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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 126 187
Rank change year-on-year -28 +61 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,414 1,262 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.53% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.84% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 920 633 819
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £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 £88,000 £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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 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 12 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 -27 1,249 £72,500 -6.45% 1,391
UK excluding London -15 844 £65,000 - 652
Work from Home -31 496 £70,000 - 621
London -33 484 £80,000 -11.11% 879
North of England -29 232 £65,000 - 164
South East +25 198 £65,000 -3.70% 144
South West +14 194 £65,000 -13.33% 117
North West -44 120 £75,000 +25.00% 96
Midlands -54 78 £70,000 +7.69% 62
Yorkshire -19 57 £65,000 - 36
Northern Ireland -21 56 £73,801 +71.27% 34
North East -10 55 £55,000 -15.38% 33
West Midlands -45 50 £72,500 +7.41% 39
Wales -26 45 £67,500 +3.85% 21
East of England -34 45 £60,000 +2.56% 42
East Midlands -47 28 £61,250 +11.36% 23
Scotland -62 6 £59,283 -15.31% 70

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 48 (3.39%) Apache
2 36 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 36 (2.55%) Confluence
3 32 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.28%) Camunda
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) WordPress
8 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.071%) JBoss
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) 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
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 819 (57.92%) AWS
2 737 (52.12%) Azure
3 344 (24.33%) GCP
4 222 (15.70%) GitHub
5 179 (12.66%) Serverless
6 171 (12.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 146 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (7.99%) OpenShift
10 96 (6.79%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.65%) Amazon S3
12 94 (6.65%) Cloud Computing
13 88 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
15 79 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
17 65 (4.60%) Datadog
18 62 (4.38%) 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 45 (3.18%) Network Security
5 43 (3.04%) Broadband
6 41 (2.90%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.55%) VPN
8 21 (1.49%) 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%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (7.92%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.09%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.03%) MySQL
5 56 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
6 53 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.18%) Redis
9 39 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 30 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.13%) Big Data
13 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.85%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.85%) Power BI
16 11 (0.78%) DTS
17 10 (0.71%) Db2
Development Applications
1 276 (19.52%) Git
2 212 (14.99%) Jenkins
3 184 (13.01%) GitLab
4 44 (3.11%) JIRA
5 33 (2.33%) CircleCI
6 29 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.98%) JUnit
8 27 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.63%) Maven
10 21 (1.49%) Mockito
11 18 (1.27%) SonarQube
12 17 (1.20%) Selenium
13 16 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.13%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.85%) Vite
15 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.71%) Postman
17 9 (0.64%) MLflow
17 9 (0.64%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.57%) JMeter
General
1 440 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 338 (23.90%) Finance
3 138 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 114 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (7.85%) Law
6 109 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 90 (6.36%) Banking
8 64 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.12%) Legal
11 29 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.49%) Retail
14 19 (1.34%) Games
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 13 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 12 (0.85%) Front Office
18 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (18.88%) Senior
2 256 (18.10%) Developer
3 210 (14.85%) Software Engineer
4 206 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 199 (14.07%) Architect
6 178 (12.59%) Lead
7 120 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
10 65 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (4.60%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.46%) Systems Architect
12 50 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 48 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
16 41 (2.90%) Lead Software Engineer
17 40 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (13.72%) Spring
2 190 (13.44%) RESTful
3 182 (12.87%) React
4 178 (12.59%) Spring Boot
5 148 (10.47%) Kafka
6 144 (10.18%) Node.js
7 140 (9.90%) .NET
8 130 (9.19%) REST
9 80 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
10 78 (5.52%) AngularJS
11 57 (4.03%) OAuth
12 54 (3.82%) gRPC
13 52 (3.68%) CSS
14 51 (3.61%) JSON
15 45 (3.18%) .NET Core
16 44 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
17 43 (3.04%) OAuth2
17 43 (3.04%) YAML
18 41 (2.90%) HTML
19 39 (2.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 375 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 175 (12.38%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 32 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.91%) Over-the-Top Content
10 27 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 26 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.77%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.49%) Blog
13 21 (1.49%) PKI
14 20 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.34%) Public Cloud
16 18 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 284 (20.08%) Linux
2 94 (6.65%) Windows
3 35 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.19%) CentOS
4 31 (2.19%) Unix
5 22 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.50%) Debian
7 7 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.21%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.14%) Android
9 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.071%) Rocky
10 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (67.04%) CI/CD
2 692 (48.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 681 (48.16%) DevOps
4 511 (36.14%) Agile
5 453 (32.04%) Software Engineering
6 426 (30.13%) Microservices
7 340 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (19.87%) Observability
9 274 (19.38%) Test Automation
10 269 (19.02%) AI
10 269 (19.02%) Mentoring
11 268 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 216 (15.28%) Event-Driven
13 202 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 175 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 168 (11.88%) Roadmaps
16 147 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
17 143 (10.11%) Machine Learning
17 143 (10.11%) Scrum
18 139 (9.83%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 652 (46.11%) Python
2 368 (26.03%) Java
3 247 (17.47%) JavaScript
4 178 (12.59%) Bash
5 175 (12.38%) SQL
6 157 (11.10%) C#
6 157 (11.10%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.62%) PowerShell
8 117 (8.27%) Go
9 58 (4.10%) Bicep
10 55 (3.89%) C++
11 43 (3.04%) Scala
12 40 (2.83%) Ruby
13 31 (2.19%) Rust
14 22 (1.56%) PHP
15 21 (1.49%) Kotlin
16 20 (1.41%) Groovy
17 14 (0.99%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.92%) C
19 12 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 405 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 210 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 163 (11.53%) Degree
4 145 (10.25%) DV Cleared
5 88 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 55 (3.89%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.49%) CISSP
10 20 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.57%) CCNA
15 8 (0.57%) OSCP
15 8 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.63%) QA
2 67 (4.74%) GRC
3 55 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.84%) GDPR
6 23 (1.63%) NCSC
6 23 (1.63%) NIST
6 23 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.63%) WCAG
7 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.64%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.071%) SEPA
13 1 (0.071%) SLA
System Software
1 822 (58.13%) Docker
2 46 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 40 (2.83%) 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 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
12 1 (0.071%) iptables
12 1 (0.071%) Lustre
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) QEMU
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 816 (57.71%) Kubernetes
2 534 (37.77%) Terraform
3 202 (14.29%) Ansible
4 154 (10.89%) Grafana
5 126 (8.91%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.33%) Argo
7 31 (2.19%) Puppet
8 30 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.63%) Istio
10 19 (1.34%) Nagios
11 17 (1.20%) Podman
12 16 (1.13%) Kibana
13 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
14 12 (0.85%) linkerd
15 11 (0.78%) Packer
15 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.50%) logstash
17 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 203 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.44%) Google
3 65 (4.60%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.68%) Oracle
4 52 (3.68%) Splunk
5 50 (3.54%) VMware
6 27 (1.91%) Dynatrace
6 27 (1.91%) Typelevel
7 26 (1.84%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.41%) Cisco
10 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.78%) Databricks
15 10 (0.71%) Confluent
15 10 (0.71%) Rapid7