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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 135 161
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 -17
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 984 1,099 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.43% 2.28% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.46% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 650 760 1,124
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,737 £73,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +3.86% -3.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £86,485
90th Percentile £126,250 £115,000 £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 54,457 44,608 66,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.02% 92.69% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,644 22,001 51,499
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,797 £29,429
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.97%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -19 903 £70,932 -5.42% 449
UK excluding London -55 456 £62,500 -8.09% 333
London +6 428 £82,500 -2.94% 192
Work from Home -24 366 £67,500 -6.24% 276
North of England -18 186 £65,000 +4.00% 83
South West -22 105 £55,000 -23.60% 63
North West +14 100 £65,000 +8.33% 44
South East -35 76 £71,250 +5.95% 106
Yorkshire -54 50 £67,750 -0.37% 26
Midlands -46 43 £64,500 -0.77% 43
North East +2 36 £51,500 -21.99% 13
East of England -1 24 £60,100 -7.54% 18
West Midlands -32 23 £70,000 +7.69% 27
East Midlands -27 19 £64,000 +6.67% 15
Scotland -46 16 £54,000 -32.50% 14
Northern Ireland -30 8 £62,500 -9.82% 3
Wales -7 5 £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 36 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (3.05%) Apache
3 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.63%) Appian
5 7 (0.71%) Confluence
5 7 (0.71%) IIS
5 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.61%) CMS
6 6 (0.61%) nginx
6 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
Applications
1 17 (1.73%) Maya
2 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Shopify
2 4 (0.41%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 565 (57.42%) AWS
2 527 (53.56%) Azure
3 280 (28.46%) GCP
4 209 (21.24%) GitHub
5 156 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (13.82%) Serverless
7 133 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (9.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 77 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (7.22%) Amazon S3
11 69 (7.01%) OpenShift
12 67 (6.81%) Datadog
13 66 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 59 (6.00%) Azure AKS
15 54 (5.49%) SaaS
16 46 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
18 43 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
18 43 (4.37%) PaaS
19 39 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.81%) Firewall
2 38 (3.86%) Broadband
3 36 (3.66%) DNS
4 27 (2.74%) Network Security
5 26 (2.64%) HTTP
6 23 (2.34%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.13%) VPN
8 11 (1.12%) DHCP
9 9 (0.91%) WAN
10 8 (0.81%) AMQP
11 7 (0.71%) DMZ
12 5 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.41%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.41%) MQTT
13 4 (0.41%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) VSAN
14 3 (0.30%) VLAN
14 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (13.62%) NoSQL
2 96 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (9.15%) SQL Server
4 76 (7.72%) Relational Database
5 70 (7.11%) MongoDB
6 48 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (4.88%) MySQL
7 34 (3.46%) DynamoDB
8 32 (3.25%) RDBMS
9 24 (2.44%) Pinecone
10 22 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.93%) Big Data
12 15 (1.52%) Redis
13 14 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.32%) Metadata
15 10 (1.02%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 165 (16.77%) Git
2 142 (14.43%) Jenkins
3 106 (10.77%) GitLab
4 31 (3.15%) JIRA
5 24 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 23 (2.34%) MLflow
7 21 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.13%) JUnit
8 19 (1.93%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.63%) Selenium
11 13 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.12%) JMeter
13 10 (1.02%) Vite
14 9 (0.91%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.81%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.81%) Locust
15 8 (0.81%) Maven
15 8 (0.81%) Mockito
16 7 (0.71%) Storybook
General
1 286 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 224 (22.76%) Finance
3 81 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.52%) Telecoms
6 65 (6.61%) Law
7 54 (5.49%) Banking
8 34 (3.46%) Games
9 32 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.95%) Front Office
11 16 (1.63%) Billing
12 14 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.42%) Marketing
13 13 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.32%) Retail
14 12 (1.22%) Advertising
14 12 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.12%) Electronics
16 10 (1.02%) French Language
17 9 (0.91%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 246 (25.00%) Senior
2 227 (23.07%) Developer
3 120 (12.20%) Lead
4 111 (11.28%) Software Engineer
5 108 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 77 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 72 (7.32%) Architect
8 66 (6.71%) Senior Developer
9 49 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
10 48 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (4.47%) Java Developer
12 39 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (3.76%) Data Engineer
14 35 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (3.46%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (2.95%) Software Developer
18 28 (2.85%) .NET Software Engineer
19 27 (2.74%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (14.94%) React
2 140 (14.23%) .NET
3 130 (13.21%) RESTful
4 107 (10.87%) Spring
5 105 (10.67%) REST
6 99 (10.06%) Spring Boot
7 82 (8.33%) Kafka
8 81 (8.23%) Node.js
9 76 (7.72%) Elastic Stack
10 65 (6.61%) .NET Core
10 65 (6.61%) AngularJS
11 58 (5.89%) FastAPI
12 54 (5.49%) gRPC
13 53 (5.39%) Django
14 51 (5.18%) Flask
15 43 (4.37%) OAuth
16 33 (3.35%) HTML
17 32 (3.25%) CSS
17 32 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
18 31 (3.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 250 (25.41%) Cloud Native
2 113 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (3.15%) Public Cloud
7 30 (3.05%) Blockchain
8 27 (2.74%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.24%) Low-Code
9 22 (2.24%) PKI
10 21 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.83%) Over-the-Top Content
12 18 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
13 17 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.32%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 209 (21.24%) Linux
2 85 (8.64%) Windows
3 45 (4.57%) Unix
4 34 (3.46%) Ubuntu
5 23 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.03%) CentOS
7 18 (1.83%) VMS
8 16 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (1.32%) Android
10 10 (1.02%) Debian
11 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.20%) zOS
14 1 (0.10%) Fedora
14 1 (0.10%) Rocky
14 1 (0.10%) Solaris
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (64.43%) CI/CD
2 513 (52.13%) DevOps
3 365 (37.09%) Agile
4 356 (36.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 337 (34.25%) Microservices
6 273 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (24.49%) AI
8 228 (23.17%) Software Engineering
9 195 (19.82%) Mentoring
10 182 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (14.63%) Machine Learning
12 140 (14.23%) Test Automation
13 137 (13.92%) Observability
14 124 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
15 120 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
16 109 (11.08%) Analytics
17 106 (10.77%) High Availability
18 104 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
19 98 (9.96%) Performance Optimisation
20 94 (9.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 472 (47.97%) Python
2 236 (23.98%) Java
3 198 (20.12%) SQL
4 179 (18.19%) JavaScript
5 153 (15.55%) Bash
6 119 (12.09%) C#
7 109 (11.08%) Go
8 85 (8.64%) PowerShell
9 78 (7.93%) TypeScript
10 32 (3.25%) Bicep
11 29 (2.95%) C++
12 21 (2.13%) PHP
12 21 (2.13%) Scala
13 15 (1.52%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.32%) C
15 9 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.81%) Delphi
16 8 (0.81%) Ruby
17 7 (0.71%) Rust
18 6 (0.61%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 178 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 126 (12.80%) Degree
3 102 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 78 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (7.22%) DV Cleared
6 68 (6.91%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.81%) CISSP
12 7 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.41%) CISM
15 4 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.41%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.61%) QA
2 41 (4.17%) GDPR
3 38 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (3.25%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.95%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.74%) Accessibility
7 24 (2.44%) NIST
8 16 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.32%) NCSC
10 11 (1.12%) GRC
10 11 (1.12%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.81%) WCAG
12 4 (0.41%) EMIR
12 4 (0.41%) SLA
13 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.20%) ECSS
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 638 (64.84%) Docker
2 37 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 30 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.32%) vSphere
6 7 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.71%) KVM
7 6 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.41%) Lustre
8 4 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Firmware
9 3 (0.30%) iptables
9 3 (0.30%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) Ceph
10 2 (0.20%) GPFS
10 2 (0.20%) RACF
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 631 (64.13%) Kubernetes
2 373 (37.91%) Terraform
3 180 (18.29%) Ansible
4 160 (16.26%) Grafana
5 150 (15.24%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.17%) Argo
7 19 (1.93%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.93%) Puppet
8 16 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.91%) Control-M
10 9 (0.91%) Istio
11 8 (0.81%) linkerd
11 8 (0.81%) Mesos
12 7 (0.71%) Nagios
12 7 (0.71%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.61%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.51%) Rancher
15 4 (0.41%) Cilium
Vendors
1 102 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.45%) Google
3 45 (4.57%) Oracle
4 38 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 37 (3.76%) Splunk
5 37 (3.76%) VMware
6 32 (3.25%) OpenAI
7 23 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.83%) Typelevel
9 16 (1.63%) Databricks
9 16 (1.63%) SAP
10 15 (1.52%) Cisco
10 15 (1.52%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.32%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.32%) UiPath
13 12 (1.22%) NVIDIA
14 11 (1.12%) Dell