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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 152 120
Rank change year-on-year -8 -32 +18
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 912 1,214 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.81% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.13% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 625 775 1,044
10th Percentile £48,199 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,438 £57,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -4 844 £72,500 +3.57% 611
UK excluding London -21 434 £65,000 - 542
London +11 411 £85,000 - 191
Work from Home -10 318 £67,500 -3.57% 327
North of England +14 168 £65,000 +8.33% 111
North West +24 105 £65,000 +8.33% 70
South West -4 90 £60,000 -13.04% 77
Midlands +14 60 £67,500 +3.85% 76
South East -25 59 £75,000 +15.38% 202
West Midlands +31 40 £70,542 +8.53% 47
Yorkshire -28 40 £68,500 +24.55% 30
Scotland -16 30 £70,000 - 23
East of England +13 27 £57,500 -8.00% 38
North East +27 23 £60,000 +9.09% 11
East Midlands +18 19 £54,500 +29.76% 25
Wales +6 15 £80,000 +23.08% 15
Northern Ireland -1 5 £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 52 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.96%) Apache
4 17 (1.86%) CMS
5 15 (1.64%) IIS
6 13 (1.43%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.88%) Confluence
8 6 (0.66%) nginx
9 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.55%) Appian
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) JBoss
13 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (1.97%) Maya
2 4 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 4 (0.44%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 532 (58.33%) AWS
2 498 (54.61%) Azure
3 232 (25.44%) GCP
4 172 (18.86%) GitHub
5 126 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (13.38%) Serverless
7 117 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (7.79%) Amazon S3
9 67 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
9 67 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (6.69%) SaaS
11 59 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 48 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (4.39%) OpenShift
15 39 (4.28%) Datadog
16 38 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (3.95%) PaaS
18 34 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (3.62%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.59%) Firewall
2 31 (3.40%) DNS
3 19 (2.08%) DHCP
3 19 (2.08%) VPN
4 18 (1.97%) Network Security
4 18 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.86%) WAN
6 13 (1.43%) LAN
7 9 (0.99%) HTTP
7 9 (0.99%) IPsec
8 8 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (0.88%) VLAN
9 7 (0.77%) AMQP
10 6 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.66%) SAN
10 6 (0.66%) VoIP
10 6 (0.66%) Wireless
11 4 (0.44%) DMZ
11 4 (0.44%) Internet
11 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (10.96%) NoSQL
3 73 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 66 (7.24%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.59%) MySQL
6 50 (5.48%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.04%) DynamoDB
8 44 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (3.51%) Big Data
10 27 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.63%) Metadata
12 20 (2.19%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 14 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.54%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.43%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.43%) Tick Data
16 11 (1.21%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 167 (18.31%) Git
2 118 (12.94%) Jenkins
3 93 (10.20%) GitLab
4 32 (3.51%) MLflow
5 31 (3.40%) JIRA
6 22 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 21 (2.30%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.86%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.86%) JUnit
10 14 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (1.32%) Selenium
13 11 (1.21%) JMeter
14 10 (1.10%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.77%) Locust
17 5 (0.55%) Maven
18 4 (0.44%) IntelliJ
18 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 277 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 232 (25.44%) Finance
3 97 (10.64%) Law
4 84 (9.21%) Marketing
5 79 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 71 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (5.48%) Telecoms
8 48 (5.26%) Banking
9 47 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (3.73%) Games
11 32 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 28 (3.07%) Retail
13 25 (2.74%) Electronics
14 23 (2.52%) Front Office
15 13 (1.43%) French Language
15 13 (1.43%) Legal
16 12 (1.32%) Dutch Language
17 11 (1.21%) Advertising
17 11 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (23.57%) Developer
2 189 (20.72%) Senior
3 129 (14.14%) Lead
4 114 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 99 (10.86%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.69%) Architect
7 58 (6.36%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.81%) Python Developer
9 49 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.61%) Python Engineer
13 40 (4.39%) Lead Developer
14 39 (4.28%) Data Engineer
15 38 (4.17%) Backend Developer
15 38 (4.17%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 36 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (3.62%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (15.79%) React
2 134 (14.69%) RESTful
3 133 (14.58%) .NET
4 81 (8.88%) Spring
5 75 (8.22%) Node.js
6 74 (8.11%) REST
6 74 (8.11%) Spring Boot
7 72 (7.89%) Kafka
8 69 (7.57%) FastAPI
9 61 (6.69%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.25%) HTML
11 56 (6.14%) .NET Core
11 56 (6.14%) CSS
12 48 (5.26%) Flask
12 48 (5.26%) PyTorch
13 43 (4.71%) TensorFlow
14 41 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
14 41 (4.50%) Pandas
15 39 (4.28%) YAML
16 38 (4.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 218 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 102 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.40%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.29%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.52%) Fixed Income
11 21 (2.30%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.75%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.43%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.21%) PKI
15 10 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 188 (20.61%) Linux
2 108 (11.84%) Windows
3 50 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.95%) Unix
5 30 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.75%) VMS
7 11 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.10%) CentOS
9 8 (0.88%) Debian
9 8 (0.88%) Rocky
10 6 (0.66%) Android
10 6 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Fedora
13 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 471 (51.64%) DevOps
3 314 (34.43%) Agile
4 288 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 262 (28.73%) Microservices
6 250 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
7 232 (25.44%) AI
8 195 (21.38%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.43%) Mentoring
10 136 (14.91%) Machine Learning
11 125 (13.71%) Test Automation
12 116 (12.72%) Observability
13 114 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 109 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
15 106 (11.62%) Computer Science
16 96 (10.53%) Analytics
17 90 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
18 86 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
19 81 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
19 81 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 448 (49.12%) Python
2 192 (21.05%) SQL
3 183 (20.07%) Java
4 151 (16.56%) JavaScript
5 141 (15.46%) C#
6 108 (11.84%) Bash
7 97 (10.64%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.36%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.15%) Go
10 29 (3.18%) Bicep
11 21 (2.30%) C++
12 19 (2.08%) PHP
13 13 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.10%) Ruby
15 8 (0.88%) Delphi
15 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.77%) Scala
17 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.66%) Rust
18 5 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 140 (15.35%) Degree
2 135 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 87 (9.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 85 (9.32%) SC Cleared
5 67 (7.35%) DV Cleared
6 62 (6.80%) AWS Certification
7 46 (5.04%) Azure Certification
8 26 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.43%) CISSP
11 8 (0.88%) CISM
11 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.77%) PhD
12 7 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.66%) ACMT
14 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.77%) QA
2 42 (4.61%) GDPR
3 26 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.30%) NIST
6 15 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.88%) NCSC
9 8 (0.88%) WCAG
10 7 (0.77%) GRC
10 7 (0.77%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.44%) EMIR
14 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.22%) ECSS
14 2 (0.22%) PSD2
14 2 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 597 (65.46%) Docker
2 51 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (4.50%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.07%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.30%) vSphere
6 12 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.88%) NFS
9 4 (0.44%) KVM
9 4 (0.44%) Lustre
9 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.44%) vCloud
9 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.22%) Ceph
10 2 (0.22%) GPFS
10 2 (0.22%) RACF
10 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 578 (63.38%) Kubernetes
2 314 (34.43%) Terraform
3 131 (14.36%) Ansible
4 109 (11.95%) Grafana
5 90 (9.87%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.63%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.32%) Argo
7 12 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.21%) Control-M
9 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.99%) Puppet
11 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.66%) Autotask
13 6 (0.66%) SCCM
14 5 (0.55%) SCOM
14 5 (0.55%) WSUS
15 4 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 121 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.02%) Oracle
3 60 (6.58%) VMware
4 54 (5.92%) Google
5 40 (4.39%) Databricks
6 34 (3.73%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.40%) SAP
7 31 (3.40%) Splunk
8 26 (2.85%) Cisco
9 21 (2.30%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.19%) Dell
11 19 (2.08%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.64%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.32%) Pure Storage
14 11 (1.21%) Commvault
14 11 (1.21%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.99%) Salesforce
17 8 (0.88%) IBM