Containerisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 207 114
Rank change year-on-year +60 -93 +50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 872 985 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.19% 1.38% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.65% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 420 690 630
10th Percentile £47,000 £42,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £48,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.24%
75th Percentile £81,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +32 290 £65,000 +8.33% 204
North West +29 206 £59,250 -8.85% 125
South East +44 182 £63,750 -8.93% 272
Midlands +60 137 £60,000 - 68
Scotland +133 94 £85,000 +17.24% 28
South West +40 91 £71,991 -0.70% 102
East of England +49 81 £65,000 - 56
West Midlands +36 72 £65,000 +8.33% 42
Yorkshire +25 70 £69,250 +15.42% 66
East Midlands +42 65 £60,000 +4.35% 23
North East +33 14 £66,019 +14.81% 13
Wales +4 9 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Isle of Man +9 1 £34,500 -58.18%
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 175 (20.07%) Confluence
2 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.57%) IIS
4 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.57%) SAS
5 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.34%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Mendix
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 559 (64.11%) AWS
2 554 (63.53%) Azure
3 259 (29.70%) GCP
4 68 (7.80%) Pulumi
5 58 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (5.16%) SaaS
8 44 (5.05%) Serverless
9 42 (4.82%) GitHub
10 32 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (3.56%) Amazon S3
12 28 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (2.41%) PaaS
15 17 (1.95%) Power Platform
16 16 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (1.72%) IaaS
18 13 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (1.26%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.57%) Broadband
2 23 (2.64%) Wireshark
3 17 (1.95%) Internet
4 15 (1.72%) Firewall
5 14 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.38%) DNS
7 10 (1.15%) SAN
8 9 (1.03%) Network Security
9 8 (0.92%) DHCP
9 8 (0.92%) VLAN
10 7 (0.80%) HTTP
11 5 (0.57%) Multicast
11 5 (0.57%) VPN
12 4 (0.46%) BGP
12 4 (0.46%) EIGRP
12 4 (0.46%) NAS
12 4 (0.46%) OSPF
13 2 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
14 1 (0.11%) IPsec
14 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (33.49%) SQL Server
2 132 (15.14%) NoSQL
3 82 (9.40%) Relational Database
4 66 (7.57%) RDBMS
5 65 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (4.01%) MongoDB
8 29 (3.33%) MySQL
9 22 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.83%) Big Data
11 14 (1.61%) Power BI
12 12 (1.38%) Tableau
13 11 (1.26%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.03%) Redis
15 8 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 296 (33.94%) GitLab
2 275 (31.54%) JIRA
3 266 (30.50%) Maven
4 264 (30.28%) SonarQube
5 263 (30.16%) Cucumber
6 260 (29.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 251 (28.78%) Selenium
8 247 (28.33%) Bitbucket
9 66 (7.57%) Git
10 65 (7.45%) Jaeger
11 64 (7.34%) Jenkins
12 33 (3.78%) JUnit
13 29 (3.33%) Mockito
14 20 (2.29%) Eclipse
15 19 (2.18%) IntelliJ
16 18 (2.06%) Jasmine
16 18 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
16 18 (2.06%) Protractor
16 18 (2.06%) webpack
17 17 (1.95%) Cypress.io
General
1 386 (44.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 362 (41.51%) Finance
3 338 (38.76%) Banking
4 166 (19.04%) Social Skills
5 107 (12.27%) Retail
6 93 (10.67%) Investment Banking
7 90 (10.32%) Corporate Banking
8 57 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (5.39%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.26%) Legal
11 9 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.80%) Games
12 7 (0.80%) Law
12 7 (0.80%) Marketing
12 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.57%) Automotive
13 5 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.46%) Electronics
14 4 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 305 (34.98%) Software Engineer
2 179 (20.53%) Lead
3 126 (14.45%) Developer
4 90 (10.32%) Team Leader
5 82 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (9.17%) Senior
7 60 (6.88%) Architect
8 44 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (4.82%) Software Developer
10 40 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
11 36 (4.13%) Java Developer
12 33 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
13 26 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (2.75%) Backend Developer
14 24 (2.75%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (2.75%) Senior Developer
15 23 (2.64%) Principal Systems Engineer
16 21 (2.41%) Java Engineer
16 21 (2.41%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (37.96%) React
2 303 (34.75%) Spring Boot
3 301 (34.52%) Spring
4 277 (31.77%) Kafka
5 276 (31.65%) JPA
6 265 (30.39%) HTML
7 264 (30.28%) CSS
8 249 (28.56%) Redux
9 188 (21.56%) Hibernate
10 160 (18.35%) RESTful
11 127 (14.56%) REST
12 114 (13.07%) Jest
13 98 (11.24%) HTML5
14 96 (11.01%) CSS3
15 90 (10.32%) Sass
16 83 (9.52%) .NET
17 81 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
18 69 (7.91%) AngularJS
18 69 (7.91%) OpenTelemetry
19 65 (7.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 290 (33.26%) Product Ownership
2 254 (29.13%) Enterprise Software
3 43 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 40 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (4.13%) Cyberattack
6 34 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.78%) Algorithms
8 29 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.41%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 19 (2.18%) e-Learning
12 18 (2.06%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.49%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.15%) Learning Management System
14 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.03%) Hackathon
15 9 (1.03%) IoT
15 9 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 236 (27.06%) Linux
2 73 (8.37%) Unix
3 69 (7.91%) Windows
4 53 (6.08%) Android
5 21 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.57%) CentOS
9 5 (0.57%) Debian
9 5 (0.57%) SUSE
9 5 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (68.81%) DevOps
2 596 (68.35%) Agile
3 551 (63.19%) CI/CD
4 447 (51.26%) Microservices
5 414 (47.48%) Software Engineering
6 371 (42.55%) Test Automation
7 318 (36.47%) Performance Optimisation
8 304 (34.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 270 (30.96%) Front End Development
10 265 (30.39%) SDLC
11 253 (29.01%) Mentoring
12 197 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 196 (22.48%) TDD
14 179 (20.53%) Clean Code
15 156 (17.89%) Roadmaps
16 155 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 122 (13.99%) Continuous Integration
18 119 (13.65%) Migration
19 118 (13.53%) User Experience
20 111 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 528 (60.55%) Java
2 418 (47.94%) JavaScript
3 351 (40.25%) SQL
4 259 (29.70%) Python
5 138 (15.83%) TypeScript
6 121 (13.88%) Bash
7 118 (13.53%) Go
8 77 (8.83%) C#
9 61 (7.00%) Rust
10 52 (5.96%) PowerShell
11 40 (4.59%) C++
12 18 (2.06%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.83%) C
14 12 (1.38%) Bicep
15 6 (0.69%) PHP
15 6 (0.69%) R
16 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.23%) ABAP
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.23%) XAML
Qualifications
1 121 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 103 (11.81%) Degree
3 97 (11.12%) AWS Certification
4 67 (7.68%) DV Cleared
5 48 (5.50%) SC Cleared
6 37 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.64%) Chartered Engineer
9 21 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.72%) HND
11 13 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.15%) PhD
13 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.46%) CISSP
16 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
16 3 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (30.62%) QA
2 101 (11.58%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.52%) GDPR
4 16 (1.83%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.03%) NCSC
6 7 (0.80%) NIST
6 7 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.57%) Basel II
7 5 (0.57%) Basel III
7 5 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
7 5 (0.57%) IFRS
7 5 (0.57%) IFRS 9
7 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) GMP
8 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.23%) CDISC
9 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 653 (74.89%) Docker
2 32 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.95%) Active Directory
5 13 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.69%) NFS
8 5 (0.57%) Postfix
8 5 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.57%) vSphere
9 3 (0.34%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.11%) KVM
10 1 (0.11%) LXC
10 1 (0.11%) Samba
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 614 (70.41%) Kubernetes
2 209 (23.97%) Terraform
3 161 (18.46%) Ansible
4 90 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 68 (7.80%) Argo
6 65 (7.45%) Kustomize
7 25 (2.87%) Grafana
8 7 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.69%) SCCM
10 5 (0.57%) Puppet
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.34%) Rancher
11 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.23%) SCOM
12 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 246 (28.21%) Solace
2 97 (11.12%) Google
3 88 (10.09%) Microsoft
4 59 (6.77%) IBM
5 38 (4.36%) VMware
6 30 (3.44%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.49%) Cisco
8 11 (1.26%) SAP
9 9 (1.03%) Oracle
10 8 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.80%) Ping Identity
12 6 (0.69%) Apple
13 5 (0.57%) Databricks
14 4 (0.46%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.46%) Splunk
15 3 (0.34%) Dynatrace
15 3 (0.34%) Jaspersoft
15 3 (0.34%) Okta
16 2 (0.23%) ForgeRock
16 2 (0.23%) NetApp