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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 128 171
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 -34
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,056 1,016 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 2.39% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.56% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 694 757 1,119
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,601 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,737 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £86,844 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £118,750 £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 58,352 39,745 74,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.73% 93.47% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35,337 22,215 56,156
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,029
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 19 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 19 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 -20 967 £70,932 -5.42% 461
UK excluding London -51 495 £62,500 -8.09% 327
London +13 451 £82,500 -2.94% 188
Work from Home -14 419 £70,000 -2.77% 211
North of England -31 185 £65,000 +4.00% 90
South West -21 108 £55,000 -23.60% 51
South East -10 107 £70,000 +7.69% 105
North West -10 91 £65,000 +8.33% 48
Yorkshire -50 56 £62,500 -8.09% 27
Midlands -45 48 £64,000 -1.54% 35
North East +2 38 £51,500 -24.46% 15
East of England -11 25 £60,100 -10.96% 24
West Midlands -31 24 £70,079 +3.82% 19
East Midlands -43 23 £62,000 +3.33% 16
Scotland -60 15 £59,283 -18.23% 15
Northern Ireland -33 8 £62,500 -9.82% 4
Wales -20 7 £70,079 +7.81% 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 37 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.75%) Apache
3 21 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.52%) Appian
5 8 (0.76%) Confluence
6 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) IIS
9 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.28%) Camunda
10 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) nginx
11 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.04%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
3 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Shopify
2 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.095%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 620 (58.71%) AWS
2 552 (52.27%) Azure
3 318 (30.11%) GCP
4 215 (20.36%) GitHub
5 157 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
6 156 (14.77%) Serverless
7 121 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (10.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 91 (8.62%) OpenShift
10 90 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (8.24%) Datadog
12 84 (7.95%) Amazon S3
13 73 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 67 (6.34%) Azure AKS
15 63 (5.97%) SaaS
16 52 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
17 51 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.36%) PaaS
19 39 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
20 36 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.53%) Firewall
2 63 (5.97%) Broadband
3 40 (3.79%) DNS
4 27 (2.56%) Network Security
4 27 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.46%) HTTP
6 19 (1.80%) VPN
7 8 (0.76%) AMQP
7 8 (0.76%) DHCP
8 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.57%) DMZ
8 6 (0.57%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.38%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.38%) VSAN
11 3 (0.28%) Modbus
11 3 (0.28%) Multicast
11 3 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (14.77%) NoSQL
2 105 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (8.81%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.48%) Relational Database
5 77 (7.29%) MongoDB
6 58 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
7 55 (5.21%) MySQL
8 35 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 25 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.37%) Pinecone
11 19 (1.80%) Redis
12 17 (1.61%) Big Data
13 14 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.23%) Metadata
15 10 (0.95%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.85%) Power BI
17 8 (0.76%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 180 (17.05%) Git
2 150 (14.20%) Jenkins
3 132 (12.50%) GitLab
4 36 (3.41%) CircleCI
4 36 (3.41%) JIRA
5 24 (2.27%) JUnit
6 23 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 22 (2.08%) MLflow
8 21 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.80%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.52%) Selenium
11 14 (1.33%) JMeter
12 13 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.23%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.14%) Locust
13 12 (1.14%) Mockito
14 11 (1.04%) Vite
15 9 (0.85%) Maven
15 9 (0.85%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 311 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 229 (21.69%) Finance
3 96 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.86%) Telecoms
5 79 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 70 (6.63%) Banking
7 65 (6.16%) Law
8 43 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.75%) Games
10 28 (2.65%) Front Office
11 18 (1.70%) Billing
12 14 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.33%) Retail
13 13 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.23%) Marketing
14 12 (1.14%) Advertising
14 12 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.04%) Legal
16 10 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 265 (25.09%) Senior
2 242 (22.92%) Developer
3 129 (12.22%) Software Engineer
4 128 (12.12%) Lead
5 123 (11.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 76 (7.20%) Senior Developer
7 75 (7.10%) Architect
7 75 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (4.64%) Java Developer
9 47 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 38 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
13 36 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 36 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 33 (3.13%) Python Developer
15 31 (2.94%) .NET Software Engineer
15 31 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (2.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.11%) React
2 148 (14.02%) .NET
3 140 (13.26%) RESTful
4 120 (11.36%) Spring
5 113 (10.70%) REST
6 111 (10.51%) Spring Boot
7 95 (9.00%) Kafka
8 86 (8.14%) Node.js
9 81 (7.67%) Elastic Stack
10 77 (7.29%) gRPC
11 71 (6.72%) .NET Core
12 61 (5.78%) AngularJS
13 55 (5.21%) Django
14 54 (5.11%) FastAPI
15 52 (4.92%) OAuth
16 51 (4.83%) Flask
17 44 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
18 34 (3.22%) Vue
19 33 (3.13%) .NET Framework
19 33 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 268 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 127 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.41%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (3.41%) Video\Live Streaming
6 34 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.75%) Blockchain
8 25 (2.37%) Fixed Income
8 25 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (2.08%) Low-Code
10 22 (2.08%) PKI
11 21 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.89%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.70%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.42%) Management Information System
17 14 (1.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 220 (20.83%) Linux
2 92 (8.71%) Windows
3 48 (4.55%) Unix
4 37 (3.50%) Ubuntu
5 26 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 24 (2.27%) CentOS
7 17 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.33%) VMS
9 13 (1.23%) Android
10 8 (0.76%) Debian
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.095%) Fedora
14 1 (0.095%) Rocky
14 1 (0.095%) Solaris
14 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (65.81%) CI/CD
2 541 (51.23%) DevOps
3 395 (37.41%) Agile
4 389 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 379 (35.89%) Microservices
6 300 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
7 278 (26.33%) Software Engineering
8 239 (22.63%) AI
9 214 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 210 (19.89%) Mentoring
11 168 (15.91%) Test Automation
12 166 (15.72%) Machine Learning
13 156 (14.77%) Observability
14 134 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 129 (12.22%) High Availability
16 127 (12.03%) Continuous Integration
17 120 (11.36%) Continuous Delivery
18 113 (10.70%) Analytics
19 110 (10.42%) Clean Code
20 103 (9.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 524 (49.62%) Python
2 253 (23.96%) Java
3 215 (20.36%) SQL
4 201 (19.03%) JavaScript
5 164 (15.53%) Bash
6 143 (13.54%) Go
7 122 (11.55%) C#
8 90 (8.52%) PowerShell
9 81 (7.67%) TypeScript
10 38 (3.60%) Scala
11 31 (2.94%) C++
12 30 (2.84%) Bicep
13 27 (2.56%) PHP
14 20 (1.89%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.04%) C
15 11 (1.04%) Ruby
16 9 (0.85%) Rust
17 8 (0.76%) Delphi
17 8 (0.76%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 186 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 127 (12.03%) Degree
3 104 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 81 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (7.20%) DV Cleared
6 63 (5.97%) AWS Certification
7 34 (3.22%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.76%) CISSP
12 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) CISM
15 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.29%) QA
2 42 (3.98%) GDPR
3 38 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 33 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 26 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.18%) NIST
7 18 (1.70%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.14%) NCSC
8 12 (1.14%) WCAG
9 11 (1.04%) GRC
10 10 (0.95%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.38%) EMIR
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
13 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.19%) ECSS
14 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 698 (66.10%) Docker
2 32 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 25 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.14%) vSphere
6 7 (0.66%) KVM
6 7 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.57%) Firmware
7 6 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.38%) iptables
8 4 (0.38%) Lustre
8 4 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.28%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) Ceph
10 2 (0.19%) GPFS
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 665 (62.97%) Kubernetes
2 396 (37.50%) Terraform
3 180 (17.05%) Ansible
4 178 (16.86%) Grafana
5 159 (15.06%) Prometheus
6 41 (3.88%) Argo
7 19 (1.80%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.61%) Istio
8 17 (1.61%) Puppet
9 11 (1.04%) Nagios
10 10 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.76%) Control-M
11 8 (0.76%) linkerd
11 8 (0.76%) Mesos
12 7 (0.66%) Podman
13 6 (0.57%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.47%) Kibana
14 5 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 99 (9.38%) Google
2 92 (8.71%) Microsoft
3 48 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 43 (4.07%) Oracle
5 39 (3.69%) Splunk
6 36 (3.41%) Typelevel
7 31 (2.94%) VMware
8 29 (2.75%) OpenAI
9 21 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.89%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.70%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.61%) Cisco
12 17 (1.61%) Databricks
13 15 (1.42%) SAP
14 14 (1.33%) Atlassian
15 13 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (1.23%) NVIDIA
15 13 (1.23%) UiPath
16 11 (1.04%) Dell
16 11 (1.04%) Fortinet