Containerisation Jobs in the West Midlands

Containerization
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 181 142
Rank change year-on-year +53 -39 -3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 72 80 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.72% 1.00% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.24% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 40 65 41
10th Percentile - £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £88,594 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +0.69% +2.86%

All Process and 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 3,811 6,467 5,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.22% 80.74% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 4,699 3,147
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,625 £35,700 £39,842
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Containerisation in the West Midlands

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

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 2 June 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
Staffordshire +32 18 £62,500 +25.00% 103
Birmingham +19 17 £67,500 +12.50% 108
Shropshire - 11 £60,000 - 174
Warwickshire +6 5 - - 7
Worcestershire - 4 £65,000 - 89
Herefordshire +9 3 - - 8
Solihull - 3 £75,000 -
Coventry -6 1 - - 93
Walsall - 1 £60,000 -
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 19 (26.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 64 (88.89%) AWS
2 61 (84.72%) Azure
3 27 (37.50%) GCP
4 15 (20.83%) SaaS
5 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.50%) GitHub
5 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.72%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (9.72%) IaaS
6 7 (9.72%) PaaS
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.94%) AWS KMS
8 5 (6.94%) Route 53
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.78%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.78%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.72%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.17%) Redis
7 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.39%) DB2
9 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (54.17%) SonarQube
2 31 (43.06%) JIRA
3 30 (41.67%) Maven
4 24 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 24 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 24 (33.33%) GitLab
4 24 (33.33%) Selenium
4 24 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (18.06%) JUnit
5 13 (18.06%) Mockito
6 12 (16.67%) Git
7 7 (9.72%) Eclipse
7 7 (9.72%) IntelliJ
7 7 (9.72%) Jasmine
7 7 (9.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 7 (9.72%) Protractor
8 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
9 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (6.94%) DbUnit
9 5 (6.94%) jMock
General
1 27 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (36.11%) Finance
3 24 (33.33%) Banking
4 16 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (15.28%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (15.28%) Investment Banking
5 11 (15.28%) Retail
6 5 (6.94%) Automotive
7 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.39%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 37 (51.39%) Software Engineer
2 22 (30.56%) Developer
3 13 (18.06%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Lead
5 8 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) SaaS Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.78%) Architect
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Developer
9 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.17%) Spring
2 37 (51.39%) JPA
2 37 (51.39%) React
3 30 (41.67%) Spring Boot
4 26 (36.11%) CSS
5 25 (34.72%) Hibernate
5 25 (34.72%) HTML
6 24 (33.33%) Kafka
6 24 (33.33%) Redux
7 21 (29.17%) RESTful
8 15 (20.83%) AngularJS
9 14 (19.44%) REST
10 13 (18.06%) Jest
11 11 (15.28%) CSS3
11 11 (15.28%) HTML5
11 11 (15.28%) Sass
12 7 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (8.33%) Bootstrap
13 6 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 9 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.78%) CUDA
6 2 (2.78%) IoT
6 2 (2.78%) SIMD
7 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (72.22%) DevOps
2 49 (68.06%) Microservices
3 44 (61.11%) Agile
3 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 44 (61.11%) Software Engineering
4 34 (47.22%) Test Automation
5 29 (40.28%) Front End Development
5 29 (40.28%) TDD
6 28 (38.89%) Performance Optimisation
7 26 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (33.33%) SDLC
9 19 (26.39%) Mentoring
10 16 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
10 16 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (18.06%) Clean Code
12 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
13 12 (16.67%) User Experience
14 11 (15.28%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (69.44%) Java
2 40 (55.56%) SQL
3 30 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 13 (18.06%) TypeScript
5 11 (15.28%) Python
6 5 (6.94%) C#
7 3 (4.17%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) C++
7 3 (4.17%) Go
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (34.72%) QA
2 12 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 7 (9.72%) NCSC
4 2 (2.78%) SLA
5 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (97.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 58 (80.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.28%) Ansible
2 11 (15.28%) Terraform
3 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.33%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Argo
5 2 (2.78%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 24 (33.33%) Solace
2 8 (11.11%) IBM
3 5 (6.94%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle