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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 128 165
Rank change year-on-year -28 +37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,382 1,193 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.43% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.74% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 885 587 781
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -7.41%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 15 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 15 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 -39 1,212 £72,500 -3.33% 1,972
UK excluding London -22 842 £67,500 +3.85% 1,050
London -44 443 £80,000 -5.88% 1,130
Work from Home -45 443 £68,724 -0.78% 863
North of England -27 235 £67,500 +3.85% 271
South West +2 201 £67,500 -1.50% 175
South East +8 174 £67,500 -6.90% 201
North West -46 128 £75,000 +15.38% 151
Midlands -73 84 £70,000 +1.82% 117
North East -12 59 £55,000 -8.33% 39
Northern Ireland -27 59 - - 48
West Midlands -56 52 £72,500 +3.57% 78
Yorkshire -36 48 £72,500 +11.54% 84
Wales -41 48 £60,000 -17.24% 18
East of England -34 47 £60,000 +3.45% 81
East Midlands -49 32 £65,000 +18.18% 38
Scotland -66 6 £90,000 +28.57% 142

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 50 (3.62%) Apache
2 40 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.68%) Confluence
4 25 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.29%) IIS
7 4 (0.29%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.072%) JBoss
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.072%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 791 (57.24%) AWS
2 718 (51.95%) Azure
3 314 (22.72%) GCP
4 216 (15.63%) GitHub
5 170 (12.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 161 (11.65%) Serverless
7 151 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
8 114 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (7.60%) OpenShift
10 96 (6.95%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.66%) Cloud Computing
12 84 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (6.01%) Amazon S3
14 80 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
14 80 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
15 74 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
18 51 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
19 50 (3.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.43%) WAN
2 68 (4.92%) LAN
3 61 (4.41%) Firewall
4 58 (4.20%) DNS
5 48 (3.47%) Network Security
6 37 (2.68%) VPN
7 32 (2.32%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.74%) MQTT
9 19 (1.37%) BGP
9 19 (1.37%) Broadband
10 18 (1.30%) OSPF
11 17 (1.23%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.16%) VLAN
13 13 (0.94%) DMARC
14 12 (0.87%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.58%) AMQP
16 8 (0.58%) DHCP
16 8 (0.58%) HTTP
16 8 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 64 (4.63%) MongoDB
4 56 (4.05%) MySQL
5 48 (3.47%) DynamoDB
6 45 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 41 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (2.60%) Redis
9 35 (2.53%) SQL Server
10 26 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.30%) Big Data
13 15 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.09%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (0.80%) InfluxDB
17 11 (0.80%) Metadata
18 10 (0.72%) Flink
Development Applications
1 272 (19.68%) Git
2 207 (14.98%) Jenkins
3 168 (12.16%) GitLab
4 37 (2.68%) JIRA
5 27 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 24 (1.74%) JUnit
6 24 (1.74%) Maven
7 21 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 18 (1.30%) Selenium
10 17 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (1.23%) Mockito
11 13 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.80%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.80%) Vite
13 9 (0.65%) Postman
13 9 (0.65%) Robot Framework
13 9 (0.65%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.65%) TestRail
General
1 439 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 334 (24.17%) Finance
3 171 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 104 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (7.09%) Law
6 91 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
7 89 (6.44%) Banking
8 69 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.68%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.39%) Legal
11 27 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.81%) Retail
13 21 (1.52%) Games
14 14 (1.01%) Marketing
15 13 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.87%) Electronics
17 11 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.65%) Front Office
20 7 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (19.61%) Senior
2 237 (17.15%) Developer
3 223 (16.14%) Architect
4 206 (14.91%) Software Engineer
5 204 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 172 (12.45%) Lead
7 111 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.85%) Systems Architect
10 64 (4.63%) Senior Developer
11 62 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 61 (4.41%) Java Developer
13 58 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
14 52 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 45 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
16 42 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 41 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
18 40 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
18 40 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (38.57%) Terraform
2 190 (13.75%) Spring
3 189 (13.68%) RESTful
4 181 (13.10%) React
5 176 (12.74%) Spring Boot
6 148 (10.71%) Node.js
7 146 (10.56%) Kafka
8 123 (8.90%) .NET
8 123 (8.90%) REST
9 80 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
10 72 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 52 (3.76%) OAuth
12 51 (3.69%) CSS
13 43 (3.11%) FastAPI
14 42 (3.04%) OAuth2
15 38 (2.75%) HTML
15 38 (2.75%) LangChain
16 37 (2.68%) OpenAPI
17 35 (2.53%) .NET Core
17 35 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 387 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 162 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 28 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.81%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.81%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.74%) Blog
12 24 (1.74%) PKI
13 21 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.30%) Private Cloud
15 16 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 295 (21.35%) Linux
2 91 (6.58%) Windows
3 38 (2.75%) Unix
4 34 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.24%) CentOS
6 21 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.87%) Debian
9 8 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.072%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (66.35%) CI/CD
2 700 (50.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 670 (48.48%) DevOps
4 489 (35.38%) Agile
5 440 (31.84%) Software Engineering
6 391 (28.29%) Microservices
7 315 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (20.69%) Observability
9 278 (20.12%) Mentoring
10 276 (19.97%) AI
11 268 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 266 (19.25%) Test Automation
13 228 (16.50%) Event-Driven
14 212 (15.34%) Platform Engineering
15 184 (13.31%) Roadmaps
16 161 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
17 151 (10.93%) Full-Stack Development
18 141 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 138 (9.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 136 (9.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 623 (45.08%) Python
2 364 (26.34%) Java
3 218 (15.77%) JavaScript
4 184 (13.31%) Bash
5 162 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 155 (11.22%) SQL
7 139 (10.06%) C#
8 127 (9.19%) PowerShell
9 95 (6.87%) Go
10 60 (4.34%) Bicep
11 56 (4.05%) C++
12 38 (2.75%) Ruby
13 36 (2.60%) Rust
14 26 (1.88%) Scala
15 23 (1.66%) Groovy
16 16 (1.16%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.09%) C
17 15 (1.09%) PL/SQL
18 14 (1.01%) PHP
19 13 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 445 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 223 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 167 (12.08%) DV Cleared
4 157 (11.36%) Degree
5 89 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.20%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.81%) CISSP
10 13 (0.94%) CCNP
11 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.80%) OSCP
11 11 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.65%) CISM
13 9 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.76%) QA
2 72 (5.21%) GRC
3 57 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.03%) NCSC
6 24 (1.74%) NIST
7 21 (1.52%) GDPR
7 21 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.37%) WCAG
9 17 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.72%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.51%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) SLA
15 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.072%) COBIT
16 1 (0.072%) HIPAA
System Software
1 771 (55.79%) Docker
2 48 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 38 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.65%) KVM
6 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.65%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) Squid
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.36%) NDS
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.22%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.072%) Xen
Systems Management
1 801 (57.96%) Kubernetes
2 212 (15.34%) Ansible
3 136 (9.84%) Grafana
4 111 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.82%) Puppet
6 38 (2.75%) Argo
7 34 (2.46%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.03%) Istio
9 16 (1.16%) linkerd
10 15 (1.09%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.09%) Kibana
10 15 (1.09%) Nagios
11 13 (0.94%) Podman
12 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.80%) Packer
12 11 (0.80%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.58%) logstash
14 7 (0.51%) Rancher
15 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.43%) Mesos
Vendors
1 223 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.30%) Google
3 55 (3.98%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.91%) Splunk
4 54 (3.91%) VMware
5 52 (3.76%) Oracle
6 26 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 19 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.30%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.30%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.09%) IBM
10 13 (0.94%) SendGrid
11 12 (0.87%) Mistral
12 11 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.80%) Cisco
12 11 (0.80%) Databricks
13 10 (0.72%) Okta
13 10 (0.72%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.65%) Typelevel