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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 131 169
Rank change year-on-year -24 +38 -28
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,030 1,031 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 2.36% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.52% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 678 758 1,116
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,310 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £117,875 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -20 944 £70,932 -5.42% 452
UK excluding London -56 484 £62,500 -8.09% 340
London +5 440 £82,500 -2.94% 166
Work from Home -17 400 £70,000 -2.77% 214
North of England -34 186 £65,000 +4.00% 92
South West -18 109 £55,000 -23.87% 60
South East -16 101 £70,000 +7.69% 105
North West -13 91 £65,000 +8.33% 43
Yorkshire -61 56 £62,500 -8.09% 35
Midlands -57 44 £65,000 - 41
North East +1 39 £51,500 -24.46% 14
East of England -6 24 £60,100 -10.96% 19
West Midlands -40 23 £70,079 +3.82% 24
East Midlands -36 20 £62,000 +3.33% 17
Scotland -57 13 £60,000 -17.24% 15
Northern Ireland -29 8 £62,500 -9.82% 3
Wales -17 7 £70,079 +7.81% 12

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 35 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.82%) Apache
3 22 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.55%) Appian
5 7 (0.68%) Confluence
6 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.49%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.49%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.29%) Camunda
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.07%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.097%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 599 (58.16%) AWS
2 537 (52.14%) Azure
3 308 (29.90%) GCP
4 216 (20.97%) GitHub
5 159 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
6 151 (14.66%) Serverless
7 122 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 88 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
10 84 (8.16%) OpenShift
11 82 (7.96%) Amazon S3
11 82 (7.96%) Datadog
12 71 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 63 (6.12%) Azure AKS
14 61 (5.92%) SaaS
15 50 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (4.37%) PaaS
17 44 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
18 38 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
19 35 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.70%) Firewall
2 58 (5.63%) Broadband
3 38 (3.69%) DNS
4 27 (2.62%) HTTP
4 27 (2.62%) Network Security
5 26 (2.52%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.84%) VPN
7 9 (0.87%) DHCP
8 8 (0.78%) AMQP
9 6 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.58%) DMZ
9 6 (0.58%) WAN
10 5 (0.49%) MQTT
10 5 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.39%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.39%) VSAN
12 3 (0.29%) VLAN
12 3 (0.29%) VoIP
12 3 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (14.47%) NoSQL
2 106 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (8.74%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.67%) Relational Database
5 73 (7.09%) MongoDB
6 56 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
6 56 (5.44%) MySQL
7 35 (3.40%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.20%) RDBMS
9 25 (2.43%) Pinecone
10 24 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.75%) Redis
12 17 (1.65%) Big Data
13 14 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.26%) Metadata
15 11 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.97%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.87%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.87%) Power BI
18 8 (0.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 179 (17.38%) Git
2 152 (14.76%) Jenkins
3 128 (12.43%) GitLab
4 36 (3.50%) JIRA
5 29 (2.82%) CircleCI
6 24 (2.33%) JUnit
7 23 (2.23%) Bitbucket
8 21 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.04%) MLflow
9 19 (1.84%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.65%) Selenium
11 14 (1.36%) JMeter
11 14 (1.36%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.17%) Locust
12 12 (1.17%) Mockito
13 11 (1.07%) Vite
14 10 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.97%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.87%) Maven
16 8 (0.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 304 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 222 (21.55%) Finance
3 90 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.06%) Telecoms
5 78 (7.57%) Public Sector
6 62 (6.02%) Banking
6 62 (6.02%) Law
7 41 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (2.82%) Front Office
8 29 (2.82%) Games
9 18 (1.75%) Billing
10 13 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.26%) Marketing
10 13 (1.26%) Retail
11 12 (1.17%) Advertising
11 12 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.97%) Electronics
12 10 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 259 (25.15%) Senior
2 240 (23.30%) Developer
3 127 (12.33%) Software Engineer
4 124 (12.04%) Lead
5 115 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 76 (7.38%) Senior Developer
7 72 (6.99%) Architect
7 72 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 50 (4.85%) Java Developer
10 42 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 38 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (3.59%) Data Engineer
13 37 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 36 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (3.01%) .NET Software Engineer
15 31 (3.01%) Python Developer
16 29 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
17 27 (2.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (13.88%) React
2 142 (13.79%) .NET
3 138 (13.40%) RESTful
4 119 (11.55%) Spring
5 110 (10.68%) REST
5 110 (10.68%) Spring Boot
6 86 (8.35%) Kafka
7 82 (7.96%) Node.js
8 81 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
9 75 (7.28%) gRPC
10 68 (6.60%) .NET Core
11 65 (6.31%) AngularJS
12 57 (5.53%) FastAPI
13 54 (5.24%) Django
14 51 (4.95%) Flask
15 50 (4.85%) OAuth
16 40 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
17 36 (3.50%) Vue
18 34 (3.30%) HTML
19 33 (3.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 263 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 126 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.50%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.62%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.52%) Fixed Income
9 25 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.23%) Low-Code
10 23 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.14%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.14%) PKI
12 20 (1.94%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.36%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 217 (21.07%) Linux
2 92 (8.93%) Windows
3 48 (4.66%) Unix
4 36 (3.50%) Ubuntu
5 26 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 23 (2.23%) CentOS
7 16 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.46%) VMS
9 13 (1.26%) Android
10 8 (0.78%) Debian
11 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.097%) Fedora
14 1 (0.097%) Rocky
14 1 (0.097%) Solaris
14 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (66.02%) CI/CD
2 528 (51.26%) DevOps
3 386 (37.48%) Agile
4 379 (36.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 369 (35.83%) Microservices
6 297 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (26.31%) Software Engineering
8 232 (22.52%) AI
9 204 (19.81%) Mentoring
10 203 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (15.83%) Test Automation
12 161 (15.63%) Machine Learning
13 149 (14.47%) Observability
14 133 (12.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 124 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
16 121 (11.75%) High Availability
17 116 (11.26%) Continuous Delivery
18 114 (11.07%) Analytics
19 108 (10.49%) Clean Code
20 99 (9.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 517 (50.19%) Python
2 253 (24.56%) Java
3 213 (20.68%) SQL
4 195 (18.93%) JavaScript
5 164 (15.92%) Bash
6 136 (13.20%) Go
7 120 (11.65%) C#
8 90 (8.74%) PowerShell
9 82 (7.96%) TypeScript
10 38 (3.69%) Scala
11 32 (3.11%) C++
12 30 (2.91%) Bicep
13 27 (2.62%) PHP
14 20 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.07%) C
16 9 (0.87%) Ruby
17 8 (0.78%) Delphi
17 8 (0.78%) Rust
17 8 (0.78%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 187 (18.16%) Security Cleared
2 124 (12.04%) Degree
3 103 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 80 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (7.48%) DV Cleared
6 64 (6.21%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.78%) CISSP
12 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.39%) CISM
14 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.38%) QA
2 41 (3.98%) GDPR
3 38 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 32 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.72%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.23%) NIST
8 17 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.17%) NCSC
9 12 (1.17%) WCAG
10 11 (1.07%) GRC
11 10 (0.97%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.39%) EMIR
13 4 (0.39%) SLA
14 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) ECSS
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 679 (65.92%) Docker
2 33 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.17%) vSphere
5 7 (0.68%) KVM
6 6 (0.58%) Firmware
6 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.39%) iptables
7 4 (0.39%) Lustre
7 4 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.29%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) Ceph
9 2 (0.19%) GPFS
9 2 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 650 (63.11%) Kubernetes
2 384 (37.28%) Terraform
3 179 (17.38%) Ansible
4 176 (17.09%) Grafana
5 157 (15.24%) Prometheus
6 40 (3.88%) Argo
7 20 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.84%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.75%) Puppet
10 11 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.07%) Istio
10 11 (1.07%) Nagios
11 9 (0.87%) Control-M
12 8 (0.78%) linkerd
12 8 (0.78%) Mesos
13 6 (0.58%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.49%) Kibana
14 5 (0.49%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.39%) Cilium
Vendors
1 97 (9.42%) Google
2 94 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 48 (4.66%) Red Hat
4 42 (4.08%) Oracle
5 39 (3.79%) Splunk
6 36 (3.50%) Typelevel
7 32 (3.11%) VMware
8 31 (3.01%) OpenAI
9 20 (1.94%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.65%) Cisco
11 17 (1.65%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.46%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.46%) Databricks
12 15 (1.46%) SAP
13 13 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.26%) NVIDIA
13 13 (1.26%) UiPath
14 11 (1.07%) Dell
14 11 (1.07%) Fortinet