Containerisation Job Trends in the West Midlands

Containerization
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 102 180
Rank change year-on-year -70 +78 -3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 32 72 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.41% 2.33% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 2.62% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 20 42 65
10th Percentile £60,875 - £40,000
25th Percentile £64,439 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,505 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +8.33% -3.61%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £88,594
England median annual salary £72,500 £78,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.94% +8.62% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,469 2,750 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.88% 88.94% 80.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,781 1,608 4,753
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Birmingham -7 16 £70,932 +5.08% 6
Wolverhampton - 4 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -9 3 £61,250 - 1
Herefordshire -21 3 £100,000 - 3
Worcestershire -24 1 £43,000 -33.85% 2
Staffordshire -26 1 £72,500 +16.00%
Shropshire -30 1 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) AWS
2 23 (71.88%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) BrowserStack
4 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Datadog
5 2 (6.25%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) JUnit
1 9 (28.13%) Maven
1 9 (28.13%) Mockito
2 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 4 (12.50%) Gatling
3 4 (12.50%) Zephyr
4 3 (9.38%) Git
5 2 (6.25%) GitLab
5 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.25%) JMeter
5 2 (6.25%) Locust
6 1 (3.13%) Appium
6 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.13%) JIRA
6 1 (3.13%) TestRail
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Automotive
5 1 (3.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Lead
2 10 (31.25%) Senior
3 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Java Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Architect
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Administrator
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) REST
2 6 (18.75%) React
3 5 (15.63%) Spring
4 4 (12.50%) Playwright
4 4 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (6.25%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.13%) CSS
6 1 (3.13%) D3.js
6 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.13%) Flask
6 1 (3.13%) HTML
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) NumPy
6 1 (3.13%) Pandas
6 1 (3.13%) pytest
6 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.13%) XML
6 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) CentOS
2 2 (6.25%) Debian
2 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (62.50%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (34.38%) Scrum
4 11 (34.38%) SDLC
5 10 (31.25%) DevOps
5 10 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
5 10 (31.25%) Sprint Planning
5 10 (31.25%) TDD
5 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 9 (28.13%) Microservices
7 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 7 (21.88%) AI
8 7 (21.88%) BDD
8 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
8 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Java
2 13 (40.63%) Bash
3 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (31.25%) Python
5 9 (28.13%) PL/SQL
5 9 (28.13%) SQL
6 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
7 4 (12.50%) C
7 4 (12.50%) C#
7 4 (12.50%) R
8 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) SC Cleared
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
2 6 (18.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.25%) WCAG
4 1 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (31.25%) Terraform
3 4 (12.50%) Grafana
4 3 (9.38%) Ansible
5 2 (6.25%) Argo
5 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.25%) Puppet
6 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk