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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 148 117
Rank change year-on-year -12 -31 +18
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 904 1,214 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.77% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.11% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 619 774 1,061
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,476 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 45,432 57,470 49,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.24% 83.88% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,673 30,239 37,620
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -2 835 £72,500 +3.57% 928
UK excluding London -11 436 £65,000 - 512
London +19 400 £85,000 -2.86% 481
Work from Home -5 318 £67,500 -3.57% 621
North of England +12 169 £65,000 +8.33% 173
North West +27 106 £65,000 +8.33% 130
South West -6 91 £60,000 -13.04% 83
Midlands +35 60 £67,500 +3.85% 60
South East -28 59 £75,000 +15.38% 132
West Midlands +30 40 £70,542 +8.53% 40
Yorkshire -27 40 £68,500 +31.10% 28
Scotland -14 30 £70,000 +0.50% 23
East of England +10 27 £57,500 -11.54% 32
North East +27 23 £60,000 +9.09% 15
East Midlands +23 19 £54,500 +31.33% 19
Wales +6 15 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Northern Ireland 0 5 £43,092 -33.35% 10

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 52 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.99%) Apache
4 17 (1.88%) CMS
5 15 (1.66%) IIS
6 13 (1.44%) Apache Solr
7 11 (1.22%) Confluence
8 6 (0.66%) nginx
9 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.44%) Appian
11 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) JBoss
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.55%) Maya
2 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 3 (0.33%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 534 (59.07%) AWS
2 493 (54.54%) Azure
3 231 (25.55%) GCP
4 174 (19.25%) GitHub
5 125 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (13.50%) Serverless
7 116 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (7.96%) Amazon S3
9 68 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (6.64%) SaaS
11 59 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 48 (5.31%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (4.42%) OpenShift
15 37 (4.09%) Datadog
16 36 (3.98%) PaaS
17 35 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
18 34 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (3.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.64%) Firewall
2 31 (3.43%) DNS
3 19 (2.10%) DHCP
4 18 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.99%) VPN
5 17 (1.88%) Network Security
6 16 (1.77%) WAN
7 13 (1.44%) LAN
8 9 (1.00%) IPsec
9 8 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (0.88%) HTTP
9 8 (0.88%) VLAN
10 7 (0.77%) AMQP
11 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.66%) SAN
11 6 (0.66%) VoIP
11 6 (0.66%) Wireless
12 4 (0.44%) DMZ
12 4 (0.44%) Internet
12 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 72 (7.96%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.52%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.64%) MySQL
6 50 (5.53%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.09%) DynamoDB
8 44 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (3.54%) Big Data
10 25 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.65%) Metadata
12 20 (2.21%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.10%) Delta Lake
14 14 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.55%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.44%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.44%) Tick Data
16 12 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (1.22%) Data Lake
18 10 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 166 (18.36%) Git
2 119 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 95 (10.51%) GitLab
4 33 (3.65%) JIRA
5 31 (3.43%) MLflow
6 22 (2.43%) SonarQube
7 21 (2.32%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.21%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.88%) CircleCI
10 16 (1.77%) JUnit
11 15 (1.66%) Selenium
12 14 (1.55%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
14 11 (1.22%) JMeter
15 10 (1.11%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (0.77%) Locust
18 5 (0.55%) Maven
19 4 (0.44%) SpecFlow
19 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 278 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 226 (25.00%) Finance
3 92 (10.18%) Law
4 84 (9.29%) Marketing
5 77 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 67 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (5.42%) Telecoms
8 47 (5.20%) Banking
8 47 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.54%) Manufacturing
10 29 (3.21%) Games
11 28 (3.10%) Retail
12 25 (2.77%) Electronics
13 23 (2.54%) Front Office
14 13 (1.44%) Legal
15 11 (1.22%) Advertising
15 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.22%) French Language
16 10 (1.11%) Dutch Language
16 10 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (23.89%) Developer
2 184 (20.35%) Senior
3 129 (14.27%) Lead
4 114 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 101 (11.17%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.75%) Architect
7 58 (6.42%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.86%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.65%) Python Engineer
13 40 (4.42%) Lead Developer
14 38 (4.20%) Backend Developer
14 38 (4.20%) Data Engineer
14 38 (4.20%) Software Developer
15 36 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.54%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (15.93%) React
2 133 (14.71%) .NET
3 131 (14.49%) RESTful
4 83 (9.18%) Spring
5 76 (8.41%) Spring Boot
6 75 (8.30%) Node.js
7 73 (8.08%) Kafka
8 71 (7.85%) REST
9 68 (7.52%) FastAPI
10 60 (6.64%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.31%) HTML
12 56 (6.19%) .NET Core
12 56 (6.19%) CSS
13 47 (5.20%) Flask
14 46 (5.09%) PyTorch
15 42 (4.65%) TensorFlow
16 41 (4.54%) Elastic Stack
17 40 (4.42%) Pandas
18 38 (4.20%) YAML
19 37 (4.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 218 (24.12%) Cloud Native
2 99 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.43%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.77%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.54%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.54%) Fixed Income
11 17 (1.88%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.22%) PKI
16 10 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
17 9 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 187 (20.69%) Linux
2 109 (12.06%) Windows
3 50 (5.53%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.98%) Unix
5 30 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.66%) VMS
7 11 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.11%) CentOS
9 8 (0.88%) Debian
9 8 (0.88%) Rocky
10 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.55%) Android
12 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (62.72%) CI/CD
2 470 (51.99%) DevOps
3 314 (34.73%) Agile
4 287 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (28.54%) Microservices
6 244 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (24.56%) AI
8 197 (21.79%) Software Engineering
9 156 (17.26%) Mentoring
10 132 (14.60%) Machine Learning
11 126 (13.94%) Test Automation
12 115 (12.72%) Observability
13 112 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (12.17%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (11.17%) Computer Science
16 94 (10.40%) Analytics
17 89 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
18 85 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
19 80 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 77 (8.52%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 445 (49.23%) Python
2 191 (21.13%) SQL
3 185 (20.46%) Java
4 151 (16.70%) JavaScript
5 140 (15.49%) C#
6 107 (11.84%) Bash
7 97 (10.73%) PowerShell
8 57 (6.31%) TypeScript
9 46 (5.09%) Go
10 29 (3.21%) Bicep
11 20 (2.21%) C++
11 20 (2.21%) PHP
12 12 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.11%) Ruby
14 8 (0.88%) Delphi
14 8 (0.88%) Scala
14 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.66%) Rust
16 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 135 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.71%) Degree
3 85 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 82 (9.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 64 (7.08%) AWS Certification
7 46 (5.09%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.44%) CISSP
11 8 (0.88%) CISM
11 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.77%) PhD
12 7 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.66%) ACMT
13 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.85%) QA
2 41 (4.54%) GDPR
3 25 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.32%) NIST
6 16 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.66%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.11%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.00%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.88%) NCSC
10 8 (0.88%) WCAG
11 7 (0.77%) GRC
11 7 (0.77%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.33%) EMIR
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) ECSS
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 597 (66.04%) Docker
2 51 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.42%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.10%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.32%) vSphere
6 11 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.88%) NFS
8 4 (0.44%) KVM
8 4 (0.44%) Lustre
8 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.44%) vCloud
8 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) Ceph
9 2 (0.22%) GPFS
9 2 (0.22%) RACF
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 575 (63.61%) Kubernetes
2 312 (34.51%) Terraform
3 128 (14.16%) Ansible
4 109 (12.06%) Grafana
5 90 (9.96%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.65%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.22%) Argo
8 11 (1.22%) Control-M
9 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.88%) Puppet
10 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.66%) Autotask
12 6 (0.66%) SCCM
13 5 (0.55%) SCOM
13 5 (0.55%) WSUS
14 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 119 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.97%) Oracle
3 60 (6.64%) VMware
4 54 (5.97%) Google
5 40 (4.42%) Databricks
6 34 (3.76%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.43%) SAP
7 31 (3.43%) Splunk
8 26 (2.88%) Cisco
9 20 (2.21%) Dell
9 20 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.99%) OpenAI
11 15 (1.66%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.33%) Pure Storage
13 11 (1.22%) Commvault
13 11 (1.22%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (1.00%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.88%) IBM
16 8 (0.88%) Salesforce