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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 135 167
Rank change year-on-year -21 +32 -24
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,016 1,076 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 2.32% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.49% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 673 773 1,133
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £47,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £86,375 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £114,196 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 56,779 43,287 71,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.47% 93.48% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 34,177 22,512 54,463
10th Percentile £29,262 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -14 933 £70,932 -5.42% 543
UK excluding London -49 477 £62,500 -8.09% 419
London +13 436 £82,500 -2.94% 223
Work from Home -16 388 £70,000 -2.77% 303
North of England -7 189 £65,000 +4.00% 97
South West -13 110 £55,000 -23.60% 84
North West -4 96 £65,000 +8.33% 41
South East -8 92 £71,250 +9.62% 139
Yorkshire -49 55 £65,000 -4.41% 38
Midlands -43 44 £64,500 -0.77% 43
North East +7 38 £51,500 -25.69% 18
East of England +3 23 £60,100 -10.96% 37
West Midlands -31 22 £70,079 +3.82% 26
East Midlands -27 21 £62,000 +3.33% 17
Scotland -59 13 £60,000 -17.24% 15
Northern Ireland -31 8 £62,500 -9.82% 3
Wales -16 6 £70,079 +7.81% 11

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 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.95%) Apache
3 23 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.57%) Appian
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
6 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.49%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.49%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.18%) Maya
2 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.098%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 582 (57.28%) AWS
2 537 (52.85%) Azure
3 295 (29.04%) GCP
4 214 (21.06%) GitHub
5 160 (15.75%) GitHub Actions
6 146 (14.37%) Serverless
7 126 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (9.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 85 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
10 78 (7.68%) Amazon S3
11 77 (7.58%) OpenShift
12 75 (7.38%) Datadog
13 68 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 63 (6.20%) Azure AKS
15 60 (5.91%) SaaS
16 46 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
17 45 (4.43%) PaaS
18 44 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
19 38 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
20 37 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.69%) Firewall
2 48 (4.72%) Broadband
3 38 (3.74%) DNS
4 28 (2.76%) HTTP
4 28 (2.76%) Network Security
5 26 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.97%) VPN
7 9 (0.89%) DHCP
8 8 (0.79%) AMQP
9 7 (0.69%) DMZ
10 6 (0.59%) WAN
11 5 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.49%) MQTT
11 5 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.39%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.39%) SAN
12 4 (0.39%) VSAN
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (14.07%) NoSQL
2 99 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (8.76%) SQL Server
4 77 (7.58%) Relational Database
5 72 (7.09%) MongoDB
6 52 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (4.82%) MySQL
8 34 (3.35%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.25%) RDBMS
10 25 (2.46%) Pinecone
11 23 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.87%) Big Data
13 18 (1.77%) Redis
14 14 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.28%) Metadata
16 12 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.08%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 9 (0.89%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 173 (17.03%) Git
2 146 (14.37%) Jenkins
3 115 (11.32%) GitLab
4 35 (3.44%) JIRA
5 24 (2.36%) CircleCI
6 23 (2.26%) MLflow
7 22 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.17%) JUnit
8 20 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.87%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.57%) Selenium
11 14 (1.38%) JMeter
12 13 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.08%) Locust
13 11 (1.08%) Vite
14 9 (0.89%) Mockito
14 9 (0.89%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.79%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.79%) Maven
15 8 (0.79%) Storybook
General
1 298 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 222 (21.85%) Finance
3 84 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.78%) Telecoms
5 78 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 65 (6.40%) Law
7 58 (5.71%) Banking
8 38 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.95%) Front Office
10 29 (2.85%) Games
11 18 (1.77%) Billing
12 14 (1.38%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.28%) Marketing
13 13 (1.28%) Retail
14 12 (1.18%) Advertising
14 12 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.98%) Electronics
15 10 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 260 (25.59%) Senior
2 236 (23.23%) Developer
3 126 (12.40%) Lead
4 121 (11.91%) Software Engineer
5 110 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 76 (7.48%) Architect
7 74 (7.28%) Senior Developer
8 73 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 50 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 47 (4.63%) Java Developer
11 46 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (3.84%) Data Engineer
12 39 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 36 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (3.05%) .NET Software Engineer
16 31 (3.05%) Python Developer
17 29 (2.85%) Software Developer
18 26 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (14.17%) .NET
2 143 (14.07%) React
3 135 (13.29%) RESTful
4 115 (11.32%) Spring
5 108 (10.63%) REST
6 107 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 86 (8.46%) Kafka
8 80 (7.87%) Node.js
9 78 (7.68%) Elastic Stack
10 69 (6.79%) .NET Core
11 66 (6.50%) AngularJS
11 66 (6.50%) gRPC
12 57 (5.61%) FastAPI
13 53 (5.22%) Django
14 50 (4.92%) Flask
15 46 (4.53%) OAuth
16 35 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (3.25%) Vue
18 32 (3.15%) HTML
18 32 (3.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 262 (25.79%) Cloud Native
2 122 (12.01%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.66%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.66%) Fixed Income
7 27 (2.66%) Over-the-Top Content
7 27 (2.66%) Video\Live Streaming
8 22 (2.17%) Low-Code
8 22 (2.17%) PKI
9 21 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.77%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.38%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 209 (20.57%) Linux
2 86 (8.46%) Windows
3 46 (4.53%) Unix
4 35 (3.44%) Ubuntu
5 24 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 21 (2.07%) CentOS
7 17 (1.67%) VMS
8 16 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (1.28%) Android
10 8 (0.79%) Debian
11 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.20%) zOS
14 1 (0.098%) Fedora
14 1 (0.098%) Rocky
14 1 (0.098%) Solaris
14 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 519 (51.08%) DevOps
3 376 (37.01%) Agile
4 370 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 356 (35.04%) Microservices
6 283 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
7 252 (24.80%) Software Engineering
8 244 (24.02%) AI
9 200 (19.69%) Mentoring
10 193 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 156 (15.35%) Machine Learning
12 152 (14.96%) Test Automation
13 143 (14.07%) Observability
14 130 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 123 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
16 116 (11.42%) High Availability
17 115 (11.32%) Analytics
18 104 (10.24%) Continuous Delivery
19 102 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
20 97 (9.55%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 498 (49.02%) Python
2 246 (24.21%) Java
3 210 (20.67%) SQL
4 187 (18.41%) JavaScript
5 161 (15.85%) Bash
6 125 (12.30%) Go
7 124 (12.20%) C#
8 91 (8.96%) PowerShell
9 82 (8.07%) TypeScript
10 31 (3.05%) Bicep
10 31 (3.05%) C++
11 29 (2.85%) Scala
12 24 (2.36%) PHP
13 19 (1.87%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.08%) C
15 9 (0.89%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.79%) Delphi
16 8 (0.79%) Ruby
16 8 (0.79%) Rust
17 6 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 184 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.01%) Degree
3 106 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 78 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (7.28%) DV Cleared
6 63 (6.20%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.79%) CISSP
12 7 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.39%) CISM
15 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.99%) QA
2 38 (3.74%) GDPR
2 38 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.05%) PCI DSS
4 30 (2.95%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.36%) NIST
6 15 (1.48%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.28%) NCSC
8 11 (1.08%) GRC
8 11 (1.08%) JSP 440
8 11 (1.08%) WCAG
9 8 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.39%) EMIR
10 4 (0.39%) SLA
11 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.20%) ECSS
11 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 667 (65.65%) Docker
2 34 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.18%) vSphere
6 6 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.59%) KVM
6 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Firmware
8 4 (0.39%) iptables
8 4 (0.39%) Lustre
8 4 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) Ceph
10 2 (0.20%) GPFS
10 2 (0.20%) RACF
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 645 (63.48%) Kubernetes
2 380 (37.40%) Terraform
3 177 (17.42%) Ansible
4 168 (16.54%) Grafana
5 153 (15.06%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.04%) Argo
7 19 (1.87%) Kustomize
8 18 (1.77%) Puppet
9 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.08%) Istio
11 9 (0.89%) Control-M
11 9 (0.89%) Nagios
12 8 (0.79%) linkerd
12 8 (0.79%) Mesos
13 6 (0.59%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.49%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.39%) Cilium
15 4 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 96 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 94 (9.25%) Google
3 44 (4.33%) Oracle
4 41 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 36 (3.54%) Splunk
6 33 (3.25%) VMware
7 31 (3.05%) OpenAI
8 27 (2.66%) Typelevel
9 21 (2.07%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.57%) Databricks
10 16 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.48%) Cisco
11 15 (1.48%) SAP
12 14 (1.38%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.28%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.28%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.28%) NVIDIA
13 13 (1.28%) UiPath
14 11 (1.08%) Dell