Containerisation Job Trends in England

Containerization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 136 157
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 -14
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 897 1,015 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.52% 2.27% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.46% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 620 684 1,015
10th Percentile £46,426 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £113,835 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,072 41,271 58,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.59% 92.27% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,830 20,347 46,275
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Containerisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Containerisation job vacancy trend in England

Containerisation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in England

Containerisation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the England region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
London +15 431 £84,250 -0.88% 145
North of England -10 180 £65,000 +4.49% 89
South West -27 103 £55,000 -23.60% 64
North West +15 102 £65,000 +8.33% 48
South East -34 66 £72,500 +4.32% 88
Midlands -33 47 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Yorkshire -59 44 £69,466 +2.16% 32
North East +8 34 £51,500 -20.49% 9
East of England +7 27 £60,100 -7.54% 12
West Midlands -22 25 £70,542 +3.13% 29
East Midlands -20 21 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.12%) Apache
3 21 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.78%) Appian
5 9 (1.00%) CMS
6 7 (0.78%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.78%) IIS
6 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.67%) Confluence
7 6 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.45%) nginx
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.22%) Camunda
11 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.01%) Maya
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.89%) Shopify
2 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 504 (56.19%) AWS
2 481 (53.62%) Azure
3 258 (28.76%) GCP
4 175 (19.51%) GitHub
5 133 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (14.16%) GitHub Actions
7 121 (13.49%) Serverless
8 75 (8.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (6.58%) Amazon S3
11 55 (6.13%) OpenShift
12 53 (5.91%) Azure AKS
13 51 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (5.69%) SaaS
14 49 (5.46%) Datadog
15 42 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (4.01%) PaaS
17 35 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.91%) Firewall
2 38 (4.24%) Broadband
3 32 (3.57%) DNS
4 25 (2.79%) Network Security
5 24 (2.68%) HTTP
6 20 (2.23%) TCP/IP
6 20 (2.23%) VPN
7 10 (1.11%) DHCP
8 9 (1.00%) WAN
9 8 (0.89%) AMQP
10 7 (0.78%) DMZ
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.45%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.45%) VSAN
13 3 (0.33%) OSPF
13 3 (0.33%) SAN
13 3 (0.33%) VLAN
13 3 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (14.60%) NoSQL
2 90 (10.03%) SQL Server
3 88 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (7.58%) MongoDB
4 68 (7.58%) Relational Database
5 44 (4.91%) MySQL
6 38 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.46%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.46%) RDBMS
8 24 (2.68%) Pinecone
9 23 (2.56%) Big Data
9 23 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.56%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.45%) Metadata
12 11 (1.23%) Redis
13 9 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 145 (16.16%) Git
2 127 (14.16%) Jenkins
3 87 (9.70%) GitLab
4 25 (2.79%) JIRA
5 22 (2.45%) CircleCI
6 21 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.34%) MLflow
7 19 (2.12%) Jaeger
7 19 (2.12%) JUnit
8 14 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.56%) Selenium
9 10 (1.11%) Vite
10 9 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.00%) JMeter
10 9 (1.00%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.89%) Maven
12 7 (0.78%) Mockito
13 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.56%) Locust
14 5 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 253 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 183 (20.40%) Finance
3 71 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 68 (7.58%) Telecoms
5 67 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (7.36%) Law
7 51 (5.69%) Banking
8 33 (3.68%) Games
9 29 (3.23%) Front Office
9 29 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.56%) Billing
10 14 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.45%) Marketing
11 13 (1.45%) Retail
12 12 (1.34%) Electronics
12 12 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.23%) French Language
14 10 (1.11%) Dutch Language
15 9 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 215 (23.97%) Developer
2 207 (23.08%) Senior
3 112 (12.49%) Lead
4 101 (11.26%) Software Engineer
5 88 (9.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (7.47%) Architect
8 54 (6.02%) Senior Developer
9 48 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (4.46%) Data Engineer
12 39 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 37 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 34 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (3.79%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.57%) Backend Developer
17 27 (3.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 27 (3.01%) Software Developer
18 24 (2.68%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (14.94%) React
2 120 (13.38%) RESTful
3 117 (13.04%) .NET
4 101 (11.26%) REST
5 94 (10.48%) Spring
6 86 (9.59%) Spring Boot
7 76 (8.47%) Node.js
8 75 (8.36%) Kafka
9 64 (7.13%) Elastic Stack
10 60 (6.69%) FastAPI
11 58 (6.47%) .NET Core
12 57 (6.35%) AngularJS
13 55 (6.13%) gRPC
14 49 (5.46%) Django
14 49 (5.46%) Flask
15 38 (4.24%) OAuth
16 33 (3.68%) HTML
17 31 (3.46%) CSS
17 31 (3.46%) WebSockets
18 30 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 228 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 112 (12.49%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.34%) Blockchain
7 29 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.79%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.23%) Low-Code
10 19 (2.12%) AI Agents
11 18 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.01%) Over-the-Top Content
11 18 (2.01%) PKI
11 18 (2.01%) Video\Live Streaming
12 15 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.56%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
14 13 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 182 (20.29%) Linux
2 76 (8.47%) Windows
3 39 (4.35%) Unix
4 28 (3.12%) Ubuntu
5 24 (2.68%) Windows Server
6 19 (2.12%) VMS
7 13 (1.45%) Android
8 11 (1.23%) CentOS
9 10 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (1.00%) Debian
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.22%) Rocky
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (63.55%) CI/CD
2 456 (50.84%) DevOps
3 322 (35.90%) Agile
4 317 (35.34%) Microservices
5 314 (35.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 238 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
7 235 (26.20%) AI
8 212 (23.63%) Software Engineering
9 184 (20.51%) Mentoring
10 143 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 139 (15.50%) Machine Learning
12 131 (14.60%) Test Automation
13 115 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 112 (12.49%) Observability
15 103 (11.48%) Analytics
16 102 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
17 100 (11.15%) High Availability
18 96 (10.70%) Performance Optimisation
19 91 (10.14%) Computer Science
20 85 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 423 (47.16%) Python
2 204 (22.74%) Java
3 186 (20.74%) SQL
4 156 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 132 (14.72%) Bash
6 106 (11.82%) Go
7 105 (11.71%) C#
8 77 (8.58%) PowerShell
9 69 (7.69%) TypeScript
10 33 (3.68%) Bicep
11 22 (2.45%) C++
11 22 (2.45%) PHP
11 22 (2.45%) Scala
12 13 (1.45%) C
13 9 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.78%) Delphi
14 7 (0.78%) Ruby
14 7 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.67%) Erlang
15 6 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 137 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 119 (13.27%) Degree
3 85 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 74 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (6.80%) AWS Certification
6 59 (6.58%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.89%) CISSP
12 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.45%) CISM
14 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.45%) PMP
15 3 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.33%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.13%) QA
2 41 (4.57%) GDPR
3 37 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (3.46%) PCI DSS
5 28 (3.12%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.56%) NIST
7 22 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.67%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.45%) NCSC
10 11 (1.23%) GRC
10 11 (1.23%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.56%) WCAG
13 4 (0.45%) EMIR
13 4 (0.45%) SLA
14 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.22%) ECSS
14 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 559 (62.32%) Docker
2 35 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.56%) vSphere
6 8 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.45%) Lustre
8 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.33%) Firmware
9 3 (0.33%) iptables
9 3 (0.33%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.33%) KVM
9 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.22%) Ceph
10 2 (0.22%) GPFS
10 2 (0.22%) NFS
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 564 (62.88%) Kubernetes
2 321 (35.79%) Terraform
3 170 (18.95%) Ansible
4 118 (13.15%) Prometheus
5 115 (12.82%) Grafana
6 39 (4.35%) Argo
7 19 (2.12%) Kustomize
8 16 (1.78%) Puppet
9 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.00%) Control-M
11 8 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.78%) Istio
12 7 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.67%) linkerd
13 6 (0.67%) Mesos
13 6 (0.67%) Rancher
14 5 (0.56%) Nagios
15 4 (0.45%) Cilium
15 4 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 99 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.36%) Google
3 47 (5.24%) Oracle
4 36 (4.01%) VMware
5 30 (3.34%) OpenAI
5 30 (3.34%) Red Hat
6 29 (3.23%) Splunk
7 24 (2.68%) Palo Alto
8 18 (2.01%) Typelevel
9 17 (1.90%) SAP
10 16 (1.78%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.67%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.67%) Databricks
12 14 (1.56%) Cisco
13 13 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.45%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.45%) UiPath
14 12 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (1.34%) Dell
15 10 (1.11%) NVIDIA