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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 151 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 -34 +19
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 913 1,218 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.81% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.13% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 627 777 1,042
10th Percentile £48,216 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,438 £57,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 45,724 57,096 47,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 85.02% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,947 29,808 36,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -6 844 £72,500 +3.57% 431
UK excluding London -11 434 £65,000 - 356
London +17 411 £85,000 - 174
Work from Home -8 321 £67,500 -3.57% 240
North of England +12 168 £65,000 +8.33% 75
North West +35 105 £63,750 +6.25% 48
South West -2 90 £60,000 -13.04% 64
Midlands +16 60 £67,500 +3.85% 44
South East -24 59 £75,000 +15.38% 135
West Midlands +37 40 £70,542 +8.53% 31
Yorkshire -37 40 £68,500 +24.55% 17
Scotland -18 30 £70,000 - 15
East of England +19 27 £57,500 -8.00% 15
North East +27 23 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East Midlands +19 19 £54,500 +29.76% 12
Wales +2 15 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Northern Ireland -3 5 £43,092 -33.35% 2

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 52 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.96%) Apache
4 17 (1.86%) CMS
5 16 (1.75%) IIS
6 13 (1.42%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.88%) Confluence
8 6 (0.66%) Appian
8 6 (0.66%) nginx
9 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.97%) Maya
2 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 4 (0.44%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 530 (58.05%) AWS
2 500 (54.76%) Azure
3 232 (25.41%) GCP
4 174 (19.06%) GitHub
5 127 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (13.14%) Serverless
7 119 (13.03%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (7.67%) Amazon S3
9 67 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (6.79%) SaaS
12 59 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 52 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (4.49%) OpenShift
16 39 (4.27%) Datadog
17 37 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
18 36 (3.94%) PaaS
19 34 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
20 33 (3.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.59%) Firewall
2 31 (3.40%) DNS
3 19 (2.08%) DHCP
3 19 (2.08%) VPN
4 18 (1.97%) Network Security
4 18 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.86%) WAN
6 13 (1.42%) LAN
7 9 (0.99%) HTTP
7 9 (0.99%) IPsec
8 8 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (0.88%) VLAN
9 7 (0.77%) AMQP
10 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.66%) SAN
10 6 (0.66%) VoIP
10 6 (0.66%) Wireless
11 4 (0.44%) DMZ
11 4 (0.44%) Internet
11 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 75 (8.21%) SQL Server
4 64 (7.01%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.59%) MySQL
6 50 (5.48%) Relational Database
7 45 (4.93%) DynamoDB
8 43 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (3.50%) Big Data
10 27 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.63%) Metadata
12 20 (2.19%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 14 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.42%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.42%) Tick Data
16 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 166 (18.18%) Git
2 118 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 94 (10.30%) GitLab
4 32 (3.50%) MLflow
5 31 (3.40%) JIRA
6 22 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 21 (2.30%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.86%) JUnit
10 16 (1.75%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.64%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (1.31%) Selenium
14 11 (1.20%) JMeter
15 10 (1.10%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (0.77%) Locust
18 5 (0.55%) Maven
19 4 (0.44%) IntelliJ
19 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 276 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 231 (25.30%) Finance
3 97 (10.62%) Law
4 82 (8.98%) Marketing
5 77 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 71 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 47 (5.15%) Banking
8 47 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.72%) Games
10 30 (3.29%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.18%) Retail
12 23 (2.52%) Electronics
12 23 (2.52%) Front Office
13 13 (1.42%) French Language
13 13 (1.42%) Legal
14 12 (1.31%) Dutch Language
15 11 (1.20%) Advertising
15 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (23.55%) Developer
2 189 (20.70%) Senior
3 133 (14.57%) Lead
4 114 (12.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (10.73%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.57%) Architect
7 58 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.81%) Python Developer
9 50 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 41 (4.49%) Lead Developer
13 40 (4.38%) Python Engineer
14 39 (4.27%) Data Engineer
15 38 (4.16%) Backend Developer
15 38 (4.16%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 36 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
17 34 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (15.88%) React
2 134 (14.68%) .NET
3 133 (14.57%) RESTful
4 79 (8.65%) Spring
5 75 (8.21%) REST
6 74 (8.11%) Node.js
7 72 (7.89%) Kafka
7 72 (7.89%) Spring Boot
8 68 (7.45%) FastAPI
9 63 (6.90%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.24%) .NET Core
10 57 (6.24%) HTML
11 56 (6.13%) CSS
12 49 (5.37%) PyTorch
13 48 (5.26%) Flask
14 44 (4.82%) TensorFlow
15 41 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (4.49%) Pandas
16 39 (4.27%) scikit-learn
16 39 (4.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 103 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (3.83%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.40%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.29%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.52%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.19%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.75%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.20%) PKI
15 10 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.70%) Linux
2 110 (12.05%) Windows
3 51 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.94%) Unix
5 30 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.75%) VMS
7 12 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.10%) CentOS
9 8 (0.88%) Debian
9 8 (0.88%) Rocky
10 6 (0.66%) Android
10 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Fedora
13 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (62.87%) CI/CD
2 472 (51.70%) DevOps
3 312 (34.17%) Agile
4 288 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (28.81%) Microservices
6 250 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
7 233 (25.52%) AI
8 196 (21.47%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.42%) Mentoring
10 136 (14.90%) Machine Learning
11 124 (13.58%) Test Automation
12 116 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (12.71%) Observability
13 112 (12.27%) Full-Stack Development
14 106 (11.61%) Computer Science
15 96 (10.51%) Analytics
16 91 (9.97%) Data Pipeline
17 87 (9.53%) Platform Engineering
18 82 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 81 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 449 (49.18%) Python
2 195 (21.36%) SQL
3 183 (20.04%) Java
4 150 (16.43%) JavaScript
5 141 (15.44%) C#
6 109 (11.94%) Bash
7 98 (10.73%) PowerShell
8 57 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.15%) Go
10 29 (3.18%) Bicep
11 21 (2.30%) C++
12 19 (2.08%) PHP
13 13 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.10%) Ruby
15 8 (0.88%) Delphi
15 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.77%) Scala
17 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.66%) Rust
18 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 140 (15.33%) Degree
2 133 (14.57%) Security Cleared
3 87 (9.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 85 (9.31%) SC Cleared
5 65 (7.12%) DV Cleared
6 62 (6.79%) AWS Certification
7 46 (5.04%) Azure Certification
8 26 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (1.42%) CISSP
12 8 (0.88%) CISM
12 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.77%) PhD
13 7 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.66%) ACMT
15 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.87%) QA
2 43 (4.71%) GDPR
3 27 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.30%) NIST
6 15 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.88%) NCSC
9 8 (0.88%) WCAG
10 7 (0.77%) GRC
10 7 (0.77%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.44%) EMIR
14 3 (0.33%) SLA
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) ECSS
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 600 (65.72%) Docker
2 51 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (4.60%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.07%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.30%) vSphere
6 13 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.88%) NFS
9 4 (0.44%) KVM
9 4 (0.44%) Lustre
9 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.44%) vCloud
9 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.22%) Ceph
10 2 (0.22%) GPFS
10 2 (0.22%) RACF
10 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 579 (63.42%) Kubernetes
2 314 (34.39%) Terraform
3 132 (14.46%) Ansible
4 110 (12.05%) Grafana
5 89 (9.75%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.63%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.31%) Argo
7 12 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.20%) Control-M
9 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.99%) Puppet
11 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.66%) Autotask
13 6 (0.66%) SCCM
14 5 (0.55%) SCOM
14 5 (0.55%) WSUS
15 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 121 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.90%) Oracle
3 60 (6.57%) VMware
4 54 (5.91%) Google
5 40 (4.38%) Databricks
6 35 (3.83%) Red Hat
7 32 (3.50%) Splunk
8 29 (3.18%) SAP
9 25 (2.74%) Cisco
10 21 (2.30%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.19%) Dell
11 20 (2.19%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.64%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.20%) Pure Storage
14 10 (1.10%) Commvault
14 10 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.88%) IBM