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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 115 202
Rank change year-on-year -38 +87 -57
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,247 1,252 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.77% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.00% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 868 647 1,076
10th Percentile £46,098 £49,647 £45,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +8.80% -3.85%

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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -35 1,143 £72,500 -9.38% 343
UK excluding London -43 663 £62,500 -8.09% 235
London -15 487 £80,000 -11.11% 175
Work from Home -38 441 £70,079 -2.66% 185
North of England -47 199 £65,000 - 63
South East +18 166 £65,000 - 77
South West -2 159 £55,000 -26.67% 43
North West -45 102 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Midlands -80 61 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Yorkshire -48 58 £70,932 +1.33% 16
East of England -20 44 £60,000 -12.73% 10
North East -13 39 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West Midlands -48 34 £70,505 +6.42% 15
Wales -30 29 £67,500 +12.50% 5
East Midlands -58 27 £64,000 +6.67% 7
Scotland -69 6 £60,000 -25.00% 6
Northern Ireland -31 5 £62,500 +45.04% 15

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 34 (2.73%) Apache
2 28 (2.25%) Confluence
3 27 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.48%) Appian
6 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) Camunda
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.080%) nginx
11 1 (0.080%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Blender
4 3 (0.24%) Maya
5 1 (0.080%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.080%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 747 (59.90%) AWS
2 626 (50.20%) Azure
3 332 (26.62%) GCP
4 211 (16.92%) GitHub
5 176 (14.11%) Serverless
6 146 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
7 143 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 121 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (8.58%) Azure AKS
10 100 (8.02%) OpenShift
11 97 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (7.70%) Amazon S3
13 82 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (5.85%) Datadog
16 69 (5.53%) SaaS
17 62 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
18 61 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
19 52 (4.17%) IaaS
20 44 (3.53%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.77%) Broadband
1 72 (5.77%) Firewall
2 71 (5.69%) DNS
3 37 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.89%) Network Security
5 26 (2.09%) VPN
6 22 (1.76%) HTTP
7 17 (1.36%) MQTT
8 13 (1.04%) DMARC
8 13 (1.04%) VLAN
9 11 (0.88%) BGP
9 11 (0.88%) OSPF
9 11 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
9 11 (0.88%) VXLAN
10 9 (0.72%) DHCP
11 8 (0.64%) AMQP
11 8 (0.64%) IPv4
11 8 (0.64%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.51%) NoSQL
2 122 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (6.74%) MongoDB
4 65 (5.21%) Relational Database
5 60 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
6 58 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 55 (4.41%) MySQL
8 50 (4.01%) DynamoDB
9 38 (3.05%) Redis
10 31 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.68%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (1.52%) Pinecone
13 13 (1.04%) Big Data
14 11 (0.88%) Metadata
15 10 (0.80%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.80%) Power BI
16 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.64%) DTS
Development Applications
1 223 (17.88%) Git
2 195 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 175 (14.03%) GitLab
4 46 (3.69%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.21%) JIRA
6 27 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.68%) JUnit
9 20 (1.60%) Maven
10 19 (1.52%) Mockito
11 18 (1.44%) Vite
12 17 (1.36%) Selenium
13 14 (1.12%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.12%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.04%) MLflow
15 12 (0.96%) Jaeger
16 10 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.72%) TestRail
18 8 (0.64%) Gatling
General
1 342 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 241 (19.33%) Finance
3 101 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 91 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.66%) Banking
6 74 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.81%) Law
8 46 (3.69%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.09%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.52%) Retail
12 15 (1.20%) Games
13 14 (1.12%) Front Office
13 14 (1.12%) Legal
14 13 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.80%) Marketing
16 9 (0.72%) Advertising
16 9 (0.72%) Billing
16 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (21.81%) Senior
2 262 (21.01%) Developer
3 183 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 162 (12.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 160 (12.83%) Lead
6 125 (10.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 112 (8.98%) Architect
8 73 (5.85%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 57 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
14 48 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 48 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
15 36 (2.89%) Software Developer
15 36 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
16 35 (2.81%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (14.76%) React
2 182 (14.60%) RESTful
3 154 (12.35%) Spring
4 148 (11.87%) .NET
5 147 (11.79%) Spring Boot
6 136 (10.91%) Node.js
7 129 (10.34%) REST
8 126 (10.10%) Kafka
9 80 (6.42%) gRPC
10 78 (6.26%) AngularJS
11 75 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
12 63 (5.05%) OAuth
13 61 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (4.25%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.53%) JSON
15 44 (3.53%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.45%) FastAPI
17 40 (3.21%) YAML
18 38 (3.05%) CSS
19 37 (2.97%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 326 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 158 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.61%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.61%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.09%) Blockchain
10 25 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.68%) PKI
11 21 (1.68%) Web3
12 19 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.44%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.36%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 244 (19.57%) Linux
2 90 (7.22%) Windows
3 37 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.73%) Ubuntu
5 33 (2.65%) CentOS
5 33 (2.65%) Unix
6 20 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.72%) Debian
8 4 (0.32%) VMS
9 3 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.16%) Rocky
11 1 (0.080%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (68.32%) CI/CD
2 605 (48.52%) DevOps
3 535 (42.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 481 (38.57%) Agile
5 417 (33.44%) Microservices
6 407 (32.64%) Software Engineering
7 325 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
8 253 (20.29%) Test Automation
9 249 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 247 (19.81%) Mentoring
11 235 (18.85%) Observability
12 226 (18.12%) AI
13 179 (14.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 171 (13.71%) Event-Driven
15 157 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
16 141 (11.31%) Machine Learning
17 140 (11.23%) Clean Code
18 138 (11.07%) Continuous Delivery
18 138 (11.07%) High Availability
19 122 (9.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 581 (46.59%) Python
2 313 (25.10%) Java
3 237 (19.01%) JavaScript
4 189 (15.16%) SQL
5 186 (14.92%) Bash
6 157 (12.59%) TypeScript
7 154 (12.35%) C#
8 139 (11.15%) Go
9 138 (11.07%) PowerShell
10 53 (4.25%) Scala
11 50 (4.01%) Bicep
12 40 (3.21%) C++
13 28 (2.25%) Rust
14 27 (2.17%) Ruby
15 26 (2.09%) PHP
16 24 (1.92%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.44%) Groovy
18 15 (1.20%) C
19 11 (0.88%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 285 (22.85%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.51%) SC Cleared
3 127 (10.18%) Degree
4 84 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 73 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.57%) Azure Certification
7 49 (3.93%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.12%) CISSP
11 12 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.64%) CCNA
13 8 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.64%) OSCP
13 8 (0.64%) RHCE
13 8 (0.64%) RHCSA
14 7 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.18%) QA
2 38 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 35 (2.81%) GDPR
4 32 (2.57%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.84%) NIST
8 15 (1.20%) WCAG
9 14 (1.12%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.04%) NCSC
11 11 (0.88%) GRC
11 11 (0.88%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.080%) SLA
16 1 (0.080%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 763 (61.19%) Docker
2 39 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (2.73%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.80%) vSphere
6 9 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.64%) Squid
8 7 (0.56%) KVM
9 6 (0.48%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) iptables
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.080%) QEMU
12 1 (0.080%) Xen
Systems Management
1 743 (59.58%) Kubernetes
2 481 (38.57%) Terraform
3 197 (15.80%) Ansible
4 169 (13.55%) Grafana
5 155 (12.43%) Prometheus
6 40 (3.21%) Argo
7 27 (2.17%) Puppet
8 23 (1.84%) Istio
8 23 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.36%) Nagios
10 17 (1.36%) Podman
11 13 (1.04%) Packer
12 12 (0.96%) Kibana
12 12 (0.96%) Kustomize
12 12 (0.96%) linkerd
13 11 (0.88%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.48%) logstash
Vendors
1 132 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.94%) Google
3 62 (4.97%) Red Hat
4 48 (3.85%) Splunk
5 45 (3.61%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.29%) VMware
7 38 (3.05%) Oracle
8 27 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.44%) Cisco
11 17 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.04%) SendGrid
13 13 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.88%) Databricks
16 10 (0.80%) Confluent
16 10 (0.80%) IBM
16 10 (0.80%) NVIDIA
16 10 (0.80%) ServiceNow