Containerisation Job Trends in London

Containerization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 84 157
Rank change year-on-year -15 +73 -49
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 463 454 484
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.23% 3.70% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 3.85% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 282 298 366
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £83,615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.64% +4.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £113,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.45% +6.90% +0.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,875 11,788 21,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.41% 96.06% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 7,191 15,883
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,411 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in London

Containerisation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in London

Containerisation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London -44 56 £80,000 -5.88% 47
West London +3 21 £80,000 - 7
South London +5 8 - - 1
East London -8 6 - - 7
Containerisation
England

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.59%) Appian
3 7 (1.51%) Apache
3 7 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.51%) Confluence
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.22%) Camunda
5 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.73%) Maya
2 5 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.22%) Blender
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Shopify
2 2 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 256 (55.29%) AWS
2 202 (43.63%) Azure
3 154 (33.26%) GCP
4 66 (14.25%) Serverless
5 59 (12.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (11.23%) GitHub
7 46 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (8.86%) Datadog
9 38 (8.21%) OpenShift
10 35 (7.56%) Azure AKS
11 31 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (6.70%) Amazon S3
11 31 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (6.26%) Cloud Computing
13 28 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (4.54%) Azure Event Grid
16 19 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (3.46%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 59 (12.74%) Broadband
2 13 (2.81%) Firewall
3 10 (2.16%) VPN
4 9 (1.94%) Network Security
5 8 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.51%) DNS
7 6 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.86%) HTTP
8 4 (0.86%) IPv4
9 3 (0.65%) AMQP
9 3 (0.65%) BGP
9 3 (0.65%) OSPF
9 3 (0.65%) SCCP
9 3 (0.65%) VLAN
9 3 (0.65%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.43%) DHCP
10 2 (0.43%) DMARC
10 2 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (15.98%) NoSQL
2 47 (10.15%) Relational Database
3 35 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (7.13%) MongoDB
5 28 (6.05%) RDBMS
6 26 (5.62%) SQL Server
7 23 (4.97%) Pinecone
8 19 (4.10%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.46%) MySQL
9 16 (3.46%) Redis
10 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.51%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.30%) Power BI
13 4 (0.86%) Flink
14 3 (0.65%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.65%) SQLPlus
14 3 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (16.41%) Jenkins
2 67 (14.47%) Git
3 65 (14.04%) GitLab
4 36 (7.78%) CircleCI
5 15 (3.24%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.81%) MLflow
6 13 (2.81%) Vite
7 10 (2.16%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.73%) Storybook
10 7 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.30%) JIRA
12 4 (0.86%) JMeter
12 4 (0.86%) JUnit
12 4 (0.86%) Mockito
12 4 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.43%) Maven
13 2 (0.43%) rollup.js
13 2 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 144 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 137 (29.59%) Finance
3 67 (14.47%) Banking
4 30 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.40%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.97%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.89%) Front Office
8 18 (3.89%) Law
9 14 (3.02%) Billing
10 9 (1.94%) Games
10 9 (1.94%) Retail
11 8 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.51%) Marketing
13 6 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.30%) Electronics
14 4 (0.86%) Advertising
14 4 (0.86%) Automotive
14 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 127 (27.43%) Senior
2 119 (25.70%) Developer
3 61 (13.17%) Software Engineer
4 54 (11.66%) Lead
5 43 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 43 (9.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (9.07%) Senior Developer
7 31 (6.70%) Architect
8 28 (6.05%) Java Developer
9 25 (5.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 24 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (4.97%) Scala Engineer
12 21 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (4.10%) Java Engineer
14 18 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.77%) Kafka
2 72 (15.55%) RESTful
3 65 (14.04%) React
4 61 (13.17%) gRPC
5 56 (12.10%) Spring
6 52 (11.23%) Spring Boot
7 47 (10.15%) REST
8 42 (9.07%) .NET
9 41 (8.86%) Node.js
10 35 (7.56%) RabbitMQ
11 29 (6.26%) FastAPI
11 29 (6.26%) OAuth
12 28 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (4.75%) JWT
13 22 (4.75%) web3js
14 21 (4.54%) AngularJS
14 21 (4.54%) LangChain
15 20 (4.32%) PyTorch
16 19 (4.10%) Next.js
16 19 (4.10%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 108 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 82 (17.71%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (7.78%) Over-the-Top Content
3 36 (7.78%) Video\Live Streaming
4 32 (6.91%) Blockchain
5 22 (4.75%) Web3
6 18 (3.89%) Product Ownership
7 16 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.81%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.59%) Fixed Income
9 12 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.16%) Low-Code
10 10 (2.16%) PKI
11 8 (1.73%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.55%) Linux
2 30 (6.48%) Windows
3 19 (4.10%) Ubuntu
4 16 (3.46%) Unix
5 11 (2.38%) CentOS
5 11 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.73%) Android
7 6 (1.30%) VMS
8 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (61.12%) CI/CD
2 207 (44.71%) DevOps
3 204 (44.06%) Microservices
4 192 (41.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (33.05%) Software Engineering
6 146 (31.53%) Agile
7 124 (26.78%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (23.97%) AI
9 102 (22.03%) Machine Learning
10 98 (21.17%) Test Automation
11 95 (20.52%) Mentoring
12 86 (18.57%) Observability
13 78 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (14.90%) Continuous Delivery
15 68 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
16 67 (14.47%) Clean Code
17 65 (14.04%) Data Science
18 63 (13.61%) High Availability
19 61 (13.17%) Continuous Integration
20 55 (11.88%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 213 (46.00%) Python
2 117 (25.27%) Java
3 103 (22.25%) Go
4 96 (20.73%) JavaScript
5 85 (18.36%) SQL
6 58 (12.53%) Bash
7 49 (10.58%) TypeScript
8 44 (9.50%) C#
9 37 (7.99%) Scala
10 20 (4.32%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.24%) Bicep
12 14 (3.02%) C++
13 9 (1.94%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.73%) Ruby
15 6 (1.30%) PHP
16 4 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.65%) Groovy
17 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.43%) Perl
18 2 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.64%) Degree
3 38 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 26 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.86%) CCNA
7 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.86%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.86%) OSCP
7 4 (0.86%) Postgraduate
7 4 (0.86%) RHCE
7 4 (0.86%) RHCSA
8 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.10%) QA
3 16 (3.46%) GDPR
4 13 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.59%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.59%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.65%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.65%) SLA
7 3 (0.65%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) EMIR
System Software
1 311 (67.17%) Docker
2 15 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.81%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.86%) KVM
5 4 (0.86%) Squid
5 4 (0.86%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.86%) vSphere
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 296 (63.93%) Kubernetes
2 183 (39.52%) Terraform
3 71 (15.33%) Prometheus
4 67 (14.47%) Ansible
5 49 (10.58%) Grafana
6 25 (5.40%) Argo
7 15 (3.24%) Kustomize
8 13 (2.81%) Istio
9 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.51%) Podman
11 5 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.08%) Nagios
12 4 (0.86%) linkerd
12 4 (0.86%) Mesos
12 4 (0.86%) Packer
12 4 (0.86%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.65%) Kibana
14 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (13.17%) Google
2 41 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.78%) Typelevel
4 27 (5.83%) OpenAI
5 16 (3.46%) Splunk
6 15 (3.24%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.59%) Oracle
7 12 (2.59%) VMware
8 10 (2.16%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.16%) Confluent
8 10 (2.16%) UiPath
9 9 (1.94%) NVIDIA
10 7 (1.51%) Databricks
10 7 (1.51%) Zscaler
11 6 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.08%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.86%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.65%) Fortinet