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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 114 196
Rank change year-on-year -42 +82 -50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,208 1,248 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.80% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.02% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 830 638 1,094
10th Percentile £45,718 £49,007 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,601 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,505 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £128,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -37 1,111 £72,500 -9.38% 492
UK excluding London -41 645 £62,500 -7.41% 308
London -15 472 £80,000 -11.11% 245
Work from Home -26 440 £70,079 -2.66% 253
North of England -48 200 £65,000 -1.54% 78
South East +25 163 £68,750 +5.77% 90
South West +5 148 £55,000 -26.67% 67
North West -39 101 £70,000 +16.67% 43
Yorkshire -43 60 £67,966 -2.91% 16
Midlands -73 59 £70,000 +12.00% 26
East of England -20 42 £60,050 -12.65% 18
North East -17 39 £55,000 -15.38% 19
West Midlands -60 32 £70,079 +7.81% 19
East Midlands -53 27 £64,000 +6.67% 7
Wales -31 25 £63,750 +6.25% 11
Scotland -74 7 £60,000 -25.00% 13
Northern Ireland -29 5 £62,500 +45.04% 12

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 33 (2.73%) Apache
2 26 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.90%) Confluence
5 8 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.58%) Appian
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.083%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 720 (59.60%) AWS
2 605 (50.08%) Azure
3 321 (26.57%) GCP
4 202 (16.72%) GitHub
5 168 (13.91%) Serverless
6 139 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
7 131 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.77%) Azure AKS
10 95 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (7.78%) OpenShift
12 93 (7.70%) Amazon S3
13 82 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
15 74 (6.13%) Datadog
16 68 (5.63%) SaaS
17 56 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
18 54 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
19 50 (4.14%) IaaS
20 41 (3.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.37%) Broadband
2 71 (5.88%) Firewall
3 69 (5.71%) DNS
4 37 (3.06%) TCP/IP
5 33 (2.73%) Network Security
6 24 (1.99%) HTTP
7 20 (1.66%) VPN
8 15 (1.24%) MQTT
9 11 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
10 10 (0.83%) DMARC
10 10 (0.83%) VLAN
11 9 (0.75%) BGP
11 9 (0.75%) OSPF
11 9 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.66%) DHCP
12 8 (0.66%) IPv4
13 7 (0.58%) AMQP
14 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.50%) DMZ
14 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.18%) NoSQL
2 110 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.71%) MongoDB
4 73 (6.04%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 59 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 53 (4.39%) MySQL
7 46 (3.81%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.90%) Redis
9 29 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.32%) RDBMS
11 20 (1.66%) Pinecone
12 18 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.08%) Big Data
14 10 (0.83%) Metadata
15 9 (0.75%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.75%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.75%) Power BI
16 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 211 (17.47%) Git
2 188 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 171 (14.16%) GitLab
4 46 (3.81%) CircleCI
5 38 (3.15%) JIRA
6 25 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.99%) JUnit
8 23 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.74%) Maven
9 21 (1.74%) Mockito
10 18 (1.49%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.49%) Vite
11 16 (1.32%) Selenium
12 15 (1.24%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.16%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.08%) MLflow
15 9 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.75%) JMeter
16 8 (0.66%) Robot Framework
16 8 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 329 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 228 (18.87%) Finance
3 92 (7.62%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.62%) Banking
6 73 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.88%) Law
8 47 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 25 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.66%) Retail
12 14 (1.16%) Front Office
12 14 (1.16%) Games
13 13 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Legal
15 10 (0.83%) Billing
15 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.83%) Marketing
16 9 (0.75%) Electronics
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (22.27%) Senior
2 253 (20.94%) Developer
3 181 (14.98%) Software Engineer
4 160 (13.25%) Lead
5 155 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 123 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 98 (8.11%) Architect
8 74 (6.13%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 53 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
13 50 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
15 47 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
16 43 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
18 33 (2.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 32 (2.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (14.90%) React
2 170 (14.07%) RESTful
3 150 (12.42%) .NET
4 142 (11.75%) Spring
5 133 (11.01%) Spring Boot
6 125 (10.35%) Node.js
6 125 (10.35%) REST
7 118 (9.77%) Kafka
8 81 (6.71%) gRPC
9 75 (6.21%) AngularJS
10 71 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
11 67 (5.55%) Elastic Stack
12 61 (5.05%) OAuth
13 53 (4.39%) .NET Core
14 43 (3.56%) FastAPI
15 42 (3.48%) JSON
16 41 (3.39%) OAuth2
17 36 (2.98%) CSS
17 36 (2.98%) JWT
17 36 (2.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 305 (25.25%) Cloud Native
2 148 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.73%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.24%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.82%) Web3
12 21 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.74%) PKI
13 19 (1.57%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.49%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.41%) AI Agents
16 16 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
17 15 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 235 (19.45%) Linux
2 83 (6.87%) Windows
3 38 (3.15%) Unix
4 35 (2.90%) Ubuntu
5 34 (2.81%) Windows Server
6 31 (2.57%) CentOS
7 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.75%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) Android
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (68.05%) CI/CD
2 590 (48.84%) DevOps
3 513 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 466 (38.58%) Agile
5 392 (32.45%) Microservices
6 388 (32.12%) Software Engineering
7 309 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (19.87%) Mentoring
9 238 (19.70%) Test Automation
10 237 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 226 (18.71%) Observability
12 222 (18.38%) AI
13 171 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 149 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
15 147 (12.17%) Event-Driven
16 140 (11.59%) High Availability
17 139 (11.51%) Machine Learning
18 136 (11.26%) Continuous Delivery
19 134 (11.09%) Clean Code
20 124 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 564 (46.69%) Python
2 304 (25.17%) Java
3 239 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 194 (16.06%) SQL
5 185 (15.31%) Bash
6 150 (12.42%) C#
7 148 (12.25%) TypeScript
8 146 (12.09%) Go
9 133 (11.01%) PowerShell
10 51 (4.22%) Scala
11 44 (3.64%) Bicep
12 35 (2.90%) C++
13 27 (2.24%) PHP
14 26 (2.15%) Rust
15 22 (1.82%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.82%) Ruby
16 18 (1.49%) Groovy
17 16 (1.32%) C
18 12 (0.99%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 266 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 144 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 123 (10.18%) Degree
4 83 (6.87%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.72%) Azure Certification
7 54 (4.47%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.99%) CISSP
10 12 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.66%) CCNA
11 8 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.66%) OSCP
11 8 (0.66%) RHCE
11 8 (0.66%) RHCSA
12 7 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.03%) QA
2 36 (2.98%) GDPR
3 35 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.65%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.32%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.90%) NIST
8 14 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.99%) GRC
9 12 (0.99%) JSP 440
10 11 (0.91%) WCAG
11 10 (0.83%) NCSC
12 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
17 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
17 1 (0.083%) DO-178B
System Software
1 744 (61.59%) Docker
2 37 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.48%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.66%) Squid
7 7 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) KVM
9 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.083%) QEMU
11 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 719 (59.52%) Kubernetes
2 462 (38.25%) Terraform
3 194 (16.06%) Ansible
4 164 (13.58%) Grafana
5 158 (13.08%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.81%) Argo
7 26 (2.15%) Puppet
8 23 (1.90%) Istio
9 21 (1.74%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.49%) Kustomize
12 17 (1.41%) Podman
13 16 (1.32%) Nagios
14 13 (1.08%) Packer
15 12 (0.99%) Kibana
15 12 (0.99%) linkerd
16 10 (0.83%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.66%) FortiGate
18 6 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
19 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.61%) Google
3 59 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.73%) Splunk
4 45 (3.73%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.39%) Oracle
6 36 (2.98%) VMware
7 28 (2.32%) OpenAI
8 24 (1.99%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.41%) Cisco
10 15 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 12 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 12 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.91%) Databricks
12 11 (0.91%) NVIDIA
12 11 (0.91%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.83%) Confluent
13 10 (0.83%) SendGrid
13 10 (0.83%) ServiceNow