Containerisation Job Trends

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Containerisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 168 126
Rank change year-on-year +36 -42 +16
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,193 1,237 1,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.42% 1.59% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 1.96% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 590 777 1,136
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 43,797 63,176 57,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.73% 81.14% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,693 35,881 43,260
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation 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 September 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 17 September 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 +34 1,082 £75,000 +7.14% 609
UK excluding London +30 710 £65,000 +4.00% 435
Work from Home +95 603 £68,525 -2.11% 397
London +62 438 £85,000 -5.56% 294
North of England +7 248 £65,000 +8.33% 128
North West +46 200 £65,000 +8.33% 75
Midlands +54 123 £68,750 +14.58% 42
South East +23 119 £72,500 +11.54% 149
Scotland +83 86 £70,000 - 24
South West +21 80 £66,763 -6.30% 50
West Midlands +60 70 £70,000 +16.67% 23
East of England +9 54 £58,000 -3.33% 24
East Midlands +35 53 £55,000 -4.35% 19
Yorkshire -47 41 £65,000 +8.33% 36
Wales +18 17 £72,500 +16.00% 7
North East +19 7 £60,000 +14.29% 18
Northern Ireland +14 2 £43,092 -28.18% 15

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 179 (15.00%) Confluence
2 51 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (1.93%) Apache
5 18 (1.51%) CMS
5 18 (1.51%) IIS
6 12 (1.01%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.59%) nginx
8 3 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.084%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.084%) FileNet
10 1 (0.084%) Mendix
10 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.084%) SAS
10 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (1.09%) Maya
2 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.34%) Sketch
3 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.084%) Endur
2 1 (0.084%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 806 (67.56%) AWS
2 761 (63.79%) Azure
3 393 (32.94%) GCP
4 127 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (9.72%) GitHub
5 116 (9.72%) Serverless
6 115 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
7 109 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 80 (6.71%) Amazon S3
9 74 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
10 73 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (4.44%) SaaS
13 46 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
14 43 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (2.18%) OpenShift
18 23 (1.93%) PaaS
18 23 (1.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.10%) Firewall
2 22 (1.84%) DNS
3 21 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.51%) Network Security
5 16 (1.34%) DHCP
6 15 (1.26%) LAN
6 15 (1.26%) VPN
6 15 (1.26%) WAN
7 14 (1.17%) HTTP
8 10 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.75%) IPsec
9 9 (0.75%) SAN
10 8 (0.67%) VLAN
11 6 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.50%) VoIP
11 6 (0.50%) Wireless
12 5 (0.42%) AMQP
12 5 (0.42%) NAS
13 4 (0.34%) BGP
13 4 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (26.24%) SQL Server
2 106 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (8.21%) NoSQL
4 68 (5.70%) MongoDB
5 66 (5.53%) Elasticsearch
6 57 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (4.69%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.77%) MySQL
9 38 (3.19%) Relational Database
10 37 (3.10%) Big Data
11 27 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.84%) Delta Lake
13 21 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 20 (1.68%) Metadata
14 20 (1.68%) Spark SQL
15 18 (1.51%) Tick Data
16 16 (1.34%) RDBMS
17 14 (1.17%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
18 10 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 342 (28.67%) GitLab
2 288 (24.14%) JIRA
3 285 (23.89%) SonarQube
4 265 (22.21%) Maven
5 262 (21.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 257 (21.54%) Cucumber
7 256 (21.46%) Selenium
8 253 (21.21%) Bitbucket
9 148 (12.41%) Git
10 119 (9.97%) Jenkins
11 31 (2.60%) MLflow
12 26 (2.18%) JUnit
13 23 (1.93%) CircleCI
14 19 (1.59%) TeamCity
15 18 (1.51%) Mockito
16 17 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
17 12 (1.01%) IntelliJ
18 11 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
18 11 (0.92%) DbUnit
18 11 (0.92%) jMock
General
1 486 (40.74%) Finance
2 404 (33.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 314 (26.32%) Banking
4 250 (20.96%) Social Skills
5 122 (10.23%) Retail
6 105 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
7 98 (8.21%) Investment Banking
8 92 (7.71%) Law
9 91 (7.63%) Marketing
9 91 (7.63%) Public Sector
10 90 (7.54%) Corporate Banking
11 28 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.76%) Electronics
12 21 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.51%) Games
14 11 (0.92%) Dutch Language
14 11 (0.92%) French Language
14 11 (0.92%) Front Office
14 11 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 363 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 228 (19.11%) Developer
3 171 (14.33%) Senior
4 160 (13.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 147 (12.32%) Lead
6 72 (6.04%) Software Developer
7 62 (5.20%) Architect
8 51 (4.27%) Python Developer
8 51 (4.27%) Python Engineer
9 50 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (3.77%) Java Engineer
10 45 (3.77%) Senior Developer
11 43 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 42 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
13 40 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (3.35%) Lead Developer
14 39 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (2.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (2.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (33.28%) React
2 338 (28.33%) Spring
3 330 (27.66%) Kafka
4 327 (27.41%) Spring Boot
5 299 (25.06%) HTML
6 297 (24.90%) CSS
7 269 (22.55%) JPA
8 248 (20.79%) Redux
9 224 (18.78%) RESTful
10 191 (16.01%) Hibernate
11 178 (14.92%) REST
12 171 (14.33%) .NET
13 103 (8.63%) Node.js
14 99 (8.30%) CSS3
14 99 (8.30%) HTML5
15 94 (7.88%) Jest
16 90 (7.54%) Sass
17 84 (7.04%) Pandas
18 75 (6.29%) AngularJS
19 52 (4.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 275 (23.05%) Product Ownership
2 269 (22.55%) Enterprise Software
3 162 (13.58%) Cloud Native
4 82 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
5 67 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 49 (4.11%) Cyberattack
6 49 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 40 (3.35%) e-Learning
8 33 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
9 26 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 26 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 22 (1.84%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.51%) Blockchain
13 17 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
15 14 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 11 (0.92%) Hedge funds
17 10 (0.84%) Reinsurance
18 8 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 225 (18.86%) Linux
2 89 (7.46%) Windows
3 53 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 49 (4.11%) Android
5 41 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (2.26%) Unix
7 13 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.84%) Debian
10 8 (0.67%) CentOS
10 8 (0.67%) Rocky
10 8 (0.67%) VMS
11 6 (0.50%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.084%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (69.66%) CI/CD
2 742 (62.20%) DevOps
3 643 (53.90%) Agile
4 521 (43.67%) Microservices
5 514 (43.08%) Software Engineering
6 400 (33.53%) Test Automation
7 344 (28.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 305 (25.57%) SDLC
9 302 (25.31%) Performance Optimisation
10 286 (23.97%) Front End Development
11 272 (22.80%) Mentoring
12 261 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 236 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 221 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
15 217 (18.19%) Clean Code
16 211 (17.69%) TDD
17 210 (17.60%) Artificial Intelligence
18 150 (12.57%) Migration
19 143 (11.99%) User Experience
20 113 (9.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 514 (43.08%) Java
2 472 (39.56%) Python
3 428 (35.88%) JavaScript
3 428 (35.88%) SQL
4 147 (12.32%) TypeScript
5 130 (10.90%) C#
6 105 (8.80%) Bash
7 103 (8.63%) PowerShell
8 99 (8.30%) Go
9 63 (5.28%) C++
10 62 (5.20%) Rust
11 19 (1.59%) Bicep
12 15 (1.26%) PHP
13 14 (1.17%) Scala
14 13 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.59%) Ruby
16 6 (0.50%) Groovy
16 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.34%) R
18 3 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 153 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.98%) Degree
3 94 (7.88%) DV Cleared
4 71 (5.95%) AWS Certification
4 71 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 60 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.61%) Azure Certification
7 43 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (2.85%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.01%) PhD
10 10 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.75%) CISSP
12 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.50%) ACMT
14 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (27.91%) QA
2 95 (7.96%) Accessibility
3 45 (3.77%) GDPR
4 26 (2.18%) HIPAA
5 23 (1.93%) NIST
6 18 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.17%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.34%) CDISC
12 3 (0.25%) NCSC
13 2 (0.17%) SLA
14 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.084%) DICOM
14 1 (0.084%) ECSS
14 1 (0.084%) HL7
14 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.084%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.084%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 859 (72.00%) Docker
2 53 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.77%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.42%) vSphere
6 15 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.84%) NFS
8 4 (0.34%) Postfix
8 4 (0.34%) vCloud
9 2 (0.17%) KVM
9 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.084%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.084%) HDFS
10 1 (0.084%) iptables
10 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 842 (70.58%) Kubernetes
2 344 (28.83%) Terraform
3 185 (15.51%) Ansible
4 87 (7.29%) Grafana
5 84 (7.04%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.01%) Kubeflow
7 13 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.84%) SCCM
10 9 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.67%) Puppet
12 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.59%) SCOM
12 7 (0.59%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.59%) WSUS
13 6 (0.50%) Argo
13 6 (0.50%) Autotask
13 6 (0.50%) Istio
14 5 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 247 (20.70%) Solace
2 111 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 68 (5.70%) Red Hat
4 64 (5.36%) Google
4 64 (5.36%) VMware
5 44 (3.69%) Databricks
5 44 (3.69%) Oracle
6 43 (3.60%) IBM
7 28 (2.35%) Cisco
8 25 (2.10%) Splunk
9 23 (1.93%) SAP
10 16 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.26%) Pure Storage
12 14 (1.17%) Commvault
13 10 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.75%) Dell
14 9 (0.75%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.67%) Hitachi
15 8 (0.67%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.67%) Ping Identity