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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 109 202
Rank change year-on-year -42 +93 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,203 1,244 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.81% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.04% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 823 635 1,097
10th Percentile £45,743 £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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 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 11 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 11 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 1,105 £72,500 -7.94% 383
UK excluding London -55 631 £62,500 -7.41% 286
London -12 478 £80,000 -11.11% 148
Work from Home -29 442 £70,079 -2.66% 215
North of England -47 192 £65,000 -3.37% 67
South East +20 163 £70,000 +7.69% 84
South West +2 143 £52,500 -30.00% 76
North West -40 95 £70,466 +17.44% 39
Midlands -79 60 £70,000 +12.00% 25
Yorkshire -46 59 £65,000 -13.33% 13
East of England -21 40 £60,050 -11.04% 19
North East -17 38 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West Midlands -59 33 £70,079 +7.81% 20
East Midlands -54 27 £64,000 +6.67% 5
Wales -28 24 £60,000 - 7
Scotland -62 8 £60,000 -29.41% 7
Northern Ireland -31 5 £62,500 +45.04% 8

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 (2.74%) Apache
2 25 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.91%) Confluence
5 8 (0.67%) Appian
6 7 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.083%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 713 (59.27%) AWS
2 609 (50.62%) Azure
3 326 (27.10%) GCP
4 198 (16.46%) GitHub
5 167 (13.88%) Serverless
6 136 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
7 131 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.81%) Azure AKS
10 93 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (7.65%) OpenShift
12 90 (7.48%) Amazon S3
13 76 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
14 74 (6.15%) Datadog
15 69 (5.74%) SaaS
16 54 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
16 54 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
17 52 (4.32%) IaaS
18 42 (3.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.40%) Broadband
2 71 (5.90%) Firewall
3 68 (5.65%) DNS
4 37 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 32 (2.66%) Network Security
6 24 (2.00%) HTTP
7 20 (1.66%) VPN
8 14 (1.16%) MQTT
9 11 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
10 9 (0.75%) DMARC
10 9 (0.75%) VLAN
11 8 (0.67%) BGP
11 8 (0.67%) DHCP
11 8 (0.67%) IPv4
11 8 (0.67%) OSPF
11 8 (0.67%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.58%) AMQP
13 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.50%) DMZ
13 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.14%) NoSQL
2 111 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 75 (6.23%) Relational Database
5 60 (4.99%) SQL Server
6 58 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
7 53 (4.41%) MySQL
8 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.91%) Redis
10 30 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (2.41%) RDBMS
12 22 (1.83%) Pinecone
13 16 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.08%) Big Data
15 10 (0.83%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.83%) Metadata
16 9 (0.75%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.75%) Power BI
17 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 212 (17.62%) Git
2 185 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 167 (13.88%) GitLab
4 44 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 38 (3.16%) JIRA
6 27 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.00%) JUnit
8 22 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.75%) Maven
9 21 (1.75%) Mockito
10 19 (1.58%) Vite
11 18 (1.50%) Jaeger
12 15 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.16%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.16%) MLflow
13 14 (1.16%) Selenium
14 9 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.75%) JMeter
15 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 327 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 230 (19.12%) Finance
3 90 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.23%) Banking
6 70 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.90%) Law
8 52 (4.32%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 25 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.66%) Retail
12 17 (1.41%) Front Office
13 13 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Billing
14 11 (0.91%) Games
14 11 (0.91%) Legal
14 11 (0.91%) Marketing
15 10 (0.83%) Electronics
15 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (22.53%) Senior
2 248 (20.62%) Developer
3 182 (15.13%) Software Engineer
4 159 (13.22%) Lead
5 151 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 123 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 95 (7.90%) Architect
8 74 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.07%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 50 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
14 46 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (2.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 31 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (14.96%) React
2 168 (13.97%) RESTful
3 149 (12.39%) .NET
4 136 (11.31%) Spring
5 129 (10.72%) REST
6 127 (10.56%) Spring Boot
7 123 (10.22%) Node.js
8 118 (9.81%) Kafka
9 84 (6.98%) gRPC
10 73 (6.07%) AngularJS
11 68 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
12 64 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
13 62 (5.15%) OAuth
14 53 (4.41%) .NET Core
15 46 (3.82%) FastAPI
16 42 (3.49%) JSON
17 41 (3.41%) OAuth2
18 37 (3.08%) JWT
19 36 (2.99%) CSS
19 36 (2.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 300 (24.94%) Cloud Native
2 149 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.16%) Blockchain
9 25 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.83%) PKI
12 21 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 21 (1.75%) Web3
13 20 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.58%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.58%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.41%) Data Structures
16 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
16 16 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 236 (19.62%) Linux
2 85 (7.07%) Windows
3 39 (3.24%) Unix
4 35 (2.91%) Ubuntu
4 35 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.58%) CentOS
6 21 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.75%) Debian
8 6 (0.50%) Android
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (68.16%) CI/CD
2 584 (48.55%) DevOps
3 507 (42.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 460 (38.24%) Agile
5 393 (32.67%) Microservices
6 381 (31.67%) Software Engineering
7 303 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 238 (19.78%) Test Automation
10 236 (19.62%) Mentoring
11 226 (18.79%) AI
12 222 (18.45%) Observability
13 170 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
14 145 (12.05%) Machine Learning
14 145 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
15 144 (11.97%) Event-Driven
16 141 (11.72%) High Availability
17 133 (11.06%) Continuous Delivery
18 132 (10.97%) Clean Code
19 125 (10.39%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 568 (47.22%) Python
2 300 (24.94%) Java
3 244 (20.28%) JavaScript
4 196 (16.29%) SQL
5 182 (15.13%) Bash
6 149 (12.39%) C#
7 148 (12.30%) Go
7 148 (12.30%) TypeScript
8 133 (11.06%) PowerShell
9 50 (4.16%) Scala
10 45 (3.74%) Bicep
11 37 (3.08%) C++
12 27 (2.24%) PHP
13 25 (2.08%) Rust
14 21 (1.75%) Kotlin
14 21 (1.75%) Ruby
15 18 (1.50%) Groovy
16 16 (1.33%) C
17 12 (1.00%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 262 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 141 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 126 (10.47%) Degree
4 84 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 72 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 55 (4.57%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.00%) CISSP
10 12 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.67%) CCNA
12 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.67%) OSCP
12 8 (0.67%) RHCE
12 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.06%) QA
2 37 (3.08%) GDPR
3 35 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (2.00%) NIST
8 15 (1.25%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.00%) GRC
9 12 (1.00%) JSP 440
10 10 (0.83%) NCSC
10 10 (0.83%) WCAG
11 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.083%) DO-178B
System Software
1 742 (61.68%) Docker
2 33 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.49%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.58%) KVM
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
9 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.083%) QEMU
12 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 718 (59.68%) Kubernetes
2 461 (38.32%) Terraform
3 195 (16.21%) Ansible
4 161 (13.38%) Grafana
5 154 (12.80%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.66%) Argo
7 25 (2.08%) Puppet
8 21 (1.75%) Istio
8 21 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.50%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.41%) Podman
12 16 (1.33%) Nagios
13 13 (1.08%) Packer
14 10 (0.83%) Kibana
14 10 (0.83%) linkerd
15 9 (0.75%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.50%) Mesos
Vendors
1 122 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.81%) Google
3 59 (4.90%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.74%) Typelevel
5 44 (3.66%) Splunk
6 40 (3.33%) Oracle
7 36 (2.99%) VMware
8 30 (2.49%) OpenAI
9 24 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.41%) Cisco
11 14 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.00%) Databricks
14 11 (0.91%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.91%) NVIDIA
15 10 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.83%) Confluent
15 10 (0.83%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.83%) UiPath
15 10 (0.83%) Zscaler