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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 116 202
Rank change year-on-year -35 +86 -55
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,264 1,273 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.74% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.99% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 882 647 1,081
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,725 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,601 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,875 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 70,675 42,514 86,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 91.57% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,811 23,148 61,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -34 1,153 £72,500 -9.38% 333
UK excluding London -46 684 £62,500 -7.41% 245
London -18 476 £80,000 -11.11% 165
Work from Home -42 445 £70,000 -2.77% 171
North of England -49 213 £65,000 - 57
South East +23 171 £65,000 - 78
South West -3 161 £55,000 -26.67% 39
North West -43 109 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Yorkshire -38 63 £70,466 +0.67% 13
Midlands -91 61 £70,000 +7.69% 29
East of England -22 43 £60,000 -11.11% 9
North East -18 41 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West Midlands -60 34 £70,079 +3.82% 20
Wales -34 30 £67,500 +12.50% 7
East Midlands -60 27 £64,000 +6.67% 9
Scotland -67 6 £60,000 -25.00% 14
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +45.04% 17

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 35 (2.77%) Apache
2 28 (2.22%) Confluence
3 27 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.71%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.40%) Appian
6 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.32%) IIS
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.24%) Camunda
8 3 (0.24%) CMS
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.079%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.079%) nginx
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.24%) Blender
4 3 (0.24%) Maya
5 1 (0.079%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 760 (60.13%) AWS
2 632 (50.00%) Azure
3 335 (26.50%) GCP
4 217 (17.17%) GitHub
5 178 (14.08%) Serverless
6 152 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
7 148 (11.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 120 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.39%) Azure AKS
10 105 (8.31%) OpenShift
11 97 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
12 96 (7.59%) Amazon S3
13 81 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (5.78%) Datadog
16 69 (5.46%) SaaS
17 67 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
18 65 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
19 55 (4.35%) IaaS
20 45 (3.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.78%) Firewall
2 72 (5.70%) Broadband
2 72 (5.70%) DNS
3 38 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.85%) Network Security
5 28 (2.22%) VPN
6 22 (1.74%) HTTP
7 17 (1.34%) MQTT
8 14 (1.11%) VLAN
9 13 (1.03%) DMARC
10 12 (0.95%) BGP
10 12 (0.95%) OSPF
10 12 (0.95%) VXLAN
11 11 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (0.63%) AMQP
12 8 (0.63%) DHCP
12 8 (0.63%) IPv4
12 8 (0.63%) Wireshark
13 7 (0.55%) WAN
14 6 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.21%) NoSQL
2 124 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 65 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 57 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
6 55 (4.35%) MySQL
7 54 (4.27%) SQL Server
8 49 (3.88%) DynamoDB
9 37 (2.93%) Redis
10 30 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.66%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (1.42%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.11%) Big Data
15 11 (0.87%) Metadata
16 10 (0.79%) InfluxDB
17 9 (0.71%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.71%) Power BI
18 8 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.63%) DTS
Development Applications
1 227 (17.96%) Git
2 200 (15.82%) Jenkins
3 177 (14.00%) GitLab
4 45 (3.56%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.16%) JIRA
6 28 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.58%) JUnit
9 19 (1.50%) Maven
10 18 (1.42%) Mockito
11 17 (1.34%) Selenium
11 17 (1.34%) Vite
12 15 (1.19%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.11%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.95%) Jaeger
14 12 (0.95%) MLflow
15 10 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.71%) TestRail
17 8 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 340 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 244 (19.30%) Finance
3 107 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 94 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.41%) Banking
6 74 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.67%) Law
8 44 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.14%) Aerospace
9 27 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.42%) Retail
11 16 (1.27%) Games
12 15 (1.19%) Legal
13 13 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.03%) Front Office
14 9 (0.71%) Advertising
14 9 (0.71%) Billing
14 9 (0.71%) Electronics
14 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (21.60%) Senior
2 255 (20.17%) Developer
3 182 (14.40%) Software Engineer
4 179 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 166 (13.13%) Lead
6 128 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 115 (9.10%) Architect
8 70 (5.54%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (5.22%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
12 56 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 51 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 50 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
14 50 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (2.93%) Senior DevOps
17 36 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
17 36 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
18 35 (2.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (14.32%) React
2 177 (14.00%) RESTful
3 158 (12.50%) Spring
4 151 (11.95%) Spring Boot
5 148 (11.71%) .NET
6 135 (10.68%) Node.js
7 127 (10.05%) REST
8 125 (9.89%) Kafka
9 80 (6.33%) AngularJS
9 80 (6.33%) gRPC
10 75 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
11 63 (4.98%) OAuth
12 61 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
13 51 (4.03%) .NET Core
14 45 (3.56%) OAuth2
15 43 (3.40%) JSON
16 42 (3.32%) FastAPI
17 41 (3.24%) YAML
18 37 (2.93%) CSS
19 36 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 333 (26.34%) Cloud Native
2 162 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.56%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.56%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.98%) Blockchain
9 24 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.82%) PKI
11 20 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.58%) Web3
12 19 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 252 (19.94%) Linux
2 90 (7.12%) Windows
3 36 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.77%) Ubuntu
5 34 (2.69%) CentOS
5 34 (2.69%) Unix
6 21 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.79%) Debian
8 4 (0.32%) VMS
9 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Android
9 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.079%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.079%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (68.83%) CI/CD
2 622 (49.21%) DevOps
3 554 (43.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (38.53%) Agile
5 413 (32.67%) Microservices
6 408 (32.28%) Software Engineering
7 333 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
8 257 (20.33%) Mentoring
9 255 (20.17%) Test Automation
10 251 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 241 (19.07%) Observability
12 225 (17.80%) AI
13 175 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 172 (13.61%) Event-Driven
15 164 (12.97%) Platform Engineering
16 140 (11.08%) Clean Code
16 140 (11.08%) Continuous Delivery
17 137 (10.84%) High Availability
17 137 (10.84%) Machine Learning
18 123 (9.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 599 (47.39%) Python
2 320 (25.32%) Java
3 241 (19.07%) JavaScript
4 188 (14.87%) Bash
5 183 (14.48%) SQL
6 155 (12.26%) C#
6 155 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 142 (11.23%) Go
8 141 (11.16%) PowerShell
9 53 (4.19%) Scala
10 49 (3.88%) Bicep
11 43 (3.40%) C++
12 29 (2.29%) Ruby
13 28 (2.22%) Rust
14 26 (2.06%) PHP
15 24 (1.90%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.42%) Groovy
17 14 (1.11%) C
18 10 (0.79%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 303 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 129 (10.21%) Degree
4 97 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 74 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.51%) Azure Certification
7 50 (3.96%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.19%) CISSP
11 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.63%) CCNA
14 8 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.63%) OSCP
14 8 (0.63%) RHCE
14 8 (0.63%) RHCSA
15 7 (0.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.99%) QA
2 36 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.69%) GDPR
4 32 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.82%) NIST
8 15 (1.19%) WCAG
9 14 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.03%) NCSC
11 11 (0.87%) GRC
11 11 (0.87%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.079%) DO-178B
16 1 (0.079%) SLA
System Software
1 765 (60.52%) Docker
2 40 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.61%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.79%) vSphere
6 9 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.63%) Squid
8 7 (0.55%) KVM
9 6 (0.47%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) iptables
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.079%) QEMU
12 1 (0.079%) Xen
Systems Management
1 758 (59.97%) Kubernetes
2 492 (38.92%) Terraform
3 205 (16.22%) Ansible
4 170 (13.45%) Grafana
5 154 (12.18%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.32%) Argo
7 30 (2.37%) Puppet
8 24 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.82%) Istio
10 21 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.42%) Nagios
12 17 (1.34%) Podman
13 13 (1.03%) Kibana
13 13 (1.03%) Packer
14 12 (0.95%) Kustomize
14 12 (0.95%) linkerd
15 11 (0.87%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.79%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.47%) logstash
17 6 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.75%) Google
3 63 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 48 (3.80%) Splunk
5 45 (3.56%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.24%) VMware
7 37 (2.93%) Oracle
8 27 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 25 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.42%) Cisco
10 18 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.19%) Fortinet
12 13 (1.03%) SendGrid
12 13 (1.03%) Zscaler
13 11 (0.87%) Databricks
13 11 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 10 (0.79%) Confluent
14 10 (0.79%) IBM
14 10 (0.79%) NVIDIA
14 10 (0.79%) ServiceNow