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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 131 168
Rank change year-on-year -33 +37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,403 1,193 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.42% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.72% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 893 590 777
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 17 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 17 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 -37 1,228 £72,500 -3.33% 1,750
UK excluding London -21 861 £67,500 +3.85% 951
London -43 446 £80,000 -5.88% 984
Work from Home -46 443 £68,724 +0.29% 752
North of England -22 246 £67,500 +3.85% 244
South West +5 205 £67,500 +1.10% 156
South East -6 171 £66,250 -8.62% 205
North West -42 135 £75,000 +15.38% 134
Midlands -65 85 £70,000 +1.82% 98
North East -11 62 £55,000 -8.33% 42
Northern Ireland -23 59 - - 35
West Midlands -51 53 £72,500 +3.57% 58
Wales -39 51 £60,000 -17.24% 18
Yorkshire -33 49 £72,500 +11.54% 69
East of England -37 48 £60,000 +3.45% 76
East Midlands -62 32 £67,500 +22.73% 40
Scotland -65 8 £90,000 +28.57% 122

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 51 (3.64%) Apache
2 40 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.64%) Confluence
4 26 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Camunda
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
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
1 802 (57.16%) AWS
2 727 (51.82%) Azure
3 316 (22.52%) GCP
4 222 (15.82%) GitHub
5 173 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 161 (11.48%) Serverless
7 156 (11.12%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (7.27%) OpenShift
10 97 (6.91%) Azure AKS
10 97 (6.91%) Cloud Computing
11 85 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
11 85 (6.06%) Amazon S3
12 80 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
14 75 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
15 74 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
17 52 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
18 49 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.35%) WAN
2 68 (4.85%) LAN
3 63 (4.49%) Firewall
4 59 (4.21%) DNS
5 48 (3.42%) Network Security
6 38 (2.71%) VPN
7 33 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.78%) MQTT
9 19 (1.35%) BGP
10 18 (1.28%) Broadband
10 18 (1.28%) OSPF
11 17 (1.21%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.14%) VLAN
13 13 (0.93%) DMARC
14 12 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 11 (0.78%) Internet
16 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.57%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.57%) AMQP
17 8 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 66 (4.70%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.28%) MySQL
5 48 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 43 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (2.64%) Redis
9 32 (2.28%) SQL Server
10 27 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.28%) Big Data
13 15 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.07%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.86%) Metadata
16 11 (0.78%) InfluxDB
17 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 284 (20.24%) Git
2 210 (14.97%) Jenkins
3 170 (12.12%) GitLab
4 37 (2.64%) JIRA
5 28 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.71%) JUnit
6 24 (1.71%) Maven
7 23 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.50%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.35%) Selenium
10 18 (1.28%) CircleCI
11 17 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (1.21%) Mockito
12 13 (0.93%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.93%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.78%) Vite
14 9 (0.64%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.64%) TestRail
15 8 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 442 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 330 (23.52%) Finance
3 178 (12.69%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (6.91%) Law
6 96 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (6.06%) Banking
8 69 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.64%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.42%) Legal
11 27 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.92%) Retail
12 21 (1.50%) Games
13 14 (1.00%) Marketing
14 13 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.86%) Electronics
16 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.71%) Front Office
17 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 277 (19.74%) Senior
2 248 (17.68%) Developer
3 224 (15.97%) Architect
4 206 (14.68%) Software Engineer
5 205 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 174 (12.40%) Lead
7 111 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (4.99%) Senior Developer
10 67 (4.78%) Systems Architect
11 63 (4.49%) Java Developer
12 62 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
15 44 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 41 (2.92%) Software Developer
18 40 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
19 38 (2.71%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (38.06%) Terraform
2 197 (14.04%) Spring
3 196 (13.97%) RESTful
4 185 (13.19%) React
5 183 (13.04%) Spring Boot
6 150 (10.69%) Node.js
7 147 (10.48%) Kafka
8 125 (8.91%) REST
9 121 (8.62%) .NET
10 84 (5.99%) RabbitMQ
11 71 (5.06%) AngularJS
12 53 (3.78%) CSS
13 51 (3.64%) OAuth
14 44 (3.14%) FastAPI
15 42 (2.99%) OAuth2
16 40 (2.85%) HTML
17 38 (2.71%) LangChain
17 38 (2.71%) OpenAPI
18 36 (2.57%) .NET Core
19 35 (2.49%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 394 (28.08%) Cloud Native
2 169 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.78%) PKI
12 24 (1.71%) Blog
13 22 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.35%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 303 (21.60%) Linux
2 91 (6.49%) Windows
3 39 (2.78%) Unix
4 35 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.21%) CentOS
6 22 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.50%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.86%) Debian
9 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (66.64%) CI/CD
2 716 (51.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 682 (48.61%) DevOps
4 498 (35.50%) Agile
5 447 (31.86%) Software Engineering
6 398 (28.37%) Microservices
7 319 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (20.88%) Mentoring
9 292 (20.81%) Observability
10 278 (19.81%) AI
11 269 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 264 (18.82%) Test Automation
13 233 (16.61%) Event-Driven
14 222 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
15 192 (13.68%) Roadmaps
16 163 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
17 154 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
18 146 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 139 (9.91%) DevSecOps
20 138 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 627 (44.69%) Python
2 373 (26.59%) Java
3 220 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 185 (13.19%) Bash
5 167 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 162 (11.55%) SQL
7 140 (9.98%) C#
8 127 (9.05%) PowerShell
9 92 (6.56%) Go
10 61 (4.35%) Bicep
11 58 (4.13%) C++
12 37 (2.64%) Ruby
13 36 (2.57%) Rust
14 26 (1.85%) Scala
15 23 (1.64%) Groovy
16 19 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.14%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.07%) C
18 15 (1.07%) PL/SQL
19 14 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 451 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 224 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 172 (12.26%) DV Cleared
4 159 (11.33%) Degree
5 92 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.85%) CISSP
11 13 (0.93%) CCNP
12 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.78%) OSCP
13 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.64%) CISM
15 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.70%) QA
2 72 (5.13%) GRC
3 57 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.85%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.00%) NCSC
6 25 (1.78%) GDPR
7 24 (1.71%) NIST
8 21 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.35%) WCAG
10 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) SLA
15 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.071%) COBIT
16 1 (0.071%) PSD2
System Software
1 782 (55.74%) Docker
2 49 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.64%) KVM
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Squid
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.36%) NDS
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.21%) Firmware
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 811 (57.80%) Kubernetes
2 215 (15.32%) Ansible
3 138 (9.84%) Grafana
4 114 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.78%) Argo
5 39 (2.78%) Puppet
6 34 (2.42%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.57%) Istio
8 16 (1.14%) linkerd
9 15 (1.07%) FortiGate
9 15 (1.07%) Kibana
9 15 (1.07%) Nagios
10 12 (0.86%) Podman
11 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.78%) Packer
11 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.64%) logstash
13 7 (0.50%) Rancher
14 6 (0.43%) Mesos
14 6 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 232 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.63%) Google
3 57 (4.06%) Splunk
4 55 (3.92%) VMware
5 54 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.71%) Oracle
7 27 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.28%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.28%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.14%) IBM
10 13 (0.93%) SendGrid
11 12 (0.86%) Databricks
11 12 (0.86%) Mistral
12 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.78%) Cisco
13 10 (0.71%) Okta
13 10 (0.71%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.64%) ForgeRock