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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 136 159
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 -34
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,460 1,178 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.37% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.66% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 904 588 754
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,375 £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 £92,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £108,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -23 1,271 £72,500 -3.33% 1,890
UK excluding London -8 902 £67,500 +3.85% 1,230
London -37 452 £80,000 -5.88% 959
Work from Home -52 449 £69,014 +2.24% 1,077
North of England -17 266 £65,788 +1.21% 284
South West +13 214 £70,000 +7.69% 163
South East -9 169 £65,000 -10.34% 237
North West -41 144 £75,000 +15.38% 143
Midlands -70 93 £70,000 - 129
North East -6 73 £60,000 - 59
Northern Ireland -30 59 - - 72
West Midlands -51 56 £82,500 +17.86% 78
Wales -33 51 £62,000 -14.48% 69
East of England -37 50 £72,500 +26.09% 101
Yorkshire -29 49 £70,466 +3.63% 85
East Midlands -54 37 £70,000 +27.27% 51
Scotland -61 11 £90,000 +28.57% 181

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 55 (3.77%) Apache
2 43 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.74%) Confluence
4 30 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.10%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.21%) Camunda
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) JBoss
12 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 834 (57.12%) AWS
2 764 (52.33%) Azure
3 341 (23.36%) GCP
4 237 (16.23%) GitHub
5 172 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 170 (11.64%) GitHub Actions
7 144 (9.86%) Serverless
8 125 (8.56%) Cloud Computing
9 114 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (7.12%) OpenShift
11 89 (6.10%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (5.62%) Amazon S3
14 73 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
15 72 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 71 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
17 54 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
18 52 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
19 49 (3.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.07%) WAN
2 68 (4.66%) Firewall
3 67 (4.59%) LAN
4 59 (4.04%) DNS
5 51 (3.49%) Network Security
6 43 (2.95%) VPN
7 39 (2.67%) Internet
8 34 (2.33%) TCP/IP
9 28 (1.92%) MQTT
10 19 (1.30%) BGP
11 18 (1.23%) OSPF
12 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.10%) VLAN
14 15 (1.03%) DMARC
15 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
17 9 (0.62%) Broadband
18 8 (0.55%) 3GPP
18 8 (0.55%) HTTP
18 8 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.16%) NoSQL
3 73 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 64 (4.38%) MySQL
5 47 (3.22%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.88%) DynamoDB
7 39 (2.67%) Redis
8 38 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (1.92%) SQL Server
11 20 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (1.30%) Big Data
13 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.03%) Metadata
15 14 (0.96%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.96%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
17 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 318 (21.78%) Git
2 206 (14.11%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.40%) GitLab
4 38 (2.60%) JIRA
5 29 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.64%) JUnit
7 22 (1.51%) Maven
8 21 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.23%) Selenium
11 17 (1.16%) Claude Code
11 17 (1.16%) Mockito
12 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.75%) MLflow
15 10 (0.68%) Vite
16 9 (0.62%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.55%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 463 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 343 (23.49%) Finance
3 197 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 129 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.10%) Law
7 87 (5.96%) Banking
8 71 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.81%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.33%) Legal
11 31 (2.12%) Retail
12 29 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.37%) Games
14 15 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.96%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Publishing
17 12 (0.82%) Electronics
18 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.75%) Front Office
19 9 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 299 (20.48%) Senior
2 255 (17.47%) Developer
3 251 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.82%) Architect
5 215 (14.73%) Software Engineer
6 178 (12.19%) Lead
7 102 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.07%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.66%) Java Developer
11 67 (4.59%) Systems Architect
12 60 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 51 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.95%) Software Developer
18 41 (2.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (36.44%) Terraform
2 216 (14.79%) Spring
3 204 (13.97%) RESTful
4 203 (13.90%) Spring Boot
5 184 (12.60%) React
6 152 (10.41%) Kafka
7 149 (10.21%) Node.js
8 128 (8.77%) REST
9 114 (7.81%) .NET
10 82 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
11 66 (4.52%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.70%) OAuth
13 50 (3.42%) FastAPI
14 49 (3.36%) CSS
15 45 (3.08%) OpenAPI
16 43 (2.95%) OAuth2
17 40 (2.74%) Swagger
18 39 (2.67%) LangChain
19 38 (2.60%) Middleware
20 37 (2.53%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 418 (28.63%) Cloud Native
2 163 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
4 53 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 34 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 30 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.85%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.85%) PKI
12 26 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.71%) Blog
13 25 (1.71%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.30%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 339 (23.22%) Linux
2 86 (5.89%) Windows
3 44 (3.01%) Unix
4 35 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.99%) CentOS
6 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.82%) Debian
9 8 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.27%) Rocky
11 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.21%) VMS
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (68.15%) CI/CD
2 751 (51.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 745 (51.03%) DevOps
4 517 (35.41%) Agile
5 454 (31.10%) Software Engineering
6 412 (28.22%) Microservices
7 357 (24.45%) Mentoring
8 329 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
9 299 (20.48%) AI
9 299 (20.48%) Observability
10 289 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 264 (18.08%) Test Automation
12 259 (17.74%) Platform Engineering
13 249 (17.05%) Event-Driven
14 206 (14.11%) Roadmaps
15 180 (12.33%) DevSecOps
16 173 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 172 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
18 150 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
18 150 (10.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 639 (43.77%) Python
2 401 (27.47%) Java
3 207 (14.18%) JavaScript
4 191 (13.08%) Bash
5 166 (11.37%) TypeScript
6 164 (11.23%) SQL
7 132 (9.04%) C#
8 123 (8.42%) PowerShell
9 87 (5.96%) Go
10 62 (4.25%) C++
11 60 (4.11%) Bicep
12 48 (3.29%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.53%) Ruby
14 36 (2.47%) Rust
15 19 (1.30%) Groovy
16 15 (1.03%) Scala
17 14 (0.96%) C
17 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 466 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 233 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.47%) DV Cleared
4 166 (11.37%) Degree
5 101 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (4.66%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.85%) CISSP
10 15 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.89%) CCNP
11 13 (0.89%) OSCP
11 13 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.62%) CISM
14 9 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.42%) QA
2 72 (4.93%) GRC
3 56 (3.84%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.12%) NCSC
6 30 (2.05%) GDPR
7 28 (1.92%) NIST
8 22 (1.51%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 824 (56.44%) Docker
2 45 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) Squid
5 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.34%) NDS
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) Lustre
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.068%) QEMU
9 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 828 (56.71%) Kubernetes
2 216 (14.79%) Ansible
3 142 (9.73%) Grafana
4 116 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.74%) Argo
5 40 (2.74%) Puppet
6 33 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.44%) Istio
8 16 (1.10%) linkerd
9 15 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.96%) Kibana
11 13 (0.89%) Nagios
12 12 (0.82%) Podman
13 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.75%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.68%) Packer
15 8 (0.55%) logstash
15 8 (0.55%) Rancher
16 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 270 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.36%) Google
3 63 (4.32%) Splunk
4 51 (3.49%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.49%) VMware
5 49 (3.36%) Oracle
6 26 (1.78%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.03%) SendGrid
10 13 (0.89%) IBM
11 12 (0.82%) Databricks
12 11 (0.75%) Mistral
13 10 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.62%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.62%) Rapid7