Containerisation Job Trends

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Containerisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 131 165
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 -36
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,407 1,195 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.42% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.73% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 892 594 777
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Containerisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 17 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 18 September 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
England -30 1,231 £72,500 -3.33% 1,698
UK excluding London -19 866 £67,500 +3.85% 908
London -43 447 £80,000 -5.88% 958
Work from Home -46 441 £68,724 -0.78% 733
North of England -31 250 £66,750 +2.69% 237
South West -1 205 £67,500 -1.50% 151
South East +4 171 £65,000 -10.34% 180
North West -35 135 £75,000 +15.38% 128
Midlands -68 85 £70,000 +1.82% 98
North East -15 66 £60,000 -9.43% 41
Northern Ireland -27 59 - - 33
West Midlands -58 53 £72,500 +3.57% 59
Wales -34 52 £60,000 -17.24% 18
Yorkshire -35 49 £72,500 +11.54% 69
East of England -35 48 £60,000 +3.45% 75
East Midlands -62 32 £65,000 +18.18% 39
Scotland -64 8 £90,000 +28.57% 119

Containerisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 52 (3.70%) Apache
2 41 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.63%) Confluence
4 27 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Camunda
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 804 (57.14%) AWS
2 727 (51.67%) Azure
3 319 (22.67%) GCP
4 225 (15.99%) GitHub
5 169 (12.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 158 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
7 156 (11.09%) Serverless
8 114 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (7.25%) OpenShift
10 99 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
11 97 (6.89%) Azure AKS
12 86 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.90%) Amazon S3
14 78 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
15 75 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 56 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
19 52 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
20 48 (3.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.33%) WAN
2 68 (4.83%) LAN
3 63 (4.48%) Firewall
4 61 (4.34%) DNS
5 48 (3.41%) Network Security
6 38 (2.70%) VPN
7 33 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.78%) MQTT
9 19 (1.35%) BGP
10 18 (1.28%) Broadband
10 18 (1.28%) OSPF
11 17 (1.21%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.14%) VLAN
13 14 (1.00%) Internet
14 13 (0.92%) DMARC
15 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.57%) AMQP
17 8 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 68 (4.83%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.26%) MySQL
5 47 (3.34%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.27%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (2.63%) Redis
9 30 (2.13%) SQL Server
10 28 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.28%) Big Data
13 15 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.07%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.85%) Metadata
16 11 (0.78%) InfluxDB
17 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 289 (20.54%) Git
2 211 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 169 (12.01%) GitLab
4 37 (2.63%) JIRA
5 28 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.78%) Maven
7 24 (1.71%) JUnit
8 23 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.49%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.35%) Selenium
11 17 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (1.21%) Mockito
12 16 (1.14%) CircleCI
13 14 (1.00%) Claude Code
13 14 (1.00%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.78%) Vite
15 9 (0.64%) Gatling
15 9 (0.64%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.64%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.64%) TestRail
General
1 444 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 330 (23.45%) Finance
3 181 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
6 97 (6.89%) Law
7 86 (6.11%) Banking
8 69 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.35%) Legal
11 27 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.85%) Retail
13 21 (1.49%) Games
14 14 (1.00%) Marketing
15 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.71%) Front Office
18 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 275 (19.55%) Senior
2 248 (17.63%) Developer
3 224 (15.92%) Architect
4 211 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 206 (14.64%) Software Engineer
6 175 (12.44%) Lead
7 110 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 81 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.90%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.76%) Systems Architect
11 64 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 43 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 41 (2.91%) Software Developer
17 40 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
18 39 (2.77%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (37.95%) Terraform
2 199 (14.14%) Spring
3 195 (13.86%) RESTful
4 185 (13.15%) React
4 185 (13.15%) Spring Boot
5 150 (10.66%) Node.js
6 145 (10.31%) Kafka
7 125 (8.88%) REST
8 120 (8.53%) .NET
9 81 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
10 71 (5.05%) AngularJS
11 53 (3.77%) CSS
12 51 (3.62%) OAuth
13 44 (3.13%) FastAPI
14 42 (2.99%) OAuth2
15 40 (2.84%) HTML
16 39 (2.77%) LangChain
17 38 (2.70%) OpenAPI
18 35 (2.49%) .NET Core
18 35 (2.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 396 (28.14%) Cloud Native
2 170 (12.08%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 29 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.92%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.78%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.78%) PKI
13 24 (1.71%) Blog
14 20 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.35%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 306 (21.75%) Linux
2 90 (6.40%) Windows
3 39 (2.77%) Unix
4 35 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.20%) CentOS
6 22 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.85%) Debian
9 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 719 (51.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 689 (48.97%) DevOps
4 499 (35.47%) Agile
5 445 (31.63%) Software Engineering
6 396 (28.14%) Microservices
7 323 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (20.82%) Mentoring
9 291 (20.68%) Observability
10 277 (19.69%) AI
11 270 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 265 (18.83%) Test Automation
13 234 (16.63%) Event-Driven
14 225 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
15 192 (13.65%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
17 153 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
18 149 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 142 (10.09%) DevSecOps
20 138 (9.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 628 (44.63%) Python
2 375 (26.65%) Java
3 219 (15.57%) JavaScript
4 185 (13.15%) Bash
5 167 (11.87%) TypeScript
6 161 (11.44%) SQL
7 138 (9.81%) C#
8 128 (9.10%) PowerShell
9 90 (6.40%) Go
10 61 (4.34%) Bicep
11 58 (4.12%) C++
12 37 (2.63%) Ruby
13 35 (2.49%) Rust
14 26 (1.85%) Scala
15 23 (1.63%) Groovy
16 22 (1.56%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.14%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.07%) C
18 15 (1.07%) PL/SQL
19 14 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 456 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 226 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 175 (12.44%) DV Cleared
4 159 (11.30%) Degree
5 92 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.84%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.85%) CISSP
10 13 (0.92%) CCNP
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.78%) OSCP
12 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.64%) CISM
14 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.60%) QA
2 72 (5.12%) GRC
3 57 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.06%) NCSC
6 24 (1.71%) GDPR
6 24 (1.71%) NIST
7 20 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.35%) WCAG
9 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
10 6 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) SLA
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.071%) DO-178B
14 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
System Software
1 783 (55.65%) Docker
2 48 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.64%) KVM
7 8 (0.57%) Squid
7 8 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.57%) vSphere
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.36%) NDS
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.21%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 809 (57.50%) Kubernetes
2 214 (15.21%) Ansible
3 137 (9.74%) Grafana
4 112 (7.96%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.84%) Puppet
6 39 (2.77%) Argo
7 34 (2.42%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.56%) Istio
9 16 (1.14%) linkerd
10 15 (1.07%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.07%) Kibana
10 15 (1.07%) Nagios
11 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.85%) Podman
13 11 (0.78%) Packer
13 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
14 9 (0.64%) logstash
15 7 (0.50%) Rancher
16 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 235 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.89%) Google
3 57 (4.05%) Splunk
4 54 (3.84%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.84%) VMware
5 51 (3.62%) Oracle
6 27 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 18 (1.28%) Fortinet
7 18 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 18 (1.28%) Zscaler
8 16 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.14%) IBM
9 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
10 12 (0.85%) Mistral
11 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.78%) Cisco
11 11 (0.78%) Databricks
12 10 (0.71%) Okta
12 10 (0.71%) Rapid7
13 9 (0.64%) ForgeRock