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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 127 183
Rank change year-on-year -43 +56 -42
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,093 980 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.40% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 2.58% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 702 740 1,141
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £71,800
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.46% -0.97%
75th Percentile £86,844 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 63,393 38,022 79,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.93% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 39,190 22,514 58,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,008
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -37 1,001 £70,932 -5.42% 465
UK excluding London -60 526 £62,500 -8.09% 350
London +3 460 £82,500 -2.94% 169
Work from Home -11 429 £70,932 +1.33% 214
North of England -54 182 £65,000 - 89
South East +4 119 £70,000 +9.80% 104
South West -24 119 £55,000 -24.14% 64
North West -24 92 £65,000 +4.49% 54
Midlands -59 58 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Yorkshire -65 58 £65,000 -4.41% 23
North East -10 32 £50,750 -25.56% 12
West Midlands -34 29 £70,039 +3.76% 26
East Midlands -46 28 £64,000 +6.67% 18
East of England -38 25 £60,100 -7.54% 27
Scotland -48 15 £59,283 -18.23% 9
Wales -30 10 £61,496 -5.39% 13
Northern Ireland -37 8 £62,500 -9.82% 5

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 34 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.74%) Apache
3 20 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.46%) Appian
5 10 (0.91%) Confluence
5 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.37%) CMS
8 4 (0.37%) IIS
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) JBoss
11 1 (0.091%) SAS
11 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Maya
2 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.091%) Endur
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 641 (58.65%) AWS
2 559 (51.14%) Azure
3 334 (30.56%) GCP
4 213 (19.49%) GitHub
5 164 (15.00%) Serverless
6 150 (13.72%) GitHub Actions
7 126 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (8.97%) Datadog
10 97 (8.87%) OpenShift
11 93 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (7.78%) Amazon S3
13 80 (7.32%) Azure AKS
14 76 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 62 (5.67%) SaaS
16 53 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
17 47 (4.30%) PaaS
18 42 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
19 38 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (6.86%) Firewall
2 74 (6.77%) Broadband
3 44 (4.03%) DNS
4 28 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.47%) Network Security
6 26 (2.38%) HTTP
7 20 (1.83%) VPN
8 9 (0.82%) AMQP
8 9 (0.82%) DHCP
9 7 (0.64%) WAN
10 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.55%) DMZ
10 6 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.46%) MQTT
12 4 (0.37%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.37%) VSAN
13 3 (0.27%) Modbus
13 3 (0.27%) SCCP
13 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.19%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 76 (6.95%) Relational Database
5 73 (6.68%) MongoDB
6 60 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.67%) MySQL
8 42 (3.84%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.02%) RDBMS
10 26 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (2.38%) Pinecone
11 20 (1.83%) Redis
12 16 (1.46%) Big Data
13 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.10%) Metadata
15 11 (1.01%) InfluxDB
16 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.91%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 189 (17.29%) Git
2 156 (14.27%) Jenkins
3 131 (11.99%) GitLab
4 39 (3.57%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.11%) JIRA
6 29 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.20%) JUnit
8 22 (2.01%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.92%) MLflow
10 19 (1.74%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.56%) Selenium
12 16 (1.46%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.37%) JMeter
14 14 (1.28%) TeamCity
15 13 (1.19%) Locust
16 12 (1.10%) Maven
16 12 (1.10%) Mockito
16 12 (1.10%) SonarQube
16 12 (1.10%) Vite
17 9 (0.82%) Robot Framework
General
1 311 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 233 (21.32%) Finance
3 91 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 76 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 73 (6.68%) Banking
7 64 (5.86%) Law
8 56 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (2.29%) Front Office
10 21 (1.92%) Games
11 18 (1.65%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.65%) Retail
12 16 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.37%) Billing
13 15 (1.37%) Legal
14 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.01%) Marketing
16 9 (0.82%) Electronics
16 9 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 267 (24.43%) Senior
2 232 (21.23%) Developer
3 137 (12.53%) Software Engineer
4 135 (12.35%) Lead
5 132 (12.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (7.41%) Architect
8 72 (6.59%) Senior Developer
9 50 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
9 50 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 49 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 46 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (3.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.20%) Data Engineer
14 35 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 34 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (2.74%) Python Developer
16 30 (2.74%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (14.18%) React
2 149 (13.63%) RESTful
3 145 (13.27%) .NET
4 126 (11.53%) REST
5 116 (10.61%) Spring
6 107 (9.79%) Spring Boot
7 97 (8.87%) Kafka
8 91 (8.33%) gRPC
9 88 (8.05%) Node.js
10 80 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
11 66 (6.04%) .NET Core
12 65 (5.95%) AngularJS
13 54 (4.94%) Django
13 54 (4.94%) OAuth
14 49 (4.48%) FastAPI
14 49 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
15 48 (4.39%) Flask
16 37 (3.39%) Vue
17 34 (3.11%) CSS
18 33 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 271 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 148 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.12%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.12%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.74%) Blockchain
7 28 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.10%) Fixed Income
11 22 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 22 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.01%) PKI
12 21 (1.92%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.74%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.65%) Web3
15 17 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.37%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 221 (20.22%) Linux
2 92 (8.42%) Windows
3 48 (4.39%) Unix
4 42 (3.84%) Ubuntu
5 30 (2.74%) CentOS
6 24 (2.20%) Windows Server
7 23 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.19%) Android
9 11 (1.01%) VMS
10 9 (0.82%) Debian
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.18%) zOS
14 1 (0.091%) Rocky
14 1 (0.091%) Solaris
14 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 563 (51.51%) DevOps
3 426 (38.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 412 (37.69%) Agile
5 384 (35.13%) Microservices
6 307 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
7 295 (26.99%) Software Engineering
8 232 (21.23%) AI
9 227 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 204 (18.66%) Mentoring
11 191 (17.47%) Test Automation
12 182 (16.65%) Observability
13 169 (15.46%) Machine Learning
14 142 (12.99%) High Availability
15 140 (12.81%) Full-Stack Development
16 132 (12.08%) Continuous Delivery
17 130 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
18 118 (10.80%) Clean Code
19 112 (10.25%) Analytics
20 107 (9.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 538 (49.22%) Python
2 263 (24.06%) Java
3 226 (20.68%) SQL
4 212 (19.40%) JavaScript
5 165 (15.10%) Bash
6 155 (14.18%) Go
7 124 (11.34%) C#
8 107 (9.79%) PowerShell
9 91 (8.33%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.39%) Scala
11 38 (3.48%) Bicep
12 33 (3.02%) C++
13 26 (2.38%) PHP
14 22 (2.01%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.10%) C
15 12 (1.10%) Ruby
16 9 (0.82%) Rust
16 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.73%) Delphi
17 8 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 204 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 128 (11.71%) Degree
3 116 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 78 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (6.95%) DV Cleared
6 66 (6.04%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.73%) CISSP
12 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.37%) CISM
15 4 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.41%) QA
2 41 (3.75%) GDPR
3 37 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 26 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 24 (2.20%) NIST
8 20 (1.83%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.19%) WCAG
10 12 (1.10%) GRC
11 11 (1.01%) NCSC
12 10 (0.91%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.37%) SLA
15 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.18%) ECSS
16 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 717 (65.60%) Docker
2 38 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.10%) vSphere
6 9 (0.82%) KVM
7 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 7 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) iptables
8 4 (0.37%) Lustre
8 4 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) Ceph
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) RACF
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.091%) QEMU
11 1 (0.091%) Squid
11 1 (0.091%) Xen
Systems Management
1 685 (62.67%) Kubernetes
2 428 (39.16%) Terraform
3 187 (17.11%) Ansible
4 182 (16.65%) Grafana
5 155 (14.18%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.03%) Argo
7 22 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.83%) Puppet
9 19 (1.74%) Istio
9 19 (1.74%) Kustomize
10 13 (1.19%) Nagios
11 10 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (0.82%) Podman
13 8 (0.73%) linkerd
13 8 (0.73%) Mesos
14 7 (0.64%) Kibana
15 6 (0.55%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.55%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.46%) Packer
16 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (9.61%) Google
2 97 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 54 (4.94%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.12%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.75%) Splunk
6 40 (3.66%) Oracle
7 34 (3.11%) VMware
8 31 (2.84%) OpenAI
9 22 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.74%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.65%) Cisco
12 17 (1.56%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.46%) Databricks
14 13 (1.19%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.19%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.19%) SAP
14 13 (1.19%) UiPath
15 11 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.01%) Dell
16 10 (0.91%) Fortinet