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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 106 129
Rank change year-on-year -89 +23 -1
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,532 3,128 4,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.53% 3.15% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 3.30% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,108 1,405 1,975
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £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 £105,000 £102,750 £102,500
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 -65 1,354 £72,500 +0.69% 367
UK excluding London -90 985 £65,000 - 210
Work from Home -67 641 £70,000 -2.10% 203
London -47 493 £83,230 +3.66% 199
North of England -17 265 £60,000 +0.80% 55
South East -50 222 £70,000 +7.69% 59
South West -57 172 £72,500 +11.54% 37
North West -40 135 £65,000 -1.45% 26
Midlands -72 128 £60,000 -3.61% 25
Yorkshire +24 113 £60,000 +26.32% 25
West Midlands -10 83 £60,000 -9.43% 11
East of England +4 68 £65,000 -13.33% 14
Scotland -169 63 £72,500 +11.54% 16
East Midlands -70 45 £57,500 +7.23% 14
Wales -53 41 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Northern Ireland -15 21 £60,000 -17.24% 1
North East -6 17 £57,500 -11.54% 4
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 94 (6.14%) Apache
2 61 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.22%) nginx
4 26 (1.70%) WebLogic
5 25 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.63%) Confluence
6 17 (1.11%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.33%) JBoss
11 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 1 (0.065%) Jetty
13 1 (0.065%) Mule
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.065%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 889 (58.03%) AWS
2 641 (41.84%) Azure
3 294 (19.19%) GCP
4 255 (16.64%) Serverless
5 186 (12.14%) Amazon S3
6 161 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
7 151 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
8 150 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
9 146 (9.53%) GitHub
10 124 (8.09%) SaaS
11 108 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (5.87%) Cloud Computing
14 85 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
15 77 (5.03%) Route 53
16 76 (4.96%) OpenShift
17 75 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (4.50%) OCI
19 68 (4.44%) PaaS
20 59 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.09%) Firewall
2 59 (3.85%) DNS
3 52 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 44 (2.87%) VPN
5 39 (2.55%) Network Security
6 30 (1.96%) LAN
7 27 (1.76%) AMQP
8 26 (1.70%) Internet
9 24 (1.57%) WAN
10 22 (1.44%) HTTP
11 16 (1.04%) DHCP
12 14 (0.91%) BGP
12 14 (0.91%) IPv4
13 11 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.72%) MPLS
13 11 (0.72%) SNMP
14 10 (0.65%) SMTP
15 9 (0.59%) tcpdump
15 9 (0.59%) WLAN
16 6 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (8.36%) NoSQL
2 125 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
3 110 (7.18%) Relational Database
4 106 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 94 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (5.16%) Big Data
7 74 (4.83%) MySQL
8 72 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
9 65 (4.24%) RDBMS
10 56 (3.66%) Hadoop
11 53 (3.46%) MongoDB
12 40 (2.61%) Redis
13 37 (2.42%) Oracle Database
14 30 (1.96%) Data Lake
15 27 (1.76%) Cloudera CDH
16 25 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
17 19 (1.24%) DynamoDB
18 18 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 18 (1.17%) Power BI
18 18 (1.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 313 (20.43%) Git
2 272 (17.75%) Jenkins
3 186 (12.14%) GitLab
4 75 (4.90%) JIRA
5 63 (4.11%) CircleCI
6 48 (3.13%) Selenium
7 36 (2.35%) JDeveloper
7 36 (2.35%) JUnit
8 33 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.96%) SonarQube
10 23 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 20 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (1.24%) TestNG
13 18 (1.17%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.04%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.91%) Robot Framework
15 14 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.85%) Storybook
17 12 (0.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 385 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 290 (18.93%) Finance
3 150 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 143 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (5.81%) Banking
7 53 (3.46%) Retail
8 52 (3.39%) Games
9 49 (3.20%) Law
10 42 (2.74%) Aerospace
11 35 (2.28%) Marketing
12 33 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 31 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.70%) Police
15 21 (1.37%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.11%) Front Office
17 16 (1.04%) Automotive
18 13 (0.85%) Retail Banking
19 12 (0.78%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 374 (24.41%) Senior
2 341 (22.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 318 (20.76%) Developer
4 217 (14.16%) Software Engineer
5 158 (10.31%) Architect
6 146 (9.53%) Lead
7 117 (7.64%) Senior DevOps
8 109 (7.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 93 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
10 73 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 68 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
12 66 (4.31%) Full Stack Developer
13 65 (4.24%) Data Engineer
13 65 (4.24%) Lead DevOps
14 64 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
15 60 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 59 (3.85%) Senior Developer
17 58 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 58 (3.79%) Java Developer
18 52 (3.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (17.36%) React
2 208 (13.58%) .NET
3 177 (11.55%) Spring
4 170 (11.10%) Node.js
5 147 (9.60%) AngularJS
6 125 (8.16%) REST
6 125 (8.16%) RESTful
7 102 (6.66%) Spring Boot
8 98 (6.40%) HTML
9 78 (5.09%) .NET Core
9 78 (5.09%) CSS
10 67 (4.37%) Kafka
11 62 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
12 60 (3.92%) YAML
13 52 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (3.07%) ASP.NET
15 46 (3.00%) JSON
16 45 (2.94%) .NET Framework
17 44 (2.87%) ARM Templates
18 42 (2.74%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (5.35%) Public Cloud
4 71 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (4.63%) Private Cloud
5 62 (4.05%) Blockchain
6 58 (3.79%) e-Learning
7 57 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 46 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 42 (2.74%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.96%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (1.50%) Clustering
15 22 (1.44%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (1.31%) Client/Server
17 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
18 19 (1.24%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 370 (24.15%) Linux
2 134 (8.75%) Windows
3 70 (4.57%) Unix
4 65 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (3.00%) CentOS
6 40 (2.61%) Debian
6 40 (2.61%) Ubuntu
7 38 (2.48%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.33%) Android
10 5 (0.33%) Solaris
10 5 (0.33%) VMS
11 3 (0.20%) SUSE
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
1 829 (54.11%) DevOps
2 657 (42.89%) CI/CD
3 612 (39.95%) Agile
4 461 (30.09%) Software Engineering
5 458 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
6 412 (26.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 410 (26.76%) Microservices
8 262 (17.10%) Test Automation
9 256 (16.71%) Continuous Integration
10 215 (14.03%) Mentoring
11 196 (12.79%) Computer Science
12 195 (12.73%) Scrum
13 165 (10.77%) Open Source
14 159 (10.38%) Full Stack Development
15 152 (9.92%) Coaching
16 143 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 134 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
18 121 (7.90%) Migration
19 117 (7.64%) Actionable Insight
19 117 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 591 (38.58%) Python
2 444 (28.98%) Java
3 265 (17.30%) SQL
4 248 (16.19%) JavaScript
5 213 (13.90%) Bash
6 201 (13.12%) C#
7 163 (10.64%) TypeScript
8 143 (9.33%) PowerShell
9 96 (6.27%) Go
10 82 (5.35%) Ruby
11 58 (3.79%) Shell Script
12 53 (3.46%) Perl
13 37 (2.42%) C
13 37 (2.42%) C++
14 34 (2.22%) Bicep
15 33 (2.15%) PHP
16 24 (1.57%) Groovy
17 16 (1.04%) Rust
17 16 (1.04%) Scala
18 12 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 295 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 249 (16.25%) Degree
3 195 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 150 (9.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 81 (5.29%) DV Cleared
7 48 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 43 (2.81%) Master's Degree
9 40 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 39 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.72%) CCNA
16 10 (0.65%) PhD
17 8 (0.52%) CISSP
18 7 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 5 (0.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.79%) QA
2 28 (1.83%) SLA
3 19 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.04%) GDPR
5 9 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.52%) NCSC
6 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.52%) PMO
6 8 (0.52%) PSD2
7 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.20%) WAI
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.13%) WCAG
11 1 (0.065%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.065%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 833 (54.37%) Docker
2 66 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 49 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.87%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 17 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.65%) Firmware
7 10 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.52%) HDFS
8 8 (0.52%) KVM
9 6 (0.39%) Ceph
9 6 (0.39%) VirtualBox
9 6 (0.39%) vSphere
10 5 (0.33%) Xen
11 3 (0.20%) Gluster
11 3 (0.20%) oVirt
11 3 (0.20%) XenApp
12 2 (0.13%) QEMU
12 2 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 854 (55.74%) Kubernetes
2 487 (31.79%) Terraform
3 219 (14.30%) Ansible
4 129 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 111 (7.25%) Puppet
6 76 (4.96%) Grafana
7 31 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.89%) HAProxy
10 26 (1.70%) Nagios
10 26 (1.70%) OpenSSO
11 21 (1.37%) Kibana
12 19 (1.24%) vCenter Server
13 17 (1.11%) Consul
14 11 (0.72%) SCOM
15 10 (0.65%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.59%) Graphite
17 8 (0.52%) SCCM
18 7 (0.46%) Istio
18 7 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 193 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 160 (10.44%) Google
2 160 (10.44%) Oracle
3 111 (7.25%) Red Hat
4 67 (4.37%) IBM
5 66 (4.31%) Dynatrace
6 57 (3.72%) VMware
7 37 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 33 (2.15%) Splunk
9 27 (1.76%) SaltStack
10 26 (1.70%) Remedy
11 25 (1.63%) Cisco
12 18 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.17%) Databricks
13 17 (1.11%) Sitecore
14 16 (1.04%) ForgeRock
14 16 (1.04%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.98%) Sybase
16 14 (0.91%) Citrix
17 11 (0.72%) CyberArk