Containerisation Job Trends in the South West

Containerization
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 87 93
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 88 116 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.73% 2.80% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 3.27% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 76 82 126
10th Percentile - £52,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +9.80% +10.87%
75th Percentile £74,375 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £93,650 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the South West

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the South West

Containerisation
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol -14 23 £68,750 -11.29% 19
Somerset -1 16 £45,000 -17.16% 12
Gloucestershire -6 15 £53,750 -17.31% 32
Devon +7 13 £53,750 -17.31% 16
Dorset +7 5 £95,000 -5.00% 12
Wiltshire +6 4 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Cornwall - 4 - -
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 4 (4.55%) IIS
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 54 (61.36%) Azure
2 42 (47.73%) AWS
3 22 (25.00%) GitHub
4 19 (21.59%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (17.05%) Serverless
7 14 (15.91%) GCP
8 10 (11.36%) Amazon S3
8 10 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.09%) Azure AKS
10 8 (9.09%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.95%) SaaS
12 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
13 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (3.41%) Azure Stack
14 3 (3.41%) IaaS
14 3 (3.41%) PaaS
15 2 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) Firewall
2 7 (7.95%) IPsec
3 5 (5.68%) VLAN
3 5 (5.68%) VPN
4 4 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (4.55%) DHCP
4 4 (4.55%) DNS
4 4 (4.55%) VoIP
4 4 (4.55%) Wireless
5 3 (3.41%) AMQP
5 3 (3.41%) BGP
5 3 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.41%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.41%) EIGRP
5 3 (3.41%) HSRP
5 3 (3.41%) Network Security
5 3 (3.41%) OSPF
6 1 (1.14%) DMZ
6 1 (1.14%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (14.77%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.68%) InfluxDB
4 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Big Data
5 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.27%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.27%) GIS
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.14%) Metadata
7 1 (1.14%) Power BI
7 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.95%) Git
3 6 (6.82%) GitLab
4 4 (4.55%) Selenium
5 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.41%) JUnit
6 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.27%) Checkstyle
6 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.27%) ESLint
6 2 (2.27%) Gradle
6 2 (2.27%) JIRA
6 2 (2.27%) Maven
6 2 (2.27%) Mockito
6 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.27%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.27%) TestNG
6 2 (2.27%) TestRail
7 1 (1.14%) Postman
General
1 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Electronics
4 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
4 6 (6.82%) Marketing
4 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.14%) Law
5 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (20.45%) Developer
2 13 (14.77%) Senior
3 10 (11.36%) Software Developer
4 9 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Lead
6 7 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) IT Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Architect
8 5 (5.68%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 4 (4.55%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) .NET
2 13 (14.77%) .NET Core
2 13 (14.77%) RESTful
3 11 (12.50%) YAML
4 9 (10.23%) REST
4 9 (10.23%) Spring
4 9 (10.23%) Spring Boot
5 7 (7.95%) React
6 6 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.68%) CSS
7 5 (5.68%) HTML
8 4 (4.55%) OAuth
8 4 (4.55%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.41%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.41%) Dapper ORM
9 3 (3.41%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.41%) Flask
9 3 (3.41%) Playwright
9 3 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Clustering
3 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.14%) DataPower
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) PKI
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.86%) Linux
2 13 (14.77%) Windows
3 8 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.55%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.41%) CentOS
5 3 (3.41%) Rocky
5 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 46 (52.27%) DevOps
3 32 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (31.82%) Agile
5 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (20.45%) Software Engineering
7 14 (15.91%) AI
7 14 (15.91%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (15.91%) Microservices
8 13 (14.77%) Test Automation
9 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 12 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (12.50%) Migration
11 9 (10.23%) SDLC
12 7 (7.95%) Configuration Management
12 7 (7.95%) DevSecOps
12 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.05%) Python
2 18 (20.45%) Java
3 17 (19.32%) Bicep
3 17 (19.32%) PowerShell
4 16 (18.18%) Bash
4 16 (18.18%) SQL
5 14 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.64%) C#
7 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.55%) Go
9 3 (3.41%) Elixir
9 3 (3.41%) Erlang
9 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.27%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.14%) C
11 1 (1.14%) Delphi
11 1 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.55%) ACMT
6 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.41%) Degree
7 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
7 3 (3.41%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.14%) CISM
9 1 (1.14%) CISSP
9 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.14%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.14%) NCSC
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (76.14%) Docker
2 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.95%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.68%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.27%) iptables
8 1 (1.14%) Ceph
8 1 (1.14%) Lustre
8 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (77.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (28.41%) Terraform
3 18 (20.45%) Ansible
4 15 (17.05%) Grafana
5 11 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.68%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.55%) Autotask
7 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.14%) Argo
9 1 (1.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 8 (9.09%) Cisco
3 8 (9.09%) VMware
4 7 (7.95%) Palo Alto
5 6 (6.82%) Google
5 6 (6.82%) SAP
6 4 (4.55%) Apple
6 4 (4.55%) Datto
6 4 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.55%) Sophos
6 4 (4.55%) Splunk
6 4 (4.55%) Veeam
7 3 (3.41%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.41%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.41%) Dell
7 3 (3.41%) Riverbed
8 2 (2.27%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.14%) IBM