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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 157 118
Rank change year-on-year +24 -39 +24
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,079 1,126 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 1.66% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.02% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 608 710 1,075
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Process and 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 43,858 55,843 50,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.24% 82.56% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26,007 29,332 38,488
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 +27 981 £75,000 +3.45% 840
UK excluding London +37 614 £65,000 - 565
Work from Home +38 472 £68,000 -2.86% 454
London +28 403 £85,000 -2.86% 436
North of England +24 242 £65,000 +8.33% 133
North West +48 184 £65,000 +8.33% 96
South East +5 93 £75,000 +7.91% 270
Midlands +57 90 £70,000 +7.69% 47
South West +5 88 £62,500 -7.41% 71
Scotland +8 59 £70,000 - 22
West Midlands +47 56 £71,521 +10.03% 35
East of England +36 39 £58,750 -6.00% 14
Yorkshire -32 36 £68,500 +11.84% 24
East Midlands +36 34 £55,000 +32.53% 11
North East +19 22 £60,000 +14.29% 13
Wales +10 19 £72,539 +11.60% 5
Northern Ireland -3 4 £43,092 -33.35% 6

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
1 114 (10.57%) Confluence
2 52 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 35 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.41%) Apache
5 17 (1.58%) CMS
6 16 (1.48%) IIS
7 13 (1.20%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.65%) nginx
9 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.093%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.093%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.093%) FileNet
13 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.093%) SAS
13 1 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) Maya
2 4 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.37%) Sketch
3 2 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Shopify
2 3 (0.28%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.093%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.093%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 699 (64.78%) AWS
2 637 (59.04%) Azure
3 322 (29.84%) GCP
4 153 (14.18%) GitHub
5 126 (11.68%) Serverless
6 123 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 82 (7.60%) Amazon S3
9 73 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
11 67 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 60 (5.56%) SaaS
14 53 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
17 33 (3.06%) PaaS
18 32 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
19 31 (2.87%) Datadog
20 27 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.08%) Firewall
2 28 (2.59%) DNS
3 19 (1.76%) DHCP
4 17 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.58%) VPN
5 15 (1.39%) LAN
5 15 (1.39%) WAN
6 13 (1.20%) Network Security
7 10 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
8 9 (0.83%) IPsec
9 8 (0.74%) VLAN
10 7 (0.65%) SAN
11 6 (0.56%) AMQP
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.56%) HTTP
11 6 (0.56%) VoIP
11 6 (0.56%) Wireless
12 4 (0.37%) Internet
12 4 (0.37%) NAS
13 3 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (21.13%) SQL Server
2 103 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (9.08%) NoSQL
4 68 (6.30%) MongoDB
5 57 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
6 56 (5.19%) DynamoDB
7 47 (4.36%) MySQL
7 47 (4.36%) Relational Database
8 34 (3.15%) Big Data
9 26 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (2.13%) Metadata
11 21 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
12 20 (1.85%) Delta Lake
12 20 (1.85%) Spark SQL
13 17 (1.58%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.39%) Tick Data
15 14 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.11%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 260 (24.10%) GitLab
2 203 (18.81%) JIRA
3 199 (18.44%) SonarQube
4 181 (16.77%) Cucumber
5 179 (16.59%) Maven
6 178 (16.50%) Bitbucket
7 175 (16.22%) Selenium
7 175 (16.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 159 (14.74%) Git
9 120 (11.12%) Jenkins
10 29 (2.69%) MLflow
11 21 (1.95%) CircleCI
12 20 (1.85%) TeamCity
13 18 (1.67%) JUnit
14 14 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
15 13 (1.20%) Mockito
16 11 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (1.02%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.02%) JMeter
16 11 (1.02%) jMock
General
1 399 (36.98%) Finance
2 262 (24.28%) Social Skills
3 255 (23.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 217 (20.11%) Banking
5 99 (9.18%) Law
6 98 (9.08%) Public Sector
7 97 (8.99%) Retail
8 92 (8.53%) Marketing
9 73 (6.77%) Investment Banking
10 69 (6.39%) Corporate Banking
11 66 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.78%) Manufacturing
14 27 (2.50%) Games
15 23 (2.13%) Electronics
16 19 (1.76%) Front Office
17 12 (1.11%) Legal
18 11 (1.02%) French Language
18 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
19 10 (0.93%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 274 (25.39%) Software Engineer
2 213 (19.74%) Developer
3 178 (16.50%) Senior
4 146 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (12.79%) Lead
6 59 (5.47%) Python Developer
7 58 (5.38%) Architect
8 54 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 49 (4.54%) Python Engineer
10 45 (4.17%) Lead Developer
11 44 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.71%) Full-Stack Developer
14 40 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
15 37 (3.43%) Data Engineer
15 37 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 36 (3.34%) Backend Developer
17 35 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
18 33 (3.06%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (28.36%) React
2 252 (23.35%) Spring
3 244 (22.61%) Spring Boot
4 240 (22.24%) Kafka
5 219 (20.30%) HTML
6 217 (20.11%) CSS
7 202 (18.72%) RESTful
8 187 (17.33%) JPA
9 167 (15.48%) Redux
10 142 (13.16%) REST
11 130 (12.05%) .NET
11 130 (12.05%) Hibernate
12 77 (7.14%) CSS3
12 77 (7.14%) HTML5
13 73 (6.77%) Jest
14 69 (6.39%) Sass
15 68 (6.30%) AngularJS
16 65 (6.02%) Node.js
17 64 (5.93%) FastAPI
18 53 (4.91%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 200 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 197 (18.26%) Enterprise Software
3 188 (17.42%) Product Ownership
4 92 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
8 31 (2.87%) e-Learning
9 28 (2.59%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.41%) Algorithms
10 26 (2.41%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.13%) Data Centre
12 21 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.76%) Blockchain
13 19 (1.76%) Fixed Income
14 18 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
15 14 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.83%) AI Agents
16 9 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
17 8 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 190 (17.61%) Linux
2 103 (9.55%) Windows
3 52 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.34%) Unix
5 31 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.20%) VMS
7 11 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.74%) Debian
8 8 (0.74%) Rocky
9 7 (0.65%) CentOS
10 6 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.093%) Android
12 1 (0.093%) Fedora
12 1 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.093%) Solaris
12 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (66.08%) CI/CD
2 650 (60.24%) DevOps
3 512 (47.45%) Agile
4 421 (39.02%) Microservices
5 373 (34.57%) Software Engineering
6 328 (30.40%) Test Automation
7 276 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 267 (24.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 252 (23.35%) Mentoring
10 236 (21.87%) Performance Optimisation
11 235 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
12 225 (20.85%) AI
13 224 (20.76%) SDLC
14 197 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 194 (17.98%) Front End Development
16 163 (15.11%) Clean Code
17 156 (14.46%) TDD
18 126 (11.68%) User Experience
19 124 (11.49%) Migration
20 122 (11.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 431 (39.94%) Python
2 360 (33.36%) Java
3 349 (32.34%) SQL
4 304 (28.17%) JavaScript
5 137 (12.70%) C#
6 121 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 102 (9.45%) Bash
8 92 (8.53%) PowerShell
9 37 (3.43%) Go
10 25 (2.32%) Bicep
11 21 (1.95%) PHP
12 15 (1.39%) C++
13 13 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.74%) Scala
14 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.65%) Ruby
15 7 (0.65%) Rust
16 6 (0.56%) Groovy
17 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 126 (11.68%) Degree
2 117 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 76 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 74 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 56 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.83%) CISSP
13 8 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (0.74%) PhD
13 8 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.65%) CISM
15 6 (0.56%) ACMT
15 6 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (23.17%) QA
2 82 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.52%) GDPR
4 21 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.67%) NIST
6 17 (1.58%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.20%) HIPAA
8 12 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.74%) WCAG
11 6 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.37%) GRC
13 3 (0.28%) EMIR
13 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.28%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.28%) NCSC
14 2 (0.19%) ECSS
14 2 (0.19%) PSD2
15 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.093%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 751 (69.60%) Docker
2 56 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (3.52%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 23 (2.13%) vSphere
6 11 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.93%) NFS
8 9 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.37%) Postfix
9 4 (0.37%) vCloud
9 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.28%) KVM
11 2 (0.19%) Ceph
11 2 (0.19%) Lustre
11 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.19%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.093%) HDFS
12 1 (0.093%) iptables
12 1 (0.093%) RACF
Systems Management
1 723 (67.01%) Kubernetes
2 306 (28.36%) Terraform
3 126 (11.68%) Ansible
4 98 (9.08%) Grafana
5 90 (8.34%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.22%) Kubeflow
7 11 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.83%) Control-M
9 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.83%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.74%) Argo
10 8 (0.74%) Puppet
11 6 (0.56%) Autotask
11 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 6 (0.56%) SCCM
12 5 (0.46%) SCOM
12 5 (0.46%) WSUS
13 4 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 165 (15.29%) Solace
2 110 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 64 (5.93%) VMware
4 59 (5.47%) Red Hat
5 57 (5.28%) Google
5 57 (5.28%) Oracle
6 41 (3.80%) Databricks
7 35 (3.24%) IBM
8 30 (2.78%) SAP
8 30 (2.78%) Splunk
9 28 (2.59%) Cisco
10 22 (2.04%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.67%) Dell
12 17 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.39%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.30%) Commvault
15 12 (1.11%) OpenAI
16 11 (1.02%) Fortinet
17 10 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
18 7 (0.65%) Salesforce