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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 148 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 -32 +22
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 889 1,209 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.86% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.18% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 606 772 1,059
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,938 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £109,875 £97,332
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.92%

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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £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 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -3 821 £72,500 +3.57% 385
UK excluding London -24 425 £65,000 - 327
London +23 394 £85,000 - 164
Work from Home -16 313 £67,500 -3.57% 208
North of England +7 170 £65,000 +8.33% 67
North West +22 104 £65,000 +8.33% 41
South West -6 86 £60,000 -13.04% 62
South East -23 61 £75,000 +15.38% 123
Midlands +16 56 £68,750 +5.77% 40
Yorkshire -28 43 £68,500 +24.55% 17
West Midlands +27 38 £70,542 +8.53% 26
East of England +12 27 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Scotland -20 27 £70,000 - 11
North East +23 23 £57,600 +4.73% 9
East Midlands +15 17 £53,250 +25.29% 11
Wales +6 15 £80,000 +23.08% 11
Northern Ireland -10 4 £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 49 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.70%) Apache
4 17 (1.91%) CMS
5 16 (1.80%) IIS
6 13 (1.46%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.67%) Appian
7 6 (0.67%) Confluence
7 6 (0.67%) nginx
8 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.02%) Maya
2 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.22%) Sketch
3 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Shopify
2 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 517 (58.16%) AWS
2 496 (55.79%) Azure
3 226 (25.42%) GCP
4 173 (19.46%) GitHub
5 125 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (13.61%) GitHub Actions
7 120 (13.50%) Serverless
8 72 (8.10%) Amazon S3
9 65 (7.31%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (6.97%) SaaS
12 61 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 51 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 45 (5.06%) OpenShift
15 43 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (4.61%) Datadog
17 36 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
18 35 (3.94%) PaaS
19 34 (3.82%) Azure AKS
20 31 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.74%) Firewall
2 31 (3.49%) DNS
3 20 (2.25%) VPN
4 19 (2.14%) DHCP
5 18 (2.02%) Network Security
6 16 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.80%) WAN
7 12 (1.35%) LAN
8 9 (1.01%) HTTP
8 9 (1.01%) IPsec
9 8 (0.90%) VLAN
10 7 (0.79%) AMQP
10 7 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.67%) VoIP
11 6 (0.67%) Wireless
12 5 (0.56%) SAN
13 4 (0.45%) DMZ
13 4 (0.45%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (11.36%) NoSQL
2 97 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (8.44%) SQL Server
4 62 (6.97%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.74%) MySQL
6 49 (5.51%) Relational Database
7 44 (4.95%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (3.26%) Big Data
10 25 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.70%) Metadata
12 20 (2.25%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.14%) Delta Lake
14 15 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.46%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.46%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.35%) Tick Data
17 11 (1.24%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 167 (18.79%) Git
2 115 (12.94%) Jenkins
3 90 (10.12%) GitLab
4 32 (3.60%) MLflow
5 29 (3.26%) JIRA
6 19 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 19 (2.14%) TeamCity
7 18 (2.02%) JUnit
7 18 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 13 (1.46%) Selenium
10 12 (1.35%) JMeter
11 11 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.90%) Locust
13 7 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.45%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.45%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 272 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 221 (24.86%) Finance
3 87 (9.79%) Law
4 76 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 71 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (7.99%) Marketing
6 47 (5.29%) Telecoms
7 45 (5.06%) Banking
8 35 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.82%) Games
10 28 (3.15%) Manufacturing
11 27 (3.04%) Retail
12 23 (2.59%) Front Office
13 21 (2.36%) Electronics
14 13 (1.46%) French Language
15 12 (1.35%) Dutch Language
15 12 (1.35%) Legal
16 11 (1.24%) Advertising
16 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (23.28%) Developer
2 184 (20.70%) Senior
3 125 (14.06%) Lead
4 110 (12.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 88 (9.90%) Software Engineer
6 58 (6.52%) Architect
7 54 (6.07%) Senior Developer
8 50 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
8 50 (5.62%) Python Developer
9 47 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 44 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (4.27%) Lead Developer
12 37 (4.16%) Data Engineer
12 37 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (3.94%) Backend Developer
13 35 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (3.94%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (3.71%) Operations Engineer
15 33 (3.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (15.52%) React
2 131 (14.74%) .NET
3 125 (14.06%) RESTful
4 76 (8.55%) Spring
5 72 (8.10%) Node.js
5 72 (8.10%) REST
6 71 (7.99%) Spring Boot
7 67 (7.54%) Kafka
8 62 (6.97%) FastAPI
9 60 (6.75%) AngularJS
10 54 (6.07%) .NET Core
11 53 (5.96%) HTML
12 52 (5.85%) CSS
13 47 (5.29%) Flask
13 47 (5.29%) PyTorch
14 42 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
14 42 (4.72%) TensorFlow
15 38 (4.27%) Pandas
15 38 (4.27%) scikit-learn
15 38 (4.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 210 (23.62%) Cloud Native
2 99 (11.14%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 30 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (3.15%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.81%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.59%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.25%) Blockchain
12 14 (1.57%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.35%) PKI
14 10 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 185 (20.81%) Linux
2 112 (12.60%) Windows
3 52 (5.85%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.16%) Unix
5 29 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.91%) VMS
7 16 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (1.24%) CentOS
10 8 (0.90%) Rocky
11 7 (0.79%) Debian
12 6 (0.67%) Android
12 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.22%) zOS
15 1 (0.11%) Fedora
15 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.11%) Solaris
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (63.55%) CI/CD
2 462 (51.97%) DevOps
3 309 (34.76%) Agile
4 279 (31.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (28.57%) Microservices
6 250 (28.12%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (25.76%) AI
8 178 (20.02%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.89%) Mentoring
10 130 (14.62%) Machine Learning
11 123 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 123 (13.84%) Test Automation
12 115 (12.94%) Observability
13 106 (11.92%) Full-Stack Development
14 99 (11.14%) Computer Science
15 92 (10.35%) Analytics
16 88 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
17 86 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
18 85 (9.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 80 (9.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 434 (48.82%) Python
2 189 (21.26%) SQL
3 177 (19.91%) Java
4 150 (16.87%) JavaScript
5 133 (14.96%) C#
6 110 (12.37%) Bash
7 98 (11.02%) PowerShell
8 56 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 44 (4.95%) Go
10 29 (3.26%) Bicep
11 18 (2.02%) C++
12 16 (1.80%) PHP
13 12 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.01%) Ruby
15 8 (0.90%) Delphi
16 7 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.79%) Scala
17 6 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.45%) C
18 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 133 (14.96%) Degree
2 132 (14.85%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 82 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (7.09%) AWS Certification
5 63 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 46 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 14 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.46%) CISSP
10 8 (0.90%) CISM
10 8 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.79%) PhD
11 7 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.67%) ACMT
12 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.22%) QA
2 40 (4.50%) GDPR
3 26 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.25%) NIST
6 15 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.24%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.01%) NCSC
10 8 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.90%) WCAG
11 7 (0.79%) GRC
11 7 (0.79%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.45%) EMIR
15 3 (0.34%) SLA
16 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.22%) ECSS
16 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 589 (66.25%) Docker
2 49 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (4.84%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.15%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.14%) vSphere
6 13 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.79%) NFS
9 5 (0.56%) KVM
10 4 (0.45%) Lustre
10 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.45%) vCloud
10 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 568 (63.89%) Kubernetes
2 312 (35.10%) Terraform
3 130 (14.62%) Ansible
4 110 (12.37%) Grafana
5 90 (10.12%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.70%) Kubeflow
7 14 (1.57%) Argo
8 12 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.12%) Control-M
10 10 (1.12%) Puppet
11 8 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.90%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.67%) Autotask
13 6 (0.67%) SCCM
13 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.56%) Rancher
14 5 (0.56%) SCOM
14 5 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 119 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.64%) Oracle
3 58 (6.52%) VMware
4 52 (5.85%) Google
5 39 (4.39%) Databricks
6 36 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.49%) Splunk
8 27 (3.04%) SAP
9 23 (2.59%) Cisco
10 21 (2.36%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.25%) Dell
12 19 (2.14%) OpenAI
13 12 (1.35%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.12%) MuleSoft
16 9 (1.01%) Dynatrace
16 9 (1.01%) Pure Storage
17 8 (0.90%) Commvault
17 8 (0.90%) IBM