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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 133 160
Rank change year-on-year -27 +27 -40
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,470 1,169 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.37% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.66% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 910 587 733
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,714 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -26 1,277 £72,500 -3.33% 1,503
UK excluding London -9 913 £67,500 +3.85% 796
Work from Home -40 454 £69,014 +2.24% 672
London -35 447 £80,000 -5.88% 822
North of England -23 269 £66,000 +1.54% 190
South West +10 215 £70,000 +7.69% 121
South East -3 168 £65,000 -13.33% 168
North West -37 142 £75,000 +15.38% 100
Midlands -64 96 £70,000 - 84
North East -12 77 £60,000 - 34
Northern Ireland -22 59 - - 39
West Midlands -59 57 £82,500 +17.86% 52
East of England -41 54 £72,500 +26.09% 76
Wales -42 51 £62,000 -17.33% 24
Yorkshire -27 50 £70,000 +2.56% 58
East Midlands -43 39 £70,000 +27.27% 32
Scotland -53 12 £90,000 +28.57% 95

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 57 (3.88%) Apache
2 44 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.59%) Confluence
4 31 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) JBoss
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.20%) Blender
3 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.20%) Maya
4 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.068%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 838 (57.01%) AWS
2 767 (52.18%) Azure
3 338 (22.99%) GCP
4 246 (16.73%) GitHub
5 176 (11.97%) GitHub Actions
6 172 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 141 (9.59%) Serverless
8 125 (8.50%) Cloud Computing
9 112 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (7.35%) OpenShift
11 89 (6.05%) Azure AKS
12 86 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (5.71%) Amazon S3
14 74 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 71 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
17 70 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
19 53 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
20 49 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.03%) WAN
2 67 (4.56%) LAN
3 66 (4.49%) Firewall
4 61 (4.15%) DNS
5 52 (3.54%) Network Security
6 43 (2.93%) VPN
7 39 (2.65%) Internet
8 34 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.04%) MQTT
10 19 (1.29%) BGP
11 18 (1.22%) OSPF
12 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.09%) VLAN
14 15 (1.02%) DMARC
15 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 9 (0.61%) HTTP
16 9 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.54%) AMQP
17 8 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (5.99%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.90%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.42%) MySQL
5 47 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 40 (2.72%) DynamoDB
6 40 (2.72%) Redis
7 37 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (1.97%) SQL Server
9 21 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (1.36%) Big Data
11 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (1.16%) Metadata
12 14 (0.95%) Hadoop
12 14 (0.95%) Pinecone
13 13 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 322 (21.90%) Git
2 209 (14.22%) Jenkins
3 190 (12.93%) GitLab
4 36 (2.45%) JIRA
5 26 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.70%) JUnit
7 23 (1.56%) Maven
8 20 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.29%) Selenium
10 18 (1.22%) Claude Code
10 18 (1.22%) Mockito
11 13 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 13 (0.88%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.75%) MLflow
13 10 (0.68%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.68%) Vite
14 9 (0.61%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 470 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 345 (23.47%) Finance
3 205 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 131 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (6.12%) Law
7 89 (6.05%) Banking
8 71 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (2.72%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.24%) Legal
10 33 (2.24%) Retail
11 28 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.36%) Games
13 15 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.88%) Marketing
14 13 (0.88%) Publishing
15 11 (0.75%) Electronics
15 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.68%) Front Office
17 8 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 309 (21.02%) Senior
2 260 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 256 (17.41%) Developer
4 226 (15.37%) Architect
5 223 (15.17%) Software Engineer
6 181 (12.31%) Lead
7 98 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 70 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 66 (4.49%) Systems Architect
12 64 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 47 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
17 44 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.86%) Software Developer
19 41 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (36.53%) Terraform
2 221 (15.03%) Spring
3 208 (14.15%) Spring Boot
4 206 (14.01%) RESTful
5 182 (12.38%) React
6 159 (10.82%) Kafka
7 145 (9.86%) Node.js
8 133 (9.05%) REST
9 116 (7.89%) .NET
10 86 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
11 69 (4.69%) AngularJS
12 53 (3.61%) FastAPI
13 52 (3.54%) OAuth
14 50 (3.40%) CSS
15 47 (3.20%) OpenAPI
16 42 (2.86%) Swagger
17 41 (2.79%) OAuth2
18 40 (2.72%) LangChain
19 38 (2.59%) HTML
20 37 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 429 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 166 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
5 52 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 34 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (2.04%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.90%) PKI
14 27 (1.84%) Algorithms
14 27 (1.84%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.77%) Blog
15 26 (1.77%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (1.36%) Security Posture
18 19 (1.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 342 (23.27%) Linux
2 84 (5.71%) Windows
3 44 (2.99%) Unix
4 32 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.04%) CentOS
6 20 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.82%) Debian
9 8 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.34%) Rocky
11 4 (0.27%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.14%) Android
13 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,003 (68.23%) CI/CD
2 757 (51.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 756 (51.43%) DevOps
4 528 (35.92%) Agile
5 464 (31.56%) Software Engineering
6 414 (28.16%) Microservices
7 366 (24.90%) Mentoring
8 331 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
9 313 (21.29%) AI
10 299 (20.34%) Observability
11 298 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 274 (18.64%) Test Automation
13 262 (17.82%) Platform Engineering
14 256 (17.41%) Event-Driven
15 211 (14.35%) Roadmaps
16 184 (12.52%) DevSecOps
17 182 (12.38%) Technical Leadership
18 170 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 150 (10.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 150 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 654 (44.49%) Python
2 408 (27.76%) Java
3 204 (13.88%) JavaScript
4 197 (13.40%) Bash
5 170 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 167 (11.36%) SQL
7 135 (9.18%) C#
8 123 (8.37%) PowerShell
9 90 (6.12%) Go
10 61 (4.15%) C++
11 58 (3.95%) Bicep
12 49 (3.33%) Shell Script
13 38 (2.59%) Rust
14 35 (2.38%) Ruby
15 19 (1.29%) Groovy
16 16 (1.09%) Scala
17 15 (1.02%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.95%) C
18 14 (0.95%) PHP
18 14 (0.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 474 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 232 (15.78%) SC Cleared
3 186 (12.65%) DV Cleared
4 161 (10.95%) Degree
5 96 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.40%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.84%) CISSP
10 26 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.88%) CCNP
14 12 (0.82%) OSCP
15 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.68%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.61%) CISM
18 8 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.64%) QA
2 72 (4.90%) GRC
3 60 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 32 (2.18%) NCSC
6 30 (2.04%) GDPR
7 27 (1.84%) NIST
8 21 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.14%) RMADS
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 831 (56.53%) Docker
2 45 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.54%) KVM
7 7 (0.48%) Squid
7 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.48%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.34%) NDS
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 840 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 221 (15.03%) Ansible
3 143 (9.73%) Grafana
4 114 (7.76%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.79%) Puppet
6 40 (2.72%) Argo
7 33 (2.24%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.43%) Istio
9 16 (1.09%) Kibana
9 16 (1.09%) linkerd
10 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.88%) Nagios
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.75%) Packer
13 10 (0.68%) Podman
13 10 (0.68%) ZABBIX
14 9 (0.61%) logstash
15 8 (0.54%) Rancher
16 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 268 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 118 (8.03%) Google
3 66 (4.49%) Splunk
4 51 (3.47%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.47%) VMware
5 46 (3.13%) Oracle
6 28 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.22%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.02%) SendGrid
10 13 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.88%) IBM
11 12 (0.82%) Databricks
12 11 (0.75%) Mistral
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.61%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.61%) Rapid7