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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 116 194
Rank change year-on-year -54 +78 -49
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,135 1,252 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.84% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 3.04% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 739 682 1,108
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,174 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,310 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +6.63% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,237 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,900 £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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -48 1,036 £72,500 -6.45% 401
UK excluding London -72 580 £62,500 -7.41% 276
London -12 461 £82,500 -8.33% 161
Work from Home -43 407 £70,932 +1.78% 201
North of England -66 175 £65,000 -1.54% 74
South East +5 152 £70,000 +9.80% 81
South West -15 128 £55,000 -23.60% 55
North West -49 86 £70,000 +10.06% 40
Yorkshire -52 59 £65,000 -6.14% 18
Midlands -91 59 £70,000 +16.67% 32
East of England -33 35 £60,050 -11.04% 19
North East -22 30 £51,000 -22.75% 16
West Midlands -71 30 £70,505 +8.47% 18
East Midlands -61 28 £64,000 +6.67% 14
Wales -15 20 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Scotland -66 12 £60,000 -29.41% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 1

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 27 (2.38%) Apache
2 22 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.41%) Confluence
5 12 (1.06%) Appian
6 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) IIS
7 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.26%) Camunda
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.088%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.088%) nginx
11 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.26%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.088%) Endur
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 664 (58.50%) AWS
2 579 (51.01%) Azure
3 317 (27.93%) GCP
4 191 (16.83%) GitHub
5 169 (14.89%) Serverless
6 137 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
7 125 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 125 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
8 102 (8.99%) Azure AKS
9 94 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
10 88 (7.75%) OpenShift
11 87 (7.67%) Amazon S3
12 84 (7.40%) Datadog
13 68 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 65 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
14 65 (5.73%) SaaS
15 49 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
16 47 (4.14%) IaaS
17 38 (3.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.70%) Broadband
2 71 (6.26%) Firewall
3 60 (5.29%) DNS
4 31 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.64%) Network Security
6 25 (2.20%) HTTP
7 17 (1.50%) VPN
8 11 (0.97%) MQTT
9 10 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.70%) AMQP
11 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.53%) DHCP
11 6 (0.53%) DMZ
11 6 (0.53%) IPv4
12 4 (0.35%) VLAN
12 4 (0.35%) WAN
12 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.26%) Modbus
13 3 (0.26%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (12.95%) NoSQL
2 97 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 73 (6.43%) SQL Server
5 70 (6.17%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.41%) MySQL
8 46 (4.05%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.73%) RDBMS
10 29 (2.56%) Redis
11 24 (2.11%) Pinecone
12 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.97%) Big Data
14 10 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.88%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.88%) Metadata
15 9 (0.79%) Power BI
16 8 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 208 (18.33%) Git
2 172 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 146 (12.86%) GitLab
4 48 (4.23%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.00%) JIRA
6 25 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.20%) JUnit
7 22 (1.94%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.76%) Mockito
9 19 (1.67%) Maven
10 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.59%) MLflow
11 16 (1.41%) Vite
12 15 (1.32%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.97%) Selenium
15 10 (0.88%) JMeter
16 9 (0.79%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.70%) Storybook
17 8 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 312 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 237 (20.88%) Finance
3 88 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.61%) Banking
6 67 (5.90%) Law
7 60 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (4.93%) Telecoms
9 24 (2.11%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.67%) Games
12 18 (1.59%) Front Office
12 18 (1.59%) Retail
13 14 (1.23%) Billing
13 14 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.97%) Legal
14 11 (0.97%) Marketing
15 8 (0.70%) Advertising
15 8 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (23.44%) Senior
2 245 (21.59%) Developer
3 165 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 143 (12.60%) Lead
5 133 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 110 (9.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (7.14%) Architect
8 72 (6.34%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (5.55%) Java Developer
11 55 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 44 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 42 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 40 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (2.64%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (2.64%) Software Developer
18 28 (2.47%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (14.80%) React
2 159 (14.01%) RESTful
3 157 (13.83%) .NET
4 124 (10.93%) REST
5 122 (10.75%) Spring
6 112 (9.87%) Spring Boot
7 110 (9.69%) Kafka
8 98 (8.63%) Node.js
9 88 (7.75%) gRPC
10 70 (6.17%) AngularJS
11 63 (5.55%) Elastic Stack
12 62 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
13 61 (5.37%) .NET Core
14 55 (4.85%) OAuth
15 44 (3.88%) FastAPI
16 37 (3.26%) JSON
17 35 (3.08%) JWT
18 33 (2.91%) Django
18 33 (2.91%) Web Services
19 32 (2.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 261 (23.00%) Cloud Native
2 145 (12.78%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.96%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (3.00%) Blockchain
6 31 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.03%) PKI
11 22 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.94%) Web3
12 19 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.67%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.32%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.15%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 228 (20.09%) Linux
2 80 (7.05%) Windows
3 38 (3.35%) Ubuntu
4 37 (3.26%) Unix
5 31 (2.73%) CentOS
6 29 (2.56%) Windows Server
7 23 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.79%) Debian
9 8 (0.70%) Android
9 8 (0.70%) VMS
10 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.088%) Rocky
12 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (67.58%) CI/CD
2 547 (48.19%) DevOps
3 459 (40.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 444 (39.12%) Agile
5 383 (33.74%) Microservices
6 349 (30.75%) Software Engineering
7 296 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 225 (19.82%) Test Automation
10 220 (19.38%) AI
10 220 (19.38%) Mentoring
11 200 (17.62%) Observability
12 154 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 147 (12.95%) Machine Learning
14 143 (12.60%) High Availability
15 132 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
16 129 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
17 125 (11.01%) Clean Code
17 125 (11.01%) Platform Engineering
18 122 (10.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 527 (46.43%) Python
2 271 (23.88%) Java
3 230 (20.26%) JavaScript
4 195 (17.18%) SQL
5 167 (14.71%) Bash
6 148 (13.04%) Go
7 140 (12.33%) C#
8 125 (11.01%) TypeScript
9 123 (10.84%) PowerShell
10 49 (4.32%) Scala
11 35 (3.08%) Bicep
12 32 (2.82%) C++
13 25 (2.20%) PHP
14 22 (1.94%) Rust
15 20 (1.76%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.41%) C
17 14 (1.23%) Groovy
18 13 (1.15%) Ruby
19 10 (0.88%) PL/SQL
20 9 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 233 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.40%) Degree
4 78 (6.87%) DV Cleared
5 70 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (5.11%) AWS Certification
7 55 (4.85%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.70%) CISSP
12 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.53%) OSCP
13 6 (0.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.58%) QA
2 36 (3.17%) GDPR
3 31 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 30 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 27 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.03%) NIST
8 17 (1.50%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.97%) GRC
9 11 (0.97%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.79%) NCSC
11 7 (0.62%) WCAG
12 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.26%) SLA
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.088%) EMIR
15 1 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 718 (63.26%) Docker
2 36 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.79%) vSphere
6 8 (0.70%) KVM
7 6 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.53%) Squid
8 4 (0.35%) iptables
9 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.088%) QEMU
11 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 687 (60.53%) Kubernetes
2 432 (38.06%) Terraform
3 188 (16.56%) Ansible
4 156 (13.74%) Grafana
5 146 (12.86%) Prometheus
6 38 (3.35%) Argo
7 26 (2.29%) Puppet
8 21 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.59%) Istio
9 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.50%) Podman
11 16 (1.41%) Nagios
11 16 (1.41%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.88%) Kibana
12 10 (0.88%) Packer
13 8 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.62%) linkerd
14 7 (0.62%) Mesos
15 6 (0.53%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 112 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 104 (9.16%) Google
3 58 (5.11%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.96%) Typelevel
5 39 (3.44%) Splunk
6 35 (3.08%) Oracle
7 32 (2.82%) VMware
8 31 (2.73%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.23%) Cisco
10 14 (1.23%) NVIDIA
10 14 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.97%) Automation Anywhere
11 11 (0.97%) Databricks
11 11 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 11 (0.97%) UiPath
12 10 (0.88%) Confluent
13 8 (0.70%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.62%) Zscaler