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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 111 201
Rank change year-on-year -48 +90 -53
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,202 1,248 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.81% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.03% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 824 638 1,097
10th Percentile £45,573 £49,007 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £128,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
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 14 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 14 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 -39 1,105 £72,500 -9.38% 422
UK excluding London -45 636 £62,500 -7.41% 294
London -17 473 £80,000 -11.11% 176
Work from Home -31 438 £70,079 -2.66% 228
North of England -57 195 £65,000 -1.54% 73
South East +21 163 £68,750 +5.77% 86
South West +1 145 £52,500 -30.00% 77
North West -52 97 £70,000 +16.67% 45
Yorkshire -51 59 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Midlands -76 59 £70,000 +12.00% 27
East of England -25 41 £60,000 -12.73% 17
North East -16 39 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West Midlands -58 32 £70,079 +7.81% 20
East Midlands -55 27 £64,000 +6.67% 7
Wales -30 25 £63,750 +6.25% 6
Scotland -59 7 £60,000 -25.00% 8
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +45.04% 7

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 33 (2.75%) Apache
2 26 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.91%) Confluence
5 8 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.58%) Appian
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.083%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 714 (59.40%) AWS
2 603 (50.17%) Azure
3 319 (26.54%) GCP
4 199 (16.56%) GitHub
5 165 (13.73%) Serverless
6 138 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
7 129 (10.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.82%) Azure AKS
10 93 (7.74%) OpenShift
11 92 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (7.57%) Amazon S3
13 80 (6.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (6.07%) Datadog
16 69 (5.74%) SaaS
17 55 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
18 54 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
19 50 (4.16%) IaaS
20 41 (3.41%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.41%) Broadband
2 71 (5.91%) Firewall
3 69 (5.74%) DNS
4 37 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 33 (2.75%) Network Security
6 24 (2.00%) HTTP
7 20 (1.66%) VPN
8 14 (1.16%) MQTT
9 11 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 10 (0.83%) DMARC
10 10 (0.83%) VLAN
11 9 (0.75%) BGP
11 9 (0.75%) OSPF
11 9 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.67%) DHCP
12 8 (0.67%) IPv4
13 7 (0.58%) AMQP
14 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.50%) DMZ
14 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.15%) NoSQL
2 111 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.74%) MongoDB
4 73 (6.07%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.91%) SQL Server
6 58 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
7 54 (4.49%) MySQL
8 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.91%) Redis
10 30 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.33%) RDBMS
12 20 (1.66%) Pinecone
13 17 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.08%) Big Data
15 10 (0.83%) Metadata
16 9 (0.75%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.75%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.75%) Power BI
17 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 212 (17.64%) Git
2 182 (15.14%) Jenkins
3 168 (13.98%) GitLab
4 44 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 38 (3.16%) JIRA
6 25 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.00%) JUnit
8 23 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.75%) Maven
9 21 (1.75%) Mockito
10 18 (1.50%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.50%) Vite
11 15 (1.25%) Selenium
11 15 (1.25%) SonarQube
12 14 (1.16%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.08%) MLflow
14 9 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 329 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 228 (18.97%) Finance
3 90 (7.49%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.57%) Banking
6 71 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.91%) Law
8 47 (3.91%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 25 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.75%) Retail
12 14 (1.16%) Front Office
12 14 (1.16%) Games
13 13 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.92%) Legal
15 10 (0.83%) Billing
15 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.83%) Marketing
16 9 (0.75%) Electronics
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (22.21%) Senior
2 250 (20.80%) Developer
3 181 (15.06%) Software Engineer
4 160 (13.31%) Lead
5 154 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 124 (10.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 98 (8.15%) Architect
8 73 (6.07%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (5.24%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 50 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
13 47 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
14 46 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 35 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
17 34 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
18 33 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 31 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (14.81%) React
2 165 (13.73%) RESTful
3 148 (12.31%) .NET
4 139 (11.56%) Spring
5 130 (10.82%) Spring Boot
6 125 (10.40%) REST
7 123 (10.23%) Node.js
8 116 (9.65%) Kafka
9 81 (6.74%) gRPC
10 72 (5.99%) AngularJS
11 69 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
12 67 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.07%) OAuth
14 53 (4.41%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.66%) FastAPI
16 42 (3.49%) JSON
17 41 (3.41%) OAuth2
18 36 (3.00%) CSS
18 36 (3.00%) Django
18 36 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 299 (24.88%) Cloud Native
2 147 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.16%) Blockchain
8 25 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.75%) PKI
11 21 (1.75%) Web3
12 19 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 236 (19.63%) Linux
2 83 (6.91%) Windows
3 38 (3.16%) Unix
4 35 (2.91%) Ubuntu
5 34 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.66%) CentOS
7 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.75%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) Android
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (67.89%) CI/CD
2 587 (48.84%) DevOps
3 509 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 464 (38.60%) Agile
5 391 (32.53%) Microservices
6 387 (32.20%) Software Engineering
7 305 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (19.80%) Mentoring
8 238 (19.80%) Test Automation
9 236 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (18.64%) Observability
11 221 (18.39%) AI
12 170 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 146 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
14 145 (12.06%) Event-Driven
15 141 (11.73%) Machine Learning
16 138 (11.48%) High Availability
17 134 (11.15%) Continuous Delivery
18 131 (10.90%) Clean Code
19 124 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 565 (47.00%) Python
2 301 (25.04%) Java
3 240 (19.97%) JavaScript
4 194 (16.14%) SQL
5 185 (15.39%) Bash
6 149 (12.40%) C#
6 149 (12.40%) TypeScript
7 145 (12.06%) Go
8 133 (11.06%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.16%) Scala
10 44 (3.66%) Bicep
11 35 (2.91%) C++
12 27 (2.25%) PHP
13 26 (2.16%) Rust
14 22 (1.83%) Ruby
15 20 (1.66%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.50%) Groovy
17 16 (1.33%) C
18 12 (1.00%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 143 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 123 (10.23%) Degree
4 83 (6.91%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 54 (4.49%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.00%) CISSP
10 12 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.67%) CCNA
11 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.67%) OSCP
11 8 (0.67%) RHCE
11 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
12 7 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.15%) QA
2 36 (3.00%) GDPR
3 34 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.66%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.91%) NIST
8 14 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.00%) GRC
9 12 (1.00%) JSP 440
10 10 (0.83%) NCSC
10 10 (0.83%) WCAG
11 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 737 (61.31%) Docker
2 37 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.50%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) KVM
9 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.083%) QEMU
11 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 713 (59.32%) Kubernetes
2 459 (38.19%) Terraform
3 195 (16.22%) Ansible
4 163 (13.56%) Grafana
5 155 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.83%) Argo
7 25 (2.08%) Puppet
8 21 (1.75%) Istio
9 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.50%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.41%) Nagios
11 17 (1.41%) Podman
12 13 (1.08%) Packer
13 12 (1.00%) Kibana
14 10 (0.83%) linkerd
14 10 (0.83%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.57%) Google
3 60 (4.99%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.74%) Splunk
4 45 (3.74%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.41%) Oracle
6 36 (3.00%) VMware
7 28 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.91%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.41%) Cisco
10 15 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.92%) Databricks
12 11 (0.92%) NVIDIA
12 11 (0.92%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.83%) Confluent
13 10 (0.83%) SendGrid
13 10 (0.83%) ServiceNow