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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 132 157
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 -16
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 992 1,108 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.46% 2.25% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.44% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 659 759 1,145
10th Percentile £46,407 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,734 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +4.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,500 £86,485
90th Percentile £126,250 £114,400 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -10 907 £70,932 -5.42% 494
UK excluding London -47 454 £62,500 -8.09% 371
London +9 433 £84,250 -0.88% 202
Work from Home -21 372 £67,950 -5.61% 287
North of England -24 183 £65,000 +4.00% 96
South West -15 106 £55,000 -23.60% 77
North West +17 104 £65,000 +8.33% 50
South East -23 71 £72,500 +4.32% 116
Midlands -34 45 £67,000 +3.08% 46
Yorkshire -55 45 £68,000 - 35
North East +9 34 £51,500 -23.18% 11
East of England +6 27 £60,100 -7.54% 19
West Midlands -27 24 £70,271 +4.64% 31
East Midlands -21 20 £64,500 +7.50% 15
Scotland -44 17 £54,000 -32.50% 13
Northern Ireland -26 8 £62,500 -9.82% 2
Wales -10 6 £71,940 +10.68% 8

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 37 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.13%) Apache
3 21 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.61%) Appian
5 8 (0.81%) CMS
5 8 (0.81%) IIS
6 7 (0.71%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.71%) Confluence
6 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.60%) nginx
7 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.50%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.20%) Camunda
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.71%) Maya
2 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 564 (56.85%) AWS
2 530 (53.43%) Azure
3 274 (27.62%) GCP
4 208 (20.97%) GitHub
5 155 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (13.71%) Serverless
7 135 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (9.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 78 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (7.06%) Amazon S3
11 67 (6.75%) Datadog
11 67 (6.75%) OpenShift
12 65 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 58 (5.85%) Azure AKS
14 57 (5.75%) SaaS
15 47 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (4.54%) PaaS
17 44 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
18 43 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
19 39 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.65%) Firewall
2 38 (3.83%) Broadband
3 34 (3.43%) DNS
4 28 (2.82%) Network Security
5 24 (2.42%) HTTP
6 22 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.12%) VPN
8 11 (1.11%) DHCP
9 10 (1.01%) WAN
10 8 (0.81%) AMQP
11 7 (0.71%) DMZ
12 5 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.40%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.40%) LAN
13 4 (0.40%) MQTT
13 4 (0.40%) VSAN
14 3 (0.30%) VLAN
14 3 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (13.41%) NoSQL
2 96 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 74 (7.46%) MongoDB
5 73 (7.36%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.14%) MySQL
7 48 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 31 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 25 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.42%) Big Data
11 24 (2.42%) Pinecone
12 14 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (1.41%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.41%) Redis
13 13 (1.31%) Metadata
14 10 (1.01%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 169 (17.04%) Git
2 140 (14.11%) Jenkins
3 105 (10.58%) GitLab
4 30 (3.02%) JIRA
5 23 (2.32%) CircleCI
6 21 (2.12%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.12%) MLflow
7 20 (2.02%) JUnit
8 19 (1.92%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.61%) Selenium
11 13 (1.31%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.11%) JMeter
13 10 (1.01%) Vite
14 9 (0.91%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.81%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.81%) Locust
15 8 (0.81%) Maven
16 7 (0.71%) Mockito
16 7 (0.71%) Robot Framework
General
1 283 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 227 (22.88%) Finance
3 79 (7.96%) Public Sector
4 77 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.96%) Telecoms
6 66 (6.65%) Law
7 55 (5.54%) Banking
8 34 (3.43%) Games
9 31 (3.13%) Front Office
9 31 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.51%) Billing
11 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.41%) Marketing
11 14 (1.41%) Retail
12 13 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.21%) Advertising
13 12 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.11%) Electronics
15 10 (1.01%) French Language
16 9 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 240 (24.19%) Senior
2 229 (23.08%) Developer
3 118 (11.90%) Lead
4 109 (10.99%) Software Engineer
5 107 (10.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (7.46%) Architect
8 64 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (4.33%) Java Developer
12 41 (4.13%) Data Engineer
13 40 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
15 34 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (3.43%) Python Developer
16 31 (3.13%) Backend Developer
16 31 (3.13%) Software Developer
17 30 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (2.62%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (14.72%) React
2 140 (14.11%) .NET
3 129 (13.00%) RESTful
4 104 (10.48%) REST
4 104 (10.48%) Spring
5 96 (9.68%) Spring Boot
6 84 (8.47%) Node.js
7 79 (7.96%) Kafka
8 73 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
9 65 (6.55%) AngularJS
10 64 (6.45%) .NET Core
11 60 (6.05%) FastAPI
12 56 (5.65%) gRPC
13 52 (5.24%) Django
14 51 (5.14%) Flask
15 43 (4.33%) OAuth
16 33 (3.33%) HTML
17 32 (3.23%) CSS
17 32 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
17 32 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 253 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 116 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.43%) Public Cloud
7 30 (3.02%) Blockchain
8 28 (2.82%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.22%) Low-Code
9 22 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.22%) PKI
10 19 (1.92%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.81%) Over-the-Top Content
11 18 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
12 17 (1.71%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 216 (21.77%) Linux
2 91 (9.17%) Windows
3 44 (4.44%) Unix
4 33 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 26 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.92%) CentOS
6 19 (1.92%) VMS
7 17 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.31%) Android
9 9 (0.91%) Debian
10 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.20%) Rocky
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.20%) zOS
13 1 (0.10%) Fedora
13 1 (0.10%) Solaris
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (63.91%) CI/CD
2 518 (52.22%) DevOps
3 365 (36.79%) Agile
4 359 (36.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 336 (33.87%) Microservices
6 277 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
7 247 (24.90%) AI
8 232 (23.39%) Software Engineering
9 194 (19.56%) Mentoring
10 180 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 146 (14.72%) Machine Learning
12 140 (14.11%) Test Automation
13 139 (14.01%) Observability
14 121 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 118 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
16 109 (10.99%) Analytics
17 108 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
18 102 (10.28%) High Availability
19 100 (10.08%) Performance Optimisation
20 97 (9.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 478 (48.19%) Python
2 234 (23.59%) Java
3 195 (19.66%) SQL
4 182 (18.35%) JavaScript
5 149 (15.02%) Bash
6 119 (12.00%) C#
7 108 (10.89%) Go
8 88 (8.87%) PowerShell
9 78 (7.86%) TypeScript
10 33 (3.33%) Bicep
11 29 (2.92%) C++
12 24 (2.42%) PHP
13 22 (2.22%) Scala
14 14 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.31%) C
16 8 (0.81%) Delphi
16 8 (0.81%) Ruby
16 8 (0.81%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.71%) Rust
18 6 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 182 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 128 (12.90%) Degree
3 106 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 80 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (7.16%) DV Cleared
6 70 (7.06%) AWS Certification
7 32 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.01%) CISSP
12 7 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.60%) CISM
14 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.40%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.40%) PMP
16 3 (0.30%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.85%) QA
2 42 (4.23%) GDPR
3 39 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.82%) Data Quality
6 26 (2.62%) Accessibility
7 23 (2.32%) NIST
8 15 (1.51%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.31%) NCSC
10 11 (1.11%) GRC
10 11 (1.11%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.81%) WCAG
12 4 (0.40%) EMIR
12 4 (0.40%) SLA
13 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.20%) ECSS
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 639 (64.42%) Docker
2 36 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.41%) vSphere
6 8 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.71%) KVM
8 6 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.40%) Lustre
9 4 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.30%) Firmware
10 3 (0.30%) iptables
10 3 (0.30%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.20%) Ceph
11 2 (0.20%) GPFS
11 2 (0.20%) NFS
11 2 (0.20%) RACF
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 636 (64.11%) Kubernetes
2 376 (37.90%) Terraform
3 182 (18.35%) Ansible
4 157 (15.83%) Grafana
5 147 (14.82%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.13%) Argo
7 19 (1.92%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.92%) Puppet
8 16 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.91%) Control-M
10 9 (0.91%) Istio
11 8 (0.81%) linkerd
11 8 (0.81%) Mesos
12 7 (0.71%) Nagios
12 7 (0.71%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.60%) Rancher
14 5 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
15 4 (0.40%) Cilium
Vendors
1 107 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.17%) Google
3 48 (4.84%) Oracle
4 40 (4.03%) VMware
5 37 (3.73%) Splunk
6 35 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 32 (3.23%) OpenAI
8 24 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.81%) Typelevel
10 16 (1.61%) Databricks
10 16 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 16 (1.61%) SAP
11 15 (1.51%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.51%) Cisco
12 14 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.31%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.31%) UiPath
14 12 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (1.21%) Dell