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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 154 119
Rank change year-on-year -7 -35 +18
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 902 1,211 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.76% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.10% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 619 772 1,057
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,552 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 45,242 57,727 48,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 83.98% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,567 30,431 37,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 0 833 £72,500 +3.57% 371
UK excluding London -7 434 £65,000 - 305
London +20 400 £85,000 -2.86% 141
Work from Home -9 318 £67,500 -3.57% 215
North of England +5 168 £65,000 +8.33% 62
North West +28 105 £65,000 +8.33% 45
South West -3 91 £60,000 -13.04% 49
Midlands +31 60 £67,500 +3.85% 39
South East -22 58 £75,000 +15.38% 115
West Midlands +30 40 £70,542 +8.53% 27
Yorkshire -24 40 £68,500 +24.55% 11
Scotland -7 30 £70,000 - 17
East of England +18 27 £57,500 -8.00% 14
North East +25 23 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +24 19 £54,500 +31.33% 11
Wales +7 15 £80,000 +23.08% 6
Northern Ireland 0 5 £43,092 -33.35% 4

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 52 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.99%) Apache
4 17 (1.88%) CMS
5 15 (1.66%) IIS
6 13 (1.44%) Apache Solr
7 10 (1.11%) Confluence
8 6 (0.67%) nginx
9 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.44%) Appian
11 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) JBoss
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.55%) Maya
2 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 3 (0.33%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 532 (58.98%) AWS
2 493 (54.66%) Azure
3 231 (25.61%) GCP
4 173 (19.18%) GitHub
5 125 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (13.41%) Serverless
7 116 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (7.87%) Amazon S3
9 68 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (6.65%) SaaS
12 59 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 53 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 48 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (4.43%) OpenShift
16 37 (4.10%) Datadog
17 36 (3.99%) PaaS
18 34 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
19 33 (3.66%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.65%) Firewall
2 31 (3.44%) DNS
3 19 (2.11%) DHCP
4 18 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.00%) VPN
5 17 (1.88%) Network Security
6 16 (1.77%) WAN
7 13 (1.44%) LAN
8 9 (1.00%) IPsec
9 8 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (0.89%) HTTP
9 8 (0.89%) VLAN
10 7 (0.78%) AMQP
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.67%) SAN
11 6 (0.67%) VoIP
11 6 (0.67%) Wireless
12 4 (0.44%) DMZ
12 4 (0.44%) Internet
12 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (11.20%) NoSQL
3 72 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 67 (7.43%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.65%) MySQL
6 50 (5.54%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.10%) DynamoDB
8 44 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (3.55%) Big Data
10 24 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (2.66%) Metadata
11 20 (2.22%) Spark SQL
12 19 (2.11%) Delta Lake
13 14 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.55%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.44%) Hadoop
14 13 (1.44%) Tick Data
15 12 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.22%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 166 (18.40%) Git
2 118 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 94 (10.42%) GitLab
4 32 (3.55%) JIRA
5 31 (3.44%) MLflow
6 22 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.22%) TeamCity
8 17 (1.88%) CircleCI
9 16 (1.77%) JUnit
10 14 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.55%) Selenium
11 13 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (1.22%) JMeter
13 10 (1.11%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.78%) Locust
16 5 (0.55%) Maven
17 4 (0.44%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 277 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 226 (25.06%) Finance
3 92 (10.20%) Law
4 84 (9.31%) Marketing
5 77 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 65 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (5.43%) Telecoms
8 47 (5.21%) Banking
8 47 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.55%) Manufacturing
10 29 (3.22%) Games
11 28 (3.10%) Retail
12 25 (2.77%) Electronics
13 23 (2.55%) Front Office
14 13 (1.44%) Legal
15 11 (1.22%) Advertising
15 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.22%) French Language
16 10 (1.11%) Dutch Language
16 10 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (23.95%) Developer
2 184 (20.40%) Senior
3 129 (14.30%) Lead
4 114 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 100 (11.09%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.65%) Architect
7 58 (6.43%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.66%) Python Engineer
13 40 (4.43%) Lead Developer
14 38 (4.21%) Backend Developer
14 38 (4.21%) Data Engineer
14 38 (4.21%) Software Developer
15 36 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.55%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (15.96%) React
2 133 (14.75%) .NET
3 131 (14.52%) RESTful
4 82 (9.09%) Spring
5 75 (8.31%) Node.js
5 75 (8.31%) Spring Boot
6 71 (7.87%) Kafka
6 71 (7.87%) REST
7 68 (7.54%) FastAPI
8 60 (6.65%) AngularJS
9 57 (6.32%) HTML
10 56 (6.21%) .NET Core
10 56 (6.21%) CSS
11 47 (5.21%) Flask
12 46 (5.10%) PyTorch
13 42 (4.66%) TensorFlow
14 41 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
15 40 (4.43%) Pandas
16 38 (4.21%) YAML
17 37 (4.10%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 217 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 99 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.77%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.55%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.55%) Fixed Income
11 17 (1.88%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.22%) PKI
16 10 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
17 9 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 186 (20.62%) Linux
2 109 (12.08%) Windows
3 50 (5.54%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.99%) Unix
5 30 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.66%) VMS
7 11 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.11%) CentOS
9 8 (0.89%) Debian
9 8 (0.89%) Rocky
10 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.55%) Android
12 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (62.64%) CI/CD
2 468 (51.88%) DevOps
3 312 (34.59%) Agile
4 287 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (28.49%) Microservices
6 243 (26.94%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (24.61%) AI
8 196 (21.73%) Software Engineering
9 155 (17.18%) Mentoring
10 132 (14.63%) Machine Learning
11 126 (13.97%) Test Automation
12 115 (12.75%) Observability
13 112 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (11.20%) Computer Science
16 93 (10.31%) Analytics
17 88 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
18 85 (9.42%) Platform Engineering
19 80 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 76 (8.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 444 (49.22%) Python
2 189 (20.95%) SQL
3 183 (20.29%) Java
4 151 (16.74%) JavaScript
5 140 (15.52%) C#
6 107 (11.86%) Bash
7 97 (10.75%) PowerShell
8 57 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 46 (5.10%) Go
10 29 (3.22%) Bicep
11 20 (2.22%) C++
11 20 (2.22%) PHP
12 12 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.11%) Ruby
14 8 (0.89%) Delphi
14 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.78%) Scala
16 6 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.67%) Rust
17 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 135 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 133 (14.75%) Degree
3 85 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 82 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (7.43%) DV Cleared
6 63 (6.98%) AWS Certification
7 46 (5.10%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.44%) CISSP
11 8 (0.89%) CISM
11 8 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.78%) PhD
12 7 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.67%) ACMT
13 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.87%) QA
2 41 (4.55%) GDPR
3 25 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.33%) NIST
5 16 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.89%) NCSC
9 8 (0.89%) WCAG
10 7 (0.78%) GRC
10 7 (0.78%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.33%) EMIR
14 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.22%) ECSS
14 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 595 (65.96%) Docker
2 51 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.43%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.10%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.33%) vSphere
6 11 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.89%) NFS
8 4 (0.44%) KVM
8 4 (0.44%) Lustre
8 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.44%) vCloud
8 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) Ceph
9 2 (0.22%) GPFS
9 2 (0.22%) RACF
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 573 (63.53%) Kubernetes
2 312 (34.59%) Terraform
3 128 (14.19%) Ansible
4 109 (12.08%) Grafana
5 90 (9.98%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.66%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.22%) Argo
8 11 (1.22%) Control-M
9 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.89%) Puppet
10 8 (0.89%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.67%) Autotask
12 6 (0.67%) SCCM
13 5 (0.55%) SCOM
13 5 (0.55%) WSUS
14 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 119 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.98%) Oracle
3 60 (6.65%) VMware
4 54 (5.99%) Google
5 40 (4.43%) Databricks
6 34 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.44%) SAP
7 31 (3.44%) Splunk
8 26 (2.88%) Cisco
9 20 (2.22%) Dell
9 20 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 18 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 15 (1.66%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.33%) Pure Storage
13 11 (1.22%) Commvault
13 11 (1.22%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (1.00%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.89%) IBM
16 8 (0.89%) Salesforce