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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 115 197
Rank change year-on-year -31 +82 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,353 1,313 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 2.67% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.96% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 916 673 1,047
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.44% +12.50% -7.69%

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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -32 1,190 £72,500 -9.38% 805
UK excluding London -32 776 £64,500 -4.44% 708
Work from Home -31 497 £70,000 -2.77% 659
London -21 476 £80,000 -11.11% 245
North of England -32 220 £65,000 - 173
South East +30 188 £65,000 - 159
South West -6 170 £57,500 -23.33% 98
North West -37 119 £71,250 +18.75% 87
Midlands -82 64 £70,000 +7.69% 102
Yorkshire -36 60 £65,000 -7.14% 53
Northern Ireland -10 53 £62,500 +45.04% 36
North East -26 41 £55,000 -12.00% 33
Wales -28 41 £67,500 +3.85% 31
East of England -28 41 £60,000 -7.69% 58
West Midlands -63 38 £70,079 +3.82% 56
East Midlands -55 26 £64,000 +6.67% 46
Scotland -65 7 £60,000 -25.00% 59

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 37 (2.73%) Apache
2 32 (2.37%) Confluence
3 29 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Appian
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.074%) nginx
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 776 (57.35%) AWS
2 691 (51.07%) Azure
3 343 (25.35%) GCP
4 219 (16.19%) GitHub
5 184 (13.60%) Serverless
6 159 (11.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 157 (11.60%) GitHub Actions
8 118 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (8.20%) OpenShift
10 106 (7.83%) Azure AKS
11 98 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (7.17%) Amazon S3
13 83 (6.13%) Cloud Computing
14 81 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
16 77 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
17 75 (5.54%) Datadog
18 74 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
19 66 (4.88%) SaaS
20 56 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.32%) Firewall
2 70 (5.17%) DNS
3 66 (4.88%) Broadband
4 60 (4.43%) WAN
5 53 (3.92%) LAN
6 42 (3.10%) TCP/IP
7 40 (2.96%) Network Security
8 36 (2.66%) VPN
9 21 (1.55%) HTTP
10 20 (1.48%) MQTT
11 16 (1.18%) VLAN
12 15 (1.11%) BGP
12 15 (1.11%) OSPF
13 14 (1.03%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.96%) DMARC
15 12 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.81%) Wireshark
17 8 (0.59%) AMQP
17 8 (0.59%) IPv4
18 7 (0.52%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 78 (5.76%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.43%) MySQL
4 60 (4.43%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (3.55%) DynamoDB
7 45 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 40 (2.96%) Redis
9 28 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.11%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.03%) Big Data
13 13 (0.96%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.81%) DTS
15 10 (0.74%) Db2
15 10 (0.74%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.67%) Power BI
17 8 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 239 (17.66%) Git
2 202 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 183 (13.53%) GitLab
4 42 (3.10%) CircleCI
5 40 (2.96%) JIRA
6 26 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.26%) JUnit
8 17 (1.26%) Maven
9 16 (1.18%) Selenium
10 15 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.11%) Mockito
10 15 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.96%) Vite
12 12 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.67%) MLflow
13 9 (0.67%) Robot Framework
13 9 (0.67%) TestRail
14 8 (0.59%) Gatling
General
1 401 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 294 (21.73%) Finance
3 117 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 101 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.58%) Law
6 83 (6.13%) Banking
7 79 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.77%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.48%) Games
13 18 (1.33%) Legal
13 18 (1.33%) Retail
14 14 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.81%) Front Office
16 9 (0.67%) Billing
16 9 (0.67%) Electronics
16 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 273 (20.18%) Senior
2 255 (18.85%) Developer
3 194 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 188 (13.90%) Software Engineer
5 182 (13.45%) Architect
6 166 (12.27%) Lead
7 127 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.32%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
12 56 (4.14%) Systems Architect
13 54 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
14 53 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 51 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 48 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (13.01%) RESTful
2 173 (12.79%) React
3 171 (12.64%) Spring
4 166 (12.27%) Spring Boot
5 144 (10.64%) Node.js
6 139 (10.27%) .NET
7 130 (9.61%) Kafka
8 125 (9.24%) REST
9 79 (5.84%) AngularJS
9 79 (5.84%) gRPC
10 75 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
11 61 (4.51%) OAuth
12 56 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
13 48 (3.55%) JSON
14 45 (3.33%) .NET Core
14 45 (3.33%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.18%) YAML
16 42 (3.10%) CSS
17 40 (2.96%) FastAPI
18 39 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 347 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 170 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 38 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 30 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.70%) PKI
12 21 (1.55%) Blockchain
12 21 (1.55%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.33%) Web3
15 17 (1.26%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.26%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 266 (19.66%) Linux
2 91 (6.73%) Windows
3 35 (2.59%) Ubuntu
4 34 (2.51%) CentOS
4 34 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.37%) Unix
6 20 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.81%) Debian
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.074%) Android
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (65.93%) CI/CD
2 636 (47.01%) DevOps
3 633 (46.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 484 (35.77%) Agile
5 422 (31.19%) Microservices
6 420 (31.04%) Software Engineering
7 341 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (19.44%) Mentoring
9 259 (19.14%) Test Automation
10 247 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 246 (18.18%) Observability
12 223 (16.48%) AI
13 185 (13.67%) Event-Driven
14 178 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
15 164 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
16 155 (11.46%) Roadmaps
17 144 (10.64%) Clean Code
18 136 (10.05%) Machine Learning
19 134 (9.90%) Continuous Delivery
20 128 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 624 (46.12%) Python
2 326 (24.09%) Java
3 245 (18.11%) JavaScript
4 183 (13.53%) Bash
5 169 (12.49%) SQL
6 151 (11.16%) C#
7 150 (11.09%) TypeScript
8 142 (10.50%) PowerShell
9 139 (10.27%) Go
10 55 (4.07%) Bicep
11 53 (3.92%) Scala
12 45 (3.33%) C++
13 35 (2.59%) Ruby
14 32 (2.37%) Rust
15 26 (1.92%) PHP
16 22 (1.63%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.26%) Groovy
18 13 (0.96%) C
19 10 (0.74%) RPG
20 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 334 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 166 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 144 (10.64%) Degree
4 120 (8.87%) DV Cleared
5 79 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 46 (3.40%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.40%) CISSP
10 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.67%) CCNP
12 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.59%) CCNA
13 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.59%) OSCP
13 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (8.28%) QA
2 62 (4.58%) GRC
3 41 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.37%) GDPR
4 32 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.70%) NIST
8 20 (1.48%) WCAG
9 17 (1.26%) NCSC
10 14 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.81%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.074%) PSD2
16 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 781 (57.72%) Docker
2 44 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
3 42 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.59%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.67%) vSphere
6 8 (0.59%) KVM
6 8 (0.59%) Squid
7 6 (0.44%) Firmware
7 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.22%) iptables
8 3 (0.22%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.074%) QEMU
9 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 778 (57.50%) Kubernetes
2 515 (38.06%) Terraform
3 207 (15.30%) Ansible
4 175 (12.93%) Grafana
5 151 (11.16%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.88%) Argo
7 33 (2.44%) Puppet
8 27 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.70%) Istio
10 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.33%) Nagios
11 18 (1.33%) Podman
12 15 (1.11%) Kibana
13 12 (0.89%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.89%) linkerd
13 12 (0.89%) Packer
14 11 (0.81%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.52%) logstash
15 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 189 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.43%) Google
3 62 (4.58%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.77%) Splunk
5 45 (3.33%) Typelevel
6 44 (3.25%) VMware
7 36 (2.66%) Oracle
8 27 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.40%) Cisco
12 18 (1.33%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.11%) Zscaler
14 13 (0.96%) IBM
14 13 (0.96%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.74%) Confluent
16 10 (0.74%) Databricks
16 10 (0.74%) NVIDIA
17 9 (0.67%) Rapid7