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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 115 193
Rank change year-on-year -31 +78 -56
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,390 1,305 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 2.65% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.95% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 925 667 871
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,375 £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 £88,750 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £122,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 1,224 £72,500 -6.45% 601
UK excluding London -27 818 £65,000 -3.70% 337
Work from Home -37 508 £70,000 -2.77% 273
London -25 480 £80,000 -11.11% 329
North of England -29 230 £65,000 - 95
South East +42 194 £65,000 -1.89% 80
South West +2 186 £58,750 -21.67% 66
North West -31 124 £73,401 +19.84% 60
Midlands -84 70 £70,000 +7.69% 47
Yorkshire -37 59 £65,000 -5.11% 16
Northern Ireland -20 56 £73,801 +71.27% 13
North East -9 47 £55,000 -15.38% 19
Wales -32 44 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -50 44 £70,079 +3.82% 35
East of England -23 41 £60,000 -2.83% 15
East Midlands -53 26 £62,500 +8.69% 12
Scotland -67 7 £60,000 -18.37% 18

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 41 (2.95%) Apache
2 32 (2.30%) Confluence
3 31 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.29%) Camunda
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.072%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.072%) JBoss
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 802 (57.70%) AWS
2 714 (51.37%) Azure
3 352 (25.32%) GCP
4 218 (15.68%) GitHub
5 182 (13.09%) Serverless
6 163 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 149 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (7.99%) OpenShift
10 104 (7.48%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.76%) Amazon S3
13 92 (6.62%) Cloud Computing
14 85 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
15 79 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
17 72 (5.18%) Datadog
18 68 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
19 61 (4.39%) SaaS
20 56 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.18%) Firewall
2 70 (5.04%) WAN
3 68 (4.89%) DNS
4 63 (4.53%) LAN
5 59 (4.24%) Broadband
6 45 (3.24%) Network Security
7 41 (2.95%) TCP/IP
8 36 (2.59%) VPN
9 21 (1.51%) MQTT
10 18 (1.29%) BGP
10 18 (1.29%) OSPF
11 17 (1.22%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.15%) HTTP
12 16 (1.15%) VLAN
13 13 (0.94%) DMARC
13 13 (0.94%) Wireshark
14 10 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.58%) IPv4
15 8 (0.58%) LTE
15 8 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (8.13%) NoSQL
3 73 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.17%) MySQL
5 57 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
6 52 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.45%) DynamoDB
8 42 (3.02%) Redis
9 41 (2.95%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.01%) Big Data
13 12 (0.86%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.79%) DTS
15 10 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.72%) Db2
16 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.65%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 256 (18.42%) Git
2 209 (15.04%) Jenkins
3 189 (13.60%) GitLab
4 40 (2.88%) JIRA
5 38 (2.73%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 22 (1.58%) JUnit
9 20 (1.44%) Maven
10 18 (1.29%) Mockito
11 16 (1.15%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.08%) Selenium
13 13 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.86%) Vite
15 10 (0.72%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.58%) JMeter
16 8 (0.58%) MLflow
16 8 (0.58%) Postman
16 8 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 422 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 322 (23.17%) Finance
3 122 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 110 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (7.27%) Law
6 87 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (5.97%) Banking
8 61 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (2.88%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.73%) Legal
12 23 (1.65%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.37%) Retail
14 18 (1.29%) Games
15 14 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.86%) Front Office
17 11 (0.79%) Electronics
17 11 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.72%) Marketing
19 9 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 265 (19.06%) Senior
2 257 (18.49%) Developer
3 204 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (14.24%) Software Engineer
5 194 (13.96%) Architect
6 177 (12.73%) Lead
7 123 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.32%) Senior Developer
9 68 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (4.68%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.53%) Systems Architect
12 53 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 52 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
14 50 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
16 44 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
18 39 (2.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (13.45%) Spring
2 180 (12.95%) RESTful
3 177 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 172 (12.37%) React
5 142 (10.22%) Kafka
5 142 (10.22%) Node.js
6 132 (9.50%) .NET
7 122 (8.78%) REST
8 80 (5.76%) AngularJS
9 77 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
10 72 (5.18%) gRPC
11 58 (4.17%) OAuth
12 51 (3.67%) JSON
13 49 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
14 48 (3.45%) CSS
15 44 (3.17%) OAuth2
16 42 (3.02%) YAML
17 41 (2.95%) .NET Core
17 41 (2.95%) HTML
18 39 (2.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 357 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 182 (13.09%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.17%) Over-the-Top Content
4 44 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
5 38 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 31 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 22 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.44%) PKI
13 18 (1.29%) Blockchain
14 17 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.22%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 275 (19.78%) Linux
2 90 (6.47%) Windows
3 35 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.23%) CentOS
5 29 (2.09%) Unix
6 27 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.65%) Debian
9 6 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.072%) Android
12 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.072%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 663 (47.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 660 (47.48%) DevOps
4 489 (35.18%) Agile
5 436 (31.37%) Software Engineering
6 432 (31.08%) Microservices
7 345 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
8 269 (19.35%) Test Automation
9 265 (19.06%) Observability
10 264 (18.99%) Mentoring
11 257 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 244 (17.55%) AI
13 198 (14.24%) Event-Driven
14 189 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
15 176 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
16 165 (11.87%) Roadmaps
17 147 (10.58%) Clean Code
18 143 (10.29%) Machine Learning
19 141 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
20 136 (9.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 645 (46.40%) Python
2 342 (24.60%) Java
3 247 (17.77%) JavaScript
4 180 (12.95%) Bash
5 167 (12.01%) SQL
6 150 (10.79%) TypeScript
7 146 (10.50%) C#
8 139 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 134 (9.64%) Go
10 56 (4.03%) Bicep
11 55 (3.96%) Scala
12 51 (3.67%) C++
13 37 (2.66%) Ruby
14 29 (2.09%) Rust
15 27 (1.94%) PHP
16 20 (1.44%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.22%) Groovy
18 11 (0.79%) C
18 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 361 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 182 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 156 (11.22%) Degree
4 136 (9.78%) DV Cleared
5 85 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 46 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.58%) CISSP
10 18 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.86%) CCNP
12 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.58%) OSCP
14 8 (0.58%) RHCSA
14 8 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.56%) QA
2 68 (4.89%) GRC
3 46 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.23%) GDPR
5 29 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.73%) NIST
7 23 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.51%) WCAG
9 18 (1.29%) NCSC
10 13 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.72%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.072%) PSD2
15 1 (0.072%) SLA
System Software
1 804 (57.84%) Docker
2 42 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.66%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.65%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) KVM
7 8 (0.58%) Squid
8 6 (0.43%) Firmware
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 1 (0.072%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.072%) QEMU
11 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.072%) Xen
Systems Management
1 798 (57.41%) Kubernetes
2 526 (37.84%) Terraform
3 213 (15.32%) Ansible
4 171 (12.30%) Grafana
5 143 (10.29%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.37%) Puppet
7 32 (2.30%) Argo
8 29 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.65%) Istio
10 19 (1.37%) Nagios
11 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.29%) Podman
12 16 (1.15%) Kibana
13 15 (1.08%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.94%) linkerd
15 11 (0.79%) Packer
15 11 (0.79%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.50%) logstash
17 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.61%) Google
3 61 (4.39%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.74%) Splunk
5 46 (3.31%) Oracle
6 44 (3.17%) Typelevel
6 44 (3.17%) VMware
7 26 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.58%) Cisco
10 21 (1.51%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.29%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.08%) IBM
14 13 (0.94%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.79%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.72%) Confluent
16 10 (0.72%) Databricks
16 10 (0.72%) Rapid7
16 10 (0.72%) Salesforce