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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 114 200
Rank change year-on-year -53 +86 -51
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,171 1,240 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.83% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 3.04% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 791 642 1,100
10th Percentile £45,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,734 £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 68,751 40,768 85,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.20% 83.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,945 21,478 61,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 2 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 2 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 -45 1,079 £72,500 -6.45% 525
UK excluding London -62 617 £62,500 -7.41% 320
London -15 466 £80,000 -11.11% 243
Work from Home -30 437 £70,079 -1.29% 282
North of England -59 191 £65,000 -3.04% 80
South East +13 159 £70,000 +7.69% 82
South West -5 140 £55,000 -23.87% 79
North West -54 94 £70,466 +13.28% 42
Yorkshire -47 60 £65,000 -7.14% 18
Midlands -88 58 £70,000 +16.67% 26
East of England -14 39 £60,000 -11.11% 19
North East -15 37 £55,000 -15.38% 20
West Midlands -65 32 £70,505 +8.47% 16
East Midlands -62 26 £64,000 +6.67% 10
Wales -25 20 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Scotland -66 9 £60,000 -27.27% 16
Northern Ireland -35 5 £62,500 - 9

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 (2.73%) Apache
2 24 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.71%) Confluence
5 9 (0.77%) Appian
6 7 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.34%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.26%) Camunda
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.085%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.085%) nginx
11 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.26%) Maya
5 2 (0.17%) Blender
6 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.085%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 689 (58.84%) AWS
2 593 (50.64%) Azure
3 322 (27.50%) GCP
4 188 (16.05%) GitHub
5 166 (14.18%) Serverless
6 131 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
7 127 (10.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 123 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (8.80%) Azure AKS
10 94 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (7.69%) Amazon S3
12 89 (7.60%) OpenShift
13 76 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 75 (6.40%) Datadog
15 71 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (5.55%) SaaS
17 49 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
17 49 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
18 48 (4.10%) IaaS
19 38 (3.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.58%) Broadband
2 70 (5.98%) Firewall
3 65 (5.55%) DNS
4 37 (3.16%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.65%) Network Security
6 24 (2.05%) HTTP
7 17 (1.45%) VPN
8 13 (1.11%) MQTT
9 11 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.68%) AMQP
10 8 (0.68%) IPv4
11 7 (0.60%) DHCP
11 7 (0.60%) DMARC
11 7 (0.60%) VLAN
12 6 (0.51%) BGP
12 6 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.51%) DMZ
12 6 (0.51%) OSPF
12 6 (0.51%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (11.61%) NoSQL
2 102 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.40%) MongoDB
4 72 (6.15%) Relational Database
5 66 (5.64%) SQL Server
6 58 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.27%) MySQL
8 47 (4.01%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.65%) Redis
10 30 (2.56%) RDBMS
11 29 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.71%) Pinecone
13 16 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.11%) Big Data
15 10 (0.85%) Metadata
16 9 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.77%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.77%) Power BI
17 8 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 211 (18.02%) Git
2 175 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 157 (13.41%) GitLab
4 45 (3.84%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.99%) JIRA
6 27 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.05%) JUnit
8 22 (1.88%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.79%) Maven
9 21 (1.79%) Mockito
10 18 (1.54%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.37%) Vite
12 15 (1.28%) MLflow
12 15 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 13 (1.11%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.94%) Selenium
15 9 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.77%) JMeter
16 8 (0.68%) Robot Framework
16 8 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 321 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 229 (19.56%) Finance
3 85 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.23%) Banking
6 63 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (5.21%) Law
8 53 (4.53%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.22%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.62%) Retail
12 17 (1.45%) Front Office
13 13 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.02%) Billing
14 12 (1.02%) Games
15 11 (0.94%) Legal
15 11 (0.94%) Marketing
16 10 (0.85%) Electronics
17 9 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (22.97%) Senior
2 248 (21.18%) Developer
3 177 (15.12%) Software Engineer
4 155 (13.24%) Lead
5 147 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 118 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 90 (7.69%) Architect
8 75 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
12 45 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 43 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
14 42 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 41 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 41 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
16 34 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
17 32 (2.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 30 (2.56%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (15.12%) React
2 164 (14.01%) RESTful
3 153 (13.07%) .NET
4 134 (11.44%) Spring
5 124 (10.59%) REST
6 122 (10.42%) Spring Boot
7 115 (9.82%) Node.js
8 110 (9.39%) Kafka
9 84 (7.17%) gRPC
10 73 (6.23%) AngularJS
11 66 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
12 62 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
13 59 (5.04%) OAuth
14 58 (4.95%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.67%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.50%) JSON
17 39 (3.33%) OAuth2
18 35 (2.99%) Django
18 35 (2.99%) JWT
19 33 (2.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 280 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 146 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (5.55%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.84%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.84%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.31%) Blockchain
9 25 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.88%) PKI
11 21 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.79%) Web3
12 19 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 226 (19.30%) Linux
2 79 (6.75%) Windows
3 38 (3.25%) Unix
4 36 (3.07%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 30 (2.56%) CentOS
7 21 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.77%) Debian
9 6 (0.51%) Android
10 4 (0.34%) VMS
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.085%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (67.89%) CI/CD
2 569 (48.59%) DevOps
3 487 (41.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 449 (38.34%) Agile
5 383 (32.71%) Microservices
6 367 (31.34%) Software Engineering
7 297 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
8 235 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 234 (19.98%) Test Automation
10 232 (19.81%) Mentoring
11 217 (18.53%) AI
12 208 (17.76%) Observability
13 160 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 143 (12.21%) Machine Learning
15 140 (11.96%) High Availability
16 133 (11.36%) Event-Driven
16 133 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
17 131 (11.19%) Continuous Delivery
18 129 (11.02%) Clean Code
19 124 (10.59%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 544 (46.46%) Python
2 287 (24.51%) Java
3 237 (20.24%) JavaScript
4 197 (16.82%) SQL
5 179 (15.29%) Bash
6 147 (12.55%) Go
7 145 (12.38%) C#
8 137 (11.70%) TypeScript
9 131 (11.19%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.27%) Scala
11 38 (3.25%) Bicep
12 35 (2.99%) C++
13 27 (2.31%) PHP
14 24 (2.05%) Rust
15 21 (1.79%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.37%) C
16 16 (1.37%) Ruby
17 15 (1.28%) Groovy
18 12 (1.02%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 250 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 131 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 120 (10.25%) Degree
4 84 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 68 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.70%) AWS Certification
7 54 (4.61%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.02%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.85%) CISSP
12 8 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.68%) CCNA
12 8 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.68%) OSCP
12 8 (0.68%) RHCE
12 8 (0.68%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.77%) QA
2 37 (3.16%) GDPR
3 32 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 31 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.31%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.96%) NIST
8 15 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.02%) GRC
9 12 (1.02%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.68%) WCAG
11 7 (0.60%) NCSC
12 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.17%) SLA
16 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.085%) DO-178B
System Software
1 725 (61.91%) Docker
2 35 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (2.39%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.85%) vSphere
6 8 (0.68%) Squid
7 7 (0.60%) Firmware
7 7 (0.60%) KVM
8 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.34%) iptables
9 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.085%) QEMU
11 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 693 (59.18%) Kubernetes
2 446 (38.09%) Terraform
3 190 (16.23%) Ansible
4 157 (13.41%) Grafana
5 150 (12.81%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.59%) Argo
7 25 (2.13%) Puppet
8 21 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.71%) Istio
10 18 (1.54%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.45%) Podman
11 17 (1.45%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.28%) Nagios
13 12 (1.02%) Packer
14 10 (0.85%) Kibana
15 9 (0.77%) linkerd
15 9 (0.77%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.60%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.51%) Mesos
Vendors
1 118 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 106 (9.05%) Google
3 58 (4.95%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.84%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.59%) Splunk
6 40 (3.42%) Oracle
7 35 (2.99%) VMware
8 28 (2.39%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.28%) Cisco
11 13 (1.11%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.02%) NVIDIA
12 12 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.94%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.94%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.85%) Databricks
15 9 (0.77%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.77%) Confluent
15 9 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.77%) UiPath