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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 117 192
Rank change year-on-year -32 +75 -50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,329 1,294 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.69% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.96% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 911 662 1,074
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,521 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £127,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +12.50% -7.69%

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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -33 1,184 £72,500 -9.38% 456
UK excluding London -43 743 £64,000 -5.19% 337
Work from Home -40 488 £70,000 -3.11% 269
London -16 478 £80,000 -11.11% 192
North of England -47 220 £65,000 - 75
South East +31 181 £66,000 -0.38% 101
South West -1 167 £57,500 -23.33% 53
North West -42 115 £70,466 +17.44% 41
Yorkshire -29 63 £70,466 +2.87% 20
Midlands -82 62 £70,000 +7.69% 47
East of England -29 44 £60,000 -11.11% 16
North East -13 42 £55,000 -12.00% 15
Northern Ireland -26 35 £62,500 +45.04% 21
West Midlands -52 35 £70,505 +4.45% 28
Wales -34 34 £67,500 +3.85% 12
East Midlands -56 27 £64,000 +6.67% 19
Scotland -72 7 £60,000 -25.00% 17

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 (2.71%) Apache
2 31 (2.33%) Confluence
3 28 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) Appian
7 4 (0.30%) IIS
7 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.23%) Camunda
8 3 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.23%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.075%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.075%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.075%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.23%) Blender
4 3 (0.23%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 784 (58.99%) AWS
2 679 (51.09%) Azure
3 346 (26.03%) GCP
4 219 (16.48%) GitHub
5 186 (14.00%) Serverless
6 157 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 154 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (8.05%) OpenShift
10 104 (7.83%) Azure AKS
11 98 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (7.30%) Amazon S3
13 81 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 80 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
15 76 (5.72%) Datadog
16 71 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
18 68 (5.12%) SaaS
19 62 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
20 57 (4.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.49%) Firewall
2 72 (5.42%) Broadband
2 72 (5.42%) DNS
3 41 (3.09%) TCP/IP
4 39 (2.93%) WAN
5 38 (2.86%) Network Security
6 32 (2.41%) LAN
6 32 (2.41%) VPN
7 23 (1.73%) HTTP
8 19 (1.43%) MQTT
9 15 (1.13%) VLAN
10 13 (0.98%) BGP
10 13 (0.98%) DMARC
10 13 (0.98%) OSPF
10 13 (0.98%) VXLAN
11 11 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (0.60%) AMQP
12 8 (0.60%) IPv4
12 8 (0.60%) Wireshark
13 7 (0.53%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 80 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.89%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
5 58 (4.36%) MySQL
6 50 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 48 (3.61%) DynamoDB
8 38 (2.86%) Redis
9 29 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.58%) RDBMS
11 20 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.20%) Pinecone
13 14 (1.05%) Big Data
14 11 (0.83%) DTS
14 11 (0.83%) Metadata
15 10 (0.75%) Db2
15 10 (0.75%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 230 (17.31%) Git
2 200 (15.05%) Jenkins
3 177 (13.32%) GitLab
4 44 (3.31%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.93%) JIRA
6 29 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.66%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.35%) JUnit
8 18 (1.35%) Maven
9 16 (1.20%) Mockito
9 16 (1.20%) Selenium
9 16 (1.20%) Vite
10 15 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.13%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.90%) Jaeger
12 11 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.83%) MLflow
13 9 (0.68%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.68%) Robot Framework
13 9 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 379 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 274 (20.62%) Finance
3 113 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.70%) Law
6 80 (6.02%) Banking
7 78 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 32 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.43%) Retail
13 17 (1.28%) Games
14 16 (1.20%) Legal
15 13 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.90%) Front Office
17 10 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.68%) Billing
18 9 (0.68%) Electronics
18 9 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (20.92%) Senior
2 256 (19.26%) Developer
3 187 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (13.92%) Software Engineer
5 174 (13.09%) Lead
6 158 (11.89%) Architect
7 129 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.42%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (5.04%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
12 55 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 54 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
14 52 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 44 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
17 36 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
17 36 (2.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (13.47%) React
2 175 (13.17%) RESTful
3 170 (12.79%) Spring
4 164 (12.34%) Spring Boot
5 146 (10.99%) .NET
6 142 (10.68%) Node.js
7 128 (9.63%) Kafka
8 125 (9.41%) REST
9 82 (6.17%) AngularJS
10 80 (6.02%) gRPC
11 74 (5.57%) RabbitMQ
12 62 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
12 62 (4.67%) OAuth
13 49 (3.69%) .NET Core
14 46 (3.46%) JSON
15 45 (3.39%) OAuth2
16 42 (3.16%) YAML
17 41 (3.09%) FastAPI
18 38 (2.86%) Vue
19 37 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 348 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 167 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.39%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.39%) Video\Live Streaming
5 33 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 27 (2.03%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.73%) Blockchain
11 23 (1.73%) PKI
12 20 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.43%) Web3
14 18 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 260 (19.56%) Linux
2 90 (6.77%) Windows
3 36 (2.71%) Unix
4 35 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 35 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.56%) CentOS
6 21 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.75%) Debian
8 4 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.30%) VMS
9 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.15%) Rocky
10 1 (0.075%) Android
10 1 (0.075%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (67.42%) CI/CD
2 646 (48.61%) DevOps
3 609 (45.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 500 (37.62%) Agile
5 431 (32.43%) Microservices
6 412 (31.00%) Software Engineering
7 342 (25.73%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (20.32%) Mentoring
9 260 (19.56%) Test Automation
10 257 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (18.66%) Observability
12 225 (16.93%) AI
13 182 (13.69%) Event-Driven
14 175 (13.17%) Full-Stack Development
15 173 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
16 142 (10.68%) Clean Code
17 140 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
18 138 (10.38%) Machine Learning
19 137 (10.31%) Roadmaps
20 135 (10.16%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 623 (46.88%) Python
2 334 (25.13%) Java
3 249 (18.74%) JavaScript
4 190 (14.30%) Bash
5 176 (13.24%) SQL
6 155 (11.66%) C#
7 153 (11.51%) TypeScript
8 145 (10.91%) PowerShell
9 142 (10.68%) Go
10 53 (3.99%) Scala
11 52 (3.91%) Bicep
12 43 (3.24%) C++
13 32 (2.41%) Ruby
14 30 (2.26%) Rust
15 26 (1.96%) PHP
16 23 (1.73%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.28%) Groovy
18 13 (0.98%) C
19 10 (0.75%) RPG
20 9 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 323 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 139 (10.46%) Degree
4 109 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 78 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.36%) Azure Certification
7 51 (3.84%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.20%) CISSP
11 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.60%) CCNA
14 8 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.60%) OSCP
14 8 (0.60%) RHCE
14 8 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.05%) QA
2 42 (3.16%) GRC
3 37 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.56%) GDPR
4 34 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.88%) NIST
8 17 (1.28%) WCAG
9 15 (1.13%) NCSC
10 14 (1.05%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.83%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.075%) PSD2
16 1 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 786 (59.14%) Docker
2 40 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.48%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.75%) vSphere
6 9 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.60%) Squid
8 7 (0.53%) KVM
9 6 (0.45%) Firmware
10 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.30%) iptables
12 3 (0.23%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.075%) QEMU
13 1 (0.075%) Xen
Systems Management
1 778 (58.54%) Kubernetes
2 514 (38.68%) Terraform
3 217 (16.33%) Ansible
4 173 (13.02%) Grafana
5 155 (11.66%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.24%) Argo
7 31 (2.33%) Puppet
8 26 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.73%) Istio
10 20 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.35%) Nagios
12 17 (1.28%) Podman
13 13 (0.98%) Kibana
13 13 (0.98%) Packer
14 12 (0.90%) Kustomize
14 12 (0.90%) linkerd
15 11 (0.83%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.75%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 168 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.30%) Google
3 63 (4.74%) Red Hat
4 50 (3.76%) Splunk
5 45 (3.39%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.09%) VMware
7 37 (2.78%) Oracle
8 27 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.96%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.43%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.35%) Cisco
12 16 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.98%) IBM
13 13 (0.98%) SendGrid
13 13 (0.98%) Zscaler
14 11 (0.83%) Databricks
14 11 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.83%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.75%) Confluent
15 10 (0.75%) NVIDIA