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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 120 187
Rank change year-on-year -28 +67 -53
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,404 1,296 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.61% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.91% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 927 662 824
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,148 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -32 1,237 £72,500 -6.45% 787
UK excluding London -22 835 £65,000 - 432
Work from Home -34 501 £70,000 -1.40% 408
London -31 479 £80,000 -11.11% 438
North of England -34 230 £65,000 - 110
South East +38 198 £65,000 -1.89% 103
South West -1 194 £60,500 -19.33% 94
North West -33 122 £74,301 +23.84% 66
Midlands -71 74 £70,000 +7.69% 45
Northern Ireland -27 56 £73,801 +71.27% 22
Yorkshire -33 56 £70,466 +5.57% 25
North East -11 52 £55,000 -15.38% 19
West Midlands -57 47 £71,289 +5.61% 34
Wales -30 44 £67,500 +3.85% 12
East of England -32 41 £60,000 -2.83% 20
East Midlands -48 27 £62,500 +8.69% 10
Scotland -69 7 £60,000 -15.79% 27

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 45 (3.21%) Apache
2 34 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 34 (2.42%) Confluence
3 12 (0.85%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.21%) Camunda
6 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.21%) IIS
6 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.21%) WordPress
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.071%) CMS
8 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.071%) JBoss
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 811 (57.76%) AWS
2 725 (51.64%) Azure
3 348 (24.79%) GCP
4 217 (15.46%) GitHub
5 176 (12.54%) Serverless
6 167 (11.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 116 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (8.12%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.12%) Azure AKS
11 94 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (6.62%) Amazon S3
12 93 (6.62%) Cloud Computing
13 90 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
14 83 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 77 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (4.91%) Datadog
17 68 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
18 63 (4.49%) SaaS
19 56 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.13%) Firewall
2 70 (4.99%) WAN
3 67 (4.77%) DNS
4 63 (4.49%) LAN
5 51 (3.63%) Broadband
6 46 (3.28%) Network Security
7 40 (2.85%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.49%) VPN
9 21 (1.50%) MQTT
10 18 (1.28%) BGP
10 18 (1.28%) OSPF
11 17 (1.21%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.14%) VLAN
13 13 (0.93%) DMARC
13 13 (0.93%) HTTP
14 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.57%) IPv4
16 8 (0.57%) LTE
17 7 (0.50%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.06%) MySQL
5 51 (3.63%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.56%) DynamoDB
7 43 (3.06%) Redis
8 40 (2.85%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.07%) Big Data
12 12 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.85%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.78%) DTS
14 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.71%) Db2
14 10 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 262 (18.66%) Git
2 209 (14.89%) Jenkins
3 191 (13.60%) GitLab
4 42 (2.99%) JIRA
5 36 (2.56%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 27 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 26 (1.85%) JUnit
8 21 (1.50%) Maven
9 19 (1.35%) Mockito
10 18 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.21%) Selenium
12 15 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.85%) Vite
15 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.71%) Postman
17 8 (0.57%) Gatling
17 8 (0.57%) MLflow
17 8 (0.57%) TestRail
General
1 435 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 328 (23.36%) Finance
3 127 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (7.41%) Law
6 97 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 84 (5.98%) Banking
8 63 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 25 (1.78%) Legal
12 20 (1.42%) Retail
13 18 (1.28%) Games
14 14 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.85%) Electronics
15 12 (0.85%) Front Office
15 12 (0.85%) Marketing
16 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (19.02%) Senior
2 256 (18.23%) Developer
3 208 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 204 (14.53%) Software Engineer
5 194 (13.82%) Architect
6 182 (12.96%) Lead
7 122 (8.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.56%) Java Developer
11 63 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.49%) Systems Architect
12 53 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 51 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
16 46 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
17 43 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
18 40 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
19 39 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (13.53%) Spring
2 185 (13.18%) RESTful
3 178 (12.68%) React
3 178 (12.68%) Spring Boot
4 146 (10.40%) Kafka
5 143 (10.19%) Node.js
6 136 (9.69%) .NET
7 124 (8.83%) REST
8 82 (5.84%) AngularJS
9 79 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
10 64 (4.56%) gRPC
11 57 (4.06%) OAuth
12 51 (3.63%) JSON
13 49 (3.49%) CSS
14 48 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (3.21%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.06%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.06%) YAML
17 41 (2.92%) HTML
18 38 (2.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 363 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 175 (12.46%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.56%) Over-the-Top Content
6 36 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
7 31 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 24 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.42%) PKI
12 20 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.28%) Blockchain
13 18 (1.28%) Blog
14 17 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 280 (19.94%) Linux
2 92 (6.55%) Windows
3 35 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.28%) CentOS
5 31 (2.21%) Unix
6 25 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.57%) Debian
9 7 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (67.02%) CI/CD
2 680 (48.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 677 (48.22%) DevOps
4 500 (35.61%) Agile
5 442 (31.48%) Software Engineering
6 431 (30.70%) Microservices
7 346 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (19.59%) Observability
9 271 (19.30%) Test Automation
10 268 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 267 (19.02%) Mentoring
12 255 (18.16%) AI
13 206 (14.67%) Event-Driven
14 193 (13.75%) Platform Engineering
15 179 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 168 (11.97%) Roadmaps
17 144 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (10.11%) Machine Learning
19 141 (10.04%) Clean Code
20 138 (9.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 650 (46.30%) Python
2 354 (25.21%) Java
3 249 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 182 (12.96%) Bash
5 172 (12.25%) SQL
6 155 (11.04%) TypeScript
7 150 (10.68%) C#
8 139 (9.90%) PowerShell
9 128 (9.12%) Go
10 58 (4.13%) Bicep
11 53 (3.77%) C++
12 48 (3.42%) Scala
13 38 (2.71%) Ruby
14 31 (2.21%) Rust
15 23 (1.64%) PHP
16 21 (1.50%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.21%) Groovy
18 12 (0.85%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.85%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 381 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 195 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 159 (11.32%) Degree
4 142 (10.11%) DV Cleared
5 86 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 51 (3.63%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.57%) CISSP
10 17 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.57%) OSCP
16 8 (0.57%) RHCE
16 8 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.55%) QA
2 68 (4.84%) GRC
3 50 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.07%) GDPR
6 27 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.85%) NIST
8 22 (1.57%) WCAG
9 21 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.50%) NCSC
10 12 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.071%) PSD2
15 1 (0.071%) SLA
System Software
1 817 (58.19%) Docker
2 44 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.71%) Active Directory
5 12 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.71%) KVM
7 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.64%) vSphere
8 8 (0.57%) Squid
9 6 (0.43%) Firmware
9 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) iptables
10 2 (0.14%) NDS
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.071%) QEMU
11 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 812 (57.83%) Kubernetes
2 532 (37.89%) Terraform
3 210 (14.96%) Ansible
4 169 (12.04%) Grafana
5 140 (9.97%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.35%) Puppet
7 31 (2.21%) Argo
8 28 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.64%) Istio
10 20 (1.42%) Nagios
11 18 (1.28%) Podman
12 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.14%) Kibana
14 15 (1.07%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.93%) linkerd
16 11 (0.78%) Packer
16 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.50%) logstash
18 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.84%) Google
3 65 (4.63%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.77%) Splunk
5 49 (3.49%) Oracle
6 47 (3.35%) VMware
7 36 (2.56%) Typelevel
8 27 (1.92%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.71%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.57%) Cisco
11 21 (1.50%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.28%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.28%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.07%) IBM
14 13 (0.93%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 11 (0.78%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.71%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.71%) Confluent
17 9 (0.64%) Salesforce