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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 115 192
Rank change year-on-year -44 +77 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,133 1,233 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.82% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 3.02% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 736 682 1,108
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% +1.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £104,125
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 67,346 40,822 82,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.74% 93.29% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 22,211 59,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -41 1,033 £72,500 -6.22% 473
UK excluding London -72 571 £62,500 -7.41% 311
London -10 464 £82,500 -8.33% 196
Work from Home -41 410 £70,932 +2.23% 773
North of England -68 173 £65,000 -3.04% 83
South East +10 149 £70,000 +9.80% 89
South West -12 125 £55,000 -23.60% 66
North West -51 87 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Midlands -84 59 £70,000 +16.67% 32
Yorkshire -66 57 £65,000 -6.14% 20
East of England -33 34 £60,000 -7.69% 17
West Midlands -74 31 £70,932 +9.13% 20
North East -23 29 £50,000 -24.26% 21
East Midlands -62 27 £64,500 +7.50% 12
Wales -14 21 £58,750 -2.08% 9
Scotland -73 12 £60,000 -24.76% 13
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 3

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 28 (2.47%) Apache
2 24 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.41%) Confluence
5 14 (1.24%) Appian
6 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) IIS
7 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.26%) Camunda
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.088%) JBoss
11 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.088%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.26%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.088%) Endur
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 660 (58.25%) AWS
2 581 (51.28%) Azure
3 318 (28.07%) GCP
4 194 (17.12%) GitHub
5 168 (14.83%) Serverless
6 138 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
7 126 (11.12%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 101 (8.91%) Azure AKS
10 93 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (7.77%) OpenShift
12 87 (7.68%) Datadog
13 86 (7.59%) Amazon S3
14 69 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 63 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
15 63 (5.56%) SaaS
16 48 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
18 45 (3.97%) IaaS
19 38 (3.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.71%) Broadband
2 72 (6.35%) Firewall
3 57 (5.03%) DNS
4 31 (2.74%) Network Security
5 30 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 25 (2.21%) HTTP
7 17 (1.50%) VPN
8 10 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
9 9 (0.79%) MQTT
10 8 (0.71%) AMQP
11 7 (0.62%) DMZ
12 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.53%) DHCP
12 6 (0.53%) IPv4
13 5 (0.44%) WAN
14 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.26%) Modbus
15 3 (0.26%) RTP
15 3 (0.26%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (13.24%) NoSQL
2 96 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.62%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.53%) SQL Server
5 71 (6.27%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.50%) MySQL
8 45 (3.97%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.74%) RDBMS
10 27 (2.38%) Redis
11 26 (2.29%) Pinecone
12 12 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.97%) Big Data
14 10 (0.88%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.88%) Metadata
15 9 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.79%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 206 (18.18%) Git
2 170 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 145 (12.80%) GitLab
4 48 (4.24%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.09%) JIRA
6 25 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.21%) JUnit
7 22 (1.94%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.77%) Mockito
9 19 (1.68%) Maven
9 19 (1.68%) MLflow
10 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.41%) Vite
12 15 (1.32%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.24%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.97%) Selenium
15 10 (0.88%) JMeter
16 9 (0.79%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 310 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 239 (21.09%) Finance
3 88 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.62%) Banking
6 64 (5.65%) Law
7 60 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 59 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.03%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.77%) Games
12 18 (1.59%) Retail
13 17 (1.50%) Front Office
14 14 (1.24%) Billing
14 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.06%) Marketing
16 11 (0.97%) Legal
17 9 (0.79%) Electronics
18 8 (0.71%) Advertising
18 8 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 266 (23.48%) Senior
2 243 (21.45%) Developer
3 160 (14.12%) Software Engineer
4 143 (12.62%) Lead
5 134 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 107 (9.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 80 (7.06%) Architect
8 69 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 55 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 44 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 44 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 37 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
15 36 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (2.65%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (2.65%) Software Developer
17 28 (2.47%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (14.92%) React
2 161 (14.21%) RESTful
3 154 (13.59%) .NET
4 126 (11.12%) REST
5 124 (10.94%) Spring
6 113 (9.97%) Spring Boot
7 110 (9.71%) Kafka
8 102 (9.00%) Node.js
9 90 (7.94%) gRPC
10 71 (6.27%) AngularJS
11 64 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
12 61 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (5.30%) .NET Core
14 57 (5.03%) OAuth
15 44 (3.88%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.18%) JSON
17 35 (3.09%) JWT
18 34 (3.00%) Django
18 34 (3.00%) Vue
19 33 (2.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 266 (23.48%) Cloud Native
2 148 (13.06%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.97%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.97%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (3.00%) Blockchain
6 33 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.12%) PKI
11 23 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.94%) Web3
13 20 (1.77%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.68%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.41%) Low-Code
16 14 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 227 (20.04%) Linux
2 81 (7.15%) Windows
3 39 (3.44%) Ubuntu
4 38 (3.35%) Unix
5 31 (2.74%) CentOS
6 28 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.79%) Android
8 9 (0.79%) Debian
8 9 (0.79%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.088%) Rocky
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (67.78%) CI/CD
2 550 (48.54%) DevOps
3 457 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 438 (38.66%) Agile
5 387 (34.16%) Microservices
6 343 (30.27%) Software Engineering
7 300 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
8 234 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 229 (20.21%) AI
10 220 (19.42%) Test Automation
11 217 (19.15%) Mentoring
12 199 (17.56%) Observability
13 157 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 154 (13.59%) Machine Learning
15 145 (12.80%) High Availability
16 130 (11.47%) Continuous Delivery
16 130 (11.47%) Continuous Integration
17 126 (11.12%) Clean Code
18 122 (10.77%) Event-Driven
18 122 (10.77%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 528 (46.60%) Python
2 271 (23.92%) Java
3 229 (20.21%) JavaScript
4 201 (17.74%) SQL
5 171 (15.09%) Bash
6 152 (13.42%) Go
7 136 (12.00%) C#
8 123 (10.86%) PowerShell
9 122 (10.77%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.32%) Scala
11 34 (3.00%) Bicep
12 33 (2.91%) C++
13 25 (2.21%) PHP
14 20 (1.77%) Kotlin
14 20 (1.77%) Rust
15 16 (1.41%) C
16 13 (1.15%) Ruby
17 12 (1.06%) Groovy
18 10 (0.88%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 228 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 118 (10.41%) SC Cleared
3 117 (10.33%) Degree
4 79 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 70 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.94%) AWS Certification
7 53 (4.68%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.79%) CISSP
10 9 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.71%) OSCP
12 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.53%) CCNA
13 6 (0.53%) RHCE
13 6 (0.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.68%) QA
2 37 (3.27%) GDPR
3 33 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 30 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 28 (2.47%) Data Quality
7 25 (2.21%) NIST
8 18 (1.59%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.15%) JSP 440
10 12 (1.06%) NCSC
11 11 (0.97%) GRC
12 7 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 7 (0.62%) WCAG
13 4 (0.35%) SLA
14 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 715 (63.11%) Docker
2 37 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.79%) vSphere
6 8 (0.71%) KVM
7 6 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.53%) Squid
8 4 (0.35%) iptables
9 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) Lustre
10 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.088%) QEMU
11 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 684 (60.37%) Kubernetes
2 433 (38.22%) Terraform
3 191 (16.86%) Ansible
4 156 (13.77%) Grafana
5 147 (12.97%) Prometheus
6 39 (3.44%) Argo
7 26 (2.29%) Puppet
8 21 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.59%) Istio
9 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.50%) Podman
11 16 (1.41%) Nagios
12 14 (1.24%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.88%) Kibana
13 10 (0.88%) Packer
14 8 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
15 7 (0.62%) linkerd
15 7 (0.62%) Mesos
16 6 (0.53%) ZABBIX
17 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 114 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.27%) Google
3 57 (5.03%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.97%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.71%) Splunk
6 35 (3.09%) Oracle
7 34 (3.00%) OpenAI
8 31 (2.74%) VMware
9 25 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.50%) NVIDIA
11 15 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.24%) Cisco
13 12 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
13 12 (1.06%) UiPath
14 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.97%) Databricks
14 11 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.88%) Confluent
16 7 (0.62%) Rapid7
16 7 (0.62%) Zscaler