Containerisation Jobs in the North West

Containerization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 172 119
Rank change year-on-year +40 -53 +26
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 204 127 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.61% 1.23% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 1.51% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67 68 64
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £64,250 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +0.39% +2.40%
75th Percentile £75,625 £82,656 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £95,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £71,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% +1.05% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,486 8,394 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.93% 81.13% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 6,316 3,841
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the North West.

Salary trend for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the North West

Containerisation
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Manchester +29 83 £65,000 +2.36% 222
Cheshire +59 66 £74,500 +19.20% 129
Lancashire - 42 £57,836 - 60
Merseyside +46 12 £67,500 +17.39% 58
Cumbria -70 1 - -
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 45 (22.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 162 (79.41%) AWS
2 146 (71.57%) Azure
3 60 (29.41%) GCP
4 8 (3.92%) GitHub
5 6 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.45%) Pulumi
7 4 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.96%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.47%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.47%) NuGet
8 3 (1.47%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.96%) HTTP
3 3 (1.47%) Broadband
3 3 (1.47%) Internet
4 2 (0.98%) NAS
4 2 (0.98%) SAN
5 1 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.49%) VLAN
5 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (57.84%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.29%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.84%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.96%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.47%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.98%) MySQL
8 2 (0.98%) Redis
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.49%) Big Data
9 1 (0.49%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.49%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.49%) Power BI
9 1 (0.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.49%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 123 (60.29%) GitLab
2 119 (58.33%) JIRA
3 115 (56.37%) Cucumber
3 115 (56.37%) Selenium
4 109 (53.43%) Bitbucket
4 109 (53.43%) Maven
4 109 (53.43%) SonarQube
4 109 (53.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.43%) Git
7 4 (1.96%) JUnit
8 3 (1.47%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.98%) CircleCI
General
1 130 (63.73%) Finance
2 114 (55.88%) Banking
2 114 (55.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 71 (34.80%) Retail
4 70 (34.31%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (34.31%) Investment Banking
5 38 (18.63%) Social Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.98%) Electronics
7 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.98%) Marketing
7 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.49%) Games
8 1 (0.49%) Law
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 122 (59.80%) Software Engineer
2 27 (13.24%) Lead
3 20 (9.80%) Senior
4 16 (7.84%) Developer
4 16 (7.84%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.35%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 9 (4.41%) Architect
6 9 (4.41%) Java Engineer
7 8 (3.92%) Senior Developer
7 8 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Architect
9 6 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (2.94%) DevOps Architect
9 6 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (2.94%) Senior Architect
9 6 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (2.94%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.94%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (62.25%) Kafka
1 127 (62.25%) Spring
1 127 (62.25%) Spring Boot
2 113 (55.39%) CSS
2 113 (55.39%) HTML
2 113 (55.39%) React
3 110 (53.92%) Redux
4 109 (53.43%) JPA
5 76 (37.25%) REST
5 76 (37.25%) RESTful
6 70 (34.31%) CSS3
6 70 (34.31%) HTML5
6 70 (34.31%) Jest
6 70 (34.31%) Sass
7 41 (20.10%) Hibernate
8 12 (5.88%) .NET
9 11 (5.39%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.41%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 116 (56.86%) Product Ownership
2 112 (54.90%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (10.29%) Management Information System
4 18 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.39%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.94%) Wiki
7 4 (1.96%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.49%) Blog
10 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.45%) Unix
4 4 (1.96%) CentOS
4 4 (1.96%) Windows
5 3 (1.47%) Debian
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 167 (81.86%) Agile
2 167 (81.86%) DevOps
3 162 (79.41%) Microservices
4 148 (72.55%) Software Engineering
5 125 (61.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 115 (56.37%) Performance Optimisation
6 115 (56.37%) Test Automation
7 114 (55.88%) SDLC
8 110 (53.92%) Front End Development
9 86 (42.16%) Mentoring
10 77 (37.75%) User Experience
11 74 (36.27%) Migration
12 70 (34.31%) Responsive Web Design
12 70 (34.31%) Strategic Thinking
13 49 (24.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (23.04%) Clean Code
15 46 (22.55%) TDD
16 36 (17.65%) Roadmaps
17 24 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 158 (77.45%) Java
2 123 (60.29%) JavaScript
3 122 (59.80%) SQL
4 83 (40.69%) TypeScript
5 30 (14.71%) Python
6 17 (8.33%) C#
7 15 (7.35%) C
8 13 (6.37%) Bash
9 10 (4.90%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.43%) Go
11 2 (0.98%) Bicep
11 2 (0.98%) C++
11 2 (0.98%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) Julia
12 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (14.71%) Degree
2 18 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 15 (7.35%) AWS Certification
3 15 (7.35%) HND
4 8 (3.92%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.96%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.47%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (1.47%) RHCE
8 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (55.88%) QA
2 70 (34.31%) Accessibility
3 14 (6.86%) GDPR
4 13 (6.37%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.94%) NIST
6 4 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 161 (78.92%) Docker
2 20 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.45%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.47%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.47%) Postfix
5 1 (0.49%) KVM
Systems Management
1 163 (79.90%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.24%) Terraform
3 14 (6.86%) Ansible
4 9 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.45%) Grafana
6 3 (1.47%) Argo
6 3 (1.47%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.49%) Istio
8 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.49%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (53.43%) Solace
2 18 (8.82%) Google
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.45%) Red Hat
3 5 (2.45%) VMware
4 4 (1.96%) Bloomberg
4 4 (1.96%) Ping Identity
5 3 (1.47%) Okta
5 3 (1.47%) SAP
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle
6 2 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.49%) Confluent
7 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.49%) ForgeRock