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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 109 202
Rank change year-on-year -47 +93 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,190 1,244 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.81% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.04% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 812 635 1,097
10th Percentile £45,524 £49,471 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 10 June 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 June 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 -38 1,093 £72,500 -7.94% 386
UK excluding London -45 623 £62,500 -7.41% 267
London -16 473 £80,000 -11.11% 158
Work from Home -20 440 £70,079 -2.66% 219
North of England -48 190 £65,000 -3.37% 62
South East +22 159 £70,000 +7.69% 86
South West +4 143 £52,500 -30.00% 59
North West -45 93 £71,716 +19.53% 31
Yorkshire -49 59 £65,000 -13.33% 16
Midlands -77 59 £70,000 +12.00% 25
East of England -17 40 £60,050 -11.04% 18
North East -14 38 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West Midlands -57 33 £70,079 +7.81% 18
East Midlands -56 26 £62,000 +3.33% 7
Wales -31 23 £58,750 -2.08% 8
Scotland -61 8 £60,000 -29.41% 9
Northern Ireland -29 5 £62,500 +45.04% 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 33 (2.77%) Apache
2 24 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.93%) Confluence
4 8 (0.67%) Appian
5 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) IIS
7 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.084%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.084%) nginx
10 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.084%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 703 (59.08%) AWS
2 599 (50.34%) Azure
3 325 (27.31%) GCP
4 192 (16.13%) GitHub
5 166 (13.95%) Serverless
6 134 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
7 129 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 120 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (8.82%) Azure AKS
10 92 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (7.65%) OpenShift
12 89 (7.48%) Amazon S3
13 75 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (6.13%) Datadog
16 67 (5.63%) SaaS
17 53 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
18 52 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
19 50 (4.20%) IaaS
20 40 (3.36%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.47%) Broadband
2 70 (5.88%) Firewall
3 67 (5.63%) DNS
4 36 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.61%) Network Security
6 24 (2.02%) HTTP
7 18 (1.51%) VPN
8 14 (1.18%) MQTT
9 11 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 9 (0.76%) DMARC
11 8 (0.67%) DHCP
11 8 (0.67%) IPv4
11 8 (0.67%) VLAN
12 7 (0.59%) AMQP
12 7 (0.59%) BGP
12 7 (0.59%) OSPF
12 7 (0.59%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.50%) DMZ
13 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.92%) NoSQL
2 107 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 75 (6.30%) Relational Database
5 60 (5.04%) SQL Server
6 57 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
7 53 (4.45%) MySQL
8 44 (3.70%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.94%) Redis
10 30 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (2.44%) RDBMS
12 18 (1.51%) Pinecone
13 16 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.09%) Big Data
15 10 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.84%) Metadata
16 9 (0.76%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.76%) Power BI
17 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 208 (17.48%) Git
2 180 (15.13%) Jenkins
3 163 (13.70%) GitLab
4 44 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 38 (3.19%) JIRA
6 27 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.02%) JUnit
8 22 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.76%) Maven
9 21 (1.76%) Mockito
10 18 (1.51%) Jaeger
11 15 (1.26%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.26%) Vite
12 14 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.18%) MLflow
12 14 (1.18%) Selenium
13 9 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.76%) JMeter
14 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
14 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 327 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 228 (19.16%) Finance
3 89 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.30%) Banking
6 69 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.96%) Law
8 52 (4.37%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.18%) Aerospace
10 23 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.68%) Retail
12 17 (1.43%) Front Office
13 13 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.92%) Billing
14 11 (0.92%) Games
14 11 (0.92%) Legal
14 11 (0.92%) Marketing
15 10 (0.84%) Electronics
15 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (22.61%) Senior
2 248 (20.84%) Developer
3 176 (14.79%) Software Engineer
4 159 (13.36%) Lead
5 151 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 120 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 94 (7.90%) Architect
8 74 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.13%) Java Developer
11 60 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 48 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 46 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 44 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
15 43 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 31 (2.61%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (2.61%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (14.71%) React
2 168 (14.12%) RESTful
3 148 (12.44%) .NET
4 136 (11.43%) Spring
5 127 (10.67%) REST
6 126 (10.59%) Spring Boot
7 122 (10.25%) Node.js
8 117 (9.83%) Kafka
9 84 (7.06%) gRPC
10 73 (6.13%) AngularJS
11 68 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
12 63 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.13%) OAuth
14 53 (4.45%) .NET Core
15 42 (3.53%) FastAPI
15 42 (3.53%) JSON
16 41 (3.45%) OAuth2
17 37 (3.11%) JWT
18 36 (3.03%) CSS
19 35 (2.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 293 (24.62%) Cloud Native
2 149 (12.52%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.78%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.18%) Blockchain
9 25 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.85%) PKI
11 21 (1.76%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.76%) Web3
12 20 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.51%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 16 (1.34%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 234 (19.66%) Linux
2 84 (7.06%) Windows
3 39 (3.28%) Unix
4 35 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 35 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.61%) CentOS
6 21 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.76%) Debian
8 6 (0.50%) Android
9 4 (0.34%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (68.15%) CI/CD
2 576 (48.40%) DevOps
3 498 (41.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 457 (38.40%) Agile
5 388 (32.61%) Microservices
6 373 (31.34%) Software Engineering
7 299 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 238 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 235 (19.75%) Mentoring
10 219 (18.40%) AI
11 216 (18.15%) Observability
12 164 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
13 143 (12.02%) Machine Learning
14 142 (11.93%) Event-Driven
14 142 (11.93%) Platform Engineering
15 141 (11.85%) High Availability
16 133 (11.18%) Continuous Delivery
17 132 (11.09%) Clean Code
18 121 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 558 (46.89%) Python
2 298 (25.04%) Java
3 240 (20.17%) JavaScript
4 191 (16.05%) SQL
5 180 (15.13%) Bash
6 148 (12.44%) Go
7 146 (12.27%) C#
8 142 (11.93%) TypeScript
9 130 (10.92%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.20%) Scala
11 43 (3.61%) Bicep
12 35 (2.94%) C++
13 27 (2.27%) PHP
14 24 (2.02%) Rust
15 21 (1.76%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.60%) Ruby
17 18 (1.51%) Groovy
18 16 (1.34%) C
19 12 (1.01%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 257 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 136 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 122 (10.25%) Degree
4 84 (7.06%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.62%) Azure Certification
7 54 (4.54%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.01%) CISSP
9 12 (1.01%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.67%) CCNA
11 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.67%) OSCP
11 8 (0.67%) RHCE
11 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
12 7 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.07%) QA
2 37 (3.11%) GDPR
3 35 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.69%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.93%) NIST
8 15 (1.26%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.01%) GRC
9 12 (1.01%) JSP 440
10 10 (0.84%) WCAG
11 9 (0.76%) NCSC
12 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.084%) SLA
16 1 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 731 (61.43%) Docker
2 33 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (2.44%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.84%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.59%) KVM
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
9 4 (0.34%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.084%) QEMU
11 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 707 (59.41%) Kubernetes
2 452 (37.98%) Terraform
3 193 (16.22%) Ansible
4 159 (13.36%) Grafana
5 152 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.61%) Argo
7 25 (2.10%) Puppet
8 21 (1.76%) Istio
8 21 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.68%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.51%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.43%) Podman
12 16 (1.34%) Nagios
13 13 (1.09%) Packer
14 10 (0.84%) Kibana
14 10 (0.84%) linkerd
15 9 (0.76%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.50%) Mesos
Vendors
1 120 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.91%) Google
3 59 (4.96%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.78%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.61%) Splunk
6 40 (3.36%) Oracle
7 36 (3.03%) VMware
8 26 (2.18%) OpenAI
9 24 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.43%) Cisco
11 13 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.01%) Databricks
13 11 (0.92%) NVIDIA
14 10 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.84%) Confluent
14 10 (0.84%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.84%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.76%) UiPath