Containerization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Containerisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Containerisation over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 86 140 126
Rank change year-on-year +54 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,851 3,153 3,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.54% 2.58% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 2.69% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,766 2,403
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,167 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,249 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +2.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £105,000 £104,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Containerisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,175 117,045 121,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.07% 95.76% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,535 71,782 82,169
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +4.17%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +47 1,462 £70,576 -5.64% 426
UK excluding London +112 1,182 £67,500 +3.85% 229
Work from Home +66 1,049 £70,000 -2.10% 238
London -10 531 £80,000 -3.03% 232
North of England +163 325 £67,500 +3.85% 57
South West +44 203 £64,000 +8.94% 34
South East +83 185 £70,000 +7.69% 75
North West +168 167 £66,250 -3.28% 33
Yorkshire +101 144 £70,576 +8.58% 20
Midlands +98 143 £62,500 -3.85% 27
Scotland -4 134 £70,576 +8.58% 10
Wales +49 119 £57,165 -1.63% 5
East Midlands +64 91 £63,250 -2.69% 10
West Midlands +82 52 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Northern Ireland +33 40 £57,500 -30.30% 3
East of England +100 35 £72,500 +31.82% 21
North East +34 14 £57,500 +4.55% 4

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 77 (4.16%) WebLogic
2 48 (2.59%) Confluence
3 41 (2.22%) Apache
4 35 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 31 (1.67%) IIS
6 21 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.81%) nginx
8 13 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.38%) CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Luigi
10 5 (0.27%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.22%) JBoss
11 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Trello
2 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.11%) Ripple
5 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 680 (36.74%) AWS
2 663 (35.82%) Azure
3 446 (24.10%) Serverless
4 340 (18.37%) GCP
5 224 (12.10%) SaaS
6 173 (9.35%) PaaS
7 148 (8.00%) IaaS
8 146 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 128 (6.92%) OpenShift
10 116 (6.27%) GitHub
11 97 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
13 73 (3.94%) Amazon S3
13 73 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (3.13%) Azure AKS
15 56 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 41 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 38 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.65%) DNS
2 45 (2.43%) VPN
3 40 (2.16%) SAN
4 29 (1.57%) Firewall
5 21 (1.13%) IPv4
6 18 (0.97%) VLAN
7 17 (0.92%) DHCP
8 16 (0.86%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.59%) OSPF
10 10 (0.54%) Internet
11 8 (0.43%) AMQP
11 8 (0.43%) HTTP
11 8 (0.43%) Network Security
12 7 (0.38%) BGP
12 7 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.32%) SSH
14 5 (0.27%) IPv6
14 5 (0.27%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.22%) DMZ
15 4 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (8.91%) Relational Database
2 121 (6.54%) SQL Server
3 114 (6.16%) NoSQL
4 95 (5.13%) RDBMS
5 93 (5.02%) Oracle Database
6 92 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
7 70 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
8 66 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 60 (3.24%) MySQL
10 51 (2.76%) Big Data
11 38 (2.05%) MongoDB
12 36 (1.94%) Redis
13 31 (1.67%) DynamoDB
14 28 (1.51%) Hadoop
15 25 (1.35%) Power BI
16 23 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
17 21 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (1.03%) InfluxDB
19 15 (0.81%) BigQuery
20 11 (0.59%) Presto
Development Applications
1 394 (21.29%) Git
2 268 (14.48%) Jenkins
3 179 (9.67%) GitLab
4 72 (3.89%) JIRA
5 55 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 47 (2.54%) Artifactory
7 43 (2.32%) Maven
8 41 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 40 (2.16%) CircleCI
10 36 (1.94%) JDeveloper
11 29 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 29 (1.57%) Jasmine
11 29 (1.57%) Mockito
12 28 (1.51%) Bitbucket
13 26 (1.40%) SonarQube
14 25 (1.35%) Eclipse
14 25 (1.35%) IntelliJ
15 23 (1.24%) Liquibase
16 18 (0.97%) Selenium
17 16 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 526 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 489 (26.42%) Finance
3 315 (17.02%) Banking
4 156 (8.43%) Games
5 149 (8.05%) Police
6 143 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (2.49%) Retail
10 38 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 26 (1.40%) Law
12 22 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 18 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.92%) Marketing
16 16 (0.86%) Retail Banking
17 13 (0.70%) Advertising
18 8 (0.43%) Legal
19 6 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 406 (21.93%) Architect
2 393 (21.23%) Software Engineer
3 386 (20.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 342 (18.48%) Senior
5 246 (13.29%) Developer
6 161 (8.70%) Java Engineer
7 152 (8.21%) Security Architect
8 143 (7.73%) Java Software Engineer
9 125 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
10 113 (6.10%) Lead
11 97 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
12 87 (4.70%) Ruby Engineer
13 85 (4.59%) Analyst
14 79 (4.27%) Applications Support
15 77 (4.16%) Applications Support Analyst
15 77 (4.16%) Support Analyst
16 76 (4.11%) Senior Developer
17 75 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
18 72 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
19 71 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (19.39%) React
2 280 (15.13%) Spring
3 236 (12.75%) .NET
4 214 (11.56%) J2EE
5 154 (8.32%) Node.js
6 135 (7.29%) Ruby on Rails
7 122 (6.59%) AngularJS
8 103 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
9 100 (5.40%) Kafka
10 78 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
10 78 (4.21%) Java EE
11 68 (3.67%) HTML
11 68 (3.67%) REST
12 65 (3.51%) RESTful
13 63 (3.40%) Spring Boot
14 57 (3.08%) .NET Core
15 54 (2.92%) .NET Framework
16 43 (2.32%) ASP.NET
16 43 (2.32%) CSS
16 43 (2.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (8.59%) Public Cloud
2 105 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 104 (5.62%) Private Cloud
4 89 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 81 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 71 (3.84%) Virtual Team
7 51 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 18 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 17 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (0.86%) Onboarding
14 15 (0.81%) Hedge funds
15 14 (0.76%) Mobile Banking
16 13 (0.70%) Blockchain
16 13 (0.70%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.65%) IoT
18 11 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 424 (22.91%) Linux
2 164 (8.86%) Windows
3 153 (8.27%) Unix
4 34 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 33 (1.78%) Android
6 30 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.24%) Debian
8 19 (1.03%) Solaris
9 15 (0.81%) Windows Server
10 13 (0.70%) CentOS
11 12 (0.65%) Fedora
12 11 (0.59%) AIX
12 11 (0.59%) HPUX
13 7 (0.38%) CoreOS
13 7 (0.38%) zOS
14 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.11%) VMS
16 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (41.92%) DevOps
2 678 (36.63%) Microservices
3 672 (36.30%) Agile
4 635 (34.31%) CI/CD
5 616 (33.28%) Actionable Insight
6 596 (32.20%) Software Engineering
7 537 (29.01%) Problem-Solving
8 460 (24.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 418 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
10 385 (20.80%) Mentoring
11 312 (16.86%) Design Patterns
12 287 (15.51%) Code Quality
13 270 (14.59%) Unit Testing
14 236 (12.75%) Clean Code
15 221 (11.94%) Scrum
16 204 (11.02%) Coaching
17 175 (9.45%) Configuration Management
18 174 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
19 168 (9.08%) SIEM
20 167 (9.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 758 (40.95%) Python
2 710 (38.36%) Java
3 371 (20.04%) C#
4 357 (19.29%) Bash
5 268 (14.48%) JavaScript
6 257 (13.88%) Ruby
7 230 (12.43%) PowerShell
8 206 (11.13%) SQL
9 135 (7.29%) Go
10 100 (5.40%) Shell Script
11 92 (4.97%) Perl
12 64 (3.46%) TypeScript
13 54 (2.92%) Bicep
14 31 (1.67%) Groovy
15 28 (1.51%) C++
16 26 (1.40%) PHP
17 21 (1.13%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.70%) Rust
19 11 (0.59%) C
19 11 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 566 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 329 (17.77%) SC Cleared
3 161 (8.70%) Degree
4 90 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 49 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.59%) RHCE
14 10 (0.54%) GIAC
15 9 (0.49%) MCSE
16 8 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.38%) CCNA
17 7 (0.38%) CCNP
17 7 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (8.54%) QA
2 80 (4.32%) SLA
3 19 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.38%) GDPR
7 6 (0.32%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.27%) NIST
9 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.11%) PSD2
9 2 (0.11%) WAI
10 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.054%) NCSC
10 1 (0.054%) RMADS
10 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 848 (45.81%) Docker
2 176 (9.51%) Virtual Machines
3 75 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.49%) Ceph
7 7 (0.38%) vSphere
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.16%) LXC
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) pfSense
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.054%) Gluster
11 1 (0.054%) GPFS
11 1 (0.054%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 761 (41.11%) Kubernetes
2 515 (27.82%) Terraform
3 359 (19.39%) Ansible
4 101 (5.46%) Grafana
5 97 (5.24%) Puppet
6 94 (5.08%) Prometheus
7 81 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
8 77 (4.16%) OpenSSO
9 46 (2.49%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.19%) AirWatch
11 21 (1.13%) Packer
12 14 (0.76%) Istio
13 13 (0.70%) Nagios
14 12 (0.65%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.59%) Kibana
16 9 (0.49%) Consul
16 9 (0.49%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.43%) Argo
18 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
18 7 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 305 (16.48%) Oracle
2 168 (9.08%) Microsoft
3 146 (7.89%) Google
4 67 (3.62%) Splunk
5 58 (3.13%) VMware
6 55 (2.97%) Remedy
7 48 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 28 (1.51%) Atlassian
8 28 (1.51%) IBM
9 20 (1.08%) TOWER Software
10 19 (1.03%) CyberArk
11 17 (0.92%) Cisco
11 17 (0.92%) Databricks
12 12 (0.65%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.65%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.65%) SAP
13 9 (0.49%) Juniper
14 8 (0.43%) HP
14 8 (0.43%) New Relic
14 8 (0.43%) SaltStack