Containerisation Jobs

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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 95 126
Rank change year-on-year -110 +31 -3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,475 3,131 5,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 3.35% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 3.51% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,344 2,027
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.06%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,889 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,995
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.57% +6.08%

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 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -87 1,318 £72,500 - 337
UK excluding London -123 937 £62,500 -3.85% 189
Work from Home -102 581 £70,000 -3.45% 195
London -62 487 £85,000 +5.86% 157
North of England -59 250 £60,000 +0.80% 51
South East -83 212 £67,500 +3.85% 42
South West -71 172 £72,500 +7.41% 40
North West -76 124 £65,000 -3.55% 30
Midlands -103 122 £60,000 - 25
Yorkshire +12 114 £60,000 +26.32% 17
West Midlands -38 78 £60,000 -3.61% 9
East of England -17 68 £62,500 -21.88% 17
Scotland -163 56 £70,000 +7.69% 13
East Midlands -95 44 £58,750 +17.50% 16
Wales -71 34 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Northern Ireland -16 18 £60,000 -18.64% 2
North East -22 12 £68,000 -2.86% 5
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 1

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 93 (6.31%) Apache
2 60 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.37%) nginx
4 25 (1.69%) Confluence
4 25 (1.69%) WebLogic
5 23 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.08%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.41%) JBoss
9 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IIS
13 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.068%) Jetty
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 892 (60.47%) AWS
2 645 (43.73%) Azure
3 287 (19.46%) GCP
4 214 (14.51%) Serverless
5 179 (12.14%) Amazon S3
6 170 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
7 150 (10.17%) GitHub
8 148 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
9 147 (9.97%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (8.47%) SaaS
11 110 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 100 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
13 87 (5.90%) Cloud Computing
14 81 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
15 78 (5.29%) OpenShift
16 76 (5.15%) Route 53
17 71 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (4.68%) OCI
19 64 (4.34%) PaaS
20 59 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.22%) Firewall
2 57 (3.86%) DNS
3 50 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 43 (2.92%) VPN
5 40 (2.71%) Network Security
6 29 (1.97%) AMQP
6 29 (1.97%) LAN
7 27 (1.83%) WAN
8 26 (1.76%) Internet
9 22 (1.49%) HTTP
10 15 (1.02%) DHCP
11 14 (0.95%) BGP
12 13 (0.88%) IPv4
13 11 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.75%) MPLS
14 10 (0.68%) SMTP
14 10 (0.68%) SNMP
15 9 (0.61%) SSL
16 8 (0.54%) tcpdump
16 8 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 104 (7.05%) NoSQL
4 85 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
5 68 (4.61%) MySQL
6 67 (4.54%) Big Data
6 67 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
7 63 (4.27%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.73%) Hadoop
9 47 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 36 (2.44%) Redis
11 29 (1.97%) Cloudera CDH
12 26 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 25 (1.69%) RDBMS
14 23 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.56%) DynamoDB
15 17 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.15%) Power BI
15 17 (1.15%) Tableau
16 16 (1.08%) Presto
Development Applications
1 272 (18.44%) Git
2 268 (18.17%) Jenkins
3 175 (11.86%) GitLab
4 72 (4.88%) JIRA
5 66 (4.47%) CircleCI
6 48 (3.25%) Selenium
7 35 (2.37%) JUnit
8 31 (2.10%) Cucumber
9 30 (2.03%) SonarQube
10 25 (1.69%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (1.29%) TestNG
13 18 (1.22%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.95%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.95%) Robot Framework
16 13 (0.88%) Storybook
17 11 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
18 10 (0.68%) Artifactory
18 10 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 392 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 272 (18.44%) Finance
3 164 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 138 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (4.75%) Banking
7 51 (3.46%) Law
8 45 (3.05%) Aerospace
8 45 (3.05%) Games
9 44 (2.98%) Retail
10 39 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.31%) Marketing
12 31 (2.10%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.69%) Police
14 24 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.29%) Automotive
16 17 (1.15%) Front Office
17 12 (0.81%) Back Office
17 12 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 376 (25.49%) Senior
2 341 (23.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 305 (20.68%) Developer
4 183 (12.41%) Software Engineer
5 143 (9.69%) Lead
6 138 (9.36%) Architect
7 123 (8.34%) Senior DevOps
8 113 (7.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 91 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
10 81 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 67 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
12 66 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
12 66 (4.47%) Full Stack Developer
13 65 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
14 59 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
15 58 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 57 (3.86%) Data Engineer
17 56 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.59%) Senior Developer
18 53 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (15.86%) React
2 204 (13.83%) .NET
3 161 (10.92%) Spring
4 143 (9.69%) AngularJS
5 131 (8.88%) Node.js
5 131 (8.88%) REST
6 126 (8.54%) RESTful
7 99 (6.71%) HTML
8 92 (6.24%) Spring Boot
9 84 (5.69%) .NET Core
10 76 (5.15%) CSS
11 61 (4.14%) Kafka
12 59 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
12 59 (4.00%) YAML
13 50 (3.39%) ARM Templates
14 49 (3.32%) .NET Framework
15 48 (3.25%) ASP.NET
16 46 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
17 43 (2.92%) JSON
18 42 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 114 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 83 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 82 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 65 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 60 (4.07%) Blockchain
7 58 (3.93%) e-Learning
8 57 (3.86%) Management Information System
9 47 (3.19%) Product Ownership
10 46 (3.12%) Data Centre
11 43 (2.92%) Mobile App
12 30 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.56%) Clustering
13 23 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
14 22 (1.49%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.36%) Client/Server
15 20 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.36%) IoT
16 18 (1.22%) Hedge funds
16 18 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 361 (24.47%) Linux
2 137 (9.29%) Windows
3 69 (4.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (4.61%) Unix
5 49 (3.32%) CentOS
6 42 (2.85%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.78%) Debian
7 41 (2.78%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.34%) Solaris
9 5 (0.34%) VMS
10 4 (0.27%) Android
10 4 (0.27%) Rocky
11 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (54.44%) DevOps
2 669 (45.36%) CI/CD
3 600 (40.68%) Agile
4 422 (28.61%) Software Engineering
5 418 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
6 416 (28.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 356 (24.14%) Microservices
8 273 (18.51%) Test Automation
9 215 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 209 (14.17%) Continuous Integration
11 201 (13.63%) Computer Science
12 198 (13.42%) Scrum
13 151 (10.24%) Full Stack Development
14 150 (10.17%) Coaching
15 138 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 138 (9.36%) Deployment Automation
16 132 (8.95%) Open Source
17 130 (8.81%) Configuration Management
18 119 (8.07%) Migration
19 118 (8.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 551 (37.36%) Python
2 387 (26.24%) Java
3 239 (16.20%) SQL
4 203 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 202 (13.69%) C#
6 180 (12.20%) Bash
7 165 (11.19%) TypeScript
8 148 (10.03%) PowerShell
9 57 (3.86%) Go
10 53 (3.59%) Shell Script
11 42 (2.85%) Ruby
12 39 (2.64%) C++
13 37 (2.51%) C
14 35 (2.37%) PHP
15 33 (2.24%) Bicep
16 22 (1.49%) Groovy
17 20 (1.36%) Scala
18 17 (1.15%) Perl
19 13 (0.88%) Rust
20 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 294 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 249 (16.88%) Degree
3 194 (13.15%) SC Cleared
4 152 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 96 (6.51%) AWS Certification
6 87 (5.90%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 47 (3.19%) Azure Certification
9 43 (2.92%) Master's Degree
10 36 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 29 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.68%) CCNA
16 9 (0.61%) PhD
17 8 (0.54%) CISSP
18 7 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
19 6 (0.41%) OSCP
20 5 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.81%) QA
2 27 (1.83%) SLA
3 20 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.22%) GDPR
5 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.68%) NCSC
6 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.54%) PMO
8 7 (0.47%) PSD2
9 6 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.14%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.14%) WAI
10 2 (0.14%) WCAG
11 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.068%) NIST
System Software
1 840 (56.95%) Docker
2 64 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.85%) Active Directory
5 26 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.68%) Firmware
8 10 (0.68%) KVM
9 8 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
10 7 (0.47%) VirtualBox
10 7 (0.47%) Xen
11 6 (0.41%) HDFS
11 6 (0.41%) vSphere
12 5 (0.34%) Ceph
13 3 (0.20%) Gluster
13 3 (0.20%) oVirt
13 3 (0.20%) QEMU
13 3 (0.20%) XenApp
14 2 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 875 (59.32%) Kubernetes
2 513 (34.78%) Terraform
3 233 (15.80%) Ansible
4 123 (8.34%) Prometheus
5 110 (7.46%) Puppet
6 68 (4.61%) Grafana
7 31 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.83%) HAProxy
9 27 (1.83%) Nagios
10 25 (1.69%) OpenSSO
11 19 (1.29%) Kibana
12 16 (1.08%) vCenter Server
13 14 (0.95%) Consul
14 11 (0.75%) SCOM
15 10 (0.68%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.61%) SCCM
17 8 (0.54%) Graphite
17 8 (0.54%) Istio
18 7 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 190 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 157 (10.64%) Google
3 114 (7.73%) Red Hat
4 111 (7.53%) Oracle
5 66 (4.47%) Dynatrace
6 62 (4.20%) IBM
7 55 (3.73%) VMware
8 37 (2.51%) ServiceNow
9 32 (2.17%) Splunk
10 29 (1.97%) SaltStack
11 25 (1.69%) Remedy
12 23 (1.56%) Cisco
13 16 (1.08%) ForgeRock
13 16 (1.08%) Sitecore
13 16 (1.08%) SolarWinds
14 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 15 (1.02%) Sybase
15 14 (0.95%) Citrix
15 14 (0.95%) Databricks
15 14 (0.95%) New Relic