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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 114 197
Rank change year-on-year -34 +83 -56
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,350 1,304 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 2.66% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.95% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 919 671 1,069
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%

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 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -26 1,206 £72,500 -9.38% 389
UK excluding London -31 757 £65,000 -3.70% 263
London -18 485 £80,000 -11.11% 183
Work from Home -32 485 £70,000 -3.11% 196
North of England -44 222 £65,000 - 63
South East +23 188 £65,000 - 80
South West +1 174 £57,500 -23.33% 51
North West -38 118 £71,716 +19.53% 37
Midlands -82 64 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Yorkshire -31 63 £70,466 +1.76% 13
East of England -16 42 £60,000 -9.43% 9
North East -16 41 £55,000 -12.00% 13
West Midlands -51 38 £70,505 +4.45% 21
Wales -29 34 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Northern Ireland -29 34 £62,500 +45.04% 15
East Midlands -51 26 £64,000 +6.67% 11
Scotland -66 7 £60,000 -25.00% 10

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 38 (2.81%) Apache
2 31 (2.30%) Confluence
3 28 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.30%) IIS
6 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.22%) Appian
7 3 (0.22%) Camunda
7 3 (0.22%) CMS
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.22%) WordPress
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.074%) nginx
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 790 (58.52%) AWS
2 680 (50.37%) Azure
3 350 (25.93%) GCP
4 220 (16.30%) GitHub
5 186 (13.78%) Serverless
6 159 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 155 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
8 121 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (8.44%) OpenShift
10 106 (7.85%) Azure AKS
11 98 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (7.19%) Amazon S3
13 81 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (5.63%) Datadog
15 74 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
16 71 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
17 68 (5.04%) SaaS
18 63 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
19 57 (4.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.48%) Firewall
2 73 (5.41%) DNS
3 71 (5.26%) Broadband
4 43 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 40 (2.96%) WAN
6 39 (2.89%) Network Security
7 35 (2.59%) VPN
8 33 (2.44%) LAN
9 23 (1.70%) HTTP
10 19 (1.41%) MQTT
11 16 (1.19%) VLAN
12 15 (1.11%) BGP
12 15 (1.11%) OSPF
13 14 (1.04%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.96%) DMARC
15 12 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (0.74%) Wireshark
17 8 (0.59%) AMQP
17 8 (0.59%) IPv4
18 7 (0.52%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 80 (5.93%) MongoDB
4 63 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
5 59 (4.37%) MySQL
6 48 (3.56%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.56%) SQL Server
7 38 (2.81%) Redis
8 29 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (1.48%) RDBMS
10 15 (1.11%) Pinecone
11 14 (1.04%) Big Data
12 11 (0.81%) DTS
12 11 (0.81%) InfluxDB
12 11 (0.81%) Metadata
13 10 (0.74%) Db2
14 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 239 (17.70%) Git
2 205 (15.19%) Jenkins
3 181 (13.41%) GitLab
4 44 (3.26%) CircleCI
5 38 (2.81%) JIRA
6 29 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.33%) JUnit
8 18 (1.33%) Maven
9 17 (1.26%) Selenium
10 16 (1.19%) Mockito
10 16 (1.19%) Vite
11 15 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.11%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.81%) Jaeger
14 10 (0.74%) MLflow
14 10 (0.74%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.74%) TestRail
15 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
General
1 384 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.81%) Finance
3 115 (8.52%) Public Sector
4 101 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (6.74%) Law
6 83 (6.15%) Banking
7 78 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (3.11%) Telecoms
9 32 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.07%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.41%) Games
12 19 (1.41%) Retail
13 17 (1.26%) Legal
14 13 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.89%) Front Office
16 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.67%) Billing
17 9 (0.67%) Electronics
17 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 279 (20.67%) Senior
2 255 (18.89%) Developer
3 195 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 187 (13.85%) Software Engineer
5 175 (12.96%) Lead
6 163 (12.07%) Architect
7 132 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (4.96%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
12 56 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 54 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 53 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
14 53 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 45 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
17 39 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
18 37 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 36 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (13.04%) React
2 173 (12.81%) RESTful
2 173 (12.81%) Spring
3 167 (12.37%) Spring Boot
4 143 (10.59%) .NET
4 143 (10.59%) Node.js
5 129 (9.56%) Kafka
6 124 (9.19%) REST
7 81 (6.00%) AngularJS
8 80 (5.93%) gRPC
9 74 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
10 63 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
11 60 (4.44%) OAuth
12 49 (3.63%) .NET Core
13 47 (3.48%) JSON
14 44 (3.26%) OAuth2
15 42 (3.11%) YAML
16 41 (3.04%) FastAPI
17 38 (2.81%) CSS
17 38 (2.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 352 (26.07%) Cloud Native
2 168 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 35 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 30 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.85%) PKI
11 23 (1.70%) Blockchain
12 19 (1.41%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.41%) Web3
13 18 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.19%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 275 (20.37%) Linux
2 95 (7.04%) Windows
3 36 (2.67%) Ubuntu
3 36 (2.67%) Unix
4 35 (2.59%) CentOS
4 35 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.74%) Debian
7 5 (0.37%) VMS
8 4 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.15%) Rocky
10 1 (0.074%) Android
10 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (67.19%) CI/CD
2 651 (48.22%) DevOps
3 623 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 501 (37.11%) Agile
5 431 (31.93%) Microservices
6 417 (30.89%) Software Engineering
7 349 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (20.07%) Mentoring
9 263 (19.48%) Test Automation
10 258 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 247 (18.30%) Observability
12 225 (16.67%) AI
13 182 (13.48%) Event-Driven
14 177 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
15 171 (12.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 143 (10.59%) Clean Code
17 141 (10.44%) Continuous Delivery
18 138 (10.22%) Machine Learning
18 138 (10.22%) Roadmaps
19 134 (9.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 635 (47.04%) Python
2 339 (25.11%) Java
3 250 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 195 (14.44%) Bash
5 176 (13.04%) SQL
6 153 (11.33%) C#
7 151 (11.19%) TypeScript
8 148 (10.96%) PowerShell
9 145 (10.74%) Go
10 53 (3.93%) Bicep
10 53 (3.93%) Scala
11 46 (3.41%) C++
12 32 (2.37%) Ruby
13 30 (2.22%) Rust
14 26 (1.93%) PHP
15 24 (1.78%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.26%) Groovy
17 13 (0.96%) C
18 10 (0.74%) RPG
19 9 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 344 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 168 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 142 (10.52%) Degree
4 123 (9.11%) DV Cleared
5 78 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 51 (3.78%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.33%) CISSP
11 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.67%) CCNP
14 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.59%) CCNA
14 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.59%) RHCE
14 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (8.15%) QA
2 41 (3.04%) GRC
3 37 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.37%) GDPR
4 32 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 27 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.70%) NIST
8 17 (1.26%) WCAG
9 14 (1.04%) NCSC
9 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.74%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.074%) SEPA
15 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 793 (58.74%) Docker
2 43 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
2 43 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.74%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.74%) vSphere
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.59%) KVM
6 8 (0.59%) Squid
7 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.30%) iptables
10 3 (0.22%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.074%) QEMU
11 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 795 (58.89%) Kubernetes
2 525 (38.89%) Terraform
3 224 (16.59%) Ansible
4 177 (13.11%) Grafana
5 156 (11.56%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.26%) Argo
7 34 (2.52%) Puppet
8 27 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.78%) Istio
10 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (1.41%) Nagios
12 17 (1.26%) Podman
13 15 (1.11%) Kibana
14 13 (0.96%) linkerd
14 13 (0.96%) Packer
15 12 (0.89%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.81%) Kustomize
16 11 (0.81%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.52%) logstash
17 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 171 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.11%) Google
3 64 (4.74%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.78%) Splunk
5 45 (3.33%) Typelevel
5 45 (3.33%) VMware
6 37 (2.74%) Oracle
7 27 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 21 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.41%) Cisco
11 18 (1.33%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.11%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.96%) IBM
13 13 (0.96%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.81%) Databricks
14 11 (0.81%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.74%) Confluent
15 10 (0.74%) NVIDIA
15 10 (0.74%) Salesforce