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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 117 195
Rank change year-on-year -25 +78 -56
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,369 1,305 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.66% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.96% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 917 668 908
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,000 £96,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £125,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.54%

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -27 1,205 £72,500 -6.45% 623
UK excluding London -27 802 £65,000 -3.70% 349
Work from Home -34 503 £70,000 -2.77% 280
London -22 474 £80,000 -11.11% 339
North of England -42 222 £65,000 - 104
South East +30 191 £65,000 -1.89% 86
South West 0 182 £57,500 -23.33% 68
North West -42 121 £72,500 +20.83% 69
Midlands -82 69 £70,000 +7.69% 43
Yorkshire -34 58 £65,000 -5.11% 19
Northern Ireland -20 56 £73,801 +71.27% 15
Wales -27 44 £67,500 +3.85% 7
North East -13 43 £55,000 -15.38% 16
West Midlands -68 42 £70,079 +3.82% 31
East of England -21 41 £60,000 -2.83% 16
East Midlands -54 27 £63,250 +10.00% 12
Scotland -69 7 £60,000 -19.46% 14

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 40 (2.92%) Apache
2 32 (2.34%) Confluence
3 30 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.29%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) JBoss
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 785 (57.34%) AWS
2 702 (51.28%) Azure
3 346 (25.27%) GCP
4 215 (15.70%) GitHub
5 182 (13.29%) Serverless
6 160 (11.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 150 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (7.96%) OpenShift
10 104 (7.60%) Azure AKS
11 96 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
12 95 (6.94%) Amazon S3
13 90 (6.57%) Cloud Computing
14 83 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
15 82 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
17 72 (5.26%) Datadog
18 67 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
19 63 (4.60%) SaaS
20 56 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.19%) Firewall
2 69 (5.04%) WAN
3 68 (4.97%) DNS
4 62 (4.53%) LAN
5 60 (4.38%) Broadband
6 45 (3.29%) Network Security
7 40 (2.92%) TCP/IP
8 36 (2.63%) VPN
9 21 (1.53%) MQTT
10 18 (1.31%) HTTP
11 17 (1.24%) BGP
11 17 (1.24%) OSPF
12 16 (1.17%) VLAN
12 16 (1.17%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.95%) DMARC
13 13 (0.95%) Wireshark
14 10 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.58%) IPv4
15 8 (0.58%) LTE
15 8 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 74 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.31%) MySQL
5 57 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
6 53 (3.87%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.58%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.14%) SQL Server
9 42 (3.07%) Redis
10 29 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.95%) Big Data
13 12 (0.88%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.80%) DTS
15 10 (0.73%) Db2
16 9 (0.66%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.66%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.66%) Power BI
17 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 253 (18.48%) Git
2 206 (15.05%) Jenkins
3 187 (13.66%) GitLab
4 41 (2.99%) JIRA
5 39 (2.85%) CircleCI
6 26 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.39%) JUnit
9 18 (1.31%) Maven
10 16 (1.17%) Mockito
11 15 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.10%) Selenium
12 14 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.88%) Vite
14 10 (0.73%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.58%) Gatling
15 8 (0.58%) MLflow
15 8 (0.58%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 417 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 314 (22.94%) Finance
3 116 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 109 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.01%) Law
6 83 (6.06%) Banking
6 83 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 26 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 23 (1.68%) Legal
11 19 (1.39%) Retail
12 18 (1.31%) Games
13 14 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.80%) Front Office
15 10 (0.73%) Electronics
15 10 (0.73%) Marketing
15 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (19.43%) Senior
2 257 (18.77%) Developer
3 198 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 196 (14.32%) Software Engineer
5 190 (13.88%) Architect
6 171 (12.49%) Lead
7 122 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (4.60%) Java Developer
10 63 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
10 63 (4.60%) Systems Architect
11 53 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 53 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 49 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 39 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
15 37 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (13.22%) RESTful
2 179 (13.08%) Spring
3 172 (12.56%) Spring Boot
4 170 (12.42%) React
5 140 (10.23%) Kafka
5 140 (10.23%) Node.js
6 134 (9.79%) .NET
7 121 (8.84%) REST
8 79 (5.77%) AngularJS
9 77 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
10 75 (5.48%) gRPC
11 59 (4.31%) OAuth
12 50 (3.65%) JSON
13 47 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
14 46 (3.36%) CSS
15 45 (3.29%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.14%) YAML
17 42 (3.07%) .NET Core
18 41 (2.99%) HTML
19 39 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 350 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 181 (13.22%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.29%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 30 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.46%) PKI
11 20 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.39%) Blockchain
13 17 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.24%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 270 (19.72%) Linux
2 89 (6.50%) Windows
3 35 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.26%) CentOS
5 29 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 28 (2.05%) Unix
7 18 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.66%) Debian
9 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.073%) Android
12 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.073%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (66.54%) CI/CD
2 649 (47.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 641 (46.82%) DevOps
4 480 (35.06%) Agile
5 432 (31.56%) Software Engineering
6 429 (31.34%) Microservices
7 345 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
8 268 (19.58%) Test Automation
9 259 (18.92%) Mentoring
9 259 (18.92%) Observability
10 253 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 234 (17.09%) AI
12 196 (14.32%) Event-Driven
13 186 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
14 173 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
15 163 (11.91%) Roadmaps
16 146 (10.66%) Clean Code
17 139 (10.15%) Machine Learning
18 136 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
19 132 (9.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 630 (46.02%) Python
2 329 (24.03%) Java
3 242 (17.68%) JavaScript
4 177 (12.93%) Bash
5 166 (12.13%) SQL
6 150 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 148 (10.81%) C#
8 138 (10.08%) PowerShell
9 134 (9.79%) Go
10 56 (4.09%) Bicep
11 55 (4.02%) Scala
12 49 (3.58%) C++
13 36 (2.63%) Ruby
14 30 (2.19%) Rust
15 26 (1.90%) PHP
16 20 (1.46%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.24%) Groovy
18 12 (0.88%) C
19 11 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 10 (0.73%) RPG
Qualifications
1 341 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 175 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 153 (11.18%) Degree
4 125 (9.13%) DV Cleared
5 84 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 43 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.53%) CISSP
10 18 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.80%) CCNP
11 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.58%) OSCP
14 8 (0.58%) RHCSA
14 8 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.55%) QA
2 68 (4.97%) GRC
3 45 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.26%) GDPR
5 30 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.68%) NIST
9 21 (1.53%) WCAG
10 17 (1.24%) NCSC
11 13 (0.95%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.73%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.073%) PSD2
16 1 (0.073%) SLA
System Software
1 794 (58.00%) Docker
2 42 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.66%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) KVM
7 8 (0.58%) Squid
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
10 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.15%) NDS
11 1 (0.073%) QEMU
11 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 785 (57.34%) Kubernetes
2 517 (37.76%) Terraform
3 205 (14.97%) Ansible
4 171 (12.49%) Grafana
5 143 (10.45%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.41%) Puppet
7 32 (2.34%) Argo
8 29 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.68%) Istio
10 19 (1.39%) Nagios
11 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.31%) Podman
12 16 (1.17%) Kibana
13 14 (1.02%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.95%) linkerd
15 11 (0.80%) Packer
15 11 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.51%) logstash
17 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.70%) Google
3 60 (4.38%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.80%) Splunk
5 45 (3.29%) Typelevel
6 44 (3.21%) Oracle
6 44 (3.21%) VMware
7 26 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.68%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.53%) Cisco
9 21 (1.53%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 17 (1.24%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.10%) IBM
13 13 (0.95%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.73%) Databricks
15 10 (0.73%) NVIDIA
15 10 (0.73%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.73%) Salesforce