Containerisation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Containerization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 159 128
Rank change year-on-year -48 -31 +59
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 398 647 747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.73% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.96% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 281 412 536
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,125 £44,688
25th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,625 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -2.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,444 33,009 27,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.20% 90.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19,110 15,194 20,646
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,760 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,435
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK excluding London

Containerisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
North of England -10 162 £65,000 +8.33% 699
North West +9 99 £65,000 +8.33% 359
South West -11 79 £55,000 -20.86% 362
South East -40 61 £75,000 +7.14% 742
Midlands -14 51 £67,500 +3.85% 536
Yorkshire -37 38 £70,000 +41.41% 292
West Midlands -7 33 £70,000 +7.69% 273
North East +15 25 £55,200 -14.77% 48
East of England +7 24 £57,500 -0.86% 456
Scotland -22 23 £70,000 +0.50% 162
East Midlands -12 17 £54,600 -9.00% 226
Wales -4 9 £75,000 +15.38% 80
Northern Ireland -11 3 - - 56
Containerisation
UK

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (2.26%) CMS
1 9 (2.26%) IIS
2 6 (1.51%) Apache Solr
3 5 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.26%) Confluence
4 4 (1.01%) Apache
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) nginx
5 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.25%) FileNet
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (65.83%) Azure
2 229 (57.54%) AWS
3 95 (23.87%) GCP
4 92 (23.12%) GitHub
5 76 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (18.84%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (13.32%) Serverless
8 38 (9.55%) SaaS
9 33 (8.29%) Amazon S3
10 31 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (7.04%) Datadog
13 26 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (5.78%) OpenShift
15 22 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 20 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (5.03%) Entra ID
17 19 (4.77%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.27%) PaaS
19 15 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.04%) Firewall
2 19 (4.77%) DNS
3 15 (3.77%) VPN
4 10 (2.51%) HTTP
5 9 (2.26%) DHCP
5 9 (2.26%) IPsec
6 8 (2.01%) AMQP
6 8 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.01%) VLAN
7 7 (1.76%) Network Security
8 6 (1.51%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (1.51%) VoIP
8 6 (1.51%) Wireless
9 5 (1.26%) DMZ
10 4 (1.01%) WAN
11 3 (0.75%) BGP
11 3 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.75%) EIGRP
11 3 (0.75%) OSPF
11 3 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.08%) NoSQL
2 59 (14.82%) SQL Server
3 45 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (8.29%) MongoDB
5 32 (8.04%) MySQL
6 19 (4.77%) Relational Database
7 18 (4.52%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.52%) Big Data
10 10 (2.51%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.51%) InfluxDB
12 6 (1.51%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.26%) Metadata
14 4 (1.01%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
15 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
16 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
16 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 93 (23.37%) Git
2 53 (13.32%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.54%) GitLab
4 20 (5.03%) JIRA
5 17 (4.27%) JUnit
6 14 (3.52%) Cucumber
7 12 (3.02%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.26%) Selenium
9 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 8 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.51%) JMeter
10 6 (1.51%) Locust
10 6 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.51%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.26%) Maven
11 5 (1.26%) MLflow
11 5 (1.26%) Mockito
12 4 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (1.01%) TestNG
13 3 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 131 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.33%) Finance
3 35 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.29%) Marketing
5 32 (8.04%) Law
6 14 (3.52%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.27%) Retail
8 11 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.26%) Advertising
11 8 (2.01%) Electronics
12 6 (1.51%) Legal
13 5 (1.26%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.26%) Automotive
13 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.01%) Banking
15 3 (0.75%) Games
16 2 (0.50%) Aviation
16 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (25.38%) Developer
2 94 (23.62%) Senior
3 51 (12.81%) Lead
4 45 (11.31%) Software Engineer
5 43 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (8.29%) Senior Developer
7 30 (7.54%) Software Developer
8 27 (6.78%) Architect
9 26 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.78%) .NET Developer
12 20 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (4.27%) Java Developer
15 17 (4.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (3.52%) Senior Web Developer
17 14 (3.52%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (22.86%) .NET
2 71 (17.84%) React
2 71 (17.84%) RESTful
3 41 (10.30%) .NET Core
4 38 (9.55%) Spring
5 36 (9.05%) Spring Boot
6 34 (8.54%) CSS
6 34 (8.54%) HTML
6 34 (8.54%) Node.js
7 29 (7.29%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (6.03%) REST
9 18 (4.52%) Blazor
10 16 (4.02%) Flask
11 15 (3.77%) ASP.NET
12 14 (3.52%) ADO
12 14 (3.52%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (3.52%) Django
12 14 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (3.27%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 100 (25.13%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.80%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.78%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.51%) Clustering
10 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.51%) PKI
10 6 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 88 (22.11%) Linux
2 50 (12.56%) Windows
3 20 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.76%) VMS
5 8 (2.01%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.76%) Debian
7 6 (1.51%) CentOS
7 6 (1.51%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.51%) Unix
8 4 (1.01%) Rocky
8 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.50%) zOS
10 1 (0.25%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (70.60%) CI/CD
2 235 (59.05%) DevOps
3 144 (36.18%) Agile
4 127 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 122 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (28.89%) Microservices
7 77 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (19.10%) Software Engineering
9 69 (17.34%) AI
10 64 (16.08%) Mentoring
11 60 (15.08%) Observability
12 54 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
12 54 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (13.57%) Test Automation
13 49 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 40 (10.05%) TDD
14 40 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
15 38 (9.55%) Roadmaps
16 37 (9.30%) Clean Code
17 36 (9.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 159 (39.95%) Python
2 91 (22.86%) SQL
3 82 (20.60%) JavaScript
4 73 (18.34%) Java
5 58 (14.57%) C#
6 46 (11.56%) Bash
7 44 (11.06%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.78%) TypeScript
9 26 (6.53%) Bicep
10 15 (3.77%) Go
11 10 (2.51%) PHP
12 6 (1.51%) Delphi
12 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.01%) C
13 4 (1.01%) Erlang
14 3 (0.75%) C++
14 3 (0.75%) R
15 2 (0.50%) COBOL
15 2 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 68 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.29%) Degree
4 30 (7.54%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 26 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.77%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (1.51%) ACMT
9 6 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.01%) CISSP
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.50%) CISM
11 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.56%) QA
2 21 (5.28%) GDPR
3 13 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.27%) NIST
4 10 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.76%) NCSC
5 7 (1.76%) WCAG
6 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (1.26%) JSP 440
8 4 (1.01%) GRC
8 4 (1.01%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 1 (0.25%) CDISC
11 1 (0.25%) DICOM
11 1 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 286 (71.86%) Docker
2 18 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.76%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.01%) vSphere
7 7 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.26%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.50%) Ceph
9 2 (0.50%) Firmware
9 2 (0.50%) Lustre
9 2 (0.50%) RACF
9 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.50%) vCloud
9 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.25%) HDFS
10 1 (0.25%) iptables
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 263 (66.08%) Kubernetes
2 139 (34.92%) Terraform
3 67 (16.83%) Grafana
4 63 (15.83%) Ansible
5 48 (12.06%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.26%) Control-M
6 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.26%) Puppet
7 8 (2.01%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.76%) Argo
8 7 (1.76%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.51%) Autotask
9 6 (1.51%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.75%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.50%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.54%) Oracle
3 22 (5.53%) Google
3 22 (5.53%) VMware
4 12 (3.02%) Splunk
5 11 (2.76%) Cisco
5 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.26%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.26%) SAP
7 7 (1.76%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.51%) Apple
8 6 (1.51%) Databricks
8 6 (1.51%) Datto
8 6 (1.51%) Dell
8 6 (1.51%) Sophos
8 6 (1.51%) Veeam
9 5 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.75%) Riverbed