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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 146 117
Rank change year-on-year -15 -29 +22
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 898 1,218 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.61% 1.93% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.23% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 617 778 1,045
10th Percentile £48,165 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and 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 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -10 833 £72,500 +3.57% 719
UK excluding London -19 430 £65,000 - 630
London +21 397 £85,000 - 177
Work from Home -9 319 £67,500 -3.57% 390
North of England +7 173 £65,000 +8.33% 158
North West +25 107 £65,000 +8.33% 87
South West -9 86 £60,000 -13.04% 98
South East -26 64 £75,000 +11.11% 186
Midlands +14 57 £68,750 +5.77% 94
Yorkshire -36 43 £68,500 +24.55% 57
West Midlands +2 36 £70,542 +8.53% 47
East of England +14 28 £57,500 -11.54% 62
Scotland -17 25 £70,000 - 22
North East +18 23 £57,600 -7.33% 14
East Midlands +3 20 £54,600 +28.47% 40
Wales +2 14 £80,000 +23.08% 16
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 7

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 46 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.56%) Apache
4 17 (1.89%) CMS
4 17 (1.89%) IIS
5 13 (1.45%) Apache Solr
6 8 (0.89%) Appian
7 6 (0.67%) Confluence
7 6 (0.67%) nginx
8 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (2.23%) Maya
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.22%) Weka
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Shopify
2 4 (0.45%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 520 (57.91%) AWS
2 501 (55.79%) Azure
3 229 (25.50%) GCP
4 176 (19.60%) GitHub
5 129 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
7 120 (13.36%) Serverless
8 72 (8.02%) Amazon S3
9 62 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (6.90%) SaaS
10 61 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
10 61 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (5.01%) Datadog
12 45 (5.01%) OpenShift
13 43 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
15 35 (3.90%) Azure AKS
16 34 (3.79%) PaaS
17 30 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.79%) Firewall
2 31 (3.45%) DNS
3 21 (2.34%) VPN
4 19 (2.12%) DHCP
4 19 (2.12%) Network Security
5 17 (1.89%) WAN
6 16 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.34%) LAN
8 9 (1.00%) HTTP
8 9 (1.00%) IPsec
9 8 (0.89%) VLAN
10 7 (0.78%) AMQP
10 7 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.67%) VoIP
11 6 (0.67%) Wireless
12 5 (0.56%) SAN
13 4 (0.45%) DMZ
13 4 (0.45%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (11.36%) NoSQL
2 96 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 61 (6.79%) MongoDB
5 51 (5.68%) MySQL
6 47 (5.23%) Relational Database
7 43 (4.79%) DynamoDB
8 41 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.90%) Big Data
10 25 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.67%) Metadata
12 20 (2.23%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.12%) Delta Lake
14 16 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.45%) Hadoop
16 12 (1.34%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.34%) Tick Data
17 11 (1.22%) Data Lake
17 11 (1.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 168 (18.71%) Git
2 117 (13.03%) Jenkins
3 90 (10.02%) GitLab
4 35 (3.90%) MLflow
5 29 (3.23%) JIRA
6 19 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 18 (2.00%) JUnit
7 18 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.00%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.45%) Selenium
10 12 (1.34%) JMeter
11 11 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.89%) Locust
14 7 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.45%) NeoLoad
15 4 (0.45%) Postman
15 4 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 274 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 217 (24.16%) Finance
3 80 (8.91%) Law
4 75 (8.35%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (7.02%) Marketing
7 48 (5.35%) Telecoms
8 45 (5.01%) Banking
9 36 (4.01%) Games
10 28 (3.12%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.90%) Retail
12 25 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (2.67%) Front Office
14 21 (2.34%) Electronics
15 14 (1.56%) French Language
16 13 (1.45%) Dutch Language
17 12 (1.34%) Legal
18 11 (1.22%) Advertising
18 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 10 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (23.50%) Developer
2 191 (21.27%) Senior
3 123 (13.70%) Lead
4 111 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 58 (6.46%) Architect
7 56 (6.24%) Senior Developer
8 53 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
9 49 (5.46%) Python Developer
10 47 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 37 (4.12%) Lead Developer
13 36 (4.01%) Backend Developer
13 36 (4.01%) Data Engineer
13 36 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 35 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
14 35 (3.90%) Software Developer
15 34 (3.79%) Operations Engineer
16 33 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (3.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (15.26%) React
2 132 (14.70%) .NET
3 125 (13.92%) RESTful
4 75 (8.35%) Node.js
4 75 (8.35%) Spring
5 73 (8.13%) REST
6 69 (7.68%) Spring Boot
7 67 (7.46%) Kafka
8 64 (7.13%) FastAPI
9 59 (6.57%) AngularJS
10 55 (6.12%) .NET Core
11 52 (5.79%) HTML
12 51 (5.68%) CSS
13 49 (5.46%) Flask
13 49 (5.46%) PyTorch
14 45 (5.01%) TensorFlow
15 42 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
16 41 (4.57%) scikit-learn
17 40 (4.45%) Pandas
17 40 (4.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 101 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 32 (3.56%) Linux Command Line
6 32 (3.56%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 29 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (2.90%) Algorithms
10 24 (2.67%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.67%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.56%) Blockchain
12 22 (2.45%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.78%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.34%) PKI
16 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 189 (21.05%) Linux
2 113 (12.58%) Windows
3 51 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.12%) Unix
5 29 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (2.12%) VMS
7 17 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.22%) CentOS
8 11 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.89%) Android
10 7 (0.78%) Debian
10 7 (0.78%) Rocky
11 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (63.92%) CI/CD
2 472 (52.56%) DevOps
3 308 (34.30%) Agile
4 281 (31.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 259 (28.84%) Microservices
6 254 (28.29%) Problem-Solving
7 235 (26.17%) AI
8 174 (19.38%) Software Engineering
9 163 (18.15%) Mentoring
10 133 (14.81%) Machine Learning
11 126 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (13.92%) Test Automation
13 117 (13.03%) Observability
14 106 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 100 (11.14%) Computer Science
16 93 (10.36%) Analytics
17 91 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
18 87 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
19 85 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 82 (9.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 436 (48.55%) Python
2 189 (21.05%) SQL
3 176 (19.60%) Java
4 152 (16.93%) JavaScript
5 133 (14.81%) C#
6 114 (12.69%) Bash
7 101 (11.25%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.46%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.23%) Go
10 29 (3.23%) Bicep
11 19 (2.12%) C++
12 17 (1.89%) PHP
13 12 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.00%) Ruby
15 8 (0.89%) Delphi
16 7 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.78%) Scala
17 6 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.45%) C
18 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (15.14%) Degree
2 133 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 83 (9.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 63 (7.02%) DV Cleared
6 46 (5.12%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.45%) CISSP
10 8 (0.89%) CISM
11 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.78%) PhD
11 7 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.67%) ACMT
12 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.13%) QA
2 41 (4.57%) GDPR
3 27 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.23%) NIST
6 15 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.00%) NCSC
9 8 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.89%) WCAG
10 7 (0.78%) GRC
10 7 (0.78%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.45%) EMIR
13 4 (0.45%) SLA
14 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.22%) ECSS
14 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 598 (66.59%) Docker
2 49 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (4.79%) Active Directory
4 27 (3.01%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.23%) vSphere
6 14 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.78%) NFS
9 5 (0.56%) KVM
9 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.45%) Lustre
10 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.45%) vCloud
11 2 (0.22%) Ceph
11 2 (0.22%) GPFS
11 2 (0.22%) RACF
11 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 572 (63.70%) Kubernetes
2 316 (35.19%) Terraform
3 134 (14.92%) Ansible
4 111 (12.36%) Grafana
5 90 (10.02%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.67%) Kubeflow
7 14 (1.56%) Argo
8 12 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.11%) Control-M
10 10 (1.11%) Puppet
11 8 (0.89%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.89%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.67%) Autotask
13 6 (0.67%) SCCM
14 5 (0.56%) Rancher
14 5 (0.56%) SCOM
14 5 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 119 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.57%) VMware
3 58 (6.46%) Oracle
4 53 (5.90%) Google
5 40 (4.45%) Databricks
6 36 (4.01%) Red Hat
7 29 (3.23%) Splunk
8 27 (3.01%) SAP
9 23 (2.56%) Cisco
10 22 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.23%) OpenAI
12 19 (2.12%) Dell
13 13 (1.45%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 11 (1.22%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.11%) MuleSoft
16 9 (1.00%) Dynatrace
16 9 (1.00%) Pure Storage
17 8 (0.89%) Commvault
17 8 (0.89%) Salesforce