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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 107 127
Rank change year-on-year -84 +20 +3
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,524 3,147 4,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 3.12% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.26% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 1,442 1,992
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 £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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 -60 1,340 £72,500 - 318
UK excluding London -93 978 £65,000 - 163
Work from Home -68 643 £70,576 -2.65% 191
London -49 489 £82,500 +2.75% 159
North of England -15 260 £60,000 +0.80% 42
South East -44 220 £70,000 +7.69% 33
South West -52 172 £72,500 +11.54% 30
North West -43 132 £65,000 -5.11% 15
Midlands -84 127 £60,000 -3.23% 29
Yorkshire +26 111 £60,000 +26.32% 26
West Midlands -27 83 £60,000 -7.69% 15
East of England +15 66 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Scotland -160 65 £76,250 +17.31% 9
East Midlands -82 44 £58,750 +6.82% 14
Wales -47 42 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Northern Ireland -15 21 £60,000 -17.24% 4
North East -6 17 £57,500 -14.81% 1
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 92 (6.04%) Apache
2 61 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 33 (2.17%) nginx
4 27 (1.77%) WebLogic
5 25 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (1.57%) Confluence
7 17 (1.12%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.85%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.26%) JBoss
12 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 2 (0.13%) Mule
14 1 (0.066%) Jetty
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.66%) 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
2 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 879 (57.68%) AWS
2 632 (41.47%) Azure
3 297 (19.49%) GCP
4 253 (16.60%) Serverless
5 186 (12.20%) Amazon S3
6 159 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
7 150 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
7 150 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
8 147 (9.65%) GitHub
9 123 (8.07%) SaaS
10 107 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
12 87 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
13 83 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
14 77 (5.05%) Route 53
15 75 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
15 75 (4.92%) OpenShift
16 69 (4.53%) OCI
17 66 (4.33%) PaaS
18 59 (3.87%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.92%) Firewall
2 61 (4.00%) DNS
3 53 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 44 (2.89%) VPN
5 39 (2.56%) Network Security
6 30 (1.97%) LAN
7 27 (1.77%) Internet
8 26 (1.71%) AMQP
9 24 (1.57%) WAN
10 22 (1.44%) HTTP
11 17 (1.12%) DHCP
12 14 (0.92%) BGP
12 14 (0.92%) IPv4
13 12 (0.79%) SNMP
14 11 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.72%) MPLS
15 10 (0.66%) SMTP
15 10 (0.66%) tcpdump
16 9 (0.59%) WLAN
17 6 (0.39%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (8.46%) NoSQL
2 123 (8.07%) Amazon RDS
3 110 (7.22%) Relational Database
4 105 (6.89%) SQL Server
5 94 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (5.25%) Big Data
7 75 (4.92%) MySQL
8 74 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
9 65 (4.27%) RDBMS
10 56 (3.67%) Hadoop
11 55 (3.61%) MongoDB
12 40 (2.62%) Redis
13 37 (2.43%) Oracle Database
14 30 (1.97%) Data Lake
15 27 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
16 26 (1.71%) Cloudera CDH
17 20 (1.31%) DynamoDB
18 19 (1.25%) BigQuery
19 18 (1.18%) Power BI
19 18 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 309 (20.28%) Git
2 273 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 188 (12.34%) GitLab
4 72 (4.72%) JIRA
5 62 (4.07%) CircleCI
6 48 (3.15%) Selenium
7 37 (2.43%) JUnit
8 36 (2.36%) JDeveloper
9 33 (2.17%) Cucumber
10 31 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 22 (1.44%) TeamCity
12 19 (1.25%) TestNG
13 18 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 18 (1.18%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.05%) REST Assured
15 15 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (0.92%) Artifactory
17 13 (0.85%) Storybook
18 12 (0.79%) Robot Framework
19 11 (0.72%) Bitbucket
General
1 382 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 290 (19.03%) Finance
3 148 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 143 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (5.91%) Banking
7 53 (3.48%) Retail
8 52 (3.41%) Games
9 49 (3.22%) Law
10 39 (2.56%) Aerospace
11 34 (2.23%) Marketing
11 34 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.71%) Police
14 21 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.05%) Automotive
15 16 (1.05%) Front Office
16 14 (0.92%) Retail Banking
17 11 (0.72%) Back Office
17 11 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 373 (24.48%) Senior
2 340 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 320 (21.00%) Developer
4 215 (14.11%) Software Engineer
5 157 (10.30%) Architect
6 146 (9.58%) Lead
7 115 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
8 108 (7.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 91 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
10 73 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 67 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
11 67 (4.40%) Data Engineer
11 67 (4.40%) Full Stack Developer
12 65 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
13 61 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
14 60 (3.94%) Java Developer
15 59 (3.87%) Senior Developer
16 58 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 57 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (16.93%) React
2 205 (13.45%) .NET
3 176 (11.55%) Spring
4 166 (10.89%) Node.js
5 142 (9.32%) AngularJS
6 124 (8.14%) RESTful
7 122 (8.01%) REST
8 102 (6.69%) Spring Boot
9 93 (6.10%) HTML
10 77 (5.05%) CSS
11 76 (4.99%) .NET Core
12 65 (4.27%) Kafka
13 61 (4.00%) YAML
14 60 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
16 46 (3.02%) JSON
17 45 (2.95%) ASP.NET
18 44 (2.89%) .NET Framework
19 43 (2.82%) ARM Templates
20 42 (2.76%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 81 (5.31%) Public Cloud
4 70 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (4.59%) Private Cloud
5 63 (4.13%) Blockchain
6 58 (3.81%) e-Learning
6 58 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 42 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.76%) Mobile App
9 31 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.57%) Clustering
11 24 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.31%) Client/Server
13 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 369 (24.21%) Linux
2 134 (8.79%) Windows
3 71 (4.66%) Unix
4 63 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (2.95%) CentOS
6 39 (2.56%) Debian
6 39 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 37 (2.43%) 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
1 825 (54.13%) DevOps
2 651 (42.72%) CI/CD
3 606 (39.76%) Agile
4 457 (29.99%) Problem-Solving
4 457 (29.99%) Software Engineering
5 408 (26.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 405 (26.57%) Microservices
7 260 (17.06%) Test Automation
8 258 (16.93%) Continuous Integration
9 213 (13.98%) Mentoring
10 198 (12.99%) Computer Science
11 191 (12.53%) Scrum
12 162 (10.63%) Open Source
13 157 (10.30%) Full Stack Development
14 150 (9.84%) Coaching
15 140 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 132 (8.66%) Deployment Automation
17 122 (8.01%) Migration
18 119 (7.81%) Actionable Insight
18 119 (7.81%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 592 (38.85%) Python
2 444 (29.13%) Java
3 263 (17.26%) SQL
4 241 (15.81%) JavaScript
5 213 (13.98%) Bash
6 201 (13.19%) C#
7 162 (10.63%) TypeScript
8 144 (9.45%) PowerShell
9 98 (6.43%) Go
10 83 (5.45%) Ruby
11 60 (3.94%) Shell Script
12 54 (3.54%) Perl
13 37 (2.43%) C
14 36 (2.36%) C++
15 34 (2.23%) Bicep
16 33 (2.17%) PHP
17 24 (1.57%) Groovy
18 17 (1.12%) Rust
18 17 (1.12%) Scala
19 11 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 294 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 252 (16.54%) Degree
3 195 (12.80%) SC Cleared
4 152 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 80 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 49 (3.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 44 (2.89%) Master's Degree
9 39 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 39 (2.56%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.72%) CCNA
14 10 (0.66%) PhD
15 8 (0.52%) CISSP
16 7 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 5 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.76%) QA
2 29 (1.90%) SLA
3 19 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.05%) 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 (0.066%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.066%) NIST
System Software
1 828 (54.33%) Docker
2 66 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
3 49 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (3.02%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.66%) Firmware
8 9 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.52%) HDFS
9 8 (0.52%) KVM
10 6 (0.39%) Ceph
10 6 (0.39%) VirtualBox
10 6 (0.39%) vSphere
11 5 (0.33%) Xen
12 3 (0.20%) Gluster
12 3 (0.20%) oVirt
12 3 (0.20%) XenApp
13 2 (0.13%) QEMU
13 2 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 843 (55.31%) Kubernetes
2 481 (31.56%) Terraform
3 220 (14.44%) Ansible
4 129 (8.46%) Prometheus
5 110 (7.22%) Puppet
6 77 (5.05%) Grafana
7 31 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.97%) HAProxy
8 30 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.77%) OpenSSO
10 26 (1.71%) Nagios
11 21 (1.38%) Kibana
12 20 (1.31%) vCenter Server
13 17 (1.12%) Consul
14 11 (0.72%) SCOM
15 10 (0.66%) Graphite
15 10 (0.66%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.52%) SCCM
17 7 (0.46%) Istio
17 7 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 194 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 162 (10.63%) Google
3 161 (10.56%) Oracle
4 109 (7.15%) Red Hat
5 67 (4.40%) IBM
6 66 (4.33%) Dynatrace
7 57 (3.74%) VMware
8 35 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 32 (2.10%) Splunk
10 27 (1.77%) Remedy
11 26 (1.71%) SaltStack
12 24 (1.57%) Cisco
13 18 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 17 (1.12%) Databricks
14 17 (1.12%) Sitecore
15 16 (1.05%) ForgeRock
15 16 (1.05%) SolarWinds
16 15 (0.98%) Sybase
17 14 (0.92%) Citrix
18 11 (0.72%) CyberArk