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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 148 120
Rank change year-on-year -14 -28 +18
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 916 1,190 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.77% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.11% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 621 752 1,052
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,710 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £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 45,592 56,393 48,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.45% 83.65% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,617 29,299 37,445
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £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 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 21 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 21 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 -7 844 £72,500 +3.57% 959
UK excluding London -9 436 £65,000 - 542
London +23 410 £85,000 -2.86% 502
Work from Home 0 319 £67,500 -3.57% 502
North of England +7 169 £65,000 +9.24% 180
North West +30 107 £65,000 +8.33% 138
South West -3 91 £60,000 -13.04% 81
South East -12 59 £75,000 +15.38% 153
Midlands +27 57 £67,500 +3.85% 61
Yorkshire -31 39 £68,500 +31.10% 29
West Midlands +22 38 £70,542 +8.53% 42
Scotland -10 33 £70,000 - 23
East of England +15 27 £57,500 -8.00% 35
North East +20 23 £60,000 +14.29% 13
East Midlands +23 19 £54,500 +31.33% 18
Wales +7 15 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Northern Ireland +1 5 £43,092 -33.35% 10

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 55 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.28%) Apache
4 17 (1.86%) CMS
5 15 (1.64%) IIS
6 13 (1.42%) Apache Solr
7 11 (1.20%) Confluence
8 6 (0.66%) 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%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) JBoss
13 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.53%) Maya
2 5 (0.55%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.44%) 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
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 546 (59.61%) AWS
2 497 (54.26%) Azure
3 238 (25.98%) GCP
4 173 (18.89%) GitHub
5 124 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
5 124 (13.54%) Serverless
6 115 (12.55%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (7.97%) Amazon S3
8 71 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
9 70 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (6.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 59 (6.44%) SaaS
12 52 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (4.37%) OpenShift
15 37 (4.04%) Datadog
16 36 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (3.93%) PaaS
17 33 (3.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.57%) Firewall
2 31 (3.38%) DNS
3 19 (2.07%) DHCP
4 18 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.97%) VPN
5 17 (1.86%) Network Security
6 16 (1.75%) WAN
7 13 (1.42%) LAN
8 9 (0.98%) IPsec
9 8 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (0.87%) HTTP
9 8 (0.87%) VLAN
10 7 (0.76%) AMQP
11 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.66%) SAN
11 6 (0.66%) VoIP
11 6 (0.66%) Wireless
12 4 (0.44%) DMZ
12 4 (0.44%) Internet
12 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (11.35%) NoSQL
3 71 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 69 (7.53%) MongoDB
5 52 (5.68%) MySQL
5 52 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 47 (5.13%) DynamoDB
7 46 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (3.82%) Big Data
9 26 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (2.62%) Metadata
11 20 (2.18%) Spark SQL
12 19 (2.07%) Delta Lake
13 15 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.42%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.42%) Tick Data
16 12 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 168 (18.34%) Git
2 121 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 96 (10.48%) GitLab
4 33 (3.60%) JIRA
5 31 (3.38%) MLflow
6 23 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 21 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.18%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.86%) CircleCI
10 16 (1.75%) JUnit
11 15 (1.64%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.64%) Selenium
12 13 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (1.20%) JMeter
14 10 (1.09%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.76%) Locust
17 5 (0.55%) Maven
18 4 (0.44%) IntelliJ
18 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 283 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 236 (25.76%) Finance
3 104 (11.35%) Law
4 93 (10.15%) Marketing
5 77 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 68 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (5.57%) Banking
9 49 (5.35%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.49%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.17%) Games
12 28 (3.06%) Retail
13 25 (2.73%) Electronics
14 23 (2.51%) Front Office
15 13 (1.42%) Legal
16 11 (1.20%) Advertising
16 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.20%) French Language
17 10 (1.09%) Dutch Language
17 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (23.69%) Developer
2 183 (19.98%) Senior
3 134 (14.63%) Lead
4 117 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 107 (11.68%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.66%) Architect
7 58 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 54 (5.90%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 48 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (5.02%) Python Engineer
11 45 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.48%) Data Engineer
12 41 (4.48%) Lead Developer
13 39 (4.26%) Backend Developer
14 38 (4.15%) Software Developer
15 37 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 35 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (16.05%) React
2 134 (14.63%) RESTful
3 131 (14.30%) .NET
4 87 (9.50%) Spring
5 80 (8.73%) Spring Boot
6 77 (8.41%) Kafka
7 75 (8.19%) Node.js
8 72 (7.86%) REST
9 69 (7.53%) FastAPI
10 62 (6.77%) AngularJS
11 58 (6.33%) HTML
12 57 (6.22%) CSS
13 55 (6.00%) .NET Core
14 48 (5.24%) PyTorch
15 47 (5.13%) Flask
16 43 (4.69%) TensorFlow
17 42 (4.59%) Pandas
18 41 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
19 38 (4.15%) scikit-learn
19 38 (4.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 225 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (3.38%) Algorithms
6 30 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.95%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.51%) Fixed Income
10 17 (1.86%) Blockchain
10 17 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.20%) PKI
14 10 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 187 (20.41%) Linux
2 109 (11.90%) Windows
3 50 (5.46%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.93%) Unix
5 30 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.64%) VMS
7 11 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.09%) CentOS
9 8 (0.87%) Debian
9 8 (0.87%) Rocky
10 6 (0.66%) 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
1 575 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 477 (52.07%) DevOps
3 320 (34.93%) Agile
4 295 (32.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 262 (28.60%) Microservices
6 249 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (24.78%) AI
8 207 (22.60%) Software Engineering
9 157 (17.14%) Mentoring
10 139 (15.17%) Machine Learning
11 129 (14.08%) Test Automation
12 115 (12.55%) Observability
13 113 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
15 105 (11.46%) Computer Science
16 99 (10.81%) Analytics
17 94 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
18 85 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
19 82 (8.95%) Data Science
20 80 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 456 (49.78%) Python
2 195 (21.29%) SQL
3 192 (20.96%) Java
4 151 (16.48%) JavaScript
5 140 (15.28%) C#
6 108 (11.79%) Bash
7 98 (10.70%) PowerShell
8 57 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.13%) Go
10 29 (3.17%) Bicep
11 20 (2.18%) C++
11 20 (2.18%) PHP
12 12 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.09%) Ruby
14 8 (0.87%) Delphi
14 8 (0.87%) Scala
14 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.76%) Rust
16 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 136 (14.85%) Degree
2 134 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 84 (9.17%) SC Cleared
5 67 (7.31%) DV Cleared
6 64 (6.99%) AWS Certification
7 45 (4.91%) Azure Certification
8 29 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.42%) CISSP
11 8 (0.87%) CISM
11 8 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.76%) PhD
12 7 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.66%) ACMT
13 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.62%) QA
2 41 (4.48%) GDPR
3 25 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.29%) NIST
6 16 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.98%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.87%) NCSC
10 8 (0.87%) WCAG
11 7 (0.76%) GRC
11 7 (0.76%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.33%) EMIR
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) ECSS
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 606 (66.16%) Docker
2 51 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.37%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.29%) vSphere
6 11 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.87%) 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%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 585 (63.86%) Kubernetes
2 316 (34.50%) Terraform
3 129 (14.08%) Ansible
4 110 (12.01%) Grafana
5 91 (9.93%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.62%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.20%) Argo
8 11 (1.20%) Control-M
9 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.98%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.98%) Puppet
11 8 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.66%) Autotask
13 6 (0.66%) SCCM
14 5 (0.55%) SCOM
14 5 (0.55%) WSUS
15 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 118 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.99%) Oracle
3 60 (6.55%) VMware
4 55 (6.00%) Google
5 40 (4.37%) Databricks
6 34 (3.71%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.60%) Splunk
8 31 (3.38%) SAP
9 26 (2.84%) Cisco
10 20 (2.18%) Dell
10 20 (2.18%) Palo Alto
11 19 (2.07%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.64%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.31%) Pure Storage
14 11 (1.20%) Commvault
14 11 (1.20%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (0.98%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.87%) IBM
17 8 (0.87%) Salesforce