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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 129 176
Rank change year-on-year -30 +47 -38
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,064 1,018 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 2.40% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.57% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 699 762 1,126
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 59,378 39,636 75,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.65% 93.47% 86.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35,975 22,340 56,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,830 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -23 974 £70,932 -5.42% 497
UK excluding London -57 499 £62,500 -8.09% 358
London +6 454 £82,500 -2.94% 207
Work from Home -9 421 £70,000 -2.77% 245
North of England -41 184 £65,000 +4.00% 86
South East -12 109 £70,000 +5.66% 117
South West -22 109 £55,000 -23.60% 62
North West -20 92 £65,000 +8.33% 50
Yorkshire -55 55 £62,500 -8.09% 24
Midlands -55 50 £64,000 -1.54% 42
North East -5 37 £51,500 -25.69% 12
East of England -12 26 £60,100 -10.96% 40
East Midlands -36 25 £60,000 - 23
West Midlands -30 24 £70,079 +3.82% 19
Scotland -58 15 £59,283 -24.72% 13
Northern Ireland -38 8 £62,500 -9.82% 2
Wales -28 7 £70,079 +7.81% 9

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 37 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.73%) Apache
3 21 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.50%) Appian
5 8 (0.75%) Confluence
5 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
7 5 (0.47%) IIS
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Camunda
9 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.094%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
3 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Shopify
2 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.094%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.094%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 626 (58.83%) AWS
2 558 (52.44%) Azure
3 321 (30.17%) GCP
4 218 (20.49%) GitHub
5 157 (14.76%) GitHub Actions
5 157 (14.76%) Serverless
6 121 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (10.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 91 (8.55%) OpenShift
9 90 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
10 88 (8.27%) Datadog
11 84 (7.89%) Amazon S3
12 74 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (6.67%) Azure AKS
14 63 (5.92%) SaaS
15 52 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (4.23%) PaaS
17 41 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
18 36 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.58%) Firewall
2 63 (5.92%) Broadband
3 43 (4.04%) DNS
4 27 (2.54%) Network Security
4 27 (2.54%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.44%) HTTP
6 19 (1.79%) VPN
7 8 (0.75%) AMQP
7 8 (0.75%) DHCP
8 6 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.56%) DMZ
8 6 (0.56%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.38%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.38%) VSAN
11 3 (0.28%) RTP
11 3 (0.28%) VLAN
11 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (14.66%) NoSQL
2 105 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (8.55%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.42%) Relational Database
5 77 (7.24%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (5.26%) MySQL
8 35 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.10%) RDBMS
10 27 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (2.35%) Pinecone
12 19 (1.79%) Redis
13 17 (1.60%) Big Data
14 14 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.13%) Metadata
16 10 (0.94%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.85%) Power BI
18 8 (0.75%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 180 (16.92%) Git
2 151 (14.19%) Jenkins
3 135 (12.69%) GitLab
4 36 (3.38%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.29%) JIRA
6 24 (2.26%) JUnit
7 22 (2.07%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.07%) MLflow
8 21 (1.97%) Bitbucket
9 19 (1.79%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.50%) Selenium
11 15 (1.41%) JMeter
12 14 (1.32%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.22%) TeamCity
14 12 (1.13%) Locust
14 12 (1.13%) Mockito
15 11 (1.03%) Vite
16 9 (0.85%) Maven
16 9 (0.85%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.75%) Robot Framework
General
1 312 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.62%) Finance
3 97 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.80%) Telecoms
5 79 (7.42%) Public Sector
6 71 (6.67%) Banking
7 69 (6.48%) Law
8 44 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.73%) Games
10 28 (2.63%) Front Office
11 18 (1.69%) Billing
12 14 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.32%) Retail
13 13 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.22%) Marketing
14 12 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.13%) Legal
15 10 (0.94%) Advertising
15 10 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 264 (24.81%) Senior
2 242 (22.74%) Developer
3 130 (12.22%) Lead
3 130 (12.22%) Software Engineer
4 126 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (7.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 76 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 74 (6.95%) Architect
8 49 (4.61%) Java Developer
9 47 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
10 42 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 38 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 37 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 35 (3.29%) Data Engineer
15 33 (3.10%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
17 31 (2.91%) .NET Software Engineer
18 30 (2.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (14.10%) React
2 148 (13.91%) .NET
3 140 (13.16%) RESTful
4 120 (11.28%) Spring
5 115 (10.81%) REST
6 111 (10.43%) Spring Boot
7 95 (8.93%) Kafka
8 86 (8.08%) Node.js
9 81 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
10 77 (7.24%) gRPC
11 71 (6.67%) .NET Core
12 61 (5.73%) AngularJS
13 56 (5.26%) Django
14 54 (5.08%) FastAPI
15 52 (4.89%) OAuth
16 51 (4.79%) Flask
17 44 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
18 34 (3.20%) Vue
18 34 (3.20%) WebSockets
19 33 (3.10%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 269 (25.28%) Cloud Native
2 128 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.38%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (2.82%) Blockchain
8 25 (2.35%) Fixed Income
8 25 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.07%) Low-Code
9 22 (2.07%) PKI
10 21 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.69%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.50%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.41%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 221 (20.77%) Linux
2 92 (8.65%) Windows
3 48 (4.51%) Unix
4 38 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 27 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 26 (2.44%) CentOS
7 18 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.32%) VMS
9 13 (1.22%) Android
10 8 (0.75%) Debian
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.094%) Fedora
14 1 (0.094%) Rocky
14 1 (0.094%) Solaris
14 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (65.70%) CI/CD
2 546 (51.32%) DevOps
3 400 (37.59%) Agile
4 395 (37.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 377 (35.43%) Microservices
6 302 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 239 (22.46%) AI
9 216 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 211 (19.83%) Mentoring
11 171 (16.07%) Test Automation
12 165 (15.51%) Machine Learning
13 159 (14.94%) Observability
14 134 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 134 (12.59%) High Availability
15 127 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
16 120 (11.28%) Continuous Delivery
17 112 (10.53%) Analytics
18 110 (10.34%) Clean Code
19 102 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 527 (49.53%) Python
2 253 (23.78%) Java
3 214 (20.11%) SQL
4 202 (18.98%) JavaScript
5 166 (15.60%) Bash
6 143 (13.44%) Go
7 122 (11.47%) C#
8 95 (8.93%) PowerShell
9 82 (7.71%) TypeScript
10 38 (3.57%) Scala
11 31 (2.91%) Bicep
11 31 (2.91%) C++
12 27 (2.54%) PHP
13 20 (1.88%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.13%) C
15 11 (1.03%) Ruby
16 9 (0.85%) Rust
17 8 (0.75%) Delphi
17 8 (0.75%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 187 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 127 (11.94%) Degree
3 104 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 79 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 63 (5.92%) AWS Certification
7 36 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.75%) CISSP
12 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) CISM
15 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.52%) QA
2 44 (4.14%) GDPR
3 38 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.20%) PCI DSS
5 26 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.16%) NIST
7 18 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 13 (1.22%) WCAG
9 12 (1.13%) GRC
10 11 (1.03%) NCSC
11 10 (0.94%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.38%) EMIR
13 4 (0.38%) SLA
14 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) ECSS
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 701 (65.88%) Docker
2 34 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 25 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.13%) vSphere
6 7 (0.66%) KVM
6 7 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.56%) Firmware
7 6 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.38%) iptables
8 4 (0.38%) Lustre
8 4 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.28%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) Ceph
10 2 (0.19%) GPFS
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 670 (62.97%) Kubernetes
2 400 (37.59%) Terraform
3 182 (17.11%) Ansible
4 178 (16.73%) Grafana
5 157 (14.76%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.95%) Argo
7 19 (1.79%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.60%) Istio
8 17 (1.60%) Puppet
9 12 (1.13%) Nagios
10 10 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.75%) linkerd
11 8 (0.75%) Mesos
12 7 (0.66%) Podman
13 6 (0.56%) Control-M
13 6 (0.56%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.47%) Kibana
14 5 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 100 (9.40%) Google
2 90 (8.46%) Microsoft
3 49 (4.61%) Red Hat
4 43 (4.04%) Oracle
5 40 (3.76%) Splunk
6 36 (3.38%) Typelevel
7 31 (2.91%) VMware
8 30 (2.82%) OpenAI
9 21 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.79%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.60%) Cisco
12 17 (1.60%) Databricks
13 15 (1.41%) SAP
14 14 (1.32%) Atlassian
15 13 (1.22%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (1.22%) NVIDIA
15 13 (1.22%) UiPath
16 11 (1.03%) Dell
17 10 (0.94%) MuleSoft