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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 118 187
Rank change year-on-year -34 +69 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,415 1,274 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.57% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.87% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 926 640 821
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,744 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,148 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 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 August 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 1,249 £72,500 -6.45% 889
UK excluding London -14 842 £65,000 - 448
Work from Home -34 506 £70,000 - 415
London -33 485 £80,000 -11.11% 529
North of England -31 231 £65,000 - 123
South East +26 198 £65,000 -3.70% 107
South West +16 194 £61,500 -18.00% 87
North West -38 122 £74,651 +24.42% 75
Midlands -74 77 £70,000 +7.69% 43
Yorkshire -16 57 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Northern Ireland -24 56 £73,801 +71.27% 22
North East -11 52 £55,000 -15.38% 25
West Midlands -57 50 £72,500 +7.41% 32
East of England -29 45 £60,000 +2.56% 16
Wales -32 45 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East Midlands -54 27 £62,500 +13.64% 11
Scotland -63 6 £59,283 -15.31% 35

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 45 (3.18%) Apache
2 35 (2.47%) Confluence
3 32 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.071%) JBoss
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 823 (58.16%) AWS
2 735 (51.94%) Azure
3 350 (24.73%) GCP
4 220 (15.55%) GitHub
5 181 (12.79%) Serverless
6 171 (12.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 145 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (7.99%) OpenShift
10 99 (7.00%) Azure AKS
11 96 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.64%) Amazon S3
12 94 (6.64%) Cloud Computing
13 92 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
14 83 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
17 67 (4.73%) Datadog
18 61 (4.31%) SaaS
19 56 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.95%) Firewall
1 70 (4.95%) WAN
2 65 (4.59%) DNS
3 63 (4.45%) LAN
4 52 (3.67%) Broadband
5 46 (3.25%) Network Security
6 39 (2.76%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.54%) VPN
8 22 (1.55%) MQTT
9 19 (1.34%) BGP
10 18 (1.27%) OSPF
11 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.13%) VLAN
13 13 (0.92%) DMARC
14 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 11 (0.78%) HTTP
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) IPv4
17 8 (0.57%) LTE
18 7 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (7.84%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.02%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.03%) MySQL
6 51 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.46%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.18%) Redis
9 39 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.99%) Big Data
13 13 (0.92%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.78%) DTS
15 11 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
16 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.71%) Db2
16 10 (0.71%) Power BI
17 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 270 (19.08%) Git
2 211 (14.91%) Jenkins
3 188 (13.29%) GitLab
4 43 (3.04%) JIRA
5 34 (2.40%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.91%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.91%) JUnit
8 22 (1.55%) Maven
9 20 (1.41%) Mockito
10 18 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.20%) Selenium
12 16 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 15 (1.06%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.85%) Vite
15 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.71%) Postman
17 9 (0.64%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.57%) JMeter
18 8 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 440 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 333 (23.53%) Finance
3 134 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 112 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (7.56%) Law
6 103 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (6.22%) Banking
8 64 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.98%) Legal
10 28 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.77%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.41%) Retail
13 18 (1.27%) Games
14 14 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (0.99%) Marketing
15 12 (0.85%) Electronics
15 12 (0.85%) Front Office
16 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 265 (18.73%) Senior
2 259 (18.30%) Developer
3 212 (14.98%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 196 (13.85%) Architect
6 181 (12.79%) Lead
7 122 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 68 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
10 67 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (4.66%) Java Developer
12 63 (4.45%) Systems Architect
13 52 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 51 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
14 51 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 48 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
17 42 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
18 41 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (13.50%) Spring
2 187 (13.22%) RESTful
3 182 (12.86%) React
4 176 (12.44%) Spring Boot
5 145 (10.25%) Kafka
6 143 (10.11%) Node.js
7 142 (10.04%) .NET
8 124 (8.76%) REST
9 81 (5.72%) AngularJS
10 80 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
11 63 (4.45%) gRPC
12 57 (4.03%) OAuth
13 51 (3.60%) CSS
13 51 (3.60%) JSON
14 46 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (3.18%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.04%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.97%) YAML
18 41 (2.90%) HTML
19 39 (2.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 369 (26.08%) Cloud Native
2 181 (12.79%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.54%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
6 35 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (2.05%) AI Agents
9 29 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.77%) Algorithms
11 24 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.41%) Blog
13 20 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.41%) PKI
14 19 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 278 (19.65%) Linux
2 93 (6.57%) Windows
3 35 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.26%) CentOS
5 31 (2.19%) Unix
6 24 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) Debian
9 7 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (67.14%) CI/CD
2 685 (48.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 681 (48.13%) DevOps
4 510 (36.04%) Agile
5 454 (32.08%) Software Engineering
6 432 (30.53%) Microservices
7 350 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
8 280 (19.79%) Observability
9 274 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 274 (19.36%) Test Automation
10 272 (19.22%) Mentoring
11 260 (18.37%) AI
12 211 (14.91%) Event-Driven
13 199 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
14 178 (12.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 166 (11.73%) Roadmaps
16 147 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
17 146 (10.32%) Clean Code
18 145 (10.25%) Machine Learning
18 145 (10.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 650 (45.94%) Python
2 361 (25.51%) Java
3 246 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 178 (12.58%) Bash
5 172 (12.16%) SQL
6 157 (11.10%) TypeScript
7 154 (10.88%) C#
8 138 (9.75%) PowerShell
9 125 (8.83%) Go
10 59 (4.17%) Bicep
11 52 (3.67%) C++
12 49 (3.46%) Scala
13 41 (2.90%) Ruby
14 30 (2.12%) Rust
15 22 (1.55%) PHP
16 21 (1.48%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.27%) Groovy
18 13 (0.92%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 391 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 204 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 163 (11.52%) Degree
4 145 (10.25%) DV Cleared
5 89 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 54 (3.82%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.55%) CISSP
10 19 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.57%) OSCP
16 8 (0.57%) RHCE
16 8 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.76%) QA
2 68 (4.81%) GRC
3 52 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.98%) GDPR
6 25 (1.77%) NIST
6 25 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.63%) WCAG
8 21 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.48%) NCSC
9 11 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.071%) SLA
14 1 (0.071%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 823 (58.16%) Docker
2 45 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.71%) KVM
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Squid
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) iptables
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 1 (0.071%) Lustre
11 1 (0.071%) QEMU
11 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 814 (57.53%) Kubernetes
2 536 (37.88%) Terraform
3 207 (14.63%) Ansible
4 163 (11.52%) Grafana
5 133 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.40%) Argo
7 32 (2.26%) Puppet
8 29 (2.05%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.70%) Istio
10 20 (1.41%) Nagios
11 17 (1.20%) Podman
12 16 (1.13%) Kibana
12 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.92%) linkerd
15 11 (0.78%) Packer
15 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.49%) logstash
17 6 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 200 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.01%) Google
3 65 (4.59%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.82%) Splunk
5 51 (3.60%) Oracle
6 48 (3.39%) VMware
7 36 (2.54%) Typelevel
8 27 (1.91%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 20 (1.41%) Cisco
11 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
11 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.06%) IBM
13 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
14 11 (0.78%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.71%) Confluent
16 9 (0.64%) Databricks