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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 157 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +17
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,120 1,155 1,538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.29% 1.67% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.03% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 583 724 1,090
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,175
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £92,125 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £119,750 £110,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.77%

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 43,249 56,864 52,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.58% 82.25% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,564 30,381 40,478
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +0.93% +1.90%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +24 1,007 £75,000 +7.14% 960
UK excluding London +42 672 £65,000 - 694
Work from Home +53 535 £67,500 -3.57% 584
London +39 397 £85,000 -5.56% 477
North of England +21 254 £65,000 +8.33% 144
North West +49 202 £63,750 +6.25% 92
Midlands +57 119 £70,000 +16.67% 42
South East +16 96 £75,000 +11.11% 362
South West +8 83 £65,000 -3.70% 86
Scotland +20 79 £70,000 - 29
West Midlands +61 67 £70,000 +7.69% 33
East Midlands +41 52 £55,000 +29.41% 10
East of England +8 39 £58,750 -6.00% 24
Yorkshire -33 33 £68,250 +13.75% 36
North East +21 19 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Wales +16 18 £75,000 +15.38% 9
Northern Ireland +6 2 £43,092 -33.35% 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
1 174 (15.54%) Confluence
2 49 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (1.88%) Apache
5 17 (1.52%) IIS
6 16 (1.43%) CMS
7 13 (1.16%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.63%) nginx
9 3 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.089%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.089%) FileNet
11 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.089%) SAS
11 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.25%) Maya
2 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Endur
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Magento
2 2 (0.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.089%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 747 (66.70%) AWS
2 705 (62.95%) Azure
3 371 (33.13%) GCP
4 133 (11.88%) GitHub
5 128 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (10.09%) Serverless
7 91 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (7.05%) Amazon S3
9 69 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
10 68 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
12 53 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (4.38%) SaaS
14 47 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
17 33 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (2.05%) Azure AKS
18 23 (2.05%) OpenShift
18 23 (2.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.39%) Firewall
2 26 (2.32%) DNS
3 18 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.52%) DHCP
5 15 (1.34%) LAN
5 15 (1.34%) WAN
6 14 (1.25%) VPN
7 11 (0.98%) Network Security
8 10 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.80%) IPsec
10 8 (0.71%) HTTP
11 7 (0.63%) SAN
11 7 (0.63%) VLAN
12 6 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.54%) VoIP
12 6 (0.54%) Wireless
13 5 (0.45%) AMQP
14 4 (0.36%) Internet
14 4 (0.36%) NAS
15 3 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 101 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 66 (5.89%) MongoDB
5 55 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
6 53 (4.73%) DynamoDB
7 43 (3.84%) MySQL
8 41 (3.66%) Relational Database
9 30 (2.68%) Big Data
10 27 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.96%) Metadata
12 21 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (1.88%) Delta Lake
13 20 (1.79%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.43%) Tick Data
16 15 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 10 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 337 (30.09%) GitLab
2 286 (25.54%) JIRA
3 283 (25.27%) SonarQube
4 262 (23.39%) Maven
5 260 (23.21%) Bitbucket
6 258 (23.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 257 (22.95%) Selenium
8 256 (22.86%) Cucumber
9 153 (13.66%) Git
10 118 (10.54%) Jenkins
11 31 (2.77%) MLflow
12 21 (1.88%) CircleCI
13 18 (1.61%) JUnit
14 17 (1.52%) TeamCity
15 15 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
16 13 (1.16%) Mockito
17 11 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
17 11 (0.98%) DbUnit
17 11 (0.98%) jMock
18 10 (0.89%) Cypress.io
General
1 478 (42.68%) Finance
2 344 (30.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 296 (26.43%) Banking
4 240 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 118 (10.54%) Retail
6 95 (8.48%) Public Sector
7 94 (8.39%) Investment Banking
8 92 (8.21%) Marketing
9 91 (8.13%) Law
10 90 (8.04%) Corporate Banking
11 61 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
12 30 (2.68%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.14%) Games
15 23 (2.05%) Electronics
16 15 (1.34%) Front Office
17 11 (0.98%) Advertising
17 11 (0.98%) French Language
17 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.89%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 353 (31.52%) Software Engineer
2 203 (18.13%) Developer
3 161 (14.38%) Senior
4 154 (13.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 129 (11.52%) Lead
6 57 (5.09%) Python Developer
7 54 (4.82%) Architect
8 51 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 49 (4.38%) Python Engineer
10 45 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
11 43 (3.84%) Lead Developer
12 39 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
14 36 (3.21%) Java Engineer
14 36 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (3.13%) Backend Developer
15 35 (3.13%) Data Engineer
16 34 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
17 33 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (34.29%) React
2 330 (29.46%) Spring
3 322 (28.75%) Spring Boot
4 319 (28.48%) Kafka
5 298 (26.61%) HTML
6 297 (26.52%) CSS
7 268 (23.93%) JPA
8 249 (22.23%) Redux
9 217 (19.38%) RESTful
10 187 (16.70%) Hibernate
11 163 (14.55%) REST
12 126 (11.25%) .NET
13 98 (8.75%) CSS3
13 98 (8.75%) HTML5
14 95 (8.48%) Jest
15 90 (8.04%) Sass
16 66 (5.89%) AngularJS
17 63 (5.63%) FastAPI
18 60 (5.36%) Node.js
19 49 (4.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 277 (24.73%) Enterprise Software
2 267 (23.84%) Product Ownership
3 180 (16.07%) Cloud Native
4 80 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 65 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (3.57%) e-Learning
6 40 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
8 26 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 21 (1.88%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.61%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.07%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.71%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 179 (15.98%) Linux
2 94 (8.39%) Windows
3 51 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (2.68%) Unix
6 11 (0.98%) VMS
7 9 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.71%) Rocky
9 7 (0.63%) Debian
10 6 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.45%) CentOS
12 1 (0.089%) Fedora
12 1 (0.089%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (68.21%) CI/CD
2 718 (64.11%) DevOps
3 578 (51.61%) Agile
4 493 (44.02%) Microservices
5 454 (40.54%) Software Engineering
6 409 (36.52%) Test Automation
7 348 (31.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 307 (27.41%) Performance Optimisation
9 299 (26.70%) SDLC
10 280 (25.00%) Front End Development
11 268 (23.93%) Mentoring
12 246 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 237 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 222 (19.82%) AI
15 221 (19.73%) Clean Code
16 214 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
16 214 (19.11%) TDD
17 143 (12.77%) User Experience
18 142 (12.68%) Migration
19 115 (10.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 426 (38.04%) Java
2 421 (37.59%) SQL
3 400 (35.71%) Python
4 374 (33.39%) JavaScript
5 141 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 133 (11.88%) C#
7 93 (8.30%) Bash
8 89 (7.95%) PowerShell
9 33 (2.95%) Go
10 21 (1.88%) Bicep
10 21 (1.88%) PHP
11 11 (0.98%) C++
12 10 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.71%) Scala
13 8 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.63%) Ruby
14 7 (0.63%) Rust
15 6 (0.54%) Groovy
16 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (10.36%) Degree
2 100 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (5.27%) AWS Certification
6 51 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 47 (4.20%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.80%) CISSP
11 9 (0.80%) PhD
12 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.63%) CISM
14 6 (0.54%) ACMT
14 6 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (29.11%) QA
2 98 (8.75%) Accessibility
3 36 (3.21%) GDPR
4 17 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.52%) NIST
5 15 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.27%) EMIR
9 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.27%) NCSC
10 2 (0.18%) PSD2
11 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.089%) GRC
11 1 (0.089%) HL7
11 1 (0.089%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.089%) WCAG
System Software
1 790 (70.54%) Docker
2 51 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 25 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.79%) vSphere
6 11 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.89%) NFS
8 8 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.36%) Postfix
9 4 (0.36%) vCloud
10 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 2 (0.18%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.089%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.089%) HDFS
12 1 (0.089%) iptables
Systems Management
1 770 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 277 (24.73%) Terraform
3 123 (10.98%) Ansible
4 84 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 83 (7.41%) Grafana
6 24 (2.14%) Kubeflow
7 10 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.80%) Control-M
8 9 (0.80%) SCCM
8 9 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.63%) Argo
10 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 7 (0.63%) Puppet
10 7 (0.63%) SCOM
10 7 (0.63%) WSUS
11 6 (0.54%) Autotask
12 4 (0.36%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 247 (22.05%) Solace
2 107 (9.55%) Microsoft
3 67 (5.98%) Red Hat
4 59 (5.27%) VMware
5 55 (4.91%) Google
6 53 (4.73%) Oracle
7 42 (3.75%) Databricks
8 41 (3.66%) IBM
9 27 (2.41%) SAP
10 25 (2.23%) Cisco
11 24 (2.14%) Splunk
12 21 (1.88%) Atlassian
13 15 (1.34%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.25%) Commvault
15 13 (1.16%) OpenAI
15 13 (1.16%) Palo Alto
16 12 (1.07%) Dell
17 9 (0.80%) Fortinet
18 8 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
19 7 (0.63%) Veeam