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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 180 128
Rank change year-on-year +67 -52 +32
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 81 73 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.97% 0.94% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.17% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48 67 41
10th Percentile - £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,891 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

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 3,598 6,247 5,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.31% 80.14% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,828 4,136 3,104
10th Percentile £28,822 £27,300 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,189 £36,250 £39,500
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 £80,000 £79,800 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +34 19 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Birmingham +23 19 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Shropshire - 12 £60,000 - 3
Worcestershire - 10 £80,000 - 5
Warwickshire +16 5 - - 6
Herefordshire +11 3 - - 1
Coventry +5 3 £67,500 +37.06% 1
Solihull - 3 £75,000 -
Walsall - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 20 (24.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 66 (81.48%) AWS
2 63 (77.78%) Azure
3 28 (34.57%) GCP
4 10 (12.35%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.11%) SaaS
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (8.64%) GitHub
7 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (7.41%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.41%) Azure Stack
8 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 6 (7.41%) Route 53
9 5 (6.17%) IaaS
9 5 (6.17%) PaaS
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Broadband
1 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 9 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.47%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.47%) Metadata
7 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.47%) Redis
7 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.23%) DB2
8 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (45.68%) SonarQube
2 32 (39.51%) JIRA
2 32 (39.51%) Maven
3 25 (30.86%) Cucumber
4 24 (29.63%) Bitbucket
4 24 (29.63%) GitLab
4 24 (29.63%) Selenium
4 24 (29.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (17.28%) Git
6 11 (13.58%) JUnit
7 10 (12.35%) Mockito
8 7 (8.64%) Jenkins
9 6 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (7.41%) DbUnit
9 6 (7.41%) jMock
10 3 (3.70%) Eclipse
10 3 (3.70%) IntelliJ
10 3 (3.70%) Jasmine
10 3 (3.70%) MLflow
10 3 (3.70%) Protractor
General
1 28 (34.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (33.33%) Finance
3 24 (29.63%) Banking
4 22 (27.16%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.58%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (13.58%) Investment Banking
5 11 (13.58%) Retail
6 8 (9.88%) Social Skills
7 5 (6.17%) Automotive
8 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Advertising
10 1 (1.23%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 37 (45.68%) Software Engineer
2 20 (24.69%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.35%) Lead
5 9 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Senior
7 7 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) SaaS Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (50.62%) Spring
2 34 (41.98%) JPA
2 34 (41.98%) React
3 32 (39.51%) Spring Boot
4 26 (32.10%) CSS
5 25 (30.86%) HTML
6 24 (29.63%) Kafka
6 24 (29.63%) Redux
7 22 (27.16%) Hibernate
7 22 (27.16%) RESTful
8 16 (19.75%) REST
9 13 (16.05%) Jest
10 12 (14.81%) AngularJS
11 11 (13.58%) CSS3
11 11 (13.58%) HTML5
11 11 (13.58%) Sass
12 7 (8.64%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (8.64%) Bootstrap
12 7 (8.64%) SOAP
13 6 (7.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Product Ownership
2 24 (29.63%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (14.81%) Onboarding
4 7 (8.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
6 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
6 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
8 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.47%) CUDA
9 2 (2.47%) IoT
9 2 (2.47%) SIMD
10 1 (1.23%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.40%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Rocky
2 6 (7.41%) Windows
2 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 6 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (4.94%) Unix
4 1 (1.23%) Android
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) DevOps
2 49 (60.49%) CI/CD
2 49 (60.49%) Microservices
3 44 (54.32%) Agile
4 42 (51.85%) Software Engineering
5 34 (41.98%) Test Automation
6 31 (38.27%) TDD
7 29 (35.80%) Front End Development
8 28 (34.57%) Performance Optimisation
9 27 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (29.63%) SDLC
11 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
12 17 (20.99%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (17.28%) Clean Code
14 14 (17.28%) Continuous Delivery
15 12 (14.81%) Strategic Thinking
15 12 (14.81%) User Experience
16 11 (13.58%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 50 (61.73%) Java
2 40 (49.38%) SQL
3 31 (38.27%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.52%) Python
5 13 (16.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.41%) C#
7 4 (4.94%) Bash
8 3 (3.70%) C++
8 3 (3.70%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.23%) Rust
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.88%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.64%) DV Cleared
6 6 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.47%) Degree
9 1 (1.23%) CBAP
9 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (33.33%) QA
2 12 (14.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.17%) NCSC
4 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.23%) NIST
4 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (87.65%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 66 (81.48%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.28%) Terraform
3 10 (12.35%) Ansible
4 7 (8.64%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.17%) Grafana
6 2 (2.47%) Argo
6 2 (2.47%) Kubeflow
6 2 (2.47%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) Solace
2 6 (7.41%) Atlassian
2 6 (7.41%) Dell
3 5 (6.17%) Databricks
3 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.94%) IBM
5 3 (3.70%) Google
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle
6 2 (2.47%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.23%) Informatica