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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 128 181
Rank change year-on-year -21 +53 -50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,426 1,235 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.47% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.77% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 923 614 821
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,706 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £102,250 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -15 1,261 £72,500 -6.45% 335
UK excluding London -13 862 £65,000 - 278
Work from Home -23 498 £70,000 - 207
London -30 475 £80,000 -11.11% 118
North of England -10 239 £65,000 - 81
South West +16 202 £65,000 -13.33% 65
South East +34 197 £65,000 -3.70% 74
North West -33 124 £75,000 +25.00% 51
Midlands -67 81 £70,000 +3.70% 23
Yorkshire -19 58 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North East -11 57 £55,000 -12.00% 18
Northern Ireland -31 57 - - 9
West Midlands -44 53 £72,500 +7.41% 17
East of England -31 46 £60,000 +2.56% 10
Wales -34 45 £63,750 -1.92% 9
East Midlands -50 28 £61,250 +11.36% 6
Scotland -72 6 £59,283 -8.80% 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 49 (3.44%) Apache
2 37 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 37 (2.59%) Confluence
3 31 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.28%) Camunda
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) WordPress
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) JBoss
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 823 (57.71%) AWS
2 737 (51.68%) Azure
3 341 (23.91%) GCP
4 221 (15.50%) GitHub
5 179 (12.55%) Serverless
6 171 (11.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (7.99%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.01%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.59%) Amazon S3
13 91 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
14 86 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
15 81 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 79 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
17 75 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
18 64 (4.49%) Datadog
19 61 (4.28%) SaaS
20 54 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.05%) WAN
2 70 (4.91%) Firewall
3 65 (4.56%) DNS
3 65 (4.56%) LAN
4 46 (3.23%) Network Security
5 43 (3.02%) Broadband
6 37 (2.59%) VPN
7 35 (2.45%) TCP/IP
8 21 (1.47%) MQTT
9 19 (1.33%) BGP
10 18 (1.26%) OSPF
11 17 (1.19%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.12%) VLAN
13 13 (0.91%) DMARC
14 12 (0.84%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.70%) HTTP
15 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.56%) DHCP
16 8 (0.56%) IPv4
17 7 (0.49%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.98%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.35%) MySQL
5 52 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.51%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 38 (2.66%) Redis
10 26 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.19%) Big Data
13 15 (1.05%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.91%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.70%) Db2
17 10 (0.70%) DTS
Development Applications
1 275 (19.28%) Git
2 214 (15.01%) Jenkins
3 183 (12.83%) GitLab
4 43 (3.02%) JIRA
5 32 (2.24%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.96%) JUnit
8 22 (1.54%) Maven
9 21 (1.47%) Mockito
9 21 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.26%) Selenium
11 17 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.84%) Vite
14 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.70%) Postman
15 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.63%) JMeter
16 9 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 447 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.77%) Finance
3 151 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 112 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (7.57%) Law
6 106 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (6.38%) Banking
8 67 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.17%) Legal
10 29 (2.03%) Aerospace
10 29 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.54%) Games
12 22 (1.54%) Retail
13 14 (0.98%) Marketing
14 12 (0.84%) Electronics
15 11 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.70%) Front Office
17 9 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 260 (18.23%) Senior
2 252 (17.67%) Developer
3 213 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 211 (14.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 205 (14.38%) Architect
6 180 (12.62%) Lead
7 120 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.84%) Senior Developer
10 66 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
11 65 (4.56%) Systems Architect
12 64 (4.49%) Java Developer
13 57 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 49 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
15 49 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
16 48 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
17 43 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
18 42 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
19 41 (2.88%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (13.67%) Spring
2 193 (13.53%) RESTful
3 183 (12.83%) React
4 180 (12.62%) Spring Boot
5 150 (10.52%) Node.js
6 146 (10.24%) Kafka
7 141 (9.89%) .NET
8 128 (8.98%) REST
9 80 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
10 76 (5.33%) AngularJS
11 56 (3.93%) OAuth
12 54 (3.79%) CSS
12 54 (3.79%) gRPC
13 47 (3.30%) JSON
14 45 (3.16%) .NET Core
15 42 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
15 42 (2.95%) HTML
15 42 (2.95%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.88%) YAML
17 38 (2.66%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 382 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 177 (12.41%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 33 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (1.89%) Over-the-Top Content
8 27 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
9 25 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 25 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.54%) PKI
11 21 (1.47%) Blog
11 21 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 287 (20.13%) Linux
2 100 (7.01%) Windows
3 41 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.24%) CentOS
5 31 (2.17%) Unix
6 22 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) Debian
9 7 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (66.97%) CI/CD
2 711 (49.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 686 (48.11%) DevOps
4 503 (35.27%) Agile
5 456 (31.98%) Software Engineering
6 428 (30.01%) Microservices
7 343 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (19.71%) Observability
9 277 (19.42%) Test Automation
10 276 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 274 (19.21%) Mentoring
12 269 (18.86%) AI
13 218 (15.29%) Event-Driven
14 202 (14.17%) Platform Engineering
15 178 (12.48%) Roadmaps
16 173 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
17 147 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (10.24%) Machine Learning
19 143 (10.03%) Scrum
20 134 (9.40%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 655 (45.93%) Python
2 366 (25.67%) Java
3 244 (17.11%) JavaScript
4 186 (13.04%) Bash
5 174 (12.20%) SQL
6 159 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 157 (11.01%) C#
8 137 (9.61%) PowerShell
9 117 (8.20%) Go
10 60 (4.21%) Bicep
11 54 (3.79%) C++
12 43 (3.02%) Scala
13 39 (2.73%) Ruby
14 31 (2.17%) Rust
15 23 (1.61%) PHP
16 21 (1.47%) Kotlin
17 20 (1.40%) Groovy
18 14 (0.98%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.91%) C
20 11 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 421 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 211 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 161 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 159 (11.15%) Degree
5 87 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (4.28%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.93%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.61%) CISSP
10 14 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.84%) CCNP
12 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.70%) OSCP
14 8 (0.56%) CISM
14 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.77%) QA
2 69 (4.84%) GRC
3 55 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.82%) GDPR
6 24 (1.68%) NCSC
6 24 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.61%) NIST
7 23 (1.61%) WCAG
8 19 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.63%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SLA
14 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
System Software
1 821 (57.57%) Docker
2 48 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 41 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
12 1 (0.070%) iptables
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.070%) QEMU
12 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 817 (57.29%) Kubernetes
2 547 (38.36%) Terraform
3 217 (15.22%) Ansible
4 153 (10.73%) Grafana
5 122 (8.56%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.52%) Argo
7 34 (2.38%) Puppet
8 31 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 25 (1.75%) Istio
10 19 (1.33%) Nagios
11 17 (1.19%) Podman
12 15 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.05%) Kibana
12 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 14 (0.98%) linkerd
14 11 (0.77%) Packer
14 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.49%) logstash
16 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 213 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.45%) Google
3 65 (4.56%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.72%) Splunk
4 53 (3.72%) VMware
5 52 (3.65%) Oracle
6 27 (1.89%) Typelevel
7 26 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 22 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.26%) Cisco
9 18 (1.26%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.26%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.05%) IBM
11 13 (0.91%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.77%) Databricks
13 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
14 10 (0.70%) Confluent