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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 138 157
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -15
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 976 1,106 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.45% 2.24% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.43% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 646 751 1,147
10th Percentile £46,348 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,601 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,737 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,875 £86,368
90th Percentile £126,250 £114,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 53,402 45,552 66,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.32% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 31,913 22,134 51,281
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,934 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -12 891 £70,932 -4.79% 498
UK excluding London -44 444 £62,500 -8.09% 364
London +14 427 £84,250 -0.88% 174
Work from Home -20 368 £67,500 -6.24% 291
North of England -19 180 £65,000 +4.49% 90
South West -20 103 £55,000 -23.60% 79
North West +11 102 £65,000 +8.33% 49
South East -31 67 £72,500 +4.32% 112
Midlands -38 45 £67,000 +3.08% 45
Yorkshire -64 44 £69,466 +2.16% 31
North East +14 34 £51,500 -20.49% 10
East of England +9 27 £60,100 -7.54% 18
West Midlands -24 24 £70,271 +1.39% 29
East Midlands -18 20 £64,500 +7.50% 16
Scotland -50 17 £54,000 -32.50% 17
Northern Ireland -22 8 £62,500 -9.82% 2
Wales -11 6 £71,940 +10.68% 7

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 36 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (3.07%) Apache
3 21 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.64%) Appian
5 8 (0.82%) CMS
5 8 (0.82%) IIS
6 7 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.72%) Confluence
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.61%) nginx
7 6 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.20%) Camunda
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) FileNet
Applications
1 18 (1.84%) Maya
2 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Shopify
2 4 (0.41%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 556 (56.97%) AWS
2 522 (53.48%) Azure
3 271 (27.77%) GCP
4 206 (21.11%) GitHub
5 154 (15.78%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (13.73%) Serverless
7 97 (9.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (7.07%) Amazon S3
10 65 (6.66%) Datadog
10 65 (6.66%) OpenShift
11 64 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 56 (5.74%) Azure AKS
13 55 (5.64%) SaaS
14 47 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (4.61%) PaaS
16 44 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
17 42 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
18 39 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.76%) Firewall
2 38 (3.89%) Broadband
3 34 (3.48%) DNS
4 28 (2.87%) Network Security
5 24 (2.46%) HTTP
6 22 (2.25%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.15%) VPN
8 11 (1.13%) DHCP
9 10 (1.02%) WAN
10 8 (0.82%) AMQP
11 7 (0.72%) DMZ
12 5 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.41%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.41%) LAN
13 4 (0.41%) VSAN
14 3 (0.31%) SAN
14 3 (0.31%) VLAN
14 3 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (13.32%) NoSQL
2 94 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (9.43%) SQL Server
4 73 (7.48%) Relational Database
5 72 (7.38%) MongoDB
6 51 (5.23%) MySQL
7 47 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.18%) DynamoDB
8 31 (3.18%) RDBMS
9 25 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (2.46%) Pinecone
11 23 (2.36%) Big Data
12 14 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (1.43%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.43%) Redis
13 13 (1.33%) Metadata
14 10 (1.02%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.92%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 165 (16.91%) Git
2 138 (14.14%) Jenkins
3 100 (10.25%) GitLab
4 28 (2.87%) JIRA
5 22 (2.25%) CircleCI
6 21 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.15%) MLflow
7 20 (2.05%) JUnit
8 19 (1.95%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.74%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.64%) Selenium
11 13 (1.33%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.13%) JMeter
13 10 (1.02%) Vite
14 9 (0.92%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.82%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.82%) Locust
15 8 (0.82%) Maven
16 7 (0.72%) Mockito
16 7 (0.72%) Robot Framework
General
1 280 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 225 (23.05%) Finance
3 80 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 75 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (7.07%) Telecoms
6 67 (6.86%) Law
7 54 (5.53%) Banking
8 35 (3.59%) Games
9 31 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.97%) Front Office
11 15 (1.54%) Marketing
12 14 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.43%) Billing
12 14 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.43%) Retail
13 12 (1.23%) Electronics
13 12 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.13%) Advertising
14 11 (1.13%) French Language
15 10 (1.02%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 230 (23.57%) Senior
2 225 (23.05%) Developer
3 119 (12.19%) Lead
4 106 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 105 (10.76%) Software Engineer
6 77 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (7.48%) Architect
8 61 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
10 43 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 41 (4.20%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.10%) Data Engineer
12 40 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (3.59%) Python Developer
15 34 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (3.28%) Backend Developer
17 30 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 30 (3.07%) Software Developer
18 25 (2.56%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (14.65%) React
2 138 (14.14%) .NET
3 127 (13.01%) RESTful
4 103 (10.55%) REST
5 101 (10.35%) Spring
6 93 (9.53%) Spring Boot
7 83 (8.50%) Node.js
8 75 (7.68%) Kafka
9 73 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
10 63 (6.45%) .NET Core
10 63 (6.45%) AngularJS
11 59 (6.05%) FastAPI
12 55 (5.64%) gRPC
13 51 (5.23%) Django
14 50 (5.12%) Flask
15 42 (4.30%) OAuth
16 33 (3.38%) HTML
17 32 (3.28%) CSS
18 31 (3.18%) WebSockets
19 30 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 248 (25.41%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.89%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.48%) Public Cloud
7 30 (3.07%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.66%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 22 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.25%) PKI
10 21 (2.15%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.95%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.84%) Over-the-Top Content
12 18 (1.84%) Video\Live Streaming
13 17 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.64%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 210 (21.52%) Linux
2 87 (8.91%) Windows
3 43 (4.41%) Unix
4 31 (3.18%) Ubuntu
5 25 (2.56%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.95%) VMS
7 18 (1.84%) CentOS
8 16 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (1.33%) Android
10 9 (0.92%) Debian
11 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.20%) Rocky
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.20%) zOS
14 1 (0.10%) Fedora
14 1 (0.10%) Solaris
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (64.24%) CI/CD
2 511 (52.36%) DevOps
3 361 (36.99%) Agile
4 354 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 331 (33.91%) Microservices
6 274 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (24.69%) AI
8 226 (23.16%) Software Engineering
9 191 (19.57%) Mentoring
10 175 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (14.75%) Machine Learning
12 139 (14.24%) Test Automation
13 133 (13.63%) Observability
14 120 (12.30%) Full-Stack Development
15 116 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
16 107 (10.96%) Analytics
17 106 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
18 101 (10.35%) High Availability
19 97 (9.94%) Performance Optimisation
20 93 (9.53%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 470 (48.16%) Python
2 231 (23.67%) Java
3 191 (19.57%) SQL
4 180 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 147 (15.06%) Bash
6 118 (12.09%) C#
7 107 (10.96%) Go
8 85 (8.71%) PowerShell
9 78 (7.99%) TypeScript
10 33 (3.38%) Bicep
11 28 (2.87%) C++
12 24 (2.46%) PHP
13 22 (2.25%) Scala
14 14 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.33%) C
16 8 (0.82%) Delphi
16 8 (0.82%) Ruby
17 7 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.61%) Erlang
18 6 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 178 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 124 (12.70%) Degree
3 104 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 76 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 70 (7.17%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.28%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.02%) CISSP
11 7 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.61%) CISM
13 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.41%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.41%) PMP
15 3 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.97%) QA
2 42 (4.30%) GDPR
3 39 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (3.18%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.87%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.56%) Accessibility
7 23 (2.36%) NIST
8 15 (1.54%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.33%) NCSC
10 11 (1.13%) GRC
10 11 (1.13%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.82%) WCAG
12 4 (0.41%) EMIR
12 4 (0.41%) SLA
13 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.20%) ECSS
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 629 (64.45%) Docker
2 36 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.43%) vSphere
6 8 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.72%) KVM
8 6 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.41%) Lustre
9 4 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.31%) Firmware
10 3 (0.31%) iptables
10 3 (0.31%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.20%) Ceph
11 2 (0.20%) GPFS
11 2 (0.20%) NFS
11 2 (0.20%) RACF
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 626 (64.14%) Kubernetes
2 371 (38.01%) Terraform
3 180 (18.44%) Ansible
4 155 (15.88%) Grafana
5 144 (14.75%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.20%) Argo
7 19 (1.95%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.95%) Puppet
8 16 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.92%) Control-M
10 9 (0.92%) Istio
11 8 (0.82%) linkerd
11 8 (0.82%) Mesos
12 7 (0.72%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.61%) Nagios
13 6 (0.61%) Rancher
14 5 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 106 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.32%) Google
3 48 (4.92%) Oracle
4 40 (4.10%) VMware
5 36 (3.69%) Splunk
6 34 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 32 (3.28%) OpenAI
8 24 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.84%) Typelevel
10 17 (1.74%) SAP
11 16 (1.64%) Databricks
11 16 (1.64%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.54%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.54%) Cisco
13 14 (1.43%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.33%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.33%) Dynatrace
14 13 (1.33%) UiPath
15 12 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (1.23%) Dell