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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 109 127
Rank change year-on-year -76 +18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,578 3,235 4,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 3.13% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 3.27% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 1,486 2,017
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 18 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 6 May 2024. 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 -62 1,374 £72,500 - 357
UK excluding London -81 1,021 £65,000 - 179
Work from Home -63 669 £70,000 -3.45% 196
London -54 494 £82,500 +2.75% 180
North of England -6 274 £61,250 +2.90% 47
South East -43 223 £70,000 +7.69% 34
South West -64 177 £73,750 +13.46% 34
North West -22 137 £65,000 -4.41% 20
Midlands -60 134 £60,000 -3.61% 34
Yorkshire +34 119 £60,000 +26.32% 25
West Midlands -1 86 £60,000 -7.69% 18
Scotland -154 72 £80,000 +23.08% 11
East of England +14 67 £65,000 -13.33% 13
East Midlands -78 48 £57,500 +4.55% 16
Wales -41 47 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Northern Ireland -9 24 £60,000 -17.24% 5
North East -7 18 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 -

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 91 (5.77%) Apache
2 60 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 33 (2.09%) nginx
4 29 (1.84%) WebLogic
5 25 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.46%) Confluence
7 18 (1.14%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.82%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.19%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.19%) CMS
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) Mule
13 1 (0.063%) Jetty
Applications
1 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 888 (56.27%) AWS
2 657 (41.63%) Azure
3 303 (19.20%) GCP
4 271 (17.17%) Serverless
5 185 (11.72%) Amazon S3
6 171 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
7 149 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
8 147 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
9 144 (9.13%) GitHub
10 122 (7.73%) SaaS
11 120 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 94 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
13 86 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
14 85 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
15 78 (4.94%) Route 53
16 75 (4.75%) OpenShift
17 74 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (4.37%) OCI
19 68 (4.31%) PaaS
20 60 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.69%) Firewall
2 61 (3.87%) DNS
3 53 (3.36%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.85%) VPN
5 38 (2.41%) Network Security
6 30 (1.90%) LAN
7 27 (1.71%) Internet
8 25 (1.58%) AMQP
9 24 (1.52%) WAN
10 22 (1.39%) HTTP
11 17 (1.08%) DHCP
12 15 (0.95%) BGP
13 14 (0.89%) IPv4
14 12 (0.76%) SNMP
15 11 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.70%) MPLS
16 10 (0.63%) SMTP
16 10 (0.63%) tcpdump
17 9 (0.57%) WLAN
18 7 (0.44%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (8.24%) NoSQL
2 125 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (7.16%) Relational Database
4 107 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 97 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (5.07%) Big Data
7 76 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
7 76 (4.82%) MySQL
8 65 (4.12%) RDBMS
9 56 (3.55%) Hadoop
10 55 (3.49%) MongoDB
11 43 (2.72%) Redis
12 37 (2.34%) Oracle Database
13 30 (1.90%) Data Lake
14 27 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.58%) Cloudera CDH
16 20 (1.27%) DynamoDB
16 20 (1.27%) InfluxDB
17 19 (1.20%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 325 (20.60%) Git
2 285 (18.06%) Jenkins
3 204 (12.93%) GitLab
4 72 (4.56%) JIRA
5 61 (3.87%) CircleCI
6 47 (2.98%) Selenium
7 44 (2.79%) SonarQube
8 37 (2.34%) JUnit
9 36 (2.28%) JDeveloper
10 34 (2.15%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.27%) TeamCity
12 19 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (1.20%) TestNG
13 18 (1.14%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.01%) REST Assured
14 16 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (0.95%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.82%) Maven
16 13 (0.82%) Storybook
17 10 (0.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 390 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 305 (19.33%) Finance
3 148 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 140 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 104 (6.59%) Banking
7 56 (3.55%) Games
8 54 (3.42%) Retail
9 46 (2.92%) Law
10 36 (2.28%) Aerospace
11 35 (2.22%) Marketing
12 34 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.65%) Police
14 21 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.33%) Retail Banking
15 15 (0.95%) Automotive
16 14 (0.89%) Front Office
17 11 (0.70%) Back Office
17 11 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 369 (23.38%) Senior
2 353 (22.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 331 (20.98%) Developer
4 231 (14.64%) Software Engineer
5 167 (10.58%) Architect
6 140 (8.87%) Lead
7 112 (7.10%) Senior DevOps
8 105 (6.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 92 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
10 75 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 70 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
12 69 (4.37%) Data Engineer
13 66 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
14 65 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
15 64 (4.06%) Java Developer
16 62 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
17 61 (3.87%) Lead DevOps
18 60 (3.80%) Senior Developer
19 59 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 56 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (17.55%) React
2 201 (12.74%) .NET
3 197 (12.48%) Spring
4 169 (10.71%) Node.js
5 144 (9.13%) AngularJS
6 128 (8.11%) RESTful
7 122 (7.73%) REST
8 101 (6.40%) Spring Boot
9 90 (5.70%) HTML
10 77 (4.88%) CSS
11 74 (4.69%) .NET Core
12 69 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
13 63 (3.99%) Kafka
14 62 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
14 62 (3.93%) YAML
15 51 (3.23%) J2EE
16 47 (2.98%) JSON
17 45 (2.85%) ASP.NET
18 43 (2.72%) ARM Templates
18 43 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 90 (5.70%) Public Cloud
4 81 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 67 (4.25%) Private Cloud
6 66 (4.18%) Blockchain
7 59 (3.74%) Management Information System
8 58 (3.68%) e-Learning
9 47 (2.98%) Product Ownership
10 42 (2.66%) Data Centre
11 40 (2.53%) Mobile App
12 32 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.71%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.52%) Clustering
14 24 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (1.46%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.27%) Client/Server
16 20 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
17 18 (1.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 390 (24.71%) Linux
2 153 (9.70%) Windows
3 80 (5.07%) Unix
4 61 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (2.79%) CentOS
6 39 (2.47%) Debian
6 39 (2.47%) Ubuntu
7 37 (2.34%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.44%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.44%) zOS
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.32%) Solaris
10 5 (0.32%) VMS
11 4 (0.25%) Android
12 3 (0.19%) SUSE
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (53.61%) DevOps
2 664 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 623 (39.48%) Agile
4 488 (30.93%) Software Engineering
5 484 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
6 440 (27.88%) Microservices
7 422 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 289 (18.31%) Continuous Integration
9 258 (16.35%) Test Automation
10 244 (15.46%) Mentoring
11 202 (12.80%) Computer Science
12 201 (12.74%) Scrum
13 174 (11.03%) Coaching
14 161 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
15 158 (10.01%) Open Source
16 157 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
17 141 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 140 (8.87%) Code Quality
19 131 (8.30%) Deployment Automation
20 122 (7.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 614 (38.91%) Python
2 465 (29.47%) Java
3 264 (16.73%) SQL
4 241 (15.27%) JavaScript
5 227 (14.39%) Bash
6 219 (13.88%) C#
7 160 (10.14%) TypeScript
8 159 (10.08%) PowerShell
9 103 (6.53%) Ruby
10 98 (6.21%) Go
11 64 (4.06%) Shell Script
12 54 (3.42%) Perl
13 37 (2.34%) C
14 35 (2.22%) C++
15 34 (2.15%) Bicep
16 33 (2.09%) PHP
17 22 (1.39%) Groovy
18 18 (1.14%) Rust
19 17 (1.08%) Scala
20 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 299 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 255 (16.16%) Degree
3 195 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 156 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 81 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 50 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 47 (2.98%) Master's Degree
9 39 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 39 (2.47%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.70%) CCNA
14 10 (0.63%) PhD
15 8 (0.51%) CISSP
16 7 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 5 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.46%) QA
2 31 (1.96%) SLA
3 21 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (0.95%) GDPR
5 9 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.51%) NCSC
6 8 (0.51%) PMO
6 8 (0.51%) PSD2
7 6 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.25%) WAI
9 3 (0.19%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.13%) WCAG
11 1 (0.063%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.063%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.063%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.063%) NIST
System Software
1 857 (54.31%) Docker
2 72 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
3 50 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (2.98%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.63%) Firmware
8 8 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.51%) HDFS
8 8 (0.51%) KVM
8 8 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.38%) Ceph
9 6 (0.38%) VirtualBox
9 6 (0.38%) vSphere
10 5 (0.32%) Xen
11 3 (0.19%) Gluster
11 3 (0.19%) oVirt
11 3 (0.19%) XenApp
12 2 (0.13%) QEMU
12 2 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 861 (54.56%) Kubernetes
2 492 (31.18%) Terraform
3 235 (14.89%) Ansible
4 142 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 109 (6.91%) Puppet
6 90 (5.70%) Grafana
7 32 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (1.96%) HAProxy
9 29 (1.84%) OpenSSO
9 29 (1.84%) Progress Chef
10 25 (1.58%) Nagios
11 21 (1.33%) Kibana
12 20 (1.27%) vCenter Server
13 16 (1.01%) Consul
14 11 (0.70%) SCOM
15 10 (0.63%) Graphite
15 10 (0.63%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.51%) SCCM
17 7 (0.44%) CA Endevor
17 7 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 196 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 175 (11.09%) Google
3 163 (10.33%) Oracle
4 107 (6.78%) Red Hat
5 70 (4.44%) IBM
6 66 (4.18%) Dynatrace
7 57 (3.61%) VMware
8 33 (2.09%) ServiceNow
9 32 (2.03%) Splunk
10 29 (1.84%) Remedy
11 27 (1.71%) SaltStack
12 25 (1.58%) Cisco
13 17 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 17 (1.08%) Databricks
14 16 (1.01%) Sitecore
14 16 (1.01%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.95%) ForgeRock
15 15 (0.95%) Sybase
16 14 (0.89%) Citrix
17 11 (0.70%) CyberArk