Containerisation Job Trends in the North West

Containerization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 90 127
Rank change year-on-year -41 +37 -24
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 129 202 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.03% 3.92% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 4.38% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 97 55 34
10th Percentile £44,000 £50,250 £47,225
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -10.36%
75th Percentile £96,250 £80,500 £74,786
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%

All Process & 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 9,080 4,608 6,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.54% 89.44% 77.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,877 2,209 3,554
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the North West

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the North West over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 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
Manchester -37 100 £75,000 +17.65% 58
Cheshire -38 11 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Lancashire -4 10 £65,576 +54.72% 11
Merseyside -20 7 £95,000 +46.15% 1
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (2.33%) Apache
1 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (58.14%) AWS
2 39 (30.23%) Azure
3 24 (18.60%) GitHub
4 23 (17.83%) GCP
5 21 (16.28%) Serverless
6 17 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (8.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (8.53%) Datadog
9 11 (8.53%) OpenShift
10 10 (7.75%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (6.98%) Azure AKS
11 9 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (5.43%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) AMQP
1 3 (2.33%) LAN
1 3 (2.33%) WAN
2 2 (1.55%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.55%) Wireless
2 2 (1.55%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.20%) DynamoDB
2 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.33%) Big Data
5 3 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.55%) Chroma
6 2 (1.55%) Metadata
6 2 (1.55%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (1.55%) MySQL
6 2 (1.55%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.18%) GitLab
3 13 (10.08%) Git
4 4 (3.10%) Vite
5 3 (2.33%) Maven
5 3 (2.33%) Postman
5 3 (2.33%) Selenium
6 2 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.78%) Mocha
General
1 17 (13.18%) Finance
2 13 (10.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.10%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (3.10%) Publishing
5 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.55%) Electronics
7 1 (0.78%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (31.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (23.26%) Senior
3 23 (17.83%) Lead
4 22 (17.05%) Software Engineer
5 18 (13.95%) Architect
5 18 (13.95%) Developer
6 13 (10.08%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Lead DevOps
8 9 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (6.20%) Lead Developer
9 8 (6.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Integration Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (52.71%) Terraform
2 41 (31.78%) Spring
2 41 (31.78%) Spring Boot
3 25 (19.38%) React
4 22 (17.05%) Kafka
5 16 (12.40%) Node.js
6 10 (7.75%) RESTful
7 9 (6.98%) .NET
8 8 (6.20%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.20%) OpenAPI
8 8 (6.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.43%) Swagger
10 6 (4.65%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.65%) Hibernate
10 6 (4.65%) REST
11 5 (3.88%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.88%) Next.js
12 4 (3.10%) LangChain
12 4 (3.10%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 43 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.10%) Media Streaming
3 4 (3.10%) Podcast
4 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Blog
6 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.05%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Unix
3 4 (3.10%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) CentOS
4 3 (2.33%) Debian
4 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.55%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (80.62%) CI/CD
2 92 (71.32%) DevOps
3 78 (60.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (30.23%) Microservices
5 38 (29.46%) Observability
6 37 (28.68%) Software Engineering
7 33 (25.58%) Agile
7 33 (25.58%) Mentoring
7 33 (25.58%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (24.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 29 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (21.71%) AI
11 27 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (16.28%) Event-Driven
14 18 (13.95%) Coaching
15 15 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (10.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 12 (9.30%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 70 (54.26%) Python
2 47 (36.43%) Java
3 23 (17.83%) Bash
4 19 (14.73%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 15 (11.63%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.53%) SQL
8 9 (6.98%) C#
8 9 (6.98%) Go
9 5 (3.88%) Bicep
10 4 (3.10%) C
11 3 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.33%) Scala
12 2 (1.55%) C++
13 1 (0.78%) PHP
13 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.78%) Ruby
13 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.91%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.88%) Degree
6 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) GRC
2 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 71 (55.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (74.42%) Kubernetes
2 32 (24.81%) Ansible
3 15 (11.63%) Grafana
3 15 (11.63%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.98%) Istio
5 8 (6.20%) linkerd
6 6 (4.65%) Argo
6 6 (4.65%) Puppet
7 3 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (10.08%) Google
2 11 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.43%) HubSpot
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle
5 4 (3.10%) Mistral
5 4 (3.10%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.10%) VMware
6 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.33%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.33%) Splunk
7 1 (0.78%) YouTube