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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 129 173
Rank change year-on-year -28 +44 -50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,406 1,196 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.44% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.76% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 909 591 802
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% +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 80,539 43,404 64,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.47% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,017 24,525 38,712
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.04%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -24 1,238 £72,500 -6.45% 1,503
UK excluding London -18 849 £65,576 +0.89% 786
Work from Home -43 471 £68,724 -1.82% 781
London -34 464 £80,000 -5.88% 914
North of England -28 236 £66,000 +1.54% 186
South West +10 199 £67,500 -10.00% 148
South East +9 182 £65,000 -7.14% 157
North West -43 127 £75,000 +20.00% 107
Midlands -65 84 £70,000 +1.82% 87
North East -11 59 £55,000 -8.33% 25
Northern Ireland -34 59 - - 44
West Midlands -45 54 £71,289 +1.84% 57
Yorkshire -33 50 £72,500 +11.54% 56
East of England -30 47 £60,000 +4.35% 61
Wales -41 47 £60,000 -17.24% 15
East Midlands -53 30 £65,000 +18.18% 29
Scotland -64 7 £60,000 -14.29% 92

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 49 (3.49%) Apache
2 38 (2.70%) Confluence
3 37 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) 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
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 817 (58.11%) AWS
2 731 (51.99%) Azure
3 333 (23.68%) GCP
4 214 (15.22%) GitHub
5 172 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 165 (11.74%) Serverless
7 146 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.68%) OpenShift
10 98 (6.97%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.54%) Cloud Computing
12 89 (6.33%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.90%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
14 76 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
14 76 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
15 55 (3.91%) Datadog
15 55 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
16 53 (3.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.26%) WAN
2 67 (4.77%) LAN
3 64 (4.55%) Firewall
4 60 (4.27%) DNS
5 46 (3.27%) Network Security
6 37 (2.63%) VPN
7 33 (2.35%) Broadband
8 31 (2.20%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.64%) MQTT
10 19 (1.35%) BGP
11 18 (1.28%) OSPF
12 17 (1.21%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.14%) VLAN
14 13 (0.92%) DMARC
15 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) DHCP
17 8 (0.57%) IPv4
18 7 (0.50%) GSM
18 7 (0.50%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (7.11%) NoSQL
3 69 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.27%) MySQL
5 48 (3.41%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.34%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 35 (2.49%) Redis
10 26 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.14%) Big Data
13 15 (1.07%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.85%) InfluxDB
16 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 277 (19.70%) Git
2 213 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 179 (12.73%) GitLab
4 40 (2.84%) JIRA
5 30 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.99%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.92%) JUnit
8 25 (1.78%) Maven
9 22 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 20 (1.42%) Mockito
11 19 (1.35%) Selenium
12 18 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (1.00%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.78%) Vite
15 10 (0.71%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.71%) TestRail
16 9 (0.64%) Postman
General
1 441 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 336 (23.90%) Finance
3 162 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (7.11%) Law
6 97 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (6.47%) Banking
8 69 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (2.35%) Legal
10 29 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.64%) Retail
13 22 (1.56%) Games
14 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.00%) Marketing
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.64%) Front Office
20 8 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (18.99%) Senior
2 241 (17.14%) Developer
3 216 (15.36%) Architect
4 212 (15.08%) Software Engineer
5 207 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 174 (12.38%) Lead
7 116 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 79 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.77%) Systems Architect
10 64 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 62 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 60 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
12 60 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 51 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 46 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 45 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
15 45 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 540 (38.41%) Terraform
2 194 (13.80%) RESTful
3 191 (13.58%) Spring
4 186 (13.23%) React
5 176 (12.52%) Spring Boot
6 151 (10.74%) Node.js
7 147 (10.46%) Kafka
8 130 (9.25%) .NET
9 125 (8.89%) REST
10 81 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (5.05%) AngularJS
12 55 (3.91%) OAuth
13 54 (3.84%) CSS
14 43 (3.06%) JSON
14 43 (3.06%) OAuth2
15 42 (2.99%) gRPC
16 40 (2.84%) FastAPI
16 40 (2.84%) HTML
17 39 (2.77%) .NET Core
18 37 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 386 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 170 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.78%) PKI
11 23 (1.64%) Blog
11 23 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
13 19 (1.35%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.28%) Over-the-Top Content
14 18 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 292 (20.77%) Linux
2 97 (6.90%) Windows
3 37 (2.63%) Unix
3 37 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.28%) CentOS
5 20 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.64%) Debian
8 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.071%) Rocky
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (67.28%) CI/CD
2 706 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 683 (48.58%) DevOps
4 502 (35.70%) Agile
5 451 (32.08%) Software Engineering
6 402 (28.59%) Microservices
7 329 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (20.55%) Observability
9 280 (19.91%) Mentoring
10 275 (19.56%) Test Automation
11 273 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 263 (18.71%) AI
13 227 (16.15%) Event-Driven
14 211 (15.01%) Platform Engineering
15 180 (12.80%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.66%) Full-Stack Development
17 154 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
18 142 (10.10%) Scrum
19 139 (9.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 137 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 636 (45.23%) Python
2 365 (25.96%) Java
3 233 (16.57%) JavaScript
4 185 (13.16%) Bash
5 162 (11.52%) TypeScript
6 161 (11.45%) SQL
7 145 (10.31%) C#
8 132 (9.39%) PowerShell
9 105 (7.47%) Go
10 62 (4.41%) Bicep
11 56 (3.98%) C++
12 39 (2.77%) Ruby
13 35 (2.49%) Scala
14 34 (2.42%) Rust
15 21 (1.49%) Groovy
16 17 (1.21%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.21%) PHP
17 15 (1.07%) C
17 15 (1.07%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 435 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 213 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 165 (11.74%) DV Cleared
4 160 (11.38%) Degree
5 89 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.71%) CISSP
10 13 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (0.85%) CCNP
12 11 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.78%) OSCP
12 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.64%) CISM
14 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.68%) QA
2 72 (5.12%) GRC
3 58 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.92%) NCSC
6 25 (1.78%) GDPR
7 23 (1.64%) NIST
7 23 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.42%) WCAG
9 18 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) SLA
16 1 (0.071%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 797 (56.69%) Docker
2 49 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 38 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) 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%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
12 3 (0.21%) NDS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) QEMU
14 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 816 (58.04%) Kubernetes
2 212 (15.08%) Ansible
3 142 (10.10%) Grafana
4 112 (7.97%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.63%) Argo
6 36 (2.56%) Puppet
7 32 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.85%) Istio
9 17 (1.21%) Nagios
9 17 (1.21%) Podman
10 16 (1.14%) Kibana
11 15 (1.07%) FortiGate
11 15 (1.07%) linkerd
12 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.78%) Packer
13 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.57%) logstash
15 7 (0.50%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (0.36%) Mesos
Vendors
1 224 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.54%) Google
3 60 (4.27%) Red Hat
4 55 (3.91%) Splunk
4 55 (3.91%) VMware
5 53 (3.77%) Oracle
6 26 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 20 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.28%) Typelevel
9 18 (1.28%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.07%) IBM
11 14 (1.00%) Cisco
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.85%) Databricks
13 12 (0.85%) Mistral
14 11 (0.78%) Rapid7
15 10 (0.71%) ServiceNow