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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 113 188
Rank change year-on-year -58 +75 -43
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,127 1,235 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.84% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 3.05% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 727 716 1,118
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 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -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 6 May 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 6 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
England -41 1,033 £72,500 -6.22% 512
UK excluding London -85 550 £62,500 -7.41% 369
London -12 474 £82,500 -8.33% 185
Work from Home -43 421 £70,932 +2.87% 225
North of England -73 176 £65,000 - 94
South East -8 133 £70,000 +16.67% 109
South West -23 124 £55,000 -23.60% 66
North West -58 89 £65,000 +4.49% 45
Midlands -90 60 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Yorkshire -64 57 £63,750 -6.25% 25
West Midlands -56 32 £70,079 +7.81% 17
North East -11 30 £48,445 -26.62% 24
East of England -37 30 £60,000 -7.69% 34
East Midlands -73 27 £64,500 +7.50% 24
Wales -20 16 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Scotland -92 13 £60,000 -29.52% 14
Northern Ireland -33 6 £62,500 - 4

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 31 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.40%) Apache
3 17 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.42%) Appian
5 12 (1.06%) Confluence
6 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.35%) IIS
8 4 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.089%) CICS
11 1 (0.089%) JBoss
11 1 (0.089%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) SAS
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.089%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.089%) Endur
3 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 660 (58.56%) AWS
2 579 (51.38%) Azure
3 331 (29.37%) GCP
4 207 (18.37%) GitHub
5 163 (14.46%) Serverless
6 143 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
7 134 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (11.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (8.70%) OpenShift
10 97 (8.61%) Azure AKS
11 92 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (7.99%) Datadog
13 85 (7.54%) Amazon S3
14 77 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 58 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (5.15%) SaaS
16 48 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
18 41 (3.64%) IaaS
19 40 (3.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.83%) Broadband
2 73 (6.48%) Firewall
3 54 (4.79%) DNS
4 32 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.57%) HTTP
5 29 (2.57%) Network Security
6 17 (1.51%) VPN
7 8 (0.71%) AMQP
7 8 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.53%) DHCP
8 6 (0.53%) DMZ
8 6 (0.53%) MQTT
8 6 (0.53%) WAN
9 4 (0.35%) IPv4
9 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.27%) Modbus
10 3 (0.27%) RTP
10 3 (0.27%) SCCP
10 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 106 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (7.19%) SQL Server
4 80 (7.10%) MongoDB
5 71 (6.30%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.53%) MySQL
8 45 (3.99%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.84%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.66%) Pinecone
11 29 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (2.04%) Redis
13 14 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.06%) InfluxDB
15 11 (0.98%) Big Data
15 11 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.98%) Metadata
15 11 (0.98%) Power BI
16 10 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 208 (18.46%) Git
2 179 (15.88%) Jenkins
3 147 (13.04%) GitLab
4 46 (4.08%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.11%) JIRA
6 28 (2.48%) JUnit
7 25 (2.22%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.86%) MLflow
10 19 (1.69%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.69%) Selenium
11 18 (1.60%) Vite
12 16 (1.42%) Maven
13 15 (1.33%) Mockito
14 14 (1.24%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.98%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.89%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.80%) TestRail
18 8 (0.71%) Storybook
General
1 313 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 236 (20.94%) Finance
3 92 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (7.10%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.57%) Banking
6 70 (6.21%) Telecoms
7 62 (5.50%) Law
8 59 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.77%) Aerospace
9 20 (1.77%) Front Office
9 20 (1.77%) Games
9 20 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 17 (1.51%) Retail
11 15 (1.33%) Billing
11 15 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.06%) Marketing
13 11 (0.98%) Electronics
14 10 (0.89%) Legal
15 8 (0.71%) Advertising
15 8 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 271 (24.05%) Senior
2 236 (20.94%) Developer
3 151 (13.40%) Software Engineer
4 141 (12.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (12.24%) Lead
6 102 (9.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 79 (7.01%) Architect
8 71 (6.30%) Senior Developer
9 64 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (4.79%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 45 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
15 37 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
15 37 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.66%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (2.66%) Software Developer
17 29 (2.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (14.46%) React
2 158 (14.02%) RESTful
3 152 (13.49%) .NET
4 127 (11.27%) REST
5 120 (10.65%) Spring
6 112 (9.94%) Spring Boot
7 109 (9.67%) Kafka
8 101 (8.96%) Node.js
9 91 (8.07%) gRPC
10 78 (6.92%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (5.94%) AngularJS
12 63 (5.59%) .NET Core
13 59 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (5.15%) OAuth
15 50 (4.44%) FastAPI
16 47 (4.17%) Django
17 39 (3.46%) Flask
18 35 (3.11%) JWT
19 34 (3.02%) Vue
19 34 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 278 (24.67%) Cloud Native
2 153 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.99%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.99%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.93%) Blockchain
7 30 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 25 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.95%) PKI
11 21 (1.86%) Web3
12 19 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.51%) Low-Code
15 16 (1.42%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 222 (19.70%) Linux
2 83 (7.36%) Windows
3 40 (3.55%) Ubuntu
4 39 (3.46%) Unix
5 33 (2.93%) CentOS
6 24 (2.13%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.06%) Android
9 10 (0.89%) VMS
10 9 (0.80%) Debian
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.089%) Rocky
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (68.41%) CI/CD
2 571 (50.67%) DevOps
3 462 (40.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 419 (37.18%) Agile
5 393 (34.87%) Microservices
6 332 (29.46%) Software Engineering
7 305 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
8 233 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 230 (20.41%) AI
10 212 (18.81%) Test Automation
11 211 (18.72%) Mentoring
12 199 (17.66%) Observability
13 160 (14.20%) Machine Learning
14 153 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 148 (13.13%) High Availability
16 137 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
17 132 (11.71%) Continuous Delivery
18 123 (10.91%) Clean Code
18 123 (10.91%) Event-Driven
19 119 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 541 (48.00%) Python
2 266 (23.60%) Java
3 220 (19.52%) JavaScript
4 209 (18.54%) SQL
5 171 (15.17%) Bash
6 158 (14.02%) Go
7 133 (11.80%) C#
8 120 (10.65%) PowerShell
9 112 (9.94%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.35%) Scala
11 37 (3.28%) Bicep
12 36 (3.19%) C++
13 25 (2.22%) PHP
14 21 (1.86%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.42%) C
16 15 (1.33%) Rust
17 14 (1.24%) Ruby
18 12 (1.06%) Groovy
19 8 (0.71%) Delphi
19 8 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 225 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 118 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 116 (10.29%) Degree
4 81 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 72 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (5.32%) AWS Certification
7 48 (4.26%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.71%) CISSP
12 7 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.53%) OSCP
14 5 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.36%) QA
2 36 (3.19%) GDPR
3 31 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.57%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.95%) NIST
7 19 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.98%) NCSC
9 10 (0.89%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.80%) GRC
11 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 6 (0.53%) WCAG
12 5 (0.44%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.089%) EMIR
System Software
1 729 (64.69%) Docker
2 39 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.80%) KVM
5 9 (0.80%) vSphere
6 7 (0.62%) Firmware
6 7 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.35%) iptables
7 4 (0.35%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.18%) GPFS
9 2 (0.18%) Lustre
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.089%) QEMU
10 1 (0.089%) RACF
10 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 700 (62.11%) Kubernetes
2 440 (39.04%) Terraform
3 193 (17.13%) Ansible
4 175 (15.53%) Grafana
5 155 (13.75%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.73%) Argo
7 23 (2.04%) Puppet
8 22 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.69%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.60%) Istio
11 15 (1.33%) Nagios
12 14 (1.24%) Podman
12 14 (1.24%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.71%) Packer
15 7 (0.62%) Kibana
15 7 (0.62%) linkerd
15 7 (0.62%) Mesos
16 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 110 (9.76%) Google
1 110 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.15%) Red Hat
3 45 (3.99%) Typelevel
4 41 (3.64%) Splunk
5 38 (3.37%) OpenAI
6 35 (3.11%) Oracle
7 31 (2.75%) VMware
8 23 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.33%) Cisco
10 15 (1.33%) Databricks
11 14 (1.24%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.15%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.15%) UiPath
13 12 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.98%) Confluent
15 7 (0.62%) Rapid7
15 7 (0.62%) Zscaler