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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 115 198
Rank change year-on-year -36 +83 -53
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,250 1,269 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.79% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.02% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 873 645 1,084
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 69,907 41,954 86,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.40% 92.11% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,219 22,640 61,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -9.09%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -35 1,144 £72,500 -9.38% 345
UK excluding London -51 672 £62,500 -7.41% 250
London -16 479 £80,000 -11.11% 170
Work from Home -35 440 £70,000 -2.77% 176
North of England -41 206 £65,000 - 60
South East +15 169 £65,000 - 78
South West +4 159 £55,000 -26.67% 44
North West -44 106 £70,000 +16.67% 31
Yorkshire -43 61 £70,932 +1.33% 14
Midlands -84 61 £70,000 +7.69% 28
East of England -21 43 £60,000 -11.11% 11
North East -13 39 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West Midlands -53 34 £70,505 +4.45% 19
Wales -34 29 £67,500 +12.50% 7
East Midlands -56 27 £64,000 +6.67% 9
Scotland -66 6 £60,000 -25.00% 13
Northern Ireland -29 5 £62,500 +45.04% 15

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 (2.72%) Apache
2 28 (2.24%) Confluence
3 27 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.40%) Appian
7 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) Camunda
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.080%) nginx
11 1 (0.080%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Blender
4 3 (0.24%) Maya
5 1 (0.080%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 749 (59.92%) AWS
2 627 (50.16%) Azure
3 328 (26.24%) GCP
4 215 (17.20%) GitHub
5 177 (14.16%) Serverless
6 150 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 144 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.48%) Azure AKS
10 101 (8.08%) OpenShift
11 97 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (7.68%) Amazon S3
13 81 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
15 72 (5.76%) Datadog
16 69 (5.52%) SaaS
17 66 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
18 63 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
19 54 (4.32%) IaaS
20 44 (3.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.76%) Broadband
1 72 (5.76%) Firewall
2 71 (5.68%) DNS
3 38 (3.04%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.88%) Network Security
5 28 (2.24%) VPN
6 22 (1.76%) HTTP
7 17 (1.36%) MQTT
8 14 (1.12%) VLAN
9 13 (1.04%) DMARC
10 12 (0.96%) BGP
10 12 (0.96%) OSPF
10 12 (0.96%) VXLAN
11 11 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (0.64%) AMQP
12 8 (0.64%) DHCP
12 8 (0.64%) IPv4
12 8 (0.64%) Wireshark
13 7 (0.56%) WAN
14 6 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.32%) NoSQL
2 123 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 65 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
6 55 (4.40%) MySQL
6 55 (4.40%) SQL Server
7 49 (3.92%) DynamoDB
8 37 (2.96%) Redis
9 30 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.68%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.44%) Pinecone
13 13 (1.04%) Big Data
14 11 (0.88%) Metadata
15 10 (0.80%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.80%) Power BI
16 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.64%) DTS
Development Applications
1 224 (17.92%) Git
2 197 (15.76%) Jenkins
3 174 (13.92%) GitLab
4 45 (3.60%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.20%) JIRA
6 28 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.68%) JUnit
9 20 (1.60%) Maven
10 19 (1.52%) Mockito
11 17 (1.36%) Selenium
11 17 (1.36%) Vite
12 14 (1.12%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.96%) Jaeger
13 12 (0.96%) MLflow
14 10 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.72%) TestRail
16 8 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 339 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 241 (19.28%) Finance
3 101 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 93 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.56%) Banking
6 74 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.72%) Law
8 44 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.44%) Retail
12 16 (1.28%) Games
13 15 (1.20%) Legal
14 13 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.04%) Front Office
15 9 (0.72%) Advertising
15 9 (0.72%) Electronics
15 9 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.72%) Marketing
15 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (21.76%) Senior
2 258 (20.64%) Developer
3 182 (14.56%) Software Engineer
4 167 (13.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 164 (13.12%) Lead
6 128 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 115 (9.20%) Architect
8 71 (5.68%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (5.44%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
12 57 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 51 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 50 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 47 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
17 36 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
18 35 (2.80%) Senior DevOps
18 35 (2.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (14.40%) React
2 177 (14.16%) RESTful
3 157 (12.56%) Spring
4 150 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 148 (11.84%) .NET
6 134 (10.72%) Node.js
7 128 (10.24%) REST
8 125 (10.00%) Kafka
9 79 (6.32%) gRPC
10 78 (6.24%) AngularJS
11 75 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
12 62 (4.96%) OAuth
13 61 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
14 51 (4.08%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.52%) JSON
15 44 (3.52%) OAuth2
16 42 (3.36%) FastAPI
17 40 (3.20%) YAML
18 37 (2.96%) CSS
19 36 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 329 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 161 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.60%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.60%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.00%) Blockchain
10 24 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.76%) PKI
12 20 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.60%) Web3
13 19 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.44%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 247 (19.76%) Linux
2 90 (7.20%) Windows
3 36 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.72%) Ubuntu
5 33 (2.64%) CentOS
5 33 (2.64%) Unix
6 20 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.72%) Debian
8 4 (0.32%) VMS
9 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Android
9 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.080%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.080%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (68.72%) CI/CD
2 612 (48.96%) DevOps
3 542 (43.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 480 (38.40%) Agile
5 414 (33.12%) Microservices
6 405 (32.40%) Software Engineering
7 326 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
8 251 (20.08%) Mentoring
9 250 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 246 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 235 (18.80%) Observability
12 225 (18.00%) AI
13 176 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 171 (13.68%) Event-Driven
15 163 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
16 140 (11.20%) Clean Code
17 138 (11.04%) Continuous Delivery
18 137 (10.96%) High Availability
19 136 (10.88%) Machine Learning
20 122 (9.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 589 (47.12%) Python
2 317 (25.36%) Java
3 238 (19.04%) JavaScript
4 185 (14.80%) Bash
4 185 (14.80%) SQL
5 155 (12.40%) C#
6 154 (12.32%) TypeScript
7 140 (11.20%) Go
7 140 (11.20%) PowerShell
8 53 (4.24%) Scala
9 50 (4.00%) Bicep
10 42 (3.36%) C++
11 28 (2.24%) Ruby
11 28 (2.24%) Rust
12 26 (2.08%) PHP
13 24 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.44%) Groovy
15 15 (1.20%) C
16 11 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 296 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 129 (10.32%) Degree
4 92 (7.36%) DV Cleared
5 74 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 50 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.20%) CISSP
11 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.88%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.64%) CCNA
14 8 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.64%) OSCP
14 8 (0.64%) RHCE
14 8 (0.64%) RHCSA
15 7 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (8.08%) QA
2 36 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.72%) GDPR
4 32 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.84%) NIST
8 15 (1.20%) WCAG
9 14 (1.12%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.04%) NCSC
11 11 (0.88%) GRC
11 11 (0.88%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.080%) DO-178B
16 1 (0.080%) SLA
System Software
1 761 (60.88%) Docker
2 40 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.64%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.80%) vSphere
6 9 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.64%) Squid
8 7 (0.56%) KVM
9 6 (0.48%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) iptables
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.080%) QEMU
12 1 (0.080%) Xen
Systems Management
1 745 (59.60%) Kubernetes
2 486 (38.88%) Terraform
3 201 (16.08%) Ansible
4 167 (13.36%) Grafana
5 151 (12.08%) Prometheus
6 40 (3.20%) Argo
7 27 (2.16%) Puppet
8 23 (1.84%) Istio
8 23 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.36%) Nagios
10 17 (1.36%) Podman
11 13 (1.04%) Packer
12 12 (0.96%) Kibana
12 12 (0.96%) Kustomize
12 12 (0.96%) linkerd
13 11 (0.88%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.48%) logstash
Vendors
1 133 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.68%) Google
3 62 (4.96%) Red Hat
4 48 (3.84%) Splunk
5 45 (3.60%) Typelevel
6 40 (3.20%) VMware
7 38 (3.04%) Oracle
8 27 (2.16%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.44%) Cisco
10 18 (1.44%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.20%) Fortinet
12 13 (1.04%) SendGrid
12 13 (1.04%) Zscaler
13 11 (0.88%) Databricks
13 11 (0.88%) Salesforce
14 10 (0.80%) Confluent
14 10 (0.80%) IBM
14 10 (0.80%) NVIDIA
14 10 (0.80%) ServiceNow