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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 118 190
Rank change year-on-year -47 +72 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,147 1,241 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.83% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.03% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 744 672 1,110
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,291 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,310 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +9.54% +0.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,764 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,875 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -41 1,047 £72,500 -6.45% 422
UK excluding London -62 589 £62,500 -7.41% 275
London -15 463 £82,500 -8.33% 183
Work from Home -38 419 £70,932 +1.33% 216
North of England -60 178 £65,000 -3.70% 77
South East +2 154 £70,000 +7.69% 81
South West -10 130 £55,000 -23.60% 57
North West -51 86 £70,000 +7.69% 43
Yorkshire -45 61 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Midlands -86 61 £70,000 +16.67% 23
East of England -29 35 £60,050 -11.04% 18
West Midlands -79 32 £70,505 +8.47% 11
North East -22 31 £52,000 -22.43% 17
East Midlands -54 28 £64,000 +6.67% 12
Wales -20 20 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Scotland -67 12 £60,000 -29.52% 14
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 1

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 28 (2.44%) Apache
2 22 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.39%) Confluence
5 12 (1.05%) Appian
6 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.52%) IIS
7 6 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) CMS
8 3 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.087%) nginx
10 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.70%) Maya
2 6 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.087%) Blender
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.26%) Shopify
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.087%) Endur
3 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 672 (58.59%) AWS
2 587 (51.18%) Azure
3 319 (27.81%) GCP
4 194 (16.91%) GitHub
5 171 (14.91%) Serverless
6 138 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
7 127 (11.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 126 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (8.89%) Azure AKS
10 96 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (7.67%) Amazon S3
12 87 (7.59%) OpenShift
13 85 (7.41%) Datadog
14 70 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (5.75%) SaaS
16 65 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
17 49 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
18 47 (4.10%) IaaS
19 38 (3.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.63%) Broadband
2 71 (6.19%) Firewall
3 60 (5.23%) DNS
4 32 (2.79%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.62%) Network Security
6 25 (2.18%) HTTP
7 17 (1.48%) VPN
8 11 (0.96%) MQTT
9 10 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.70%) AMQP
11 6 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.52%) DHCP
11 6 (0.52%) DMZ
11 6 (0.52%) IPv4
12 5 (0.44%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.35%) VLAN
13 4 (0.35%) WAN
14 3 (0.26%) RFID
14 3 (0.26%) RTP
14 3 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (12.73%) NoSQL
2 99 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 72 (6.28%) SQL Server
5 71 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (4.27%) MySQL
8 48 (4.18%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.70%) RDBMS
10 29 (2.53%) Redis
11 24 (2.09%) Pinecone
12 12 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.96%) Big Data
14 10 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.87%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.87%) Metadata
15 9 (0.78%) Power BI
16 8 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 210 (18.31%) Git
2 173 (15.08%) Jenkins
3 148 (12.90%) GitLab
4 48 (4.18%) CircleCI
5 34 (2.96%) JIRA
6 27 (2.35%) JUnit
7 25 (2.18%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.92%) Mockito
10 21 (1.83%) Maven
11 18 (1.57%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.57%) MLflow
12 16 (1.39%) Vite
13 15 (1.31%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.22%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.96%) Selenium
16 10 (0.87%) JMeter
17 9 (0.78%) Robot Framework
18 8 (0.70%) Storybook
18 8 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 321 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 240 (20.92%) Finance
3 89 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (7.15%) Public Sector
5 76 (6.63%) Banking
6 67 (5.84%) Law
7 60 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (4.88%) Telecoms
9 24 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.66%) Games
12 18 (1.57%) Front Office
12 18 (1.57%) Retail
13 14 (1.22%) Billing
13 14 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.96%) Legal
14 11 (0.96%) Marketing
15 9 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.70%) Advertising
16 8 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 269 (23.45%) Senior
2 250 (21.80%) Developer
3 169 (14.73%) Software Engineer
4 146 (12.73%) Lead
5 132 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 111 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (7.15%) Architect
8 73 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (5.84%) Java Developer
11 57 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 45 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 38 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (2.62%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (2.62%) Software Developer
18 28 (2.44%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (15.17%) React
2 160 (13.95%) RESTful
3 155 (13.51%) .NET
4 126 (10.99%) REST
4 126 (10.99%) Spring
5 114 (9.94%) Spring Boot
6 111 (9.68%) Kafka
7 103 (8.98%) Node.js
8 88 (7.67%) gRPC
9 74 (6.45%) AngularJS
10 64 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
11 62 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
12 61 (5.32%) .NET Core
13 55 (4.80%) OAuth
14 44 (3.84%) FastAPI
15 38 (3.31%) JSON
16 35 (3.05%) Django
16 35 (3.05%) JWT
17 34 (2.96%) CSS
18 33 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 262 (22.84%) Cloud Native
2 146 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (2.96%) Blockchain
6 31 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 28 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.01%) PKI
11 22 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.92%) Web3
12 19 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.66%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.31%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 231 (20.14%) Linux
2 81 (7.06%) Windows
3 38 (3.31%) Ubuntu
4 37 (3.23%) Unix
5 31 (2.70%) CentOS
6 30 (2.62%) Windows Server
7 23 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.78%) Debian
9 8 (0.70%) Android
9 8 (0.70%) VMS
10 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.087%) Rocky
12 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (67.74%) CI/CD
2 551 (48.04%) DevOps
3 462 (40.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 448 (39.06%) Agile
5 388 (33.83%) Microservices
6 356 (31.04%) Software Engineering
7 301 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 228 (19.88%) Test Automation
10 224 (19.53%) Mentoring
11 223 (19.44%) AI
12 202 (17.61%) Observability
13 157 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 148 (12.90%) Machine Learning
15 145 (12.64%) High Availability
16 132 (11.51%) Continuous Delivery
17 129 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
18 127 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
19 126 (10.99%) Clean Code
20 124 (10.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 532 (46.38%) Python
2 277 (24.15%) Java
3 238 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 198 (17.26%) SQL
5 168 (14.65%) Bash
6 148 (12.90%) Go
7 140 (12.21%) C#
8 129 (11.25%) TypeScript
9 123 (10.72%) PowerShell
10 49 (4.27%) Scala
11 35 (3.05%) Bicep
12 34 (2.96%) C++
13 25 (2.18%) PHP
14 22 (1.92%) Rust
15 21 (1.83%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.39%) C
17 14 (1.22%) Groovy
18 13 (1.13%) Ruby
19 12 (1.05%) PL/SQL
20 9 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 234 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 123 (10.72%) Degree
2 123 (10.72%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.71%) DV Cleared
4 72 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.80%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.78%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.61%) CISSP
12 6 (0.52%) CISM
12 6 (0.52%) OSCP
12 6 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.67%) QA
2 37 (3.23%) GDPR
3 31 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 30 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.92%) NIST
7 17 (1.48%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.96%) GRC
8 11 (0.96%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.70%) NCSC
9 8 (0.70%) WCAG
10 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.26%) SLA
12 1 (0.087%) EMIR
12 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 726 (63.30%) Docker
2 36 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.78%) vSphere
6 8 (0.70%) KVM
7 6 (0.52%) Firmware
7 6 (0.52%) Squid
8 4 (0.35%) iptables
9 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.087%) QEMU
11 1 (0.087%) Xen
Systems Management
1 691 (60.24%) Kubernetes
2 434 (37.84%) Terraform
3 189 (16.48%) Ansible
4 157 (13.69%) Grafana
5 147 (12.82%) Prometheus
6 39 (3.40%) Argo
7 26 (2.27%) Puppet
8 21 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.57%) Istio
9 18 (1.57%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.48%) Podman
11 16 (1.39%) Nagios
11 16 (1.39%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.87%) Kibana
12 10 (0.87%) Packer
13 8 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.61%) linkerd
14 7 (0.61%) Mesos
15 6 (0.52%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 113 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 104 (9.07%) Google
3 58 (5.06%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.92%) Typelevel
5 39 (3.40%) Splunk
6 38 (3.31%) Oracle
7 33 (2.88%) VMware
8 31 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.22%) Cisco
10 14 (1.22%) NVIDIA
10 14 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.96%) Automation Anywhere
11 11 (0.96%) Databricks
11 11 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 11 (0.96%) UiPath
12 10 (0.87%) Confluent
13 8 (0.70%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.61%) Zscaler