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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 109 202
Rank change year-on-year -43 +93 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,201 1,243 1,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.81% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.03% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 823 636 1,095
10th Percentile £45,549 £48,934 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -37 1,104 £72,500 -9.38% 338
UK excluding London -56 631 £62,500 -7.41% 244
London -14 477 £80,000 -11.11% 144
Work from Home -27 441 £70,079 -2.66% 189
North of England -51 192 £65,000 -3.04% 61
South East +22 161 £68,750 +5.77% 77
South West -2 145 £52,500 -30.00% 54
North West -35 95 £70,466 +17.44% 34
Yorkshire -43 59 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Midlands -78 59 £70,000 +12.00% 23
East of England -22 41 £60,000 -11.11% 17
North East -13 38 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West Midlands -64 32 £70,079 +7.81% 17
East Midlands -61 27 £64,000 +6.67% 6
Wales -28 24 £60,000 - 7
Scotland -69 8 £60,000 -29.41% 8
Northern Ireland -30 5 £62,500 +45.04% 4

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 32 (2.66%) Apache
2 25 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.92%) Confluence
5 8 (0.67%) Appian
6 7 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.083%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 715 (59.53%) AWS
2 607 (50.54%) Azure
3 324 (26.98%) GCP
4 198 (16.49%) GitHub
5 166 (13.82%) Serverless
6 136 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
7 128 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 121 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.83%) Azure AKS
10 93 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (7.74%) OpenShift
11 91 (7.58%) Amazon S3
12 77 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 75 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
14 74 (6.16%) Datadog
15 69 (5.75%) SaaS
16 55 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
17 54 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
18 50 (4.16%) IaaS
19 40 (3.33%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.41%) Broadband
2 71 (5.91%) Firewall
3 68 (5.66%) DNS
4 37 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 32 (2.66%) Network Security
6 24 (2.00%) HTTP
7 19 (1.58%) VPN
8 14 (1.17%) MQTT
9 11 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 9 (0.75%) DMARC
10 9 (0.75%) VLAN
11 8 (0.67%) BGP
11 8 (0.67%) DHCP
11 8 (0.67%) IPv4
11 8 (0.67%) OSPF
11 8 (0.67%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.58%) AMQP
13 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.50%) DMZ
13 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.24%) NoSQL
2 112 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.83%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.16%) Relational Database
5 60 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 58 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
7 54 (4.50%) MySQL
8 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.91%) Redis
10 31 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.33%) RDBMS
12 22 (1.83%) Pinecone
13 16 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.08%) Big Data
15 10 (0.83%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.83%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.83%) Metadata
16 9 (0.75%) Power BI
17 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 212 (17.65%) Git
2 183 (15.24%) Jenkins
3 167 (13.91%) GitLab
4 44 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 38 (3.16%) JIRA
6 26 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.00%) JUnit
8 23 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.75%) Maven
9 21 (1.75%) Mockito
10 19 (1.58%) Vite
11 18 (1.50%) Jaeger
12 15 (1.25%) Selenium
12 15 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.17%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.17%) MLflow
14 9 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.75%) JMeter
14 9 (0.75%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.75%) TestRail
General
1 327 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 230 (19.15%) Finance
3 90 (7.49%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.41%) Banking
6 70 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.91%) Law
8 51 (4.25%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 25 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.75%) Retail
12 16 (1.33%) Front Office
13 13 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.00%) Games
15 11 (0.92%) Legal
15 11 (0.92%) Marketing
16 10 (0.83%) Billing
16 10 (0.83%) Electronics
16 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (22.40%) Senior
2 248 (20.65%) Developer
3 181 (15.07%) Software Engineer
4 159 (13.24%) Lead
5 152 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 123 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 96 (7.99%) Architect
8 73 (6.08%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 60 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 50 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
14 45 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
15 43 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (2.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 31 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (14.90%) React
2 168 (13.99%) RESTful
3 149 (12.41%) .NET
4 136 (11.32%) Spring
5 128 (10.66%) REST
6 127 (10.57%) Spring Boot
7 122 (10.16%) Node.js
8 118 (9.83%) Kafka
9 84 (6.99%) gRPC
10 72 (6.00%) AngularJS
11 68 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
12 66 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
13 62 (5.16%) OAuth
14 53 (4.41%) .NET Core
15 46 (3.83%) FastAPI
16 42 (3.50%) JSON
17 41 (3.41%) OAuth2
18 37 (3.08%) JWT
19 36 (3.00%) CSS
19 36 (3.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 298 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 150 (12.49%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.75%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.16%) Blockchain
9 25 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.75%) PKI
10 21 (1.75%) Web3
11 20 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.58%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 237 (19.73%) Linux
2 85 (7.08%) Windows
3 38 (3.16%) Unix
4 35 (2.91%) Ubuntu
5 34 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 33 (2.75%) CentOS
7 21 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.75%) Debian
9 6 (0.50%) Android
10 4 (0.33%) VMS
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (68.03%) CI/CD
2 584 (48.63%) DevOps
3 505 (42.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 459 (38.22%) Agile
5 393 (32.72%) Microservices
6 383 (31.89%) Software Engineering
7 302 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (19.90%) Test Automation
9 235 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 233 (19.40%) Mentoring
11 225 (18.73%) AI
12 221 (18.40%) Observability
13 170 (14.15%) Full-Stack Development
14 145 (12.07%) Machine Learning
14 145 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
15 144 (11.99%) Event-Driven
16 141 (11.74%) High Availability
17 133 (11.07%) Continuous Delivery
18 132 (10.99%) Clean Code
19 125 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 566 (47.13%) Python
2 300 (24.98%) Java
3 243 (20.23%) JavaScript
4 197 (16.40%) SQL
5 183 (15.24%) Bash
6 149 (12.41%) C#
6 149 (12.41%) TypeScript
7 148 (12.32%) Go
8 131 (10.91%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.16%) Scala
10 43 (3.58%) Bicep
11 37 (3.08%) C++
12 27 (2.25%) PHP
13 26 (2.16%) Rust
14 22 (1.83%) Ruby
15 21 (1.75%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.50%) Groovy
17 16 (1.33%) C
18 12 (1.00%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 262 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 141 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 128 (10.66%) Degree
4 83 (6.91%) DV Cleared
5 74 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 55 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.92%) CISSP
11 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.67%) CCNA
12 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.67%) OSCP
12 8 (0.67%) RHCE
12 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.08%) QA
2 36 (3.00%) GDPR
3 34 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.66%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.92%) NIST
8 14 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.00%) GRC
9 12 (1.00%) JSP 440
10 10 (0.83%) NCSC
10 10 (0.83%) WCAG
11 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 739 (61.53%) Docker
2 35 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.50%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.58%) KVM
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
9 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.083%) QEMU
11 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 716 (59.62%) Kubernetes
2 458 (38.13%) Terraform
3 195 (16.24%) Ansible
4 162 (13.49%) Grafana
5 153 (12.74%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.58%) Argo
7 25 (2.08%) Puppet
8 21 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.67%) Istio
9 20 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.50%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.42%) Nagios
11 17 (1.42%) Podman
12 13 (1.08%) Packer
13 11 (0.92%) Kibana
14 10 (0.83%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.75%) linkerd
16 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.74%) Google
3 61 (5.08%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.75%) Splunk
4 45 (3.75%) Typelevel
5 40 (3.33%) Oracle
6 37 (3.08%) VMware
7 30 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.92%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.42%) Cisco
10 14 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.00%) Databricks
11 12 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.92%) Fortinet
12 11 (0.92%) NVIDIA
13 10 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.83%) Confluent
13 10 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.83%) UiPath
13 10 (0.83%) Zscaler