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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 118 195
Rank change year-on-year -34 +77 -52
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,296 1,290 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.69% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.96% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 896 659 1,080
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,001 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,250
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.03% -7.31%

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 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 5 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 5 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 -30 1,167 £72,500 -9.38% 541
UK excluding London -42 715 £62,500 -7.41% 355
London -24 473 £80,000 -11.11% 257
Work from Home -36 467 £70,000 -3.45% 276
North of England -36 215 £65,000 - 82
South East +28 181 £66,000 -0.38% 111
South West -8 162 £57,500 -23.33% 73
North West -48 111 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Yorkshire -31 63 £70,466 +2.87% 16
Midlands -80 61 £70,000 +7.69% 43
East of England -22 44 £60,000 -11.11% 8
North East -12 41 £55,000 -12.00% 19
Wales -34 34 £67,500 +8.00% 7
West Midlands -56 34 £70,505 +4.45% 29
East Midlands -56 27 £64,000 +6.67% 14
Northern Ireland -33 18 £62,500 +45.04% 20
Scotland -68 7 £60,000 -25.00% 16

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 35 (2.70%) Apache
2 30 (2.31%) Confluence
3 27 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.69%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.31%) Appian
7 4 (0.31%) IIS
8 3 (0.23%) Camunda
8 3 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.23%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.077%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.077%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.077%) nginx
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.23%) Blender
4 3 (0.23%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
1 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 773 (59.65%) AWS
2 657 (50.69%) Azure
3 340 (26.23%) GCP
4 219 (16.90%) GitHub
5 183 (14.12%) Serverless
6 156 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 155 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (8.26%) OpenShift
10 105 (8.10%) Azure AKS
11 97 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (7.41%) Amazon S3
13 80 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 78 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
15 75 (5.79%) Datadog
16 70 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
17 68 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
17 68 (5.25%) SaaS
18 57 (4.40%) IaaS
19 48 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.63%) Firewall
2 72 (5.56%) Broadband
2 72 (5.56%) DNS
3 41 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 38 (2.93%) Network Security
5 32 (2.47%) VPN
6 23 (1.77%) HTTP
7 22 (1.70%) WAN
8 18 (1.39%) MQTT
9 15 (1.16%) LAN
9 15 (1.16%) VLAN
10 13 (1.00%) BGP
10 13 (1.00%) DMARC
10 13 (1.00%) OSPF
10 13 (1.00%) VXLAN
11 11 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (0.62%) AMQP
12 8 (0.62%) IPv4
12 8 (0.62%) Wireshark
13 7 (0.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 126 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.10%) MongoDB
4 65 (5.02%) Relational Database
5 57 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.40%) MySQL
6 50 (3.86%) SQL Server
7 48 (3.70%) DynamoDB
8 37 (2.85%) Redis
9 29 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.62%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.23%) Pinecone
13 14 (1.08%) Big Data
14 11 (0.85%) Metadata
15 10 (0.77%) DTS
15 10 (0.77%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.69%) Db2
16 9 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 228 (17.59%) Git
2 199 (15.35%) Jenkins
3 177 (13.66%) GitLab
4 44 (3.40%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.09%) JIRA
6 29 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.39%) JUnit
9 17 (1.31%) Maven
10 16 (1.23%) Mockito
10 16 (1.23%) Selenium
10 16 (1.23%) Vite
11 15 (1.16%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.08%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.93%) Jaeger
14 11 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.85%) MLflow
15 9 (0.69%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.69%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 360 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 256 (19.75%) Finance
3 112 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.17%) Banking
6 77 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (5.56%) Law
8 42 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.08%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.39%) Retail
12 16 (1.23%) Games
12 16 (1.23%) Legal
12 16 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.93%) Front Office
15 10 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.69%) Billing
16 9 (0.69%) Electronics
16 9 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (21.45%) Senior
2 255 (19.68%) Developer
3 184 (14.20%) Software Engineer
4 180 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 171 (13.19%) Lead
6 135 (10.42%) Architect
7 128 (9.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.48%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
10 68 (5.25%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
12 55 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 53 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 50 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
16 44 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
18 36 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
19 34 (2.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (13.73%) React
2 175 (13.50%) RESTful
3 163 (12.58%) Spring
4 157 (12.11%) Spring Boot
5 148 (11.42%) .NET
6 140 (10.80%) Node.js
7 126 (9.72%) Kafka
8 125 (9.65%) REST
9 82 (6.33%) AngularJS
10 80 (6.17%) gRPC
11 74 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
12 63 (4.86%) OAuth
13 62 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
14 49 (3.78%) .NET Core
15 45 (3.47%) JSON
15 45 (3.47%) OAuth2
16 41 (3.16%) YAML
17 40 (3.09%) FastAPI
18 37 (2.85%) Vue
19 36 (2.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 346 (26.70%) Cloud Native
2 165 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.47%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 32 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 31 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.77%) Blockchain
10 23 (1.77%) PKI
11 20 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.47%) Web3
13 18 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 258 (19.91%) Linux
2 91 (7.02%) Windows
3 35 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 35 (2.70%) Unix
3 35 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.62%) CentOS
5 21 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.77%) Debian
7 4 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.31%) VMS
8 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Android
8 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.15%) Rocky
9 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (68.13%) CI/CD
2 634 (48.92%) DevOps
3 582 (44.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 497 (38.35%) Agile
5 423 (32.64%) Microservices
6 411 (31.71%) Software Engineering
7 340 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (20.60%) Mentoring
9 260 (20.06%) Test Automation
10 256 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (19.14%) Observability
12 224 (17.28%) AI
13 179 (13.81%) Event-Driven
14 173 (13.35%) Platform Engineering
15 172 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
16 143 (11.03%) Clean Code
17 140 (10.80%) Continuous Delivery
18 138 (10.65%) Machine Learning
19 136 (10.49%) High Availability
20 125 (9.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 614 (47.38%) Python
2 327 (25.23%) Java
3 243 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 190 (14.66%) Bash
5 175 (13.50%) SQL
6 156 (12.04%) C#
7 152 (11.73%) TypeScript
8 146 (11.27%) PowerShell
9 141 (10.88%) Go
10 53 (4.09%) Scala
11 52 (4.01%) Bicep
12 44 (3.40%) C++
13 31 (2.39%) Ruby
14 29 (2.24%) Rust
15 26 (2.01%) PHP
16 23 (1.77%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.39%) Groovy
18 14 (1.08%) C
19 9 (0.69%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 314 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 163 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 136 (10.49%) Degree
4 102 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 77 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.48%) Azure Certification
7 51 (3.94%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.23%) CISSP
11 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.62%) CCNA
14 8 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.62%) OSCP
14 8 (0.62%) RHCE
14 8 (0.62%) RHCSA
15 7 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.26%) QA
2 37 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.62%) GDPR
3 34 (2.62%) PCI DSS
4 28 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.93%) GRC
6 25 (1.93%) NIST
7 17 (1.31%) WCAG
8 15 (1.16%) NCSC
9 14 (1.08%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.85%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.077%) DO-178B
15 1 (0.077%) SLA
System Software
1 773 (59.65%) Docker
2 40 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.55%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.77%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.77%) vSphere
6 9 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.62%) Squid
8 7 (0.54%) Firmware
8 7 (0.54%) KVM
9 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.31%) iptables
11 3 (0.23%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.077%) QEMU
12 1 (0.077%) Xen
Systems Management
1 769 (59.34%) Kubernetes
2 504 (38.89%) Terraform
3 212 (16.36%) Ansible
4 171 (13.19%) Grafana
5 153 (11.81%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.24%) Argo
7 32 (2.47%) Puppet
8 26 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.77%) Istio
10 20 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.39%) Nagios
12 17 (1.31%) Podman
13 13 (1.00%) Kibana
13 13 (1.00%) Packer
14 12 (0.93%) Kustomize
14 12 (0.93%) linkerd
15 11 (0.85%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.77%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 151 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.41%) Google
3 63 (4.86%) Red Hat
4 50 (3.86%) Splunk
5 45 (3.47%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.16%) VMware
7 36 (2.78%) Oracle
8 27 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.01%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.47%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.39%) Cisco
12 16 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.00%) SendGrid
13 13 (1.00%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.93%) IBM
15 11 (0.85%) Databricks
15 11 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.85%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.77%) Confluent
16 10 (0.77%) NVIDIA