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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 131 163
Rank change year-on-year -31 +32 -39
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,420 1,190 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.41% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.72% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 896 590 775
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,313 £95,000
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 1,243 £72,500 -3.33% 1,690
UK excluding London -19 879 £67,500 +3.85% 907
London -46 447 £80,000 -5.88% 962
Work from Home -50 440 £68,724 -0.78% 735
North of England -31 253 £66,000 +1.54% 240
South West +9 207 £67,500 -1.50% 148
South East -4 173 £66,250 -8.62% 177
North West -42 136 £75,000 +15.38% 129
Midlands -69 89 £70,000 +1.82% 94
North East -7 68 £60,000 - 40
Northern Ireland -33 59 - - 36
West Midlands -60 55 £72,500 +3.57% 58
Wales -33 52 £60,000 -17.24% 18
Yorkshire -28 49 £72,500 +9.02% 72
East of England -39 49 £60,000 +3.45% 74
East Midlands -53 34 £65,000 +18.18% 36
Scotland -55 9 £90,000 +28.57% 123

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 53 (3.73%) Apache
2 42 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.61%) Confluence
4 28 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.35%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Camunda
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.070%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.070%) JBoss
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 809 (56.97%) AWS
2 735 (51.76%) Azure
3 325 (22.89%) GCP
4 227 (15.99%) GitHub
5 169 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 162 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
7 155 (10.92%) Serverless
8 115 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (7.39%) Cloud Computing
10 102 (7.18%) OpenShift
11 98 (6.90%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.85%) Amazon S3
14 78 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
15 74 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
15 74 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
19 50 (3.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.28%) WAN
2 68 (4.79%) LAN
3 63 (4.44%) Firewall
4 61 (4.30%) DNS
5 48 (3.38%) Network Security
6 39 (2.75%) VPN
7 33 (2.32%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.76%) MQTT
9 20 (1.41%) Internet
10 19 (1.34%) BGP
11 18 (1.27%) Broadband
11 18 (1.27%) OSPF
12 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.13%) VLAN
14 14 (0.99%) DMARC
15 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.56%) AMQP
17 8 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 68 (4.79%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.15%) MySQL
5 47 (3.31%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (2.68%) Redis
9 30 (2.11%) SQL Server
10 28 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.27%) Big Data
13 16 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.06%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
15 14 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
16 13 (0.92%) Metadata
17 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.77%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 294 (20.70%) Git
2 212 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 169 (11.90%) GitLab
4 37 (2.61%) JIRA
5 28 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.76%) Maven
7 24 (1.69%) JUnit
8 23 (1.62%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.34%) Selenium
11 17 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (1.20%) Mockito
12 16 (1.13%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.99%) Claude Code
13 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.77%) Vite
15 9 (0.63%) Gatling
15 9 (0.63%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.63%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 442 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 331 (23.31%) Finance
3 180 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.76%) Law
6 85 (5.99%) Banking
7 69 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (2.82%) Aerospace
9 32 (2.25%) Legal
10 28 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.83%) Retail
12 21 (1.48%) Games
13 14 (0.99%) Marketing
14 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.85%) Electronics
16 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.70%) Front Office
17 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 277 (19.51%) Senior
2 248 (17.46%) Developer
3 225 (15.85%) Architect
4 219 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 205 (14.44%) Software Engineer
6 176 (12.39%) Lead
7 110 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (4.86%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.72%) Systems Architect
11 64 (4.51%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 43 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.89%) Lead DevOps
16 41 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (2.89%) Software Developer
17 40 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (37.82%) Terraform
2 204 (14.37%) Spring
3 198 (13.94%) RESTful
4 190 (13.38%) Spring Boot
5 184 (12.96%) React
6 151 (10.63%) Node.js
7 145 (10.21%) Kafka
8 125 (8.80%) REST
9 121 (8.52%) .NET
10 81 (5.70%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (5.00%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.80%) OAuth
13 53 (3.73%) CSS
14 45 (3.17%) FastAPI
15 44 (3.10%) OAuth2
16 40 (2.82%) HTML
17 39 (2.75%) OpenAPI
18 38 (2.68%) LangChain
19 35 (2.46%) .NET Core
19 35 (2.46%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 398 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 171 (12.04%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 34 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 33 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
10 29 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 29 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (2.04%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.90%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.76%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.76%) PKI
13 24 (1.69%) Blog
14 20 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.34%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 312 (21.97%) Linux
2 91 (6.41%) Windows
3 40 (2.82%) Unix
4 35 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.11%) CentOS
6 22 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.85%) Debian
9 8 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.070%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (67.25%) CI/CD
2 727 (51.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 701 (49.37%) DevOps
4 501 (35.28%) Agile
5 444 (31.27%) Software Engineering
6 402 (28.31%) Microservices
7 325 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (21.20%) Mentoring
9 292 (20.56%) Observability
10 276 (19.44%) AI
11 271 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 267 (18.80%) Test Automation
13 236 (16.62%) Event-Driven
14 233 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
15 192 (13.52%) Roadmaps
16 165 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
17 154 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 152 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
19 148 (10.42%) DevSecOps
20 139 (9.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 633 (44.58%) Python
2 380 (26.76%) Java
3 218 (15.35%) JavaScript
4 185 (13.03%) Bash
5 166 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 164 (11.55%) SQL
7 139 (9.79%) C#
8 129 (9.08%) PowerShell
9 90 (6.34%) Go
10 60 (4.23%) Bicep
11 58 (4.08%) C++
12 37 (2.61%) Ruby
13 35 (2.46%) Rust
14 28 (1.97%) Shell Script
15 26 (1.83%) Scala
16 23 (1.62%) Groovy
17 16 (1.13%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.06%) C
18 15 (1.06%) PHP
18 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 460 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 226 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 179 (12.61%) DV Cleared
4 160 (11.27%) Degree
5 93 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 55 (3.87%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.76%) CISSP
11 13 (0.92%) CCNP
12 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.77%) OSCP
13 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.52%) QA
2 71 (5.00%) GRC
3 57 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.04%) NCSC
6 24 (1.69%) NIST
7 23 (1.62%) GDPR
8 19 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.34%) WCAG
9 18 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.63%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.28%) SLA
15 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.070%) RMADS
System Software
1 794 (55.92%) Docker
2 48 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.63%) KVM
7 8 (0.56%) Squid
7 8 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.56%) vSphere
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.35%) NDS
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.21%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 814 (57.32%) Kubernetes
2 219 (15.42%) Ansible
3 138 (9.72%) Grafana
4 114 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.82%) Puppet
6 39 (2.75%) Argo
7 34 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.55%) Istio
9 16 (1.13%) linkerd
10 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.06%) Kibana
11 14 (0.99%) Nagios
12 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.85%) Podman
14 11 (0.77%) Packer
14 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.63%) logstash
16 7 (0.49%) Rancher
17 6 (0.42%) Mesos
17 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 242 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.18%) Google
3 57 (4.01%) Splunk
4 54 (3.80%) VMware
5 53 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 51 (3.59%) Oracle
7 26 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
9 17 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.13%) IBM
11 14 (0.99%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.85%) Mistral
13 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.77%) Cisco
13 11 (0.77%) Databricks
14 10 (0.70%) Okta
15 9 (0.63%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.63%) Typelevel