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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 129 169
Rank change year-on-year -29 +40 -45
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,421 1,207 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.43% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.75% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 914 594 780
10th Percentile £45,895 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,466 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +7.14% -0.82%
75th Percentile £87,875 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% +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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -29 1,248 £72,500 -6.45% 1,431
UK excluding London -12 858 £65,576 +0.89% 744
Work from Home -41 473 £68,724 -1.82% 701
London -43 467 £80,000 -8.57% 884
North of England -34 236 £66,000 +1.54% 183
South West +8 200 £67,500 -5.94% 139
South East +22 184 £65,000 -10.34% 137
North West -44 128 £75,000 +15.38% 101
Midlands -67 86 £70,000 +1.82% 73
North East -13 59 £55,000 -8.33% 27
Northern Ireland -29 59 - - 41
West Midlands -50 54 £71,289 +1.84% 46
Yorkshire -38 49 £72,500 +11.54% 57
Wales -38 49 £60,000 -17.24% 14
East of England -39 49 £60,000 +4.35% 60
East Midlands -53 32 £64,000 +16.36% 26
Scotland -63 7 £60,000 -14.29% 101

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 49 (3.45%) Apache
2 38 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 38 (2.67%) Confluence
3 28 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.28%) Camunda
6 4 (0.28%) IIS
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.21%) WordPress
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) JBoss
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 821 (57.78%) AWS
2 740 (52.08%) Azure
3 338 (23.79%) GCP
4 218 (15.34%) GitHub
5 174 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 166 (11.68%) Serverless
7 150 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.60%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.04%) Azure AKS
11 93 (6.54%) Cloud Computing
12 89 (6.26%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
14 76 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
15 55 (3.87%) Datadog
15 55 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
16 53 (3.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.21%) WAN
2 67 (4.71%) LAN
3 64 (4.50%) Firewall
4 61 (4.29%) DNS
5 47 (3.31%) Network Security
6 37 (2.60%) VPN
7 33 (2.32%) Broadband
8 31 (2.18%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.62%) MQTT
10 19 (1.34%) BGP
11 18 (1.27%) OSPF
12 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.13%) VLAN
14 13 (0.91%) DMARC
15 12 (0.84%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.56%) DHCP
17 8 (0.56%) IPv4
17 8 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.29%) MySQL
5 48 (3.38%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
8 38 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 35 (2.46%) Redis
10 26 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.13%) Big Data
13 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
14 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.84%) InfluxDB
17 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 281 (19.77%) Git
2 215 (15.13%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.74%) GitLab
4 40 (2.81%) JIRA
5 30 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.97%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.90%) JUnit
8 25 (1.76%) Maven
9 22 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 20 (1.41%) Mockito
11 19 (1.34%) Selenium
12 18 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.77%) Vite
15 10 (0.70%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.70%) TestRail
16 9 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 448 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.86%) Finance
3 166 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (7.04%) Law
6 99 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (6.54%) Banking
8 69 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.39%) Legal
10 31 (2.18%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.62%) Retail
13 22 (1.55%) Games
14 17 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.84%) Electronics
17 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.63%) Front Office
20 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (19.21%) Senior
2 245 (17.24%) Developer
3 218 (15.34%) Architect
4 213 (14.99%) Software Engineer
5 212 (14.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 175 (12.32%) Lead
7 116 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.71%) Systems Architect
10 66 (4.64%) Senior Developer
11 65 (4.57%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
13 60 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 45 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
16 45 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
18 41 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
18 41 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (38.49%) Terraform
2 198 (13.93%) RESTful
3 195 (13.72%) Spring
4 188 (13.23%) React
5 180 (12.67%) Spring Boot
6 152 (10.70%) Node.js
7 150 (10.56%) Kafka
8 129 (9.08%) .NET
9 126 (8.87%) REST
10 83 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (5.00%) AngularJS
12 56 (3.94%) OAuth
13 54 (3.80%) CSS
14 44 (3.10%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.03%) gRPC
15 43 (3.03%) JSON
16 42 (2.96%) FastAPI
17 40 (2.81%) HTML
18 39 (2.74%) .NET Core
19 37 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 391 (27.52%) Cloud Native
2 172 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 34 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 33 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 27 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.76%) PKI
11 25 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.62%) Blog
13 21 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
14 19 (1.34%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
15 18 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 298 (20.97%) Linux
2 97 (6.83%) Windows
3 39 (2.74%) Unix
4 37 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.25%) CentOS
6 20 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.70%) Debian
8 8 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.070%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.070%) Rocky
11 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 959 (67.49%) CI/CD
2 712 (50.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 694 (48.84%) DevOps
4 506 (35.61%) Agile
5 459 (32.30%) Software Engineering
6 407 (28.64%) Microservices
7 332 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (20.69%) Observability
9 285 (20.06%) Mentoring
10 276 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (19.35%) Test Automation
12 271 (19.07%) AI
13 231 (16.26%) Event-Driven
14 213 (14.99%) Platform Engineering
15 184 (12.95%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
17 157 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
18 144 (10.13%) Scrum
19 142 (9.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 137 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 640 (45.04%) Python
2 369 (25.97%) Java
3 232 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 187 (13.16%) Bash
5 164 (11.54%) SQL
6 163 (11.47%) TypeScript
7 145 (10.20%) C#
8 134 (9.43%) PowerShell
9 105 (7.39%) Go
10 62 (4.36%) Bicep
11 57 (4.01%) C++
12 39 (2.74%) Ruby
13 35 (2.46%) Rust
13 35 (2.46%) Scala
14 21 (1.48%) Groovy
15 17 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.13%) PHP
17 15 (1.06%) C
17 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 439 (30.89%) Security Cleared
2 215 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 166 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 163 (11.47%) Degree
5 92 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.76%) CISSP
9 13 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 12 (0.84%) CCNP
10 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.77%) OSCP
11 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.63%) CISM
13 9 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.73%) QA
2 72 (5.07%) GRC
3 59 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.90%) NCSC
6 25 (1.76%) GDPR
7 24 (1.69%) NIST
8 23 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 20 (1.41%) WCAG
10 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.70%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.63%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.21%) SLA
17 1 (0.070%) COBIT
17 1 (0.070%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 808 (56.86%) Docker
2 49 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 38 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
12 3 (0.21%) NDS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) QEMU
14 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 826 (58.13%) Kubernetes
2 214 (15.06%) Ansible
3 145 (10.20%) Grafana
4 115 (8.09%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.60%) Argo
6 36 (2.53%) Puppet
7 32 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.90%) Istio
9 18 (1.27%) Podman
10 17 (1.20%) Nagios
11 16 (1.13%) Kibana
12 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.06%) linkerd
13 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.77%) Packer
14 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.56%) logstash
16 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
17 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 226 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.54%) Google
3 60 (4.22%) Red Hat
4 57 (4.01%) Splunk
5 55 (3.87%) VMware
6 53 (3.73%) Oracle
7 26 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 21 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.41%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 18 (1.27%) Typelevel
10 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 14 (0.99%) Cisco
13 13 (0.91%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.84%) Databricks
14 12 (0.84%) Mistral
15 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
16 10 (0.70%) ServiceNow