 (49.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (43.09%) Agile
5 73 (40.33%) Microservices
6 54 (29.83%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (23.20%) Software Engineering
8 34 (18.78%) Mentoring
9 32 (17.68%) High Availability
10 31 (17.13%) Continuous Delivery
10 31 (17.13%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (14.36%) Clean Code
13 24 (13.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (13.26%) TDD
14 23 (12.71%) DevSecOps
14 23 (12.71%) Scrum
15 22 (12.15%) Deployment Automation
15 22 (12.15%) Observability
16 21 (11.60%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (44.75%) Python
2 56 (30.94%) SQL
3 39 (21.55%) Java
4 35 (19.34%) JavaScript
5 26 (14.36%) C#
6 24 (13.26%) Bash
6 24 (13.26%) Go
7 16 (8.84%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.63%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.52%) PHP
10 5 (2.76%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.21%) Bicep
12 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.10%) C
14 1 (0.55%) Delphi
14 1 (0.55%) Groovy
14 1 (0.55%) Perl
14 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.63%) AWS Certification
2 12 (6.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.42%) Degree
5 7 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) CISM
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) QA
2 5 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.21%) WCAG
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (48.62%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.76%) vSphere
5 4 (2.21%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.55%) Firmware
8 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 90 (49.72%) Kubernetes
2 89 (49.17%) Terraform
3 41 (22.65%) Ansible
4 33 (18.23%) Grafana
5 26 (14.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.76%) Puppet
7 3 (1.66%) Control-M
7 3 (1.66%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.66%) Rancher
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.55%) Argo
9 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.55%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.55%) Kibana
9 1 (0.55%) Nagios
9 1 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.39%) Google
3 6 (3.31%) VMware
4 5 (2.76%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.76%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.21%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.66%) Databricks
6 3 (1.66%) Splunk
7 2 (1.10%) BMC
7 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.55%) New Relic
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle