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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 125 184
Rank change year-on-year -27 +59 -56
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,418 1,246 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 2.48% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.78% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 915 624 821
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £102,950 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -25 1,254 £72,500 -6.45% 815
UK excluding London -9 856 £65,000 - 476
Work from Home -32 493 £70,000 +1.52% 373
London -35 474 £80,000 -11.11% 448
North of England -24 236 £65,000 - 126
South West +11 200 £65,000 -13.33% 91
South East +18 197 £65,000 -3.70% 108
North West -44 124 £75,000 +22.45% 74
Midlands -66 81 £70,000 +5.66% 49
Yorkshire -20 57 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Northern Ireland -26 56 - - 22
North East -16 55 £55,000 -15.38% 25
West Midlands -38 53 £72,500 +7.41% 31
East of England -21 46 £60,000 +2.56% 29
Wales -35 45 £63,750 -1.92% 11
East Midlands -48 28 £61,250 +6.52% 18
Scotland -69 6 £59,283 -8.80% 42

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 50 (3.53%) Apache
2 37 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.54%) Confluence
4 32 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) CMS
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 814 (57.40%) AWS
2 730 (51.48%) Azure
3 336 (23.70%) GCP
4 218 (15.37%) GitHub
5 178 (12.55%) Serverless
6 169 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 145 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (8.04%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.05%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (6.56%) Amazon S3
13 90 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
14 85 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 79 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
18 63 (4.44%) Datadog
19 61 (4.30%) SaaS
20 53 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.01%) WAN
2 69 (4.87%) Firewall
3 64 (4.51%) DNS
3 64 (4.51%) LAN
4 46 (3.24%) Network Security
5 43 (3.03%) Broadband
6 37 (2.61%) VPN
7 34 (2.40%) TCP/IP
8 21 (1.48%) MQTT
9 19 (1.34%) BGP
10 18 (1.27%) OSPF
11 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.13%) VLAN
13 13 (0.92%) DMARC
14 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.71%) HTTP
15 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.56%) IPv4
16 8 (0.56%) LTE
17 7 (0.49%) RANAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (7.76%) NoSQL
3 70 (4.94%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.30%) MySQL
5 53 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 49 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 41 (2.89%) SQL Server
9 38 (2.68%) Redis
10 26 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.20%) Big Data
13 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.92%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.71%) Db2
17 10 (0.71%) DTS
Development Applications
1 276 (19.46%) Git
2 211 (14.88%) Jenkins
3 183 (12.91%) GitLab
4 42 (2.96%) JIRA
5 32 (2.26%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.97%) JUnit
8 22 (1.55%) Maven
9 21 (1.48%) Mockito
10 20 (1.41%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.27%) Selenium
12 17 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.13%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.85%) Vite
15 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.71%) Postman
16 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.63%) JMeter
17 9 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 442 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 337 (23.77%) Finance
3 146 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 112 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (7.62%) Law
6 104 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 90 (6.35%) Banking
8 66 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.19%) Legal
10 29 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.55%) Retail
13 21 (1.48%) Games
14 14 (0.99%) Marketing
15 12 (0.85%) Electronics
16 11 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.78%) Front Office
16 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 263 (18.55%) Senior
2 253 (17.84%) Developer
3 213 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 202 (14.25%) Architect
6 179 (12.62%) Lead
7 120 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.01%) Senior Developer
9 69 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 64 (4.51%) Systems Architect
12 56 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 48 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.89%) Lead Software Engineer
17 41 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (13.75%) Spring
2 191 (13.47%) RESTful
3 183 (12.91%) React
4 180 (12.69%) Spring Boot
5 147 (10.37%) Node.js
6 146 (10.30%) Kafka
7 141 (9.94%) .NET
8 129 (9.10%) REST
9 80 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
10 77 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.88%) OAuth
12 54 (3.81%) CSS
12 54 (3.81%) gRPC
13 48 (3.39%) JSON
14 46 (3.24%) .NET Core
15 42 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
15 42 (2.96%) HTML
15 42 (2.96%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.89%) YAML
17 39 (2.75%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 378 (26.66%) Cloud Native
2 176 (12.41%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 31 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.90%) Over-the-Top Content
9 27 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
10 25 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 25 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.48%) Blog
11 21 (1.48%) PKI
11 21 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
13 17 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 287 (20.24%) Linux
2 98 (6.91%) Windows
3 40 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.26%) CentOS
5 30 (2.12%) Unix
6 23 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) Debian
9 7 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.071%) Rocky
12 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (66.78%) CI/CD
2 701 (49.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 679 (47.88%) DevOps
4 500 (35.26%) Agile
5 456 (32.16%) Software Engineering
6 426 (30.04%) Microservices
7 339 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (19.61%) Observability
9 276 (19.46%) Test Automation
10 275 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (19.11%) Mentoring
12 268 (18.90%) AI
13 215 (15.16%) Event-Driven
14 200 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
15 176 (12.41%) Roadmaps
16 173 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
17 145 (10.23%) Machine Learning
17 145 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
18 144 (10.16%) Scrum
19 134 (9.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 651 (45.91%) Python
2 364 (25.67%) Java
3 245 (17.28%) JavaScript
4 182 (12.83%) Bash
5 174 (12.27%) SQL
6 158 (11.14%) C#
7 157 (11.07%) TypeScript
8 135 (9.52%) PowerShell
9 115 (8.11%) Go
10 60 (4.23%) Bicep
11 54 (3.81%) C++
12 43 (3.03%) Scala
13 39 (2.75%) Ruby
14 30 (2.12%) Rust
15 23 (1.62%) PHP
16 20 (1.41%) Groovy
16 20 (1.41%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.99%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.92%) C
19 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 417 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 211 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 159 (11.21%) Degree
4 158 (11.14%) DV Cleared
5 87 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 55 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.55%) CISSP
10 21 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.63%) OSCP
16 8 (0.56%) CCNA
16 8 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.82%) QA
2 68 (4.80%) GRC
3 54 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.83%) GDPR
6 24 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.62%) NCSC
7 23 (1.62%) NIST
7 23 (1.62%) WCAG
8 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.63%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.14%) SLA
15 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
System Software
1 819 (57.76%) Docker
2 47 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 41 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
12 1 (0.071%) iptables
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) QEMU
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 816 (57.55%) Kubernetes
2 541 (38.15%) Terraform
3 214 (15.09%) Ansible
4 152 (10.72%) Grafana
5 121 (8.53%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.47%) Argo
7 33 (2.33%) Puppet
8 30 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.69%) Istio
10 19 (1.34%) Nagios
11 17 (1.20%) Podman
12 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.06%) Kibana
12 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
13 13 (0.92%) linkerd
14 11 (0.78%) Packer
14 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.49%) logstash
16 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 210 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.28%) Google
3 65 (4.58%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.74%) Splunk
5 52 (3.67%) Oracle
6 51 (3.60%) VMware
7 27 (1.90%) Typelevel
8 26 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 26 (1.83%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.27%) Cisco
10 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.78%) Databricks
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.71%) Confluent