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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 136 161
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 -15
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 999 1,082 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.43% 2.29% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.46% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 655 759 1,127
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,996 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 55,198 43,957 67,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.83% 93.01% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33,132 22,050 51,588
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -16 916 £70,932 -5.42% 389
UK excluding London -45 461 £62,500 -8.09% 302
London +3 438 £82,500 -2.94% 142
Work from Home -19 382 £68,450 -4.92% 195
North of England -7 187 £65,000 +2.77% 80
South West -12 106 £55,000 -23.60% 63
North West +3 100 £65,000 +8.33% 34
South East -39 80 £71,250 +5.95% 93
Yorkshire -48 51 £67,500 -0.74% 31
Midlands -46 44 £64,500 -0.77% 35
North East +10 36 £51,500 -25.69% 15
East of England 0 23 £60,100 -9.28% 13
West Midlands -27 23 £70,039 +7.75% 24
East Midlands -33 20 £64,000 +6.67% 11
Scotland -54 15 £54,000 -32.50% 11
Northern Ireland -28 8 £62,500 -9.82% 2
Wales -10 6 £70,079 +7.81% 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 37 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.10%) Apache
3 23 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Appian
5 8 (0.80%) Confluence
6 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.60%) CMS
7 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.50%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.50%) IIS
8 5 (0.50%) nginx
9 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.10%) FileNet
Applications
1 16 (1.60%) Maya
2 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 575 (57.56%) AWS
2 528 (52.85%) Azure
3 288 (28.83%) GCP
4 209 (20.92%) GitHub
5 157 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
6 139 (13.91%) Serverless
7 129 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (9.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
10 73 (7.31%) Amazon S3
10 73 (7.31%) Datadog
11 72 (7.21%) OpenShift
12 67 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 60 (6.01%) Azure AKS
14 56 (5.61%) SaaS
15 46 (4.60%) PaaS
16 44 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
17 41 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
18 39 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.51%) Firewall
2 48 (4.80%) Broadband
3 36 (3.60%) DNS
4 27 (2.70%) Network Security
5 26 (2.60%) HTTP
6 22 (2.20%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.10%) VPN
8 11 (1.10%) DHCP
9 8 (0.80%) AMQP
9 8 (0.80%) WAN
10 7 (0.70%) DMZ
11 5 (0.50%) MQTT
11 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.40%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.40%) SAN
12 4 (0.40%) VSAN
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.71%) NoSQL
2 98 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (8.81%) SQL Server
4 77 (7.71%) Relational Database
5 71 (7.11%) MongoDB
6 48 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (4.80%) MySQL
7 34 (3.40%) DynamoDB
8 32 (3.20%) RDBMS
9 25 (2.50%) Pinecone
10 22 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.90%) Big Data
12 16 (1.60%) Redis
13 14 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.30%) Metadata
15 10 (1.00%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.90%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.90%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 170 (17.02%) Git
2 142 (14.21%) Jenkins
3 112 (11.21%) GitLab
4 33 (3.30%) JIRA
5 25 (2.50%) CircleCI
6 23 (2.30%) MLflow
7 21 (2.10%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.10%) JUnit
8 20 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.90%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.60%) Selenium
11 14 (1.40%) JMeter
12 13 (1.30%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.10%) Locust
13 11 (1.10%) Vite
14 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.80%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.80%) Maven
15 8 (0.80%) Mockito
16 7 (0.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 292 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 221 (22.12%) Finance
3 83 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.01%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 64 (6.41%) Law
7 54 (5.41%) Banking
8 36 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (3.30%) Games
10 29 (2.90%) Front Office
11 17 (1.70%) Billing
12 14 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.30%) Marketing
13 13 (1.30%) Retail
14 12 (1.20%) Advertising
14 12 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.00%) Electronics
16 9 (0.90%) French Language
16 9 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 254 (25.43%) Senior
2 233 (23.32%) Developer
3 124 (12.41%) Lead
4 118 (11.81%) Software Engineer
5 105 (10.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 73 (7.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 72 (7.21%) Architect
8 71 (7.11%) Senior Developer
9 49 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 48 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
11 46 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.00%) Data Engineer
13 38 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 38 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 34 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (3.20%) Python Developer
17 30 (3.00%) Software Developer
18 29 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
19 27 (2.70%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (14.61%) React
2 140 (14.01%) .NET
3 133 (13.31%) RESTful
4 113 (11.31%) Spring
5 105 (10.51%) Spring Boot
6 103 (10.31%) REST
7 84 (8.41%) Kafka
8 79 (7.91%) Node.js
9 76 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
10 65 (6.51%) .NET Core
10 65 (6.51%) AngularJS
11 64 (6.41%) gRPC
12 58 (5.81%) FastAPI
13 53 (5.31%) Django
14 50 (5.01%) Flask
15 44 (4.40%) OAuth
16 34 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (3.30%) HTML
18 32 (3.20%) CSS
19 31 (3.10%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 255 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 125 (12.51%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (3.00%) Blockchain
6 30 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 27 (2.70%) Over-the-Top Content
7 27 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
8 22 (2.20%) Low-Code
8 22 (2.20%) PKI
9 20 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 208 (20.82%) Linux
2 85 (8.51%) Windows
3 45 (4.50%) Unix
4 35 (3.50%) Ubuntu
5 23 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 21 (2.10%) CentOS
7 17 (1.70%) VMS
8 16 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (1.30%) Android
10 9 (0.90%) Debian
11 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.20%) zOS
14 1 (0.10%) Fedora
14 1 (0.10%) Rocky
14 1 (0.10%) Solaris
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (65.17%) CI/CD
2 511 (51.15%) DevOps
3 373 (37.34%) Agile
4 364 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 354 (35.44%) Microservices
6 285 (28.53%) Problem-Solving
7 245 (24.52%) AI
8 244 (24.42%) Software Engineering
9 196 (19.62%) Mentoring
10 192 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 155 (15.52%) Machine Learning
12 147 (14.71%) Test Automation
13 142 (14.21%) Observability
14 128 (12.81%) Full-Stack Development
15 122 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
16 110 (11.01%) Analytics
17 108 (10.81%) High Availability
18 106 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
19 101 (10.11%) Continuous Delivery
20 99 (9.91%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 487 (48.75%) Python
2 244 (24.42%) Java
3 204 (20.42%) SQL
4 182 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 156 (15.62%) Bash
6 120 (12.01%) C#
6 120 (12.01%) Go
7 84 (8.41%) PowerShell
8 80 (8.01%) TypeScript
9 31 (3.10%) C++
10 30 (3.00%) Bicep
11 29 (2.90%) Scala
12 21 (2.10%) PHP
13 17 (1.70%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.10%) C
15 9 (0.90%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.80%) Delphi
16 8 (0.80%) Ruby
16 8 (0.80%) Rust
17 6 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 183 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 124 (12.41%) Degree
3 105 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 79 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (7.21%) DV Cleared
6 64 (6.41%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.90%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 14 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.80%) CISSP
11 7 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.40%) CISM
14 4 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.01%) QA
2 39 (3.90%) GDPR
3 37 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (3.10%) PCI DSS
5 30 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 30 (3.00%) Data Quality
6 24 (2.40%) NIST
7 15 (1.50%) SOC 2
8 13 (1.30%) NCSC
9 11 (1.10%) GRC
9 11 (1.10%) JSP 440
9 11 (1.10%) WCAG
10 8 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.40%) EMIR
11 4 (0.40%) SLA
12 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.20%) ECSS
12 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 657 (65.77%) Docker
2 36 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.20%) vSphere
6 7 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.70%) KVM
7 6 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.40%) Lustre
8 4 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Firmware
9 3 (0.30%) iptables
9 3 (0.30%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) Ceph
10 2 (0.20%) GPFS
10 2 (0.20%) RACF
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 637 (63.76%) Kubernetes
2 376 (37.64%) Terraform
3 177 (17.72%) Ansible
4 165 (16.52%) Grafana
5 151 (15.12%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.10%) Argo
7 19 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 18 (1.80%) Puppet
9 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.90%) Control-M
11 9 (0.90%) Istio
12 8 (0.80%) linkerd
12 8 (0.80%) Mesos
12 8 (0.80%) Nagios
13 6 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.50%) Rancher
15 4 (0.40%) Cilium
Vendors
1 96 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 92 (9.21%) Google
3 45 (4.50%) Oracle
4 38 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 36 (3.60%) Splunk
6 35 (3.50%) VMware
7 32 (3.20%) OpenAI
8 27 (2.70%) Typelevel
9 21 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.60%) Databricks
11 15 (1.50%) SAP
12 14 (1.40%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.40%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.40%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.30%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.30%) Cisco
13 13 (1.30%) NVIDIA
13 13 (1.30%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.30%) UiPath
14 11 (1.10%) Dell