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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 140 124
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 +8
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 897 1,183 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.51% 2.11% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.35% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 596 767 1,009
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £110,000 £96,689
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 48,916 50,426 45,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.53% 89.77% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 28,716 25,356 34,915
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,871
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -3.67%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -14 830 £72,500 +3.57% 1,174
UK excluding London -43 423 £65,000 - 965
London +15 397 £85,000 - 348
Work from Home -11 318 £67,500 -3.57% 636
North of England -6 176 £65,000 +8.33% 229
North West +18 106 £65,000 +8.33% 114
South West -16 77 £55,000 -20.86% 141
South East -41 64 £75,000 +7.53% 268
Midlands -10 57 £67,500 +3.85% 153
Yorkshire -30 44 £70,000 +41.41% 93
West Midlands +5 35 £70,000 +7.69% 84
North East +16 26 £55,200 -14.77% 22
East of England +7 26 £57,500 -8.00% 117
Scotland -28 25 £70,000 +0.50% 42
East Midlands -6 21 £54,600 -9.00% 59
Wales -9 11 £77,500 +19.23% 16
Northern Ireland -11 3 - - 14

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 42 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 38 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.56%) Apache
4 16 (1.78%) IIS
5 13 (1.45%) CMS
6 10 (1.11%) Apache Solr
6 10 (1.11%) Appian
7 6 (0.67%) Confluence
7 6 (0.67%) nginx
8 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.11%) FileNet
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.34%) Maya
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.22%) Weka
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Shopify
2 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 515 (57.41%) AWS
2 503 (56.08%) Azure
3 232 (25.86%) GCP
4 185 (20.62%) GitHub
5 133 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
5 133 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
6 120 (13.38%) Serverless
7 78 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 68 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (6.80%) SaaS
10 58 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 51 (5.69%) OpenShift
13 48 (5.35%) Datadog
14 38 (4.24%) Azure AKS
15 37 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
16 34 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
17 33 (3.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.13%) Firewall
2 30 (3.34%) DNS
3 24 (2.68%) VPN
4 21 (2.34%) Network Security
5 17 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.90%) WAN
6 16 (1.78%) DHCP
7 11 (1.23%) HTTP
7 11 (1.23%) LAN
8 9 (1.00%) AMQP
8 9 (1.00%) IPsec
8 9 (1.00%) VLAN
9 8 (0.89%) Broadband
10 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.67%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (0.67%) VoIP
10 6 (0.67%) Wireless
11 5 (0.56%) DMZ
11 5 (0.56%) SAN
12 4 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (12.82%) NoSQL
2 97 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (9.36%) SQL Server
4 67 (7.47%) MongoDB
5 55 (6.13%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.69%) MySQL
7 45 (5.02%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (2.68%) Big Data
9 24 (2.68%) Metadata
10 23 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (2.23%) Spark SQL
12 19 (2.12%) Delta Lake
13 18 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.67%) Pinecone
15 14 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (1.56%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
16 10 (1.11%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 180 (20.07%) Git
2 120 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 90 (10.03%) GitLab
4 37 (4.12%) MLflow
5 27 (3.01%) JIRA
6 20 (2.23%) JUnit
7 19 (2.12%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.78%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.67%) CircleCI
11 14 (1.56%) Selenium
12 13 (1.45%) JMeter
13 12 (1.34%) Cypress.io
13 12 (1.34%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.89%) Locust
14 8 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.78%) Jaeger
16 5 (0.56%) Storybook
17 4 (0.45%) Postman
17 4 (0.45%) TestRail
General
1 279 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 219 (24.41%) Finance
3 73 (8.14%) Law
4 72 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 55 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 52 (5.80%) Marketing
8 44 (4.91%) Banking
9 37 (4.12%) Games
10 27 (3.01%) Front Office
10 27 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 27 (3.01%) Retail
11 21 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.23%) Electronics
13 14 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.56%) French Language
14 13 (1.45%) Dutch Language
15 12 (1.34%) Legal
16 11 (1.23%) Advertising
17 9 (1.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 221 (24.64%) Developer
2 201 (22.41%) Senior
3 114 (12.71%) Lead
4 98 (10.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 83 (9.25%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.69%) Senior Developer
7 55 (6.13%) Architect
8 54 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (5.13%) Python Developer
11 43 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 36 (4.01%) Software Developer
13 35 (3.90%) Backend Developer
13 35 (3.90%) Data Engineer
14 34 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (3.79%) Lead Developer
14 34 (3.79%) Operations Engineer
15 33 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.34%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (15.27%) React
2 131 (14.60%) .NET
3 130 (14.49%) RESTful
4 80 (8.92%) Spring
5 79 (8.81%) Node.js
5 79 (8.81%) REST
6 73 (8.14%) Spring Boot
7 67 (7.47%) Kafka
8 65 (7.25%) FastAPI
9 59 (6.58%) AngularJS
10 56 (6.24%) .NET Core
11 52 (5.80%) HTML
12 50 (5.57%) CSS
12 50 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
12 50 (5.57%) Flask
13 48 (5.35%) PyTorch
14 46 (5.13%) TensorFlow
15 43 (4.79%) scikit-learn
16 42 (4.68%) Django
16 42 (4.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 212 (23.63%) Cloud Native
2 100 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
7 29 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.79%) Algorithms
8 25 (2.79%) Fixed Income
8 25 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (2.68%) Blockchain
10 22 (2.45%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.12%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.78%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.67%) PKI
14 13 (1.45%) Low-Code
15 12 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
16 11 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
17 9 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 191 (21.29%) Linux
2 101 (11.26%) Windows
3 44 (4.91%) Unix
4 42 (4.68%) Windows Server
5 26 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 19 (2.12%) VMS
7 13 (1.45%) CentOS
8 11 (1.23%) Android
9 9 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.78%) Debian
11 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.56%) Rocky
13 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.22%) zOS
15 1 (0.11%) Fedora
15 1 (0.11%) Solaris
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (63.99%) CI/CD
2 474 (52.84%) DevOps
3 312 (34.78%) Agile
4 285 (31.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 270 (30.10%) Microservices
6 257 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (27.09%) AI
8 169 (18.84%) Software Engineering
9 161 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 138 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 138 (15.38%) Machine Learning
11 122 (13.60%) Test Automation
12 116 (12.93%) Observability
13 108 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 100 (11.15%) Computer Science
15 91 (10.14%) Analytics
15 91 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
16 84 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
17 83 (9.25%) Roadmaps
18 82 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 437 (48.72%) Python
2 200 (22.30%) SQL
3 182 (20.29%) Java
4 168 (18.73%) JavaScript
5 128 (14.27%) C#
6 116 (12.93%) Bash
7 92 (10.26%) PowerShell
8 62 (6.91%) TypeScript
9 57 (6.35%) Go
10 30 (3.34%) Bicep
11 21 (2.34%) C++
12 17 (1.90%) PHP
13 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.89%) Delphi
15 7 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.78%) Ruby
15 7 (0.78%) Scala
16 6 (0.67%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.56%) C
18 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 139 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.72%) Degree
3 84 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 83 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (7.36%) DV Cleared
6 65 (7.25%) AWS Certification
7 43 (4.79%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (1.34%) CISSP
12 10 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.67%) ACMT
14 6 (0.67%) CISM
14 6 (0.67%) PhD
15 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
16 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.81%) QA
2 41 (4.57%) GDPR
3 30 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.34%) NIST
6 20 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.45%) SOC 2
9 10 (1.11%) NCSC
10 8 (0.89%) GRC
10 8 (0.89%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.89%) WCAG
11 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.45%) EMIR
13 4 (0.45%) SLA
14 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.22%) ECSS
System Software
1 600 (66.89%) Docker
2 48 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.24%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.12%) vSphere
6 16 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.67%) KVM
8 6 (0.67%) NFS
9 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.45%) Lustre
10 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) Firmware
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) vCloud
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 576 (64.21%) Kubernetes
2 328 (36.57%) Terraform
3 136 (15.16%) Ansible
4 119 (13.27%) Grafana
5 100 (11.15%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.56%) Argo
7 22 (2.45%) Kubeflow
8 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (1.34%) Puppet
10 10 (1.11%) Control-M
11 8 (0.89%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.89%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.78%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.67%) Autotask
13 6 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.67%) Rancher
14 5 (0.56%) Istio
14 5 (0.56%) linkerd
15 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.69%) Google
3 56 (6.24%) Oracle
3 56 (6.24%) VMware
4 40 (4.46%) Databricks
5 32 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 32 (3.57%) Splunk
6 26 (2.90%) SAP
7 24 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 22 (2.45%) Cisco
8 22 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 17 (1.90%) Dell
10 16 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.11%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.89%) Pure Storage
14 8 (0.89%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.78%) Commvault