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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 128 165
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 -44
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,413 1,209 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.44% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.76% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 912 597 804
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% -7.41%

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 81,483 43,799 64,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.97% 88.49% 80.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,701 24,787 38,319
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -28 1,245 £72,500 -6.45% 1,108
UK excluding London -16 854 £65,576 +0.89% 598
Work from Home -43 473 £68,724 -1.82% 488
London -38 466 £80,000 -7.25% 666
North of England -32 237 £66,000 +1.54% 138
South West +7 200 £67,500 -10.00% 115
South East +12 183 £65,000 -8.77% 127
North West -43 128 £75,000 +20.00% 82
Midlands -57 85 £70,000 +1.82% 68
North East -15 59 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Northern Ireland -30 59 - - 32
West Midlands -49 54 £71,289 +1.84% 41
Yorkshire -39 50 £72,500 +11.54% 39
East of England -33 48 £60,000 +4.35% 45
Wales -32 47 £60,000 -17.24% 12
East Midlands -49 31 £64,500 +17.27% 26
Scotland -65 7 £60,000 -14.29% 65

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 49 (3.47%) Apache
2 38 (2.69%) Confluence
3 37 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 819 (57.96%) AWS
2 735 (52.02%) Azure
3 334 (23.64%) GCP
4 216 (15.29%) GitHub
5 172 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 165 (11.68%) Serverless
7 148 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.64%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.08%) Azure AKS
11 93 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
12 89 (6.30%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
14 76 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
15 55 (3.89%) Datadog
15 55 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
16 53 (3.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.24%) WAN
2 67 (4.74%) LAN
3 64 (4.53%) Firewall
4 60 (4.25%) DNS
5 46 (3.26%) Network Security
6 37 (2.62%) VPN
7 33 (2.34%) Broadband
8 31 (2.19%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.63%) MQTT
10 19 (1.34%) BGP
11 18 (1.27%) OSPF
12 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.13%) VLAN
14 13 (0.92%) DMARC
15 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) DHCP
17 8 (0.57%) IPv4
18 7 (0.50%) GSM
18 7 (0.50%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (7.15%) NoSQL
3 69 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.25%) MySQL
5 48 (3.40%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (2.69%) SQL Server
9 35 (2.48%) Redis
10 26 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.13%) Big Data
13 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
14 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.85%) InfluxDB
17 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 279 (19.75%) Git
2 215 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.81%) GitLab
4 40 (2.83%) JIRA
5 30 (2.12%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.98%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.91%) JUnit
8 25 (1.77%) Maven
9 22 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 20 (1.42%) Mockito
11 19 (1.34%) Selenium
12 18 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.78%) Vite
15 10 (0.71%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.71%) TestRail
16 9 (0.64%) Postman
General
1 445 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 336 (23.78%) Finance
3 162 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (7.08%) Law
6 97 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (6.44%) Banking
8 69 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (2.34%) Legal
10 29 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.63%) Retail
13 22 (1.56%) Games
14 16 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.64%) Front Office
20 8 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (19.25%) Senior
2 242 (17.13%) Developer
3 217 (15.36%) Architect
4 214 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 208 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 174 (12.31%) Lead
7 116 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.74%) Systems Architect
10 65 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 62 (4.39%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
13 60 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 45 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
16 45 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
18 41 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (38.36%) Terraform
2 195 (13.80%) RESTful
3 192 (13.59%) Spring
4 188 (13.31%) React
5 177 (12.53%) Spring Boot
6 152 (10.76%) Node.js
7 148 (10.47%) Kafka
8 130 (9.20%) .NET
9 126 (8.92%) REST
10 81 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (5.02%) AngularJS
12 56 (3.96%) OAuth
13 54 (3.82%) CSS
14 44 (3.11%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.04%) JSON
16 42 (2.97%) gRPC
17 41 (2.90%) FastAPI
18 40 (2.83%) HTML
19 39 (2.76%) .NET Core
20 37 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 388 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 170 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.77%) PKI
11 23 (1.63%) Blog
11 23 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
13 19 (1.34%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
14 18 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 295 (20.88%) Linux
2 97 (6.86%) Windows
3 37 (2.62%) Unix
3 37 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.26%) CentOS
5 20 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.71%) Debian
7 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.21%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.14%) Android
9 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.071%) Rocky
10 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (67.37%) CI/CD
2 709 (50.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 688 (48.69%) DevOps
4 504 (35.67%) Agile
5 456 (32.27%) Software Engineering
6 404 (28.59%) Microservices
7 330 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (20.59%) Observability
9 282 (19.96%) Mentoring
10 275 (19.46%) Test Automation
11 274 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 266 (18.83%) AI
13 228 (16.14%) Event-Driven
14 213 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
15 182 (12.88%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
17 155 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (10.05%) Scrum
19 139 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 137 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 639 (45.22%) Python
2 367 (25.97%) Java
3 233 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 186 (13.16%) Bash
5 163 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 162 (11.46%) SQL
7 145 (10.26%) C#
8 133 (9.41%) PowerShell
9 105 (7.43%) Go
10 62 (4.39%) Bicep
11 57 (4.03%) C++
12 39 (2.76%) Ruby
13 35 (2.48%) Rust
13 35 (2.48%) Scala
14 21 (1.49%) Groovy
15 17 (1.20%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.20%) PHP
16 15 (1.06%) C
16 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 436 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 214 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 165 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 162 (11.46%) Degree
5 91 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.70%) CISSP
10 13 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (0.85%) CCNP
12 11 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.78%) OSCP
12 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISM
14 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.70%) QA
2 72 (5.10%) GRC
3 58 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.91%) NCSC
6 25 (1.77%) GDPR
7 23 (1.63%) NIST
7 23 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.42%) WCAG
9 18 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) SLA
16 1 (0.071%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 801 (56.69%) Docker
2 49 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 38 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) KVM
7 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.64%) vSphere
8 8 (0.57%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
12 3 (0.21%) NDS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) QEMU
14 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 820 (58.03%) Kubernetes
2 213 (15.07%) Ansible
3 142 (10.05%) Grafana
4 112 (7.93%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.62%) Argo
6 36 (2.55%) Puppet
7 32 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.91%) Istio
9 18 (1.27%) Podman
10 17 (1.20%) Nagios
11 16 (1.13%) Kibana
12 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.06%) linkerd
13 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.78%) Packer
14 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.57%) logstash
16 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
17 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 226 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.58%) Google
3 60 (4.25%) Red Hat
4 55 (3.89%) Splunk
4 55 (3.89%) VMware
5 53 (3.75%) Oracle
6 26 (1.84%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 20 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.27%) Typelevel
9 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.06%) IBM
11 14 (0.99%) Cisco
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.85%) Databricks
13 12 (0.85%) Mistral
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.71%) ServiceNow