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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 171 152
Rank change year-on-year +45 -19 -9
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 72 83 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.67% 1.13% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.36% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 39 67 44
10th Percentile - £40,000 £47,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,563
90th Percentile £76,250 £92,000 £91,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%

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 3,930 6,099 6,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 4,542 3,189
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,925
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
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 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 15 May 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 15 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
Staffordshire +29 18 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Birmingham +23 18 £67,500 +12.50% 20
Shropshire - 9 £60,000 - 2
Warwickshire -8 5 - - 4
Worcestershire - 5 £65,000 - 8
Herefordshire +6 3 - - 8
Solihull - 2 £75,000 -
Coventry -6 1 - - 7
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 62 (86.11%) Azure
2 59 (81.94%) AWS
3 25 (34.72%) GCP
4 18 (25.00%) SaaS
5 12 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (15.28%) GitHub
6 11 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (11.11%) IaaS
7 8 (11.11%) PaaS
8 4 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.78%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.78%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.78%) Pulumi
10 2 (2.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.56%) Redis
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.39%) DB2
8 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (52.78%) SonarQube
2 31 (43.06%) JIRA
3 27 (37.50%) 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 10 (13.89%) Git
5 10 (13.89%) JUnit
5 10 (13.89%) Mockito
6 7 (9.72%) Eclipse
6 7 (9.72%) IntelliJ
6 7 (9.72%) Jasmine
6 7 (9.72%) Karma Test Runner
6 7 (9.72%) Protractor
7 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.78%) DbUnit
8 2 (2.78%) jMock
General
1 27 (37.50%) Finance
1 27 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (33.33%) Banking
3 15 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 11 (15.28%) Corporate Banking
4 11 (15.28%) Investment Banking
4 11 (15.28%) Retail
5 6 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Automotive
7 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.39%) iGaming
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (48.61%) Software Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Backend Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Senior
5 8 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Java Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Java Software Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) SaaS Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Lead
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Architect
11 2 (2.78%) C++ Developer
11 2 (2.78%) C++ Software Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (51.39%) React
2 34 (47.22%) JPA
2 34 (47.22%) Spring
3 27 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 26 (36.11%) CSS
5 25 (34.72%) HTML
6 24 (33.33%) Kafka
6 24 (33.33%) Redux
7 22 (30.56%) Hibernate
8 19 (26.39%) RESTful
9 13 (18.06%) Jest
9 13 (18.06%) REST
10 12 (16.67%) AngularJS
11 11 (15.28%) CSS3
11 11 (15.28%) HTML5
11 11 (15.28%) Sass
12 7 (9.72%) ARM Templates
12 7 (9.72%) Azure Blueprints
12 7 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (6.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.28%) Onboarding
3 9 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 7 (9.72%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.78%) CUDA
7 2 (2.78%) IoT
7 2 (2.78%) SIMD
8 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) 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 53 (73.61%) DevOps
2 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 44 (61.11%) Microservices
3 43 (59.72%) Agile
3 43 (59.72%) Software Engineering
4 32 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 30 (41.67%) Front End Development
6 28 (38.89%) Performance Optimisation
7 26 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (34.72%) SDLC
9 24 (33.33%) TDD
10 22 (30.56%) Mentoring
11 16 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (18.06%) Clean Code
14 12 (16.67%) User Experience
15 11 (15.28%) Migration
15 11 (15.28%) Responsive Web Design
15 11 (15.28%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 45 (62.50%) Java
2 41 (56.94%) SQL
3 30 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 13 (18.06%) TypeScript
5 12 (16.67%) Python
6 6 (8.33%) 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 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) 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 26 (36.11%) QA
2 12 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 8 (11.11%) 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 69 (95.83%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 60 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.67%) Terraform
3 11 (15.28%) Ansible
4 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.33%) Grafana
6 2 (2.78%) Argo
6 2 (2.78%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 24 (33.33%) Solace
2 8 (11.11%) IBM
3 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.78%) Databricks
4 2 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle