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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 136 158
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -15
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 995 1,103 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.45% 2.26% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.44% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 659 759 1,134
10th Percentile £46,407 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,500 £87,246
90th Percentile £126,250 £115,000 £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 54,345 45,260 66,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.25% 92.54% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,629 22,226 51,183
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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% -8.33%

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 20 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 20 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 -8 911 £70,932 -5.11% 512
UK excluding London -46 458 £62,500 -8.09% 348
London +9 434 £84,250 -0.88% 226
Work from Home -22 372 £67,500 -6.24% 251
North of England -4 187 £65,000 +4.00% 97
South West -23 105 £55,000 -23.60% 67
North West +10 104 £65,000 +8.33% 53
South East -49 73 £72,500 +4.32% 99
Yorkshire -53 49 £68,000 - 33
Midlands -47 44 £66,000 +1.54% 46
North East +5 34 £51,500 -23.18% 11
East of England +3 26 £60,100 -7.54% 10
West Midlands -32 23 £70,000 +3.70% 32
East Midlands -21 20 £64,500 +7.50% 13
Scotland -46 17 £54,000 -32.50% 16
Northern Ireland -26 8 £62,500 -9.82% 6
Wales -13 5 £70,079 +7.81% 9

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 38 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.12%) Apache
3 22 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.61%) Appian
5 8 (0.80%) CMS
6 7 (0.70%) Confluence
6 7 (0.70%) IIS
6 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.60%) nginx
7 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.50%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.30%) 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%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.71%) 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 (0.80%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 570 (57.29%) AWS
2 529 (53.17%) Azure
3 276 (27.74%) GCP
4 210 (21.11%) GitHub
5 156 (15.68%) GitHub Actions
6 139 (13.97%) Serverless
7 135 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (10.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 69 (6.93%) OpenShift
12 68 (6.83%) Datadog
13 66 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 59 (5.93%) Azure AKS
15 56 (5.63%) SaaS
16 47 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
17 44 (4.42%) PaaS
18 43 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
19 39 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.83%) Firewall
2 38 (3.82%) Broadband
3 34 (3.42%) DNS
4 28 (2.81%) Network Security
5 24 (2.41%) HTTP
6 22 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.11%) VPN
8 11 (1.11%) DHCP
9 10 (1.01%) WAN
10 8 (0.80%) AMQP
11 7 (0.70%) DMZ
12 6 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (0.40%) InfiniBand
14 4 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.40%) LAN
14 4 (0.40%) MQTT
14 4 (0.40%) SAN
14 4 (0.40%) VSAN
15 3 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (13.47%) NoSQL
2 96 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (9.15%) SQL Server
4 75 (7.54%) Relational Database
5 71 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 50 (5.03%) MySQL
7 48 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (3.42%) DynamoDB
9 31 (3.12%) RDBMS
10 24 (2.41%) Pinecone
11 23 (2.31%) Big Data
12 22 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.51%) Redis
14 14 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.31%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.31%) Metadata
16 10 (1.01%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.90%) BigQuery
18 8 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 167 (16.78%) Git
2 142 (14.27%) Jenkins
3 107 (10.75%) GitLab
4 30 (3.02%) JIRA
5 24 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 23 (2.31%) MLflow
7 21 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.01%) JUnit
9 19 (1.91%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.71%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.61%) Selenium
12 13 (1.31%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.11%) JMeter
14 10 (1.01%) Vite
15 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.80%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.80%) Locust
16 8 (0.80%) Maven
17 7 (0.70%) Mockito
17 7 (0.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 286 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 228 (22.91%) Finance
3 81 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 71 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 65 (6.53%) Law
7 54 (5.43%) Banking
8 34 (3.42%) Games
9 31 (3.12%) Front Office
9 31 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.51%) Billing
11 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.41%) Marketing
11 14 (1.41%) Retail
12 13 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.21%) Advertising
13 12 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.11%) Electronics
15 10 (1.01%) French Language
16 9 (0.90%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 245 (24.62%) Senior
2 229 (23.02%) Developer
3 119 (11.96%) Lead
4 110 (11.06%) Software Engineer
5 108 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 77 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (7.44%) Architect
8 66 (6.63%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
10 48 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (4.42%) Java Developer
12 40 (4.02%) Data Engineer
12 40 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 40 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (3.52%) Python Developer
14 34 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 31 (3.12%) Software Developer
16 27 (2.71%) .NET Software Engineer
16 27 (2.71%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.97%) React
2 142 (14.27%) .NET
3 130 (13.07%) RESTful
4 106 (10.65%) REST
5 105 (10.55%) Spring
6 97 (9.75%) Spring Boot
7 82 (8.24%) Kafka
7 82 (8.24%) Node.js
8 74 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
9 66 (6.63%) AngularJS
10 65 (6.53%) .NET Core
11 58 (5.83%) FastAPI
12 55 (5.53%) gRPC
13 52 (5.23%) Django
14 51 (5.13%) Flask
15 43 (4.32%) OAuth
16 34 (3.42%) HTML
17 33 (3.32%) CSS
18 32 (3.22%) FIX Protocol
18 32 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 252 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (3.32%) Public Cloud
7 30 (3.02%) Blockchain
8 28 (2.81%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.21%) Low-Code
9 22 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.21%) PKI
10 21 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.91%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.91%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.81%) Over-the-Top Content
12 18 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
13 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.61%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 212 (21.31%) Linux
2 87 (8.74%) Windows
3 45 (4.52%) Unix
4 33 (3.32%) Ubuntu
5 22 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.91%) CentOS
6 19 (1.91%) VMS
7 17 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.31%) Android
9 9 (0.90%) Debian
10 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.20%) zOS
13 1 (0.10%) Fedora
13 1 (0.10%) Rocky
13 1 (0.10%) Solaris
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (64.42%) CI/CD
2 521 (52.36%) DevOps
3 366 (36.78%) Agile
4 361 (36.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 339 (34.07%) Microservices
6 275 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
7 244 (24.52%) AI
8 231 (23.22%) Software Engineering
9 198 (19.90%) Mentoring
10 183 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (14.47%) Machine Learning
12 141 (14.17%) Observability
13 139 (13.97%) Test Automation
14 125 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
15 119 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
16 111 (11.16%) Analytics
17 107 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
18 103 (10.35%) High Availability
19 101 (10.15%) Performance Optimisation
20 97 (9.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 479 (48.14%) Python
2 235 (23.62%) Java
3 199 (20.00%) SQL
4 182 (18.29%) JavaScript
5 150 (15.08%) Bash
6 120 (12.06%) C#
7 109 (10.95%) Go
8 87 (8.74%) PowerShell
9 78 (7.84%) TypeScript
10 32 (3.22%) Bicep
11 29 (2.91%) C++
12 22 (2.21%) PHP
12 22 (2.21%) Scala
13 15 (1.51%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.31%) C
15 8 (0.80%) Delphi
15 8 (0.80%) Ruby
15 8 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.70%) Rust
17 6 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 180 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 128 (12.86%) Degree
3 104 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 80 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (7.04%) AWS Certification
5 70 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.12%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.01%) CISSP
11 7 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.60%) CISM
13 5 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.40%) PMP
15 3 (0.30%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.63%) QA
2 43 (4.32%) GDPR
3 39 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (3.22%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.91%) Data Quality
6 26 (2.61%) Accessibility
7 24 (2.41%) NIST
8 16 (1.61%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.31%) NCSC
10 11 (1.11%) GRC
10 11 (1.11%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.80%) WCAG
12 4 (0.40%) EMIR
12 4 (0.40%) 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
1 642 (64.52%) Docker
2 36 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.41%) vSphere
6 7 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.70%) KVM
7 6 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.40%) Lustre
8 4 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Firmware
9 3 (0.30%) iptables
9 3 (0.30%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) Ceph
10 2 (0.20%) GPFS
10 2 (0.20%) NFS
10 2 (0.20%) RACF
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 638 (64.12%) Kubernetes
2 377 (37.89%) Terraform
3 180 (18.09%) Ansible
4 159 (15.98%) Grafana
5 149 (14.97%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.12%) Argo
7 19 (1.91%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.91%) Puppet
8 16 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.90%) Control-M
10 9 (0.90%) Istio
11 8 (0.80%) linkerd
11 8 (0.80%) Mesos
12 7 (0.70%) Nagios
12 7 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.60%) Rancher
14 5 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.40%) Cilium
Vendors
1 103 (10.35%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.15%) Google
3 46 (4.62%) Oracle
4 40 (4.02%) VMware
5 38 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 37 (3.72%) Splunk
7 32 (3.22%) OpenAI
8 24 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.81%) Typelevel
10 17 (1.71%) Cisco
11 16 (1.61%) Databricks
11 16 (1.61%) SAP
12 15 (1.51%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.41%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.41%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.31%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.31%) Dynatrace
14 13 (1.31%) UiPath
15 12 (1.21%) NVIDIA
16 11 (1.11%) Dell