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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 112 191
Rank change year-on-year -53 +79 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,125 1,236 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.84% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 3.04% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 731 685 1,104
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £105,000
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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15 May 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 May 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 -41 1,026 £72,500 -6.22% 446
UK excluding London -73 567 £62,500 -7.41% 291
London -14 461 £82,500 -8.33% 188
Work from Home -40 407 £70,932 +2.87% 205
North of England -65 170 £65,000 -3.04% 78
South East +3 149 £70,000 +9.80% 87
South West -10 124 £55,000 -23.60% 62
North West -52 85 £70,000 +7.69% 39
Midlands -93 59 £70,000 +16.67% 29
Yorkshire -65 56 £65,000 -6.14% 19
East of England -32 34 £60,000 -7.69% 17
West Midlands -67 31 £70,932 +9.13% 16
North East -20 29 £50,000 -24.26% 20
East Midlands -55 27 £64,500 +7.50% 13
Wales -17 21 £58,750 -2.08% 5
Scotland -72 12 £60,000 -19.46% 12
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 2

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 28 (2.49%) Apache
2 24 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.33%) Confluence
5 14 (1.24%) Appian
6 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) IIS
7 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.089%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.089%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.089%) Endur
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 655 (58.22%) AWS
2 578 (51.38%) Azure
3 318 (28.27%) GCP
4 191 (16.98%) GitHub
5 166 (14.76%) Serverless
6 137 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
7 125 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 100 (8.89%) Azure AKS
10 91 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (7.82%) OpenShift
12 86 (7.64%) Datadog
13 84 (7.47%) Amazon S3
14 68 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 63 (5.60%) SaaS
16 61 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
17 47 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
19 45 (4.00%) IaaS
20 38 (3.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.76%) Broadband
2 72 (6.40%) Firewall
3 57 (5.07%) DNS
4 31 (2.76%) Network Security
5 30 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 25 (2.22%) HTTP
7 17 (1.51%) VPN
8 9 (0.80%) MQTT
8 9 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.71%) AMQP
10 7 (0.62%) DMZ
11 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.53%) DHCP
12 5 (0.44%) IPv4
12 5 (0.44%) WAN
13 4 (0.36%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.27%) Modbus
14 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.27%) VLAN
14 3 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (13.24%) NoSQL
2 95 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (6.58%) MongoDB
3 74 (6.58%) SQL Server
4 70 (6.22%) Relational Database
5 62 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
6 49 (4.36%) MySQL
7 44 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 31 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (2.76%) RDBMS
9 26 (2.31%) Pinecone
9 26 (2.31%) Redis
10 12 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.98%) Big Data
12 10 (0.89%) InfluxDB
12 10 (0.89%) Metadata
13 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 204 (18.13%) Git
2 168 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 143 (12.71%) GitLab
4 47 (4.18%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.02%) JIRA
6 25 (2.22%) JUnit
7 24 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 20 (1.78%) Mockito
10 19 (1.69%) Maven
10 19 (1.69%) MLflow
11 18 (1.60%) Jaeger
12 16 (1.42%) Vite
13 15 (1.33%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.24%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.98%) Selenium
16 10 (0.89%) JMeter
17 9 (0.80%) Robot Framework
18 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 307 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 235 (20.89%) Finance
3 88 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.58%) Banking
6 64 (5.69%) Law
7 60 (5.33%) Telecoms
8 59 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.78%) Games
12 17 (1.51%) Front Office
12 17 (1.51%) Retail
13 14 (1.24%) Billing
13 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.07%) Marketing
15 11 (0.98%) Legal
16 9 (0.80%) Electronics
17 8 (0.71%) Advertising
17 8 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 264 (23.47%) Senior
2 241 (21.42%) Developer
3 159 (14.13%) Software Engineer
4 142 (12.62%) Lead
5 133 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 106 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 79 (7.02%) Architect
8 68 (6.04%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.42%) Java Developer
11 54 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 44 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 43 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
14 41 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (2.67%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (2.67%) Software Developer
18 28 (2.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (14.93%) React
2 158 (14.04%) RESTful
3 152 (13.51%) .NET
4 126 (11.20%) REST
5 122 (10.84%) Spring
6 111 (9.87%) Spring Boot
7 107 (9.51%) Kafka
8 102 (9.07%) Node.js
9 89 (7.91%) gRPC
10 71 (6.31%) AngularJS
11 64 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (5.33%) .NET Core
12 60 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
13 56 (4.98%) OAuth
14 44 (3.91%) FastAPI
15 36 (3.20%) JSON
16 34 (3.02%) Django
16 34 (3.02%) JWT
16 34 (3.02%) Vue
17 33 (2.93%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 263 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 147 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 33 (2.93%) Blockchain
5 33 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.58%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.13%) PKI
10 22 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.87%) Web3
12 20 (1.78%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.42%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 226 (20.09%) Linux
2 80 (7.11%) Windows
3 39 (3.47%) Ubuntu
4 38 (3.38%) Unix
5 31 (2.76%) CentOS
6 27 (2.40%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.80%) Android
8 9 (0.80%) Debian
8 9 (0.80%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.089%) Rocky
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (67.73%) CI/CD
2 546 (48.53%) DevOps
3 453 (40.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 435 (38.67%) Agile
5 382 (33.96%) Microservices
6 340 (30.22%) Software Engineering
7 297 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (20.18%) AI
10 219 (19.47%) Test Automation
11 217 (19.29%) Mentoring
12 196 (17.42%) Observability
13 156 (13.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 153 (13.60%) Machine Learning
15 143 (12.71%) High Availability
16 129 (11.47%) Continuous Delivery
16 129 (11.47%) Continuous Integration
17 126 (11.20%) Clean Code
18 120 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
19 119 (10.58%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 526 (46.76%) Python
2 269 (23.91%) Java
3 229 (20.36%) JavaScript
4 200 (17.78%) SQL
5 170 (15.11%) Bash
6 151 (13.42%) Go
7 134 (11.91%) C#
8 122 (10.84%) PowerShell
9 121 (10.76%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.36%) Scala
11 34 (3.02%) Bicep
12 33 (2.93%) C++
13 25 (2.22%) PHP
14 20 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 20 (1.78%) Rust
15 16 (1.42%) C
16 13 (1.16%) Ruby
17 12 (1.07%) Groovy
18 10 (0.89%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 227 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 117 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 116 (10.31%) Degree
4 79 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 69 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (4.80%) AWS Certification
7 52 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.80%) CISSP
12 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.62%) OSCP
14 6 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.73%) QA
2 37 (3.29%) GDPR
3 33 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 30 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 28 (2.49%) Data Quality
7 25 (2.22%) NIST
8 18 (1.60%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.16%) JSP 440
10 12 (1.07%) NCSC
11 11 (0.98%) GRC
12 7 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 7 (0.62%) WCAG
13 4 (0.36%) SLA
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 710 (63.11%) Docker
2 37 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.71%) KVM
5 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.71%) vSphere
6 6 (0.53%) Firmware
7 5 (0.44%) Squid
8 4 (0.36%) iptables
9 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) Lustre
10 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.089%) QEMU
11 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 679 (60.36%) Kubernetes
2 429 (38.13%) Terraform
3 189 (16.80%) Ansible
4 156 (13.87%) Grafana
5 146 (12.98%) Prometheus
6 39 (3.47%) Argo
7 26 (2.31%) Puppet
8 21 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.60%) Istio
9 18 (1.60%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.51%) Podman
11 16 (1.42%) Nagios
12 14 (1.24%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.89%) Kibana
14 9 (0.80%) Packer
15 8 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.62%) linkerd
16 7 (0.62%) Mesos
17 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
17 5 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.33%) Google
3 56 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.00%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.64%) Splunk
6 34 (3.02%) OpenAI
7 33 (2.93%) Oracle
8 30 (2.67%) VMware
9 25 (2.22%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.51%) NVIDIA
11 15 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.24%) Cisco
13 12 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
13 12 (1.07%) UiPath
14 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.98%) Databricks
14 11 (0.98%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.89%) Confluent
16 7 (0.62%) Rapid7
16 7 (0.62%) Zscaler