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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 116 191
Rank change year-on-year -47 +75 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,163 1,223 1,459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.85% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 3.06% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 761 639 1,107
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,577 £45,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -42 1,064 £72,500 -6.45% 376
UK excluding London -56 599 £62,500 -7.41% 276
London -13 469 £82,500 -8.33% 151
Work from Home -32 431 £70,932 -1.47% 193
North of England -59 184 £65,000 -3.70% 80
South East +13 159 £70,000 +7.69% 75
South West -12 132 £55,000 -23.60% 59
North West -47 90 £70,000 +10.06% 43
Yorkshire -52 61 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Midlands -97 59 £70,000 +16.67% 17
East of England -28 35 £60,050 -11.04% 15
North East -20 33 £55,000 -17.96% 20
West Midlands -67 31 £70,079 +7.81% 9
East Midlands -56 28 £64,000 +6.67% 8
Wales -22 20 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Scotland -73 11 £60,000 -29.41% 15
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 11

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 30 (2.58%) Apache
2 23 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.46%) Confluence
5 12 (1.03%) Appian
6 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.52%) IIS
7 6 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.26%) Camunda
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.086%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.086%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.086%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.086%) nginx
11 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.69%) Maya
2 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.086%) Blender
5 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (0.26%) Shopify
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.086%) Endur
4 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 687 (59.07%) AWS
2 590 (50.73%) Azure
3 321 (27.60%) GCP
4 194 (16.68%) GitHub
5 171 (14.70%) Serverless
6 138 (11.87%) GitHub Actions
7 130 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 126 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (8.86%) Azure AKS
10 96 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (7.91%) Amazon S3
12 90 (7.74%) OpenShift
13 84 (7.22%) Datadog
14 76 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (5.50%) SaaS
17 49 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
17 49 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
18 47 (4.04%) IaaS
19 38 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.53%) Broadband
2 72 (6.19%) Firewall
3 61 (5.25%) DNS
4 32 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.67%) Network Security
6 24 (2.06%) HTTP
7 18 (1.55%) VPN
8 11 (0.95%) MQTT
8 11 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.69%) AMQP
10 7 (0.60%) IPv4
11 6 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.52%) DHCP
11 6 (0.52%) DMZ
12 5 (0.43%) VLAN
12 5 (0.43%) WAN
12 5 (0.43%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.34%) BGP
13 4 (0.34%) OSPF
13 4 (0.34%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (12.38%) NoSQL
2 99 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (6.36%) MongoDB
4 73 (6.28%) Relational Database
5 71 (6.10%) SQL Server
6 62 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.39%) MySQL
8 48 (4.13%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.67%) RDBMS
10 29 (2.49%) Redis
11 24 (2.06%) Pinecone
12 13 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.03%) Big Data
14 11 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.86%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.86%) Metadata
16 9 (0.77%) Power BI
17 8 (0.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (18.23%) Git
2 179 (15.39%) Jenkins
3 156 (13.41%) GitLab
4 48 (4.13%) CircleCI
5 34 (2.92%) JIRA
6 27 (2.32%) Bitbucket
7 26 (2.24%) JUnit
8 23 (1.98%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.89%) Mockito
10 21 (1.81%) Maven
11 18 (1.55%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.55%) MLflow
12 16 (1.38%) Vite
13 15 (1.29%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.20%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.95%) Selenium
16 10 (0.86%) JMeter
17 9 (0.77%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.77%) TestRail
18 8 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 326 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 243 (20.89%) Finance
3 92 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 76 (6.53%) Banking
6 67 (5.76%) Law
7 61 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (4.73%) Telecoms
9 25 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 23 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.63%) Games
11 19 (1.63%) Retail
12 18 (1.55%) Front Office
13 14 (1.20%) Billing
14 13 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.03%) Marketing
16 11 (0.95%) Legal
17 9 (0.77%) Electronics
17 9 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (23.22%) Senior
2 250 (21.50%) Developer
3 172 (14.79%) Software Engineer
4 151 (12.98%) Lead
5 137 (11.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 117 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 83 (7.14%) Architect
8 73 (6.28%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
9 67 (5.76%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 46 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 44 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 42 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
14 41 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
15 39 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 31 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
17 30 (2.58%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (15.13%) React
2 161 (13.84%) RESTful
3 154 (13.24%) .NET
4 128 (11.01%) Spring
5 127 (10.92%) REST
6 116 (9.97%) Spring Boot
7 109 (9.37%) Kafka
8 107 (9.20%) Node.js
9 86 (7.39%) gRPC
10 73 (6.28%) AngularJS
11 65 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (5.16%) .NET Core
14 58 (4.99%) OAuth
15 44 (3.78%) FastAPI
16 38 (3.27%) JSON
17 36 (3.10%) JWT
18 35 (3.01%) Django
19 34 (2.92%) CSS
19 34 (2.92%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 271 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 145 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.87%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.87%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (2.92%) Blockchain
6 31 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 28 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 23 (1.98%) PKI
12 22 (1.89%) Web3
13 19 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.46%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.29%) Low-Code
17 14 (1.20%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 232 (19.95%) Linux
2 82 (7.05%) Windows
3 38 (3.27%) Ubuntu
4 37 (3.18%) Unix
5 31 (2.67%) CentOS
5 31 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.77%) Debian
8 8 (0.69%) Android
8 8 (0.69%) VMS
9 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.086%) Rocky
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (67.67%) CI/CD
2 559 (48.07%) DevOps
3 476 (40.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 455 (39.12%) Agile
5 389 (33.45%) Microservices
6 360 (30.95%) Software Engineering
7 305 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 232 (19.95%) Test Automation
10 229 (19.69%) Mentoring
11 226 (19.43%) AI
12 208 (17.88%) Observability
13 158 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 149 (12.81%) Machine Learning
15 144 (12.38%) High Availability
16 133 (11.44%) Platform Engineering
17 132 (11.35%) Continuous Delivery
18 130 (11.18%) Continuous Integration
19 127 (10.92%) Clean Code
20 125 (10.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 543 (46.69%) Python
2 283 (24.33%) Java
3 237 (20.38%) JavaScript
4 200 (17.20%) SQL
5 178 (15.31%) Bash
6 149 (12.81%) Go
7 141 (12.12%) C#
8 131 (11.26%) TypeScript
9 130 (11.18%) PowerShell
10 49 (4.21%) Scala
11 35 (3.01%) Bicep
12 33 (2.84%) C++
13 25 (2.15%) PHP
14 23 (1.98%) Rust
15 21 (1.81%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.38%) C
17 14 (1.20%) Groovy
17 14 (1.20%) Ruby
18 12 (1.03%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 241 (20.72%) Security Cleared
2 128 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 125 (10.75%) Degree
4 78 (6.71%) DV Cleared
5 74 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.99%) AWS Certification
7 54 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.77%) CISSP
13 8 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.60%) OSCP
14 7 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.65%) QA
2 38 (3.27%) GDPR
3 32 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 31 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 27 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.98%) NIST
8 17 (1.46%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.03%) GRC
9 12 (1.03%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.69%) NCSC
10 8 (0.69%) WCAG
11 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.26%) SLA
13 1 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.086%) EMIR
System Software
1 735 (63.20%) Docker
2 37 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.86%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.86%) vSphere
5 8 (0.69%) KVM
6 7 (0.60%) Squid
7 6 (0.52%) Firmware
8 4 (0.34%) iptables
9 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.086%) QEMU
11 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.086%) Xen
Systems Management
1 699 (60.10%) Kubernetes
2 444 (38.18%) Terraform
3 192 (16.51%) Ansible
4 164 (14.10%) Grafana
5 154 (13.24%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.61%) Argo
7 27 (2.32%) Puppet
8 21 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.72%) Istio
10 18 (1.55%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.46%) Podman
11 17 (1.46%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.29%) Nagios
13 11 (0.95%) Packer
14 10 (0.86%) Kibana
15 9 (0.77%) linkerd
16 8 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
17 7 (0.60%) Mesos
17 7 (0.60%) ZABBIX
18 5 (0.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 113 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.03%) Google
3 59 (5.07%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.87%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.61%) Oracle
5 42 (3.61%) Splunk
6 35 (3.01%) VMware
7 31 (2.67%) OpenAI
8 25 (2.15%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.20%) Cisco
9 14 (1.20%) NVIDIA
10 13 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.03%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.95%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
12 11 (0.95%) Databricks
12 11 (0.95%) UiPath
13 9 (0.77%) Confluent
13 9 (0.77%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.69%) Zscaler