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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 128 185
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 -40
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,101 1,016 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.42% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.60% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 709 717 1,130
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -1.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -38 1,007 £72,500 -3.33% 371
UK excluding London -61 530 £62,500 -7.41% 274
London -6 470 £82,500 -8.33% 140
Work from Home -18 427 £70,932 +1.33% 363
North of England -47 177 £65,000 - 65
South East -14 122 £68,500 +9.60% 80
South West -22 119 £55,000 -23.60% 45
North West -17 90 £65,000 +4.49% 36
Yorkshire -73 59 £62,500 -8.09% 15
Midlands -53 58 £70,000 +12.00% 37
West Midlands -46 31 £70,505 +8.47% 22
North East -26 28 £48,445 -26.62% 14
East of England -47 26 £60,100 -7.54% 23
East Midlands -55 26 £64,000 +6.67% 15
Wales -20 15 £57,600 -11.38% 7
Scotland -57 15 £59,283 -30.26% 9
Northern Ireland -37 7 £62,500 - 10

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 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.63%) Apache
3 18 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.45%) Appian
5 12 (1.09%) Confluence
6 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 1 (0.091%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.091%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Maya
2 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.091%) Endur
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 642 (58.31%) AWS
2 563 (51.14%) Azure
3 331 (30.06%) GCP
4 205 (18.62%) GitHub
5 165 (14.99%) Serverless
6 143 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
7 133 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (8.63%) OpenShift
10 94 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (8.27%) Datadog
12 88 (7.99%) Azure AKS
13 85 (7.72%) Amazon S3
14 77 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (4.90%) SaaS
16 52 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
18 45 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
19 41 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
20 39 (3.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.08%) Broadband
2 74 (6.72%) Firewall
3 48 (4.36%) DNS
4 31 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.63%) HTTP
6 27 (2.45%) Network Security
7 19 (1.73%) VPN
8 8 (0.73%) AMQP
8 8 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.64%) WAN
10 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.45%) DHCP
11 5 (0.45%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 3 (0.27%) IPv4
12 3 (0.27%) Modbus
12 3 (0.27%) RTP
12 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.27%) VLAN
12 3 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (15.26%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 80 (7.27%) MongoDB
5 72 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 61 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.63%) MySQL
8 46 (4.18%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.91%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.72%) Pinecone
11 28 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.91%) Redis
13 14 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.18%) Big Data
15 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.09%) InfluxDB
16 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.00%) Metadata
16 11 (1.00%) Power BI
17 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 208 (18.89%) Git
2 164 (14.90%) Jenkins
3 136 (12.35%) GitLab
4 44 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.18%) JIRA
6 26 (2.36%) JUnit
7 23 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.91%) MLflow
10 19 (1.73%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.73%) Selenium
11 14 (1.27%) Maven
11 14 (1.27%) Mockito
11 14 (1.27%) Vite
12 12 (1.09%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.91%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.91%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.82%) TestRail
15 8 (0.73%) Storybook
General
1 310 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 234 (21.25%) Finance
3 93 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.99%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.63%) Banking
5 73 (6.63%) Telecoms
6 61 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (5.36%) Law
8 23 (2.09%) Front Office
9 20 (1.82%) Games
10 18 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 17 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.54%) Retail
12 15 (1.36%) Billing
13 13 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.09%) Legal
14 12 (1.09%) Marketing
15 10 (0.91%) Electronics
16 9 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 267 (24.25%) Senior
2 232 (21.07%) Developer
3 147 (13.35%) Software Engineer
4 137 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (12.26%) Lead
6 94 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 77 (6.99%) Architect
8 70 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 56 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 52 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 47 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
15 34 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.72%) Data Engineer
16 30 (2.72%) Scala Engineer
17 28 (2.54%) .NET Software Engineer
17 28 (2.54%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (14.62%) React
2 157 (14.26%) RESTful
3 150 (13.62%) .NET
4 123 (11.17%) REST
5 120 (10.90%) Spring
6 111 (10.08%) Spring Boot
7 107 (9.72%) Kafka
8 97 (8.81%) Node.js
9 90 (8.17%) gRPC
10 78 (7.08%) Elastic Stack
11 66 (5.99%) .NET Core
11 66 (5.99%) AngularJS
12 58 (5.27%) OAuth
13 56 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
14 48 (4.36%) Django
15 47 (4.27%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.72%) Flask
17 37 (3.36%) Vue
18 33 (3.00%) .NET Framework
18 33 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 281 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 152 (13.81%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.09%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.09%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.91%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.00%) AI Agents
12 21 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.91%) PKI
13 19 (1.73%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.73%) Web3
14 18 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.63%) Fixed Income
14 18 (1.63%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.45%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 213 (19.35%) Linux
2 81 (7.36%) Windows
3 43 (3.91%) Unix
4 41 (3.72%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.91%) CentOS
6 23 (2.09%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.18%) Android
9 10 (0.91%) VMS
10 9 (0.82%) Debian
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.091%) Rocky
13 1 (0.091%) Solaris
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (68.21%) CI/CD
2 562 (51.04%) DevOps
3 446 (40.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 410 (37.24%) Agile
5 390 (35.42%) Microservices
6 320 (29.06%) Software Engineering
7 309 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
8 229 (20.80%) AI
9 228 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 210 (19.07%) Mentoring
11 203 (18.44%) Test Automation
12 196 (17.80%) Observability
13 166 (15.08%) Machine Learning
14 150 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
15 143 (12.99%) High Availability
16 134 (12.17%) Continuous Integration
17 128 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
18 122 (11.08%) Clean Code
19 117 (10.63%) Event-Driven
20 110 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 533 (48.41%) Python
2 267 (24.25%) Java
3 221 (20.07%) SQL
4 217 (19.71%) JavaScript
5 166 (15.08%) Bash
6 156 (14.17%) Go
7 128 (11.63%) C#
8 114 (10.35%) PowerShell
9 101 (9.17%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.36%) Scala
11 38 (3.45%) Bicep
12 35 (3.18%) C++
13 25 (2.27%) PHP
14 20 (1.82%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.45%) C
16 12 (1.09%) Ruby
17 11 (1.00%) Rust
18 9 (0.82%) Groovy
19 8 (0.73%) Delphi
19 8 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 205 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 118 (10.72%) Degree
3 112 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 75 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 74 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (5.72%) AWS Certification
7 43 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 14 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (0.82%) CISSP
11 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.45%) CISM
13 5 (0.45%) OSCP
14 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.36%) QA
2 35 (3.18%) GDPR
3 32 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.54%) PCI DSS
7 22 (2.00%) NIST
8 18 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.91%) NCSC
10 9 (0.82%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.73%) GRC
12 6 (0.54%) WCAG
13 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.45%) SLA
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) ECSS
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 719 (65.30%) Docker
2 41 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.73%) KVM
5 8 (0.73%) vSphere
6 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) iptables
9 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.27%) Squid
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) Lustre
10 2 (0.18%) RACF
10 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.091%) QEMU
11 1 (0.091%) Xen
Systems Management
1 684 (62.13%) Kubernetes
2 427 (38.78%) Terraform
3 185 (16.80%) Ansible
4 173 (15.71%) Grafana
5 152 (13.81%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.00%) Argo
7 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.82%) Puppet
9 19 (1.73%) Istio
9 19 (1.73%) Kustomize
10 15 (1.36%) Nagios
11 13 (1.18%) Podman
12 11 (1.00%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.73%) Kibana
14 8 (0.73%) linkerd
14 8 (0.73%) Mesos
15 7 (0.64%) Packer
16 5 (0.45%) FortiGate
16 5 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 108 (9.81%) Google
2 100 (9.08%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.27%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.09%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.81%) Splunk
6 36 (3.27%) Oracle
7 34 (3.09%) OpenAI
8 28 (2.54%) VMware
9 23 (2.09%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.45%) Cisco
10 16 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.36%) Databricks
12 13 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.18%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.18%) UiPath
13 12 (1.09%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.00%) Confluent
15 8 (0.73%) SAP
16 7 (0.64%) Fortinet