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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 120 186
Rank change year-on-year -26 +66 -51
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,413 1,276 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.57% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.88% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 930 641 826
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 £88,750 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 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 6 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 -30 1,247 £72,500 -6.45% 892
UK excluding London -16 841 £65,000 - 432
Work from Home -38 504 £70,000 - 423
London -30 483 £80,000 -11.11% 544
North of England -23 231 £65,000 - 124
South East +19 198 £65,000 -3.70% 100
South West +16 194 £60,500 -19.33% 84
North West -36 121 £74,651 +24.42% 76
Midlands -74 76 £70,000 +5.66% 42
Yorkshire -18 57 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Northern Ireland -24 56 £73,801 +71.27% 23
North East -8 53 £55,000 -15.38% 25
West Midlands -54 49 £71,289 +5.61% 32
East of England -28 45 £60,000 +2.56% 15
Wales -26 44 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East Midlands -43 27 £62,500 +13.64% 10
Scotland -53 6 £59,283 -15.31% 31

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 45 (3.18%) Apache
2 34 (2.41%) Confluence
3 32 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
9 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.85%) 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
Cloud Services
1 820 (58.03%) AWS
2 733 (51.88%) Azure
3 350 (24.77%) GCP
4 222 (15.71%) GitHub
5 178 (12.60%) Serverless
6 167 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 148 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (8.07%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.08%) Azure AKS
11 94 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (6.65%) Cloud Computing
12 93 (6.58%) Amazon S3
13 90 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
14 82 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
16 70 (4.95%) Datadog
17 69 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
18 63 (4.46%) SaaS
19 55 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.95%) Firewall
1 70 (4.95%) WAN
2 66 (4.67%) DNS
3 63 (4.46%) LAN
4 51 (3.61%) Broadband
5 45 (3.18%) Network Security
6 40 (2.83%) TCP/IP
7 35 (2.48%) VPN
8 22 (1.56%) 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%) HTTP
14 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.57%) IPv4
16 8 (0.57%) LTE
17 7 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (7.64%) NoSQL
3 69 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
5 56 (3.96%) MySQL
6 52 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.11%) Redis
9 41 (2.90%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.99%) Big Data
13 12 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.85%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.78%) DTS
14 11 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.71%) Db2
15 10 (0.71%) Power BI
16 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 267 (18.90%) Git
2 212 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 189 (13.38%) GitLab
4 41 (2.90%) JIRA
5 36 (2.55%) CircleCI
6 28 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.91%) Cypress.io
7 27 (1.91%) JUnit
8 22 (1.56%) Maven
9 20 (1.42%) Mockito
10 18 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.20%) Selenium
12 15 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (1.06%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.85%) Vite
14 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.71%) Postman
16 9 (0.64%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.57%) JMeter
17 8 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 439 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 332 (23.50%) Finance
3 131 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (7.36%) Law
6 99 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 86 (6.09%) Banking
8 63 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.91%) Legal
12 25 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.42%) Retail
14 18 (1.27%) Games
15 14 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
16 12 (0.85%) Marketing
17 11 (0.78%) Front Office
17 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (19.18%) Senior
2 259 (18.33%) Developer
3 210 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 193 (13.66%) Architect
6 181 (12.81%) Lead
7 122 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 77 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 68 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
10 67 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
11 64 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 63 (4.46%) Systems Architect
13 51 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 51 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
14 50 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
15 48 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
18 40 (2.83%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (13.38%) Spring
2 187 (13.23%) RESTful
3 181 (12.81%) React
4 176 (12.46%) Spring Boot
5 145 (10.26%) Kafka
6 142 (10.05%) Node.js
7 141 (9.98%) .NET
8 127 (8.99%) REST
9 81 (5.73%) AngularJS
9 81 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
10 64 (4.53%) gRPC
11 57 (4.03%) OAuth
12 51 (3.61%) JSON
13 50 (3.54%) CSS
14 47 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (3.18%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.04%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.97%) YAML
18 41 (2.90%) HTML
19 39 (2.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 370 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 178 (12.60%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.55%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.55%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (2.55%) Video\Live Streaming
6 35 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.91%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.77%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.70%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.42%) PKI
13 20 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.34%) Blog
14 19 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.27%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 279 (19.75%) Linux
2 92 (6.51%) Windows
3 35 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.26%) CentOS
5 31 (2.19%) Unix
6 24 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) Debian
9 7 (0.50%) 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%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (67.09%) CI/CD
2 684 (48.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 681 (48.20%) DevOps
4 508 (35.95%) Agile
5 452 (31.99%) Software Engineering
6 432 (30.57%) Microservices
7 349 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (19.67%) Observability
9 275 (19.46%) Test Automation
10 273 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 272 (19.25%) Mentoring
12 259 (18.33%) AI
13 209 (14.79%) Event-Driven
14 199 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
15 177 (12.53%) Full-Stack Development
16 165 (11.68%) Roadmaps
17 147 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
18 145 (10.26%) Clean Code
19 143 (10.12%) Machine Learning
20 142 (10.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 650 (46.00%) Python
2 356 (25.19%) Java
3 248 (17.55%) JavaScript
4 179 (12.67%) Bash
5 173 (12.24%) SQL
6 156 (11.04%) TypeScript
7 153 (10.83%) C#
8 138 (9.77%) PowerShell
9 127 (8.99%) Go
10 57 (4.03%) Bicep
11 52 (3.68%) C++
12 49 (3.47%) Scala
13 40 (2.83%) Ruby
14 30 (2.12%) Rust
15 22 (1.56%) PHP
16 20 (1.42%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.27%) Groovy
18 13 (0.92%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.85%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 387 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 200 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 162 (11.46%) Degree
4 144 (10.19%) DV Cleared
5 89 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.18%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.68%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.56%) CISSP
10 18 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.57%) CCNA
16 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.57%) RHCE
16 8 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.70%) QA
2 68 (4.81%) GRC
3 52 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.98%) GDPR
6 25 (1.77%) NIST
6 25 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.63%) WCAG
8 21 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.49%) NCSC
9 11 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.71%) 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 1 (0.071%) PSD2
14 1 (0.071%) SLA
System Software
1 822 (58.17%) Docker
2 44 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.69%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) KVM
7 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.64%) vSphere
8 8 (0.57%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) iptables
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.071%) Lustre
11 1 (0.071%) QEMU
11 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 816 (57.75%) Kubernetes
2 535 (37.86%) Terraform
3 208 (14.72%) Ansible
4 165 (11.68%) Grafana
5 135 (9.55%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.41%) Argo
7 31 (2.19%) Puppet
8 29 (2.05%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.70%) Istio
10 20 (1.42%) Nagios
11 17 (1.20%) Podman
12 16 (1.13%) Kibana
12 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.92%) linkerd
15 11 (0.78%) Packer
15 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.50%) logstash
17 6 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 199 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.87%) Google
3 64 (4.53%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.75%) Splunk
5 50 (3.54%) Oracle
6 47 (3.33%) VMware
7 36 (2.55%) Typelevel
8 27 (1.91%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.56%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.42%) Cisco
12 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.06%) IBM
14 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 11 (0.78%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.71%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.71%) Confluent
16 10 (0.71%) Databricks