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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 103 123
Rank change year-on-year -99 +20 +4
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,484 3,063 5,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 3.24% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.39% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 1,344 2,003
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 - - +4.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £103,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £61,590
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.54% +7.11%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
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 1 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 1 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 -73 1,326 £72,500 +0.69% 350
UK excluding London -112 944 £62,500 -3.85% 175
Work from Home -89 589 £70,000 - 191
London -47 490 £84,500 +5.24% 184
North of England -35 255 £60,000 +0.80% 51
South East -80 219 £70,000 +7.69% 36
South West -64 167 £72,500 +7.41% 39
North West -67 123 £63,500 +1.20% 28
Midlands -80 122 £60,000 - 23
Yorkshire +19 118 £60,000 +26.32% 20
West Midlands -40 80 £60,000 -4.00% 9
East of England -5 67 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Scotland -166 55 £69,500 +6.92% 11
East Midlands -84 42 £60,000 +17.36% 14
Wales -69 36 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Northern Ireland -16 18 £60,000 -18.64% 2
North East -13 14 £57,500 -11.54% 4
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 95 (6.40%) Apache
2 62 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.29%) nginx
4 26 (1.75%) Confluence
4 26 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 24 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.08%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.40%) JBoss
9 6 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) IIS
13 1 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.067%) Jetty
13 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.067%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 894 (60.24%) AWS
2 650 (43.80%) Azure
3 293 (19.74%) GCP
4 217 (14.62%) Serverless
5 181 (12.20%) Amazon S3
6 171 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
7 152 (10.24%) GitHub
8 150 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
8 150 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
9 123 (8.29%) SaaS
10 111 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 103 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
13 84 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
14 78 (5.26%) OpenShift
15 76 (5.12%) Route 53
16 72 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (4.65%) OCI
18 65 (4.38%) PaaS
19 59 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.19%) Firewall
2 58 (3.91%) DNS
3 52 (3.50%) TCP/IP
4 43 (2.90%) VPN
5 40 (2.70%) Network Security
6 31 (2.09%) LAN
7 29 (1.95%) AMQP
8 27 (1.82%) WAN
9 26 (1.75%) Internet
10 20 (1.35%) HTTP
11 16 (1.08%) DHCP
12 14 (0.94%) BGP
12 14 (0.94%) IPv4
13 11 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.74%) MPLS
14 10 (0.67%) SMTP
14 10 (0.67%) SNMP
14 10 (0.67%) WLAN
15 8 (0.54%) tcpdump
16 7 (0.47%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.29%) Amazon RDS
2 116 (7.82%) NoSQL
3 106 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 88 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (4.99%) Big Data
6 70 (4.72%) MySQL
7 69 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
8 68 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 56 (3.77%) Hadoop
10 48 (3.23%) MongoDB
11 37 (2.49%) Redis
12 29 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
13 28 (1.89%) Data Lake
14 27 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 25 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
16 20 (1.35%) DynamoDB
17 18 (1.21%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.15%) Power BI
18 17 (1.15%) Tableau
19 16 (1.08%) Presto
Development Applications
1 275 (18.53%) Git
2 268 (18.06%) Jenkins
3 179 (12.06%) GitLab
4 74 (4.99%) JIRA
5 69 (4.65%) CircleCI
6 49 (3.30%) Selenium
7 37 (2.49%) JUnit
8 33 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.09%) SonarQube
10 23 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (1.28%) TestNG
13 18 (1.21%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.94%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.94%) Robot Framework
16 13 (0.88%) Storybook
17 12 (0.81%) Maven
17 12 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
18 11 (0.74%) Artifactory
General
1 394 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 278 (18.73%) Finance
3 164 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 139 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (5.26%) Banking
7 50 (3.37%) Retail
8 48 (3.23%) Games
9 47 (3.17%) Law
10 44 (2.96%) Aerospace
11 38 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.22%) Marketing
13 31 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.75%) Police
15 22 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.15%) Automotive
16 17 (1.15%) Front Office
17 12 (0.81%) Back Office
17 12 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 377 (25.40%) Senior
2 344 (23.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 309 (20.82%) Developer
4 182 (12.26%) Software Engineer
5 146 (9.84%) Architect
6 145 (9.77%) Lead
7 121 (8.15%) Senior DevOps
8 111 (7.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 93 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 78 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 68 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
12 66 (4.45%) Full Stack Developer
13 65 (4.38%) Lead DevOps
13 65 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
14 59 (3.98%) Data Engineer
15 58 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 58 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 54 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 52 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (15.77%) React
2 206 (13.88%) .NET
3 171 (11.52%) Spring
4 148 (9.97%) AngularJS
5 134 (9.03%) Node.js
6 130 (8.76%) REST
7 129 (8.69%) RESTful
8 99 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 98 (6.60%) HTML
10 84 (5.66%) .NET Core
11 75 (5.05%) CSS
12 64 (4.31%) Kafka
13 60 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (3.91%) YAML
15 50 (3.37%) ARM Templates
16 47 (3.17%) ASP.NET
16 47 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
17 46 (3.10%) .NET Framework
18 45 (3.03%) JSON
19 44 (2.96%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 81 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.46%) Public Cloud
4 68 (4.58%) Private Cloud
5 60 (4.04%) Blockchain
6 58 (3.91%) e-Learning
6 58 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 46 (3.10%) Data Centre
9 43 (2.90%) Mobile App
10 31 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 23 (1.55%) Clustering
11 23 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.35%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.35%) Client/Server
14 19 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 365 (24.60%) Linux
2 135 (9.10%) Windows
3 70 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 70 (4.72%) Unix
4 49 (3.30%) CentOS
5 43 (2.90%) Ubuntu
6 42 (2.83%) Debian
7 41 (2.76%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.34%) Android
10 5 (0.34%) Solaris
10 5 (0.34%) VMS
11 4 (0.27%) Rocky
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (54.25%) DevOps
2 672 (45.28%) CI/CD
3 604 (40.70%) Agile
4 426 (28.71%) Software Engineering
5 418 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
6 414 (27.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 371 (25.00%) Microservices
8 274 (18.46%) Test Automation
9 216 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 213 (14.35%) Continuous Integration
11 196 (13.21%) Scrum
12 195 (13.14%) Computer Science
13 155 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
14 152 (10.24%) Coaching
15 140 (9.43%) Deployment Automation
16 138 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 137 (9.23%) Open Source
18 127 (8.56%) Configuration Management
19 121 (8.15%) Migration
20 118 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 553 (37.26%) Python
2 396 (26.68%) Java
3 253 (17.05%) SQL
4 210 (14.15%) JavaScript
5 198 (13.34%) C#
6 178 (11.99%) Bash
7 166 (11.19%) TypeScript
8 147 (9.91%) PowerShell
9 56 (3.77%) Go
9 56 (3.77%) Shell Script
10 43 (2.90%) Ruby
11 39 (2.63%) C++
12 37 (2.49%) C
13 35 (2.36%) PHP
14 33 (2.22%) Bicep
15 24 (1.62%) Groovy
16 18 (1.21%) Scala
17 17 (1.15%) Perl
18 15 (1.01%) Rust
19 12 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 294 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 247 (16.64%) Degree
3 198 (13.34%) SC Cleared
4 151 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (6.40%) AWS Certification
6 83 (5.59%) DV Cleared
7 52 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 43 (2.90%) Master's Degree
10 37 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 29 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.74%) CCNA
16 9 (0.61%) PhD
17 8 (0.54%) CISSP
18 7 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 5 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.58%) QA
2 28 (1.89%) SLA
3 19 (1.28%) GDPR
3 19 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.67%) NCSC
5 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.54%) PMO
5 8 (0.54%) PSD2
6 6 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.13%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.13%) WAI
7 2 (0.13%) WCAG
8 1 (0.067%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.067%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.067%) NIST
System Software
1 838 (56.47%) Docker
2 64 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 48 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.96%) Active Directory
5 28 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.67%) Firmware
8 10 (0.67%) KVM
9 8 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
10 7 (0.47%) HDFS
10 7 (0.47%) VirtualBox
10 7 (0.47%) Xen
11 6 (0.40%) 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 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 870 (58.63%) Kubernetes
2 506 (34.10%) Terraform
3 230 (15.50%) Ansible
4 124 (8.36%) Prometheus
5 111 (7.48%) Puppet
6 70 (4.72%) Grafana
7 32 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.82%) HAProxy
9 27 (1.82%) Nagios
10 26 (1.75%) OpenSSO
11 19 (1.28%) Kibana
12 16 (1.08%) vCenter Server
13 15 (1.01%) Consul
14 11 (0.74%) SCOM
15 10 (0.67%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.61%) SCCM
17 8 (0.54%) Graphite
18 7 (0.47%) Istio
18 7 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 192 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 157 (10.58%) Google
3 116 (7.82%) Oracle
4 115 (7.75%) Red Hat
5 66 (4.45%) Dynatrace
6 64 (4.31%) IBM
7 57 (3.84%) VMware
8 37 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.29%) Splunk
10 29 (1.95%) SaltStack
11 26 (1.75%) Remedy
12 25 (1.68%) Cisco
13 17 (1.15%) SolarWinds
14 16 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 16 (1.08%) ForgeRock
14 16 (1.08%) Sitecore
15 15 (1.01%) Databricks
15 15 (1.01%) Sybase
16 14 (0.94%) Citrix
16 14 (0.94%) New Relic