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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 126 186
Rank change year-on-year -44 +60 -39
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,099 1,018 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.43% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.62% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 705 719 1,136
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 £71,188
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +5.36% -1.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,500 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -

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 66,205 38,927 81,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.18% 92.83% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40,871 22,769 59,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 23 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 23 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 1,007 £72,500 -3.33% 384
UK excluding London -55 529 £62,500 -7.41% 290
London -5 470 £82,500 -5.71% 145
Work from Home -19 430 £70,932 +1.33% 210
North of England -44 181 £65,000 - 68
South East -13 120 £70,000 +12.00% 76
South West -25 120 £55,000 -23.60% 54
North West -17 91 £65,000 +4.49% 39
Yorkshire -66 61 £63,750 -6.25% 16
Midlands -49 55 £70,000 +7.69% 36
North East -25 29 £48,445 -26.62% 13
West Midlands -43 29 £70,079 +7.81% 20
East Midlands -46 25 £64,500 +7.50% 16
East of England -52 25 £60,100 -7.54% 26
Wales -14 15 £57,600 -11.38% 9
Scotland -58 15 £59,283 -30.26% 11
Northern Ireland -37 7 £62,500 - 12

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 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.73%) Apache
3 19 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.46%) Appian
5 12 (1.09%) Confluence
6 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) CMS
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 1 (0.091%) JBoss
11 1 (0.091%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) SAS
11 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Maya
2 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.091%) Endur
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 642 (58.42%) AWS
2 559 (50.86%) Azure
3 327 (29.75%) GCP
4 205 (18.65%) GitHub
5 169 (15.38%) Serverless
6 143 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
9 95 (8.64%) OpenShift
10 91 (8.28%) Datadog
11 87 (7.92%) Amazon S3
12 85 (7.73%) Azure AKS
13 75 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (5.00%) SaaS
15 54 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
16 48 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
18 41 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
19 40 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.10%) Broadband
2 73 (6.64%) Firewall
3 44 (4.00%) DNS
4 30 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.64%) HTTP
6 26 (2.37%) Network Security
7 18 (1.64%) VPN
8 8 (0.73%) AMQP
8 8 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.64%) WAN
10 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.45%) DHCP
11 5 (0.45%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 3 (0.27%) IPv4
12 3 (0.27%) Modbus
12 3 (0.27%) Multicast
12 3 (0.27%) RTP
12 3 (0.27%) VoIP
12 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 103 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (7.64%) SQL Server
4 80 (7.28%) MongoDB
5 74 (6.73%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.64%) MySQL
8 46 (4.19%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.91%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.73%) Pinecone
11 26 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.91%) Redis
13 14 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.27%) Big Data
14 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.09%) InfluxDB
14 12 (1.09%) Metadata
15 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.00%) Power BI
16 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 206 (18.74%) Git
2 163 (14.83%) Jenkins
3 134 (12.19%) GitLab
4 44 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.18%) JIRA
6 25 (2.27%) JUnit
7 23 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.91%) MLflow
10 19 (1.73%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.73%) Selenium
11 14 (1.27%) Vite
12 13 (1.18%) Maven
12 13 (1.18%) Mockito
13 12 (1.09%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.91%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.91%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.82%) TestRail
16 8 (0.73%) Storybook
General
1 311 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 234 (21.29%) Finance
3 91 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 73 (6.64%) Banking
7 61 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (5.19%) Law
9 24 (2.18%) Front Office
10 22 (2.00%) Games
11 18 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 17 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.55%) Retail
13 15 (1.36%) Billing
14 13 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.18%) Legal
15 11 (1.00%) Marketing
16 10 (0.91%) Electronics
17 9 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 269 (24.48%) Senior
2 235 (21.38%) Developer
3 148 (13.47%) Software Engineer
4 135 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 133 (12.10%) Lead
6 89 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.10%) Architect
8 71 (6.46%) Senior Developer
9 53 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (4.73%) Java Developer
10 52 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 47 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
15 33 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
16 32 (2.91%) Data Engineer
17 30 (2.73%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.73%) Software Developer
18 29 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (14.74%) React
2 155 (14.10%) RESTful
3 152 (13.83%) .NET
4 124 (11.28%) REST
5 118 (10.74%) Spring
6 109 (9.92%) Spring Boot
7 106 (9.65%) Kafka
8 98 (8.92%) Node.js
9 91 (8.28%) gRPC
10 78 (7.10%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.10%) .NET Core
12 66 (6.01%) AngularJS
13 57 (5.19%) OAuth
14 55 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
15 49 (4.46%) Django
16 48 (4.37%) FastAPI
17 42 (3.82%) Flask
18 38 (3.46%) Vue
19 34 (3.09%) Web Services
20 33 (3.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 281 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 152 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.09%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.09%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.91%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 22 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.91%) PKI
12 20 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.82%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.73%) Web3
14 18 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.64%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.46%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 214 (19.47%) Linux
2 82 (7.46%) Windows
3 44 (4.00%) Unix
4 41 (3.73%) Ubuntu
5 30 (2.73%) CentOS
6 23 (2.09%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.18%) Android
9 11 (1.00%) VMS
10 9 (0.82%) Debian
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) zOS
13 1 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.091%) Rocky
13 1 (0.091%) Solaris
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (68.24%) CI/CD
2 560 (50.96%) DevOps
3 443 (40.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 410 (37.31%) Agile
5 391 (35.58%) Microservices
6 315 (28.66%) Software Engineering
7 307 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (21.02%) AI
9 229 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 211 (19.20%) Mentoring
11 201 (18.29%) Test Automation
12 194 (17.65%) Observability
13 167 (15.20%) Machine Learning
14 150 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 142 (12.92%) High Availability
16 134 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
17 128 (11.65%) Continuous Delivery
18 120 (10.92%) Clean Code
19 116 (10.56%) Event-Driven
20 110 (10.01%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 533 (48.50%) Python
2 266 (24.20%) Java
3 223 (20.29%) SQL
4 219 (19.93%) JavaScript
5 163 (14.83%) Bash
6 155 (14.10%) Go
7 130 (11.83%) C#
8 110 (10.01%) PowerShell
9 101 (9.19%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.37%) Scala
11 38 (3.46%) Bicep
12 37 (3.37%) C++
13 25 (2.27%) PHP
14 20 (1.82%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.46%) C
16 12 (1.09%) Ruby
17 11 (1.00%) Rust
18 9 (0.82%) Groovy
19 8 (0.73%) Perl
19 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 203 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 117 (10.65%) Degree
3 111 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 73 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 62 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 39 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
7 14 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (0.82%) CISSP
10 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.55%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.45%) CISM
12 5 (0.45%) OSCP
13 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.10%) QA
2 36 (3.28%) GDPR
3 32 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.55%) PCI DSS
7 22 (2.00%) NIST
8 18 (1.64%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.91%) NCSC
10 9 (0.82%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.73%) GRC
12 6 (0.55%) WCAG
13 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.45%) SLA
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) ECSS
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 719 (65.42%) Docker
2 41 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.82%) vSphere
6 8 (0.73%) KVM
7 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) iptables
9 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.27%) Squid
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) Lustre
10 2 (0.18%) RACF
10 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.091%) QEMU
11 1 (0.091%) Xen
Systems Management
1 680 (61.87%) Kubernetes
2 426 (38.76%) Terraform
3 183 (16.65%) Ansible
4 170 (15.47%) Grafana
5 151 (13.74%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.91%) Argo
7 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.82%) Puppet
9 19 (1.73%) Istio
9 19 (1.73%) Kustomize
10 13 (1.18%) Nagios
10 13 (1.18%) Podman
11 11 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.73%) Kibana
13 8 (0.73%) linkerd
13 8 (0.73%) Mesos
14 7 (0.64%) Packer
15 5 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
16 4 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 108 (9.83%) Google
2 102 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 56 (5.10%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.09%) Typelevel
5 40 (3.64%) Splunk
6 37 (3.37%) Oracle
7 34 (3.09%) OpenAI
8 29 (2.64%) VMware
9 23 (2.09%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.46%) Cisco
10 16 (1.46%) Databricks
10 16 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
11 13 (1.18%) NVIDIA
11 13 (1.18%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.18%) UiPath
12 12 (1.09%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.00%) Confluent
14 9 (0.82%) SAP
15 7 (0.64%) Fortinet