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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 129 182
Rank change year-on-year -32 +53 -39
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,075 972 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.38% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.55% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 696 737 1,132
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £121,250 £120,000 £102,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.76% +5.38% -

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 61,153 38,054 77,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.62% 93.06% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37,653 22,322 57,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,097
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -28 984 £70,932 -5.42% 465
UK excluding London -51 514 £62,500 -8.76% 350
London +5 454 £82,500 -2.94% 169
Work from Home -4 424 £70,079 -2.66% 214
North of England -54 181 £65,000 +1.56% 89
South East 0 116 £70,000 +7.69% 104
South West -15 114 £55,000 -24.14% 64
North West -25 88 £65,000 +8.33% 54
Yorkshire -64 59 £65,000 -4.41% 23
Midlands -49 54 £65,000 - 44
North East -4 34 £51,500 -25.69% 12
East of England -22 27 £60,050 -9.36% 27
West Midlands -38 27 £70,000 +3.70% 26
East Midlands -42 26 £62,000 +3.33% 18
Scotland -61 15 £59,283 -24.72% 9
Wales -24 9 £70,079 +7.81% 13
Northern Ireland -38 8 £62,500 -9.82% 5

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 34 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (2.60%) Apache
3 19 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.49%) Appian
5 9 (0.84%) Confluence
5 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
7 5 (0.47%) IIS
8 4 (0.37%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Camunda
9 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
11 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
3 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Shopify
2 3 (0.28%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.093%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 631 (58.70%) AWS
2 555 (51.63%) Azure
3 327 (30.42%) GCP
4 215 (20.00%) GitHub
5 158 (14.70%) Serverless
6 152 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
7 120 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (10.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 93 (8.65%) Datadog
9 93 (8.65%) OpenShift
10 92 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
11 83 (7.72%) Amazon S3
12 76 (7.07%) Azure AKS
13 75 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 62 (5.77%) SaaS
15 52 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
16 51 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
17 43 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
17 43 (4.00%) PaaS
18 37 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.70%) Broadband
1 72 (6.70%) Firewall
2 46 (4.28%) DNS
3 27 (2.51%) Network Security
3 27 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 26 (2.42%) HTTP
5 19 (1.77%) VPN
6 9 (0.84%) DHCP
7 8 (0.74%) AMQP
8 6 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.56%) DMZ
8 6 (0.56%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.37%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.37%) VSAN
11 3 (0.28%) RTP
11 3 (0.28%) VLAN
11 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.88%) NoSQL
2 104 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (7.91%) SQL Server
4 77 (7.16%) Relational Database
5 72 (6.70%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
7 54 (5.02%) MySQL
8 39 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.07%) RDBMS
10 28 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (2.42%) Pinecone
12 19 (1.77%) Redis
13 15 (1.40%) Big Data
14 12 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.12%) Metadata
15 10 (0.93%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.93%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.84%) Power BI
17 8 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 187 (17.40%) Git
2 154 (14.33%) Jenkins
3 133 (12.37%) GitLab
4 36 (3.35%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.26%) JIRA
6 29 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.23%) JUnit
8 22 (2.05%) MLflow
9 20 (1.86%) Bitbucket
10 19 (1.77%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.58%) Selenium
12 15 (1.40%) JMeter
13 14 (1.30%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.21%) Locust
14 13 (1.21%) TeamCity
15 12 (1.12%) Mockito
15 12 (1.12%) SonarQube
15 12 (1.12%) Vite
16 11 (1.02%) Maven
17 9 (0.84%) Robot Framework
General
1 310 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 233 (21.67%) Finance
3 90 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.72%) Telecoms
5 76 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 72 (6.70%) Banking
7 68 (6.33%) Law
8 52 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (2.42%) Front Office
10 23 (2.14%) Games
11 17 (1.58%) Billing
12 16 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.49%) Retail
13 15 (1.40%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.30%) Legal
15 13 (1.21%) Marketing
16 12 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.93%) Advertising
17 10 (0.93%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 257 (23.91%) Senior
2 236 (21.95%) Developer
3 133 (12.37%) Lead
3 133 (12.37%) Software Engineer
4 129 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 75 (6.98%) Architect
7 70 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 49 (4.56%) Java Developer
9 47 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 46 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
11 43 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 40 (3.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 37 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 36 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
15 34 (3.16%) Data Engineer
16 31 (2.88%) Python Developer
16 31 (2.88%) Software Developer
17 30 (2.79%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (13.95%) React
2 143 (13.30%) RESTful
3 142 (13.21%) .NET
4 123 (11.44%) REST
5 118 (10.98%) Spring
6 108 (10.05%) Spring Boot
7 93 (8.65%) Kafka
8 89 (8.28%) gRPC
9 88 (8.19%) Node.js
10 80 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
11 68 (6.33%) .NET Core
12 64 (5.95%) AngularJS
13 56 (5.21%) Django
14 54 (5.02%) FastAPI
15 52 (4.84%) OAuth
16 49 (4.56%) Flask
17 46 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
18 37 (3.44%) Vue
19 33 (3.07%) CSS
19 33 (3.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 268 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 145 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.19%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.19%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.51%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.14%) Fixed Income
11 22 (2.05%) Low-Code
12 21 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.95%) PKI
13 20 (1.86%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.58%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.58%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.49%) Web3
17 15 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 218 (20.28%) Linux
2 92 (8.56%) Windows
3 47 (4.37%) Unix
4 39 (3.63%) Ubuntu
5 28 (2.60%) CentOS
6 26 (2.42%) Windows Server
7 20 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.21%) Android
9 11 (1.02%) VMS
10 8 (0.74%) Debian
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.093%) Rocky
14 1 (0.093%) Solaris
14 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (66.42%) CI/CD
2 549 (51.07%) DevOps
3 406 (37.77%) Agile
3 406 (37.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 377 (35.07%) Microservices
5 303 (28.19%) Problem-Solving
6 292 (27.16%) Software Engineering
7 236 (21.95%) AI
8 220 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 205 (19.07%) Mentoring
10 185 (17.21%) Test Automation
11 174 (16.19%) Machine Learning
12 167 (15.53%) Observability
13 136 (12.65%) Full-Stack Development
13 136 (12.65%) High Availability
14 129 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
15 126 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
16 116 (10.79%) Clean Code
17 112 (10.42%) Analytics
18 102 (9.49%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 541 (50.33%) Python
2 256 (23.81%) Java
3 217 (20.19%) SQL
4 210 (19.53%) JavaScript
5 164 (15.26%) Bash
6 153 (14.23%) Go
7 124 (11.53%) C#
8 101 (9.40%) PowerShell
9 92 (8.56%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.47%) Scala
11 34 (3.16%) Bicep
12 32 (2.98%) C++
13 29 (2.70%) PHP
14 22 (2.05%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.12%) C
16 11 (1.02%) Ruby
17 9 (0.84%) Rust
17 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.74%) Delphi
18 8 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 198 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 125 (11.63%) Degree
3 110 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 77 (7.16%) DV Cleared
5 76 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (5.86%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.63%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.74%) CISSP
12 7 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.37%) CISM
15 4 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.53%) QA
2 43 (4.00%) GDPR
3 38 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.16%) PCI DSS
5 25 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.14%) NIST
7 20 (1.86%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.30%) WCAG
9 12 (1.12%) GRC
10 11 (1.02%) NCSC
11 10 (0.93%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.37%) SLA
14 3 (0.28%) EMIR
14 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) ECSS
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 704 (65.49%) Docker
2 37 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.79%) Active Directory
4 26 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.02%) vSphere
6 7 (0.65%) Firmware
6 7 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.65%) KVM
7 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) iptables
8 4 (0.37%) Lustre
8 4 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.28%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.19%) Ceph
10 2 (0.19%) GPFS
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 672 (62.51%) Kubernetes
2 412 (38.33%) Terraform
3 187 (17.40%) Ansible
4 176 (16.37%) Grafana
5 150 (13.95%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.09%) Argo
7 21 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.77%) Istio
8 19 (1.77%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.67%) Puppet
10 13 (1.21%) Nagios
11 10 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.74%) linkerd
12 8 (0.74%) Mesos
13 7 (0.65%) Kibana
13 7 (0.65%) Podman
14 6 (0.56%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.56%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.47%) Control-M
15 5 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (9.40%) Google
2 94 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 51 (4.74%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.19%) Typelevel
5 40 (3.72%) Splunk
6 39 (3.63%) Oracle
7 31 (2.88%) OpenAI
7 31 (2.88%) VMware
8 21 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.67%) Cisco
10 18 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.58%) Databricks
12 15 (1.40%) SAP
13 14 (1.30%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.21%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.21%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.21%) UiPath
15 11 (1.02%) Dell
16 10 (0.93%) Fortinet