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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 81 139
Rank change year-on-year -10 +58 -34
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 124 82 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.62% 3.06% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.36% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80 68 131
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,165 £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £64,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% -0.70% +11.54%
75th Percentile £68,800 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £102,410 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,310 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.22% +6.63% -

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 5,257 2,444 7,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.65% 91.19% 82.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,458 1,520 5,559
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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
Gloucestershire -15 36 £50,000 -23.08% 24
Devon +3 26 £55,000 -13.73%
Bristol -50 15 £75,000 -3.23% 14
Dorset -5 13 £30,000 -70.00% 4
Somerset -18 10 £42,500 -21.76% 7
Cornwall - 7 - -
Wiltshire -6 6 £57,500 -16.09% 7
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 (3.23%) Apache
1 4 (3.23%) Confluence
2 3 (2.42%) CMS
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.81%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.81%) AWS
2 42 (33.87%) Azure
3 28 (22.58%) GCP
4 17 (13.71%) Serverless
5 16 (12.90%) SaaS
6 15 (12.10%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 13 (10.48%) Azure AKS
7 13 (10.48%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.06%) GitHub
9 8 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.84%) Datadog
11 5 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.23%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) Broadband
2 4 (3.23%) Firewall
2 4 (3.23%) Network Security
3 2 (1.61%) AMQP
4 1 (0.81%) Internet
4 1 (0.81%) IPv4
4 1 (0.81%) LAN
4 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.87%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.87%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.65%) MySQL
5 6 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.03%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.42%) Big Data
8 2 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.61%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.81%) GIS
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.13%) Git
3 11 (8.87%) GitLab
4 9 (7.26%) CircleCI
4 9 (7.26%) Cypress.io
5 8 (6.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.84%) Selenium
7 5 (4.03%) Robot Framework
7 5 (4.03%) TestRail
8 4 (3.23%) JIRA
9 3 (2.42%) JUnit
9 3 (2.42%) Maven
9 3 (2.42%) Mockito
10 2 (1.61%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.61%) ESLint
10 2 (1.61%) Gradle
10 2 (1.61%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.61%) TestNG
11 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.65%) Aerospace
3 7 (5.65%) Finance
4 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Marketing
6 2 (1.61%) Electronics
6 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (22.58%) Developer
2 24 (19.35%) Senior
3 21 (16.94%) Software Engineer
4 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.68%) Software Developer
5 11 (8.87%) .NET Developer
5 11 (8.87%) .NET Software Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Backend Developer
6 10 (8.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) .NET Software Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Software Manager
10 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Test Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.19%) .NET
1 30 (24.19%) .NET Core
2 18 (14.52%) REST
2 18 (14.52%) RESTful
3 17 (13.71%) React
4 12 (9.68%) .NET Framework
4 12 (9.68%) Entity Framework
4 12 (9.68%) Spring
5 11 (8.87%) Dapper ORM
5 11 (8.87%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (7.26%) Playwright
7 8 (6.45%) Node.js
8 6 (4.84%) gRPC
9 5 (4.03%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.03%) OpenAPI
9 5 (4.03%) Swagger
10 4 (3.23%) OAuth
10 4 (3.23%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
4 4 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.42%) IoT
5 3 (2.42%) PKI
5 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.61%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Linux
2 13 (10.48%) Windows
3 7 (5.65%) CentOS
4 3 (2.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.61%) Debian
5 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (63.71%) CI/CD
2 48 (38.71%) Agile
3 43 (34.68%) DevOps
4 42 (33.87%) Software Engineering
5 36 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (18.55%) Test Automation
8 22 (17.74%) Mentoring
9 20 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.52%) Microservices
11 17 (13.71%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (12.10%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (11.29%) API Integration
14 14 (11.29%) DevSecOps
15 13 (10.48%) API Design
15 13 (10.48%) Computer Science
16 10 (8.06%) Cloud Security
16 10 (8.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (41.94%) Python
2 26 (20.97%) Bash
2 26 (20.97%) C#
2 26 (20.97%) Java
3 24 (19.35%) JavaScript
4 23 (18.55%) SQL
5 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.45%) Go
7 6 (4.84%) C++
7 6 (4.84%) PHP
8 5 (4.03%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.23%) Scala
10 3 (2.42%) C
10 3 (2.42%) Elixir
10 3 (2.42%) Erlang
11 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.61%) Rust
12 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.13%) DV Cleared
3 14 (11.29%) Degree
4 12 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.06%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.23%) CISM
8 4 (3.23%) CISSP
8 4 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (2.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.81%) CCNA
11 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.81%) RHCE
11 1 (0.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) QA
2 7 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.23%) GDPR
3 4 (3.23%) GRC
3 4 (3.23%) JSP 440
3 4 (3.23%) NIST
3 4 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.42%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 87 (70.16%) Docker
2 8 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.23%) Firmware
3 4 (3.23%) iptables
3 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.81%) KVM
4 1 (0.81%) QEMU
4 1 (0.81%) Squid
4 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
4 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (69.35%) Kubernetes
2 36 (29.03%) Terraform
3 31 (25.00%) Ansible
4 24 (19.35%) Grafana
5 14 (11.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.45%) Puppet
7 5 (4.03%) Kibana
8 4 (3.23%) logstash
8 4 (3.23%) Podman
8 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.23%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.61%) Argo
9 2 (1.61%) Check_MK
9 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.61%) Nagios
10 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.81%) Mesos
10 1 (0.81%) Packer
10 1 (0.81%) Rancher
10 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (8.87%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.45%) Google
2 8 (6.45%) Splunk
2 8 (6.45%) VMware
3 4 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.23%) Oracle
3 4 (3.23%) Typelevel
4 2 (1.61%) Apple
4 2 (1.61%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.61%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco
5 1 (0.81%) Dell