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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 114 195
Rank change year-on-year -31 +81 -55
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,351 1,309 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.67% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.96% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 920 670 1,010
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,288 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,148 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%

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 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 1,195 £72,500 -6.45% 369
UK excluding London -36 777 £65,000 -3.70% 222
Work from Home -34 496 £70,000 -2.77% 178
London -23 480 £80,000 -11.11% 192
North of England -51 218 £65,000 - 62
South East +27 187 £65,000 - 63
South West +1 175 £57,500 -23.33% 44
North West -34 119 £72,500 +20.83% 36
Midlands -83 66 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Yorkshire -33 59 £65,000 -5.11% 14
Northern Ireland -16 51 £68,151 +58.15% 5
East of England -19 41 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Wales -28 41 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North East -23 40 £55,000 -12.00% 12
West Midlands -59 40 £70,079 +3.82% 24
East Midlands -45 26 £62,500 +8.69% 8
Scotland -74 7 £60,000 -22.33% 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 37 (2.74%) Apache
2 31 (2.29%) Confluence
3 29 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.07%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Qpid
10 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.074%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 776 (57.44%) AWS
2 690 (51.07%) Azure
3 342 (25.31%) GCP
4 214 (15.84%) GitHub
5 182 (13.47%) Serverless
6 156 (11.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (8.14%) OpenShift
10 104 (7.70%) Azure AKS
11 96 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
12 95 (7.03%) Amazon S3
13 83 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
14 81 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 78 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
15 78 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
16 73 (5.40%) Datadog
17 68 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
18 65 (4.81%) SaaS
19 57 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.48%) Firewall
2 70 (5.18%) DNS
3 66 (4.89%) Broadband
4 62 (4.59%) WAN
5 55 (4.07%) LAN
6 43 (3.18%) Network Security
7 42 (3.11%) TCP/IP
8 36 (2.66%) VPN
9 20 (1.48%) HTTP
9 20 (1.48%) MQTT
10 17 (1.26%) BGP
10 17 (1.26%) OSPF
11 16 (1.18%) VLAN
11 16 (1.18%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.96%) DMARC
13 11 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (0.74%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.59%) IPv4
16 7 (0.52%) DHCP
17 6 (0.44%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (8.81%) NoSQL
3 74 (5.48%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (4.22%) MySQL
7 47 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 44 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 40 (2.96%) Redis
10 30 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.11%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.96%) Big Data
14 12 (0.89%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.81%) DTS
16 10 (0.74%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.74%) Db2
17 9 (0.67%) InfluxDB
17 9 (0.67%) Power BI
18 8 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 238 (17.62%) Git
2 201 (14.88%) Jenkins
3 184 (13.62%) GitLab
4 42 (3.11%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.89%) JIRA
6 25 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.78%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.33%) JUnit
8 18 (1.33%) Maven
9 16 (1.18%) Mockito
10 15 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.04%) Selenium
11 14 (1.04%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.96%) Vite
13 12 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.59%) Gatling
15 8 (0.59%) JMeter
15 8 (0.59%) MLflow
15 8 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 401 (29.68%) Social Skills
2 298 (22.06%) Finance
3 114 (8.44%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.59%) Law
6 84 (6.22%) Banking
7 79 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.70%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.41%) Retail
13 18 (1.33%) Games
13 18 (1.33%) Legal
14 14 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.89%) Front Office
16 10 (0.74%) Electronics
17 9 (0.67%) Billing
17 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 268 (19.84%) Senior
2 257 (19.02%) Developer
3 196 (14.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 187 (13.84%) Software Engineer
5 180 (13.32%) Architect
6 170 (12.58%) Lead
7 125 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.89%) Java Developer
11 61 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
12 56 (4.15%) Systems Architect
13 54 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 50 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
16 48 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (13.18%) RESTful
2 173 (12.81%) React
2 173 (12.81%) Spring
3 167 (12.36%) Spring Boot
4 138 (10.21%) Node.js
5 137 (10.14%) .NET
6 133 (9.84%) Kafka
7 123 (9.10%) REST
8 78 (5.77%) AngularJS
9 76 (5.63%) gRPC
9 76 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
10 58 (4.29%) OAuth
11 56 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
12 49 (3.63%) JSON
13 44 (3.26%) .NET Core
14 43 (3.18%) OAuth2
14 43 (3.18%) YAML
15 41 (3.03%) CSS
16 39 (2.89%) FastAPI
16 39 (2.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 345 (25.54%) Cloud Native
2 173 (12.81%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.63%) PKI
11 21 (1.55%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.33%) Web3
14 17 (1.26%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 266 (19.69%) Linux
2 88 (6.51%) Windows
3 34 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.37%) CentOS
4 32 (2.37%) Unix
5 30 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 17 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.67%) Debian
8 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.074%) Android
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.074%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 893 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 642 (47.52%) DevOps
3 637 (47.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 478 (35.38%) Agile
5 423 (31.31%) Microservices
6 421 (31.16%) Software Engineering
7 341 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
8 261 (19.32%) Mentoring
9 259 (19.17%) Test Automation
10 249 (18.43%) Observability
11 248 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 224 (16.58%) AI
13 188 (13.92%) Event-Driven
14 179 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
15 168 (12.44%) Full-Stack Development
16 160 (11.84%) Roadmaps
17 143 (10.58%) Clean Code
18 136 (10.07%) Machine Learning
19 132 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
20 129 (9.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 621 (45.97%) Python
2 326 (24.13%) Java
3 242 (17.91%) JavaScript
4 183 (13.55%) Bash
5 174 (12.88%) SQL
6 148 (10.95%) C#
6 148 (10.95%) TypeScript
7 139 (10.29%) PowerShell
8 138 (10.21%) Go
9 55 (4.07%) Scala
10 54 (4.00%) Bicep
11 44 (3.26%) C++
12 35 (2.59%) Ruby
13 31 (2.29%) Rust
14 26 (1.92%) PHP
15 21 (1.55%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.26%) Groovy
17 12 (0.89%) C
18 10 (0.74%) RPG
18 10 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 332 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 167 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 146 (10.81%) Degree
4 122 (9.03%) DV Cleared
5 79 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 45 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.55%) CISSP
10 18 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.81%) CCNP
11 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.59%) CCNA
14 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.59%) OSCP
14 8 (0.59%) RHCE
14 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.36%) QA
2 62 (4.59%) GRC
3 42 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.37%) GDPR
5 31 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.70%) NIST
9 20 (1.48%) WCAG
10 17 (1.26%) NCSC
11 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.81%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
17 1 (0.074%) SEPA
17 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 779 (57.66%) Docker
2 41 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.67%) vSphere
6 8 (0.59%) Squid
7 7 (0.52%) KVM
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
10 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.15%) NDS
11 1 (0.074%) QEMU
11 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 779 (57.66%) Kubernetes
2 517 (38.27%) Terraform
3 210 (15.54%) Ansible
4 172 (12.73%) Grafana
5 150 (11.10%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.81%) Argo
7 31 (2.29%) Puppet
8 27 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.63%) Istio
10 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (1.41%) Nagios
11 18 (1.33%) Podman
12 15 (1.11%) Kibana
13 14 (1.04%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.89%) linkerd
15 11 (0.81%) Packer
15 11 (0.81%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.52%) logstash
17 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 185 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.00%) Google
3 60 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.77%) Splunk
5 45 (3.33%) Typelevel
6 42 (3.11%) VMware
7 41 (3.03%) Oracle
8 25 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.70%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.55%) Cisco
10 21 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.41%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.04%) IBM
14 13 (0.96%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.81%) Rapid7
15 11 (0.81%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.74%) Confluent
16 10 (0.74%) Databricks
16 10 (0.74%) NVIDIA