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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 128 174
Rank change year-on-year -23 +46 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,420 1,230 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 2.47% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.77% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 920 610 829
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,744 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,575 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -25 1,252 £72,500 -6.45% 346
UK excluding London -11 852 £65,000 - 282
Work from Home -35 492 £70,000 - 201
London -33 476 £80,000 -11.11% 121
North of England -24 234 £65,000 - 80
South West +11 200 £65,000 -13.33% 66
South East +21 193 £65,000 -3.70% 74
North West -44 123 £75,000 +25.00% 48
Midlands -69 80 £70,000 +3.70% 29
Northern Ireland -28 59 - - 8
North East -5 58 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Yorkshire -32 53 £70,466 +8.41% 16
West Midlands -54 52 £72,500 +7.41% 19
East of England -21 46 £60,000 +3.45% 12
Wales -27 45 £63,750 -12.07% 10
East Midlands -45 28 £61,250 +11.36% 9
Scotland -63 6 £59,283 -12.17% 8

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 (3.45%) Apache
2 37 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 37 (2.61%) Confluence
3 30 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.28%) Camunda
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) WordPress
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) JBoss
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 819 (57.68%) AWS
2 732 (51.55%) Azure
3 337 (23.73%) GCP
4 218 (15.35%) GitHub
5 177 (12.46%) Serverless
6 170 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 146 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
8 116 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (7.89%) OpenShift
10 98 (6.90%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.69%) Amazon S3
12 94 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (6.55%) Cloud Computing
14 84 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 80 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
16 76 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
17 63 (4.44%) Datadog
18 60 (4.23%) SaaS
19 54 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.21%) WAN
2 67 (4.72%) LAN
3 66 (4.65%) Firewall
4 64 (4.51%) DNS
5 45 (3.17%) Network Security
6 43 (3.03%) Broadband
7 37 (2.61%) VPN
8 35 (2.46%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.55%) 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 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) DHCP
17 8 (0.56%) HTTP
17 8 (0.56%) IPv4
18 7 (0.49%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (7.75%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.07%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.23%) MySQL
5 51 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
6 50 (3.52%) DynamoDB
6 50 (3.52%) Relational Database
7 39 (2.75%) SQL Server
8 37 (2.61%) Redis
9 27 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.20%) Big Data
12 16 (1.13%) Pinecone
13 13 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.70%) Flink
16 10 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 277 (19.51%) Git
2 212 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 182 (12.82%) GitLab
4 43 (3.03%) JIRA
5 31 (2.18%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.04%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.97%) JUnit
8 23 (1.62%) Maven
9 22 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.48%) Mockito
11 18 (1.27%) Selenium
12 17 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 17 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.85%) Vite
14 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.70%) Postman
15 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.63%) JMeter
17 8 (0.56%) Gatling
General
1 445 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 340 (23.94%) Finance
3 150 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 107 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (7.46%) Law
6 91 (6.41%) Banking
7 69 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (2.25%) Legal
9 30 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.04%) Aerospace
11 23 (1.62%) Games
12 22 (1.55%) Retail
12 22 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 14 (0.99%) Marketing
14 12 (0.85%) Electronics
15 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.70%) Front Office
17 9 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 258 (18.17%) Senior
2 250 (17.61%) Developer
3 215 (15.14%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 207 (14.58%) Architect
6 176 (12.39%) Lead
7 120 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.72%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.72%) Systems Architect
10 65 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
11 62 (4.37%) Java Developer
12 56 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 49 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 49 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 48 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
15 42 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (2.89%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (38.38%) Terraform
2 194 (13.66%) RESTful
3 192 (13.52%) Spring
4 180 (12.68%) React
5 177 (12.46%) Spring Boot
6 150 (10.56%) Node.js
7 146 (10.28%) Kafka
8 137 (9.65%) .NET
9 129 (9.08%) REST
10 82 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
11 74 (5.21%) AngularJS
12 57 (4.01%) OAuth
13 55 (3.87%) CSS
14 54 (3.80%) gRPC
15 45 (3.17%) JSON
16 43 (3.03%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.03%) OAuth2
17 41 (2.89%) HTML
18 39 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (2.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 385 (27.11%) Cloud Native
2 180 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 33 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.90%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
11 25 (1.76%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.76%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.55%) PKI
13 21 (1.48%) Blog
13 21 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.41%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 287 (20.21%) Linux
2 99 (6.97%) Windows
3 40 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.32%) Unix
5 31 (2.18%) CentOS
6 21 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.56%) Debian
8 8 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.070%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.070%) Rocky
11 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (66.90%) CI/CD
2 711 (50.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 681 (47.96%) DevOps
4 502 (35.35%) Agile
5 459 (32.32%) Software Engineering
6 424 (29.86%) Microservices
7 341 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
8 282 (19.86%) Observability
9 278 (19.58%) Test Automation
10 274 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 269 (18.94%) Mentoring
12 268 (18.87%) AI
13 222 (15.63%) Event-Driven
14 204 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
15 178 (12.54%) Roadmaps
16 169 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
17 145 (10.21%) Machine Learning
18 144 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
19 143 (10.07%) Scrum
20 134 (9.44%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 652 (45.92%) Python
2 365 (25.70%) Java
3 240 (16.90%) JavaScript
4 184 (12.96%) Bash
5 169 (11.90%) SQL
6 160 (11.27%) TypeScript
7 153 (10.77%) C#
8 137 (9.65%) PowerShell
9 116 (8.17%) Go
10 60 (4.23%) Bicep
11 55 (3.87%) C++
12 44 (3.10%) Scala
13 39 (2.75%) Ruby
14 32 (2.25%) Rust
15 22 (1.55%) PHP
16 21 (1.48%) Kotlin
17 20 (1.41%) Groovy
18 15 (1.06%) C
19 14 (0.99%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 426 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 213 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 162 (11.41%) Degree
4 160 (11.27%) DV Cleared
5 89 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 57 (4.01%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.62%) CISSP
11 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.70%) OSCP
15 9 (0.63%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.87%) QA
2 71 (5.00%) GRC
3 55 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.76%) GDPR
6 24 (1.69%) NCSC
7 23 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.62%) WCAG
8 22 (1.55%) NIST
9 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.63%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SLA
14 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
System Software
1 819 (57.68%) Docker
2 47 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 40 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.070%) iptables
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 815 (57.39%) Kubernetes
2 215 (15.14%) Ansible
3 150 (10.56%) Grafana
4 119 (8.38%) Prometheus
5 36 (2.54%) Argo
6 35 (2.46%) Puppet
7 32 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.76%) Istio
9 19 (1.34%) Nagios
10 17 (1.20%) Podman
11 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
11 15 (1.06%) Kibana
11 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.99%) linkerd
13 11 (0.77%) Packer
13 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.49%) logstash
15 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 214 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.41%) Google
3 61 (4.30%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.80%) Oracle
5 53 (3.73%) Splunk
6 52 (3.66%) VMware
7 27 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.90%) Typelevel
8 26 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.13%) Cisco
12 15 (1.06%) IBM
13 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.85%) ServiceNow
15 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.77%) Databricks
15 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
16 10 (0.70%) Confluent