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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 149 121
Rank change year-on-year -9 -28 +17
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 914 1,219 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.82% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.14% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 625 776 1,053
10th Percentile £48,199 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,438 £57,165
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 £88,750 £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 45,707 56,896 47,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 85.15% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,910 29,661 36,781
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,001 £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 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.94%

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 28 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 28 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 +2 844 £72,500 +3.57% 458
UK excluding London -16 434 £65,000 - 376
London +31 410 £85,000 - 181
Work from Home -8 321 £67,500 -3.57% 232
North of England +4 169 £65,000 +8.33% 84
North West +27 105 £63,750 +6.25% 55
South West -13 90 £60,000 -13.04% 68
South East -26 60 £75,000 +15.38% 137
Midlands +27 58 £67,500 +3.85% 45
Yorkshire -23 41 £68,500 +24.55% 19
West Midlands +29 38 £70,542 +8.53% 31
Scotland -16 30 £70,000 - 16
East of England +18 27 £57,500 -8.00% 18
North East +22 23 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East Midlands +15 19 £54,500 +29.76% 13
Wales +6 15 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Northern Ireland -6 5 £43,092 -33.35% 3

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 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.95%) Apache
4 17 (1.86%) CMS
5 16 (1.75%) IIS
6 13 (1.42%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.66%) Appian
7 6 (0.66%) Confluence
7 6 (0.66%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.97%) 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 4 (0.44%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 529 (57.88%) AWS
2 502 (54.92%) Azure
3 232 (25.38%) GCP
4 175 (19.15%) GitHub
5 128 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
7 120 (13.13%) Serverless
8 69 (7.55%) Amazon S3
9 68 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (6.78%) SaaS
12 51 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (4.92%) OpenShift
14 40 (4.38%) Datadog
15 37 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (3.94%) PaaS
17 34 (3.72%) Azure AKS
18 33 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.47%) Firewall
2 31 (3.39%) DNS
3 19 (2.08%) DHCP
3 19 (2.08%) VPN
4 18 (1.97%) Network Security
5 17 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.75%) WAN
7 12 (1.31%) LAN
8 9 (0.98%) HTTP
8 9 (0.98%) IPsec
9 8 (0.88%) VLAN
10 7 (0.77%) AMQP
10 7 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
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
1 102 (11.16%) NoSQL
2 101 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (8.32%) SQL Server
4 63 (6.89%) MongoDB
5 53 (5.80%) MySQL
6 51 (5.58%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.92%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (3.50%) Big Data
10 27 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.63%) Metadata
12 20 (2.19%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 15 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.53%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.42%) Hadoop
16 13 (1.42%) Tick Data
17 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 167 (18.27%) Git
2 118 (12.91%) Jenkins
3 94 (10.28%) GitLab
4 32 (3.50%) MLflow
5 29 (3.17%) JIRA
6 21 (2.30%) TeamCity
7 20 (2.19%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 16 (1.75%) JUnit
10 12 (1.31%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
10 12 (1.31%) Selenium
11 11 (1.20%) JMeter
12 8 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.77%) Locust
14 4 (0.44%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.44%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 278 (30.42%) Social Skills
2 232 (25.38%) Finance
3 97 (10.61%) Law
4 81 (8.86%) Marketing
5 75 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 72 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (5.25%) Banking
8 47 (5.14%) Telecoms
9 46 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (3.72%) Games
11 29 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 28 (3.06%) Retail
13 23 (2.52%) Front Office
14 22 (2.41%) Electronics
15 13 (1.42%) French Language
15 13 (1.42%) Legal
16 12 (1.31%) Dutch Language
17 11 (1.20%) Advertising
17 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (23.41%) Developer
2 190 (20.79%) Senior
3 132 (14.44%) Lead
4 114 (12.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (10.50%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.56%) Architect
7 58 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.80%) Python Developer
9 50 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
10 48 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (4.27%) Data Engineer
12 39 (4.27%) Lead Developer
13 38 (4.16%) Backend Developer
13 38 (4.16%) Python Engineer
13 38 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 37 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.97%) React
2 135 (14.77%) .NET
3 133 (14.55%) RESTful
4 75 (8.21%) REST
5 74 (8.10%) Spring
6 72 (7.88%) Kafka
6 72 (7.88%) Node.js
7 69 (7.55%) Spring Boot
8 66 (7.22%) FastAPI
9 62 (6.78%) AngularJS
10 58 (6.35%) HTML
11 57 (6.24%) .NET Core
11 57 (6.24%) CSS
12 49 (5.36%) PyTorch
13 48 (5.25%) Flask
14 44 (4.81%) TensorFlow
15 42 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
16 41 (4.49%) Pandas
17 39 (4.27%) scikit-learn
17 39 (4.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (3.83%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.28%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 26 (2.84%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.52%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.19%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.75%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
14 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.31%) PKI
16 10 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
16 10 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.68%) Linux
2 111 (12.14%) Windows
3 51 (5.58%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.94%) Unix
5 30 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.75%) VMS
7 12 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (1.20%) CentOS
9 8 (0.88%) Debian
9 8 (0.88%) Rocky
10 6 (0.66%) Android
10 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Fedora
13 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (63.02%) CI/CD
2 474 (51.86%) DevOps
3 313 (34.25%) Agile
4 291 (31.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (28.77%) Microservices
6 255 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
7 236 (25.82%) AI
8 192 (21.01%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.40%) Mentoring
10 138 (15.10%) Machine Learning
11 127 (13.89%) Test Automation
12 117 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (12.80%) Observability
13 112 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
14 106 (11.60%) Computer Science
15 97 (10.61%) Analytics
16 91 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
17 87 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
18 83 (9.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 81 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 451 (49.34%) Python
2 198 (21.66%) SQL
3 179 (19.58%) Java
4 149 (16.30%) JavaScript
5 141 (15.43%) C#
6 111 (12.14%) Bash
7 99 (10.83%) PowerShell
8 56 (6.13%) TypeScript
9 49 (5.36%) Go
10 29 (3.17%) Bicep
11 22 (2.41%) C++
12 19 (2.08%) PHP
13 13 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.09%) Ruby
15 8 (0.88%) Delphi
15 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.77%) Scala
17 6 (0.66%) Rust
18 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 140 (15.32%) Degree
2 131 (14.33%) Security Cleared
3 87 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 84 (9.19%) SC Cleared
5 64 (7.00%) AWS Certification
5 64 (7.00%) DV Cleared
6 47 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 14 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.42%) CISSP
11 8 (0.88%) CISM
11 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.77%) ITIL 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
14 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.97%) QA
2 43 (4.70%) GDPR
3 27 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.30%) NIST
6 16 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.20%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.98%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.98%) 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 4 (0.44%) EMIR
15 3 (0.33%) SLA
16 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.22%) ECSS
16 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 601 (65.75%) Docker
2 51 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (4.60%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.19%) vSphere
6 13 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.77%) NFS
9 5 (0.55%) KVM
10 4 (0.44%) Lustre
10 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.44%) vCloud
10 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 581 (63.57%) Kubernetes
2 317 (34.68%) Terraform
3 133 (14.55%) Ansible
4 112 (12.25%) Grafana
5 90 (9.85%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.63%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.31%) Argo
7 12 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.20%) Control-M
8 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.98%) Puppet
10 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
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%) Rancher
13 5 (0.55%) SCOM
13 5 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 122 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.67%) Oracle
3 60 (6.56%) VMware
4 56 (6.13%) Google
5 40 (4.38%) Databricks
6 36 (3.94%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.61%) Splunk
8 28 (3.06%) SAP
9 24 (2.63%) Cisco
10 21 (2.30%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.19%) Dell
11 20 (2.19%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.42%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (1.09%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.09%) Pure Storage
15 9 (0.98%) Commvault
15 9 (0.98%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.88%) IBM