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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 134 155
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -33
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,468 1,180 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.38% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.67% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 913 589 742
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,732 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,630
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -24 1,277 £72,500 -3.33% 1,644
UK excluding London -8 908 £67,500 +3.85% 838
Work from Home -44 453 £69,653 +3.19% 710
London -37 452 £80,000 -5.88% 939
North of England -13 268 £65,788 +1.21% 200
South West +4 214 £70,000 +7.69% 133
South East -4 170 £66,250 -8.62% 196
North West -39 144 £75,000 +15.38% 103
Midlands -56 94 £70,000 - 85
North East -13 75 £60,000 - 38
Northern Ireland -30 59 - - 34
West Midlands -60 57 £82,500 +17.86% 56
East of England -36 52 £72,500 +26.09% 72
Wales -33 51 £62,000 -14.48% 25
Yorkshire -19 49 £70,466 +3.63% 61
East Midlands -45 37 £70,000 +27.27% 29
Scotland -56 11 £90,000 +28.57% 94

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 57 (3.88%) Apache
2 44 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 39 (2.66%) Confluence
4 31 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) JBoss
12 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Blender
4 3 (0.20%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 838 (57.08%) AWS
2 770 (52.45%) Azure
3 341 (23.23%) GCP
4 243 (16.55%) GitHub
5 173 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 173 (11.78%) GitHub Actions
6 144 (9.81%) Serverless
7 124 (8.45%) Cloud Computing
8 117 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (7.15%) OpenShift
10 92 (6.27%) Azure AKS
11 86 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
12 84 (5.72%) Amazon S3
13 75 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
15 72 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
16 54 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
17 53 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
18 51 (3.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.04%) WAN
2 68 (4.63%) Firewall
3 67 (4.56%) LAN
4 60 (4.09%) DNS
5 52 (3.54%) Network Security
6 44 (3.00%) VPN
7 39 (2.66%) Internet
8 34 (2.32%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.04%) MQTT
10 19 (1.29%) BGP
11 18 (1.23%) OSPF
12 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.09%) VLAN
14 15 (1.02%) DMARC
15 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 9 (0.61%) Broadband
16 9 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.54%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.54%) HTTP
17 8 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.20%) NoSQL
3 73 (4.97%) MongoDB
4 64 (4.36%) MySQL
5 47 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 40 (2.72%) Redis
8 38 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (1.91%) SQL Server
11 21 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (1.36%) Big Data
13 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.02%) Metadata
15 14 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (0.95%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.95%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
17 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 318 (21.66%) Git
2 207 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 185 (12.60%) GitLab
4 37 (2.52%) JIRA
5 28 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.70%) JUnit
7 23 (1.57%) Maven
8 21 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 20 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.23%) Mockito
10 18 (1.23%) Selenium
11 17 (1.16%) Claude Code
12 15 (1.02%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.75%) MLflow
15 10 (0.68%) Vite
16 9 (0.61%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.54%) TestRail
General
1 468 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 344 (23.43%) Finance
3 199 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 131 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.06%) Law
7 87 (5.93%) Banking
8 71 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.79%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.32%) Legal
11 31 (2.11%) Retail
12 28 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.36%) Games
14 15 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.95%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Publishing
17 11 (0.75%) Electronics
17 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.75%) Front Office
18 9 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (20.64%) Senior
2 256 (17.44%) Developer
3 254 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 230 (15.67%) Architect
5 218 (14.85%) Software Engineer
6 179 (12.19%) Lead
7 102 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 67 (4.56%) Systems Architect
12 61 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 51 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
17 44 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
18 43 (2.93%) Software Developer
18 43 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
19 41 (2.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (36.65%) Terraform
2 217 (14.78%) Spring
3 207 (14.10%) RESTful
4 204 (13.90%) Spring Boot
5 184 (12.53%) React
6 156 (10.63%) Kafka
7 150 (10.22%) Node.js
8 130 (8.86%) REST
9 115 (7.83%) .NET
10 84 (5.72%) RabbitMQ
11 67 (4.56%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.68%) OAuth
13 52 (3.54%) FastAPI
14 50 (3.41%) CSS
15 47 (3.20%) OpenAPI
16 43 (2.93%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.86%) Swagger
18 39 (2.66%) LangChain
18 39 (2.66%) Middleware
19 37 (2.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 425 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 166 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 53 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
6 43 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (2.04%) Public Cloud
11 30 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.84%) PKI
13 26 (1.77%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.70%) Blog
15 22 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (1.43%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 339 (23.09%) Linux
2 86 (5.86%) Windows
3 44 (3.00%) Unix
4 34 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.98%) CentOS
6 20 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.29%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.82%) Debian
9 8 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.27%) Rocky
11 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.20%) VMS
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (68.19%) CI/CD
2 757 (51.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 753 (51.29%) DevOps
4 522 (35.56%) Agile
5 460 (31.34%) Software Engineering
6 416 (28.34%) Microservices
7 359 (24.46%) Mentoring
8 332 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 304 (20.71%) Observability
10 302 (20.57%) AI
11 295 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 268 (18.26%) Test Automation
13 262 (17.85%) Platform Engineering
14 254 (17.30%) Event-Driven
15 210 (14.31%) Roadmaps
16 182 (12.40%) DevSecOps
17 176 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
18 172 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 152 (10.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 151 (10.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 643 (43.80%) Python
2 402 (27.38%) Java
3 207 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 191 (13.01%) Bash
5 168 (11.44%) TypeScript
6 167 (11.38%) SQL
7 133 (9.06%) C#
8 123 (8.38%) PowerShell
9 87 (5.93%) Go
10 62 (4.22%) Bicep
10 62 (4.22%) C++
11 48 (3.27%) Shell Script
12 37 (2.52%) Ruby
13 36 (2.45%) Rust
14 19 (1.29%) Groovy
15 16 (1.09%) Scala
16 15 (1.02%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.95%) C
17 14 (0.95%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 469 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 236 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.40%) DV Cleared
4 166 (11.31%) Degree
5 101 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (4.63%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.84%) CISSP
9 26 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.89%) CCNP
13 12 (0.82%) OSCP
14 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.61%) CISM
15 9 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.45%) QA
2 72 (4.90%) GRC
3 56 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.11%) NCSC
6 30 (2.04%) GDPR
7 28 (1.91%) NIST
8 22 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 830 (56.54%) Docker
2 44 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.54%) KVM
6 7 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.34%) NDS
8 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.14%) Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) QEMU
10 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 833 (56.74%) Kubernetes
2 217 (14.78%) Ansible
3 144 (9.81%) Grafana
4 118 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.72%) Argo
5 40 (2.72%) Puppet
6 33 (2.25%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.43%) Istio
8 16 (1.09%) linkerd
9 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.95%) Kibana
11 13 (0.89%) Nagios
12 12 (0.82%) Podman
13 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.68%) Packer
14 10 (0.68%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.54%) logstash
15 8 (0.54%) Rancher
16 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 270 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.31%) Google
3 63 (4.29%) Splunk
4 50 (3.41%) Red Hat
4 50 (3.41%) VMware
5 48 (3.27%) Oracle
6 26 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.02%) SendGrid
10 13 (0.89%) IBM
11 12 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.82%) Databricks
12 11 (0.75%) Mistral
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.61%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.61%) Rapid7