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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 122 191
Rank change year-on-year -43 +69 -49
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,107 1,095 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.55% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.74% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 712 712 1,118
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,466 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £88,148 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 67,342 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.57% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41,961 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -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 4 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 4 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 -31 1,014 £72,500 -3.33% 441
UK excluding London -60 536 £62,500 -7.41% 289
London -3 470 £82,500 -8.33% 184
Work from Home -32 417 £70,932 +3.51% 217
North of England -57 174 £65,000 - 71
South East -14 125 £66,000 +10.00% 87
South West -22 120 £55,000 -23.60% 51
North West -40 88 £65,000 +2.20% 33
Midlands -73 60 £70,000 +16.67% 39
Yorkshire -70 58 £62,500 -8.09% 20
West Midlands -37 32 £70,079 +7.81% 23
East of England -27 30 £60,000 -7.69% 25
North East -18 28 £48,445 -26.62% 18
East Midlands -62 27 £64,500 +7.50% 16
Wales -20 16 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Scotland -77 13 £60,000 -29.52% 10
Northern Ireland -35 6 £62,500 - 2

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 31 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.35%) Apache
3 17 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.45%) Appian
5 12 (1.08%) Confluence
6 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.090%) CICS
11 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.090%) nginx
11 1 (0.090%) SAS
11 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.090%) Endur
3 1 (0.090%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 645 (58.27%) AWS
2 566 (51.13%) Azure
3 324 (29.27%) GCP
4 206 (18.61%) GitHub
5 161 (14.54%) Serverless
6 142 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
7 133 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (8.67%) OpenShift
10 94 (8.49%) Azure AKS
11 93 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (8.22%) Datadog
13 86 (7.77%) Amazon S3
14 78 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 58 (5.24%) SaaS
16 57 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
17 48 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
19 41 (3.70%) IaaS
20 40 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.96%) Broadband
2 74 (6.68%) Firewall
3 54 (4.88%) DNS
4 31 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.62%) HTTP
6 28 (2.53%) Network Security
7 18 (1.63%) VPN
8 8 (0.72%) AMQP
8 8 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.63%) WAN
10 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.54%) DHCP
10 6 (0.54%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 4 (0.36%) IPv4
13 3 (0.27%) RTP
13 3 (0.27%) SCCP
13 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.27%) VoIP
13 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.63%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 78 (7.05%) MongoDB
5 69 (6.23%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.52%) MySQL
8 46 (4.16%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.71%) Pinecone
11 28 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.99%) Redis
13 14 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.08%) InfluxDB
15 11 (0.99%) Big Data
15 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.99%) Metadata
15 11 (0.99%) Power BI
16 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (18.16%) Git
2 177 (15.99%) Jenkins
3 143 (12.92%) GitLab
4 46 (4.16%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.16%) JIRA
6 27 (2.44%) JUnit
7 25 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.90%) MLflow
10 19 (1.72%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.72%) Selenium
11 18 (1.63%) Vite
12 16 (1.45%) Maven
13 15 (1.36%) Mockito
14 12 (1.08%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.99%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.90%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.81%) TestRail
18 8 (0.72%) Storybook
General
1 305 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 235 (21.23%) Finance
3 92 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.78%) Banking
6 70 (6.32%) Telecoms
7 62 (5.60%) Law
8 59 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.90%) Front Office
10 20 (1.81%) Aerospace
10 20 (1.81%) Games
11 19 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.54%) Retail
13 15 (1.36%) Billing
14 14 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.08%) Marketing
16 11 (0.99%) Electronics
17 10 (0.90%) Legal
18 9 (0.81%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 266 (24.03%) Senior
2 232 (20.96%) Developer
3 144 (13.01%) Software Engineer
4 140 (12.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 136 (12.29%) Lead
6 102 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.05%) Architect
8 70 (6.32%) Senior Developer
9 63 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (4.79%) Java Developer
11 48 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 46 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 36 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
15 35 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Software Developer
17 29 (2.62%) Data Engineer
17 29 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (14.54%) React
2 156 (14.09%) RESTful
3 150 (13.55%) .NET
4 124 (11.20%) REST
5 117 (10.57%) Spring
6 109 (9.85%) Spring Boot
7 108 (9.76%) Kafka
8 99 (8.94%) Node.js
9 90 (8.13%) gRPC
10 78 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.05%) AngularJS
12 63 (5.69%) .NET Core
13 59 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
14 56 (5.06%) OAuth
15 49 (4.43%) FastAPI
16 46 (4.16%) Django
17 38 (3.43%) Flask
18 35 (3.16%) Vue
19 33 (2.98%) JWT
19 33 (2.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 276 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 150 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.07%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.07%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.98%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 25 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.99%) PKI
11 21 (1.90%) Web3
12 19 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
15 15 (1.36%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.36%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 214 (19.33%) Linux
2 80 (7.23%) Windows
3 40 (3.61%) Ubuntu
4 39 (3.52%) Unix
5 33 (2.98%) CentOS
6 24 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.08%) Android
9 9 (0.81%) Debian
9 9 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.090%) Rocky
12 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (68.20%) CI/CD
2 562 (50.77%) DevOps
3 454 (41.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 414 (37.40%) Agile
5 386 (34.87%) Microservices
6 322 (29.09%) Software Engineering
7 301 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
8 228 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (20.51%) AI
10 210 (18.97%) Mentoring
11 208 (18.79%) Test Automation
12 197 (17.80%) Observability
13 159 (14.36%) Machine Learning
14 152 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
15 148 (13.37%) High Availability
16 136 (12.29%) Continuous Integration
17 131 (11.83%) Continuous Delivery
18 120 (10.84%) Clean Code
18 120 (10.84%) Event-Driven
19 114 (10.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 534 (48.24%) Python
2 262 (23.67%) Java
3 214 (19.33%) JavaScript
4 209 (18.88%) SQL
5 172 (15.54%) Bash
6 155 (14.00%) Go
7 130 (11.74%) C#
8 119 (10.75%) PowerShell
9 106 (9.58%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.43%) Scala
11 36 (3.25%) Bicep
12 34 (3.07%) C++
13 25 (2.26%) PHP
14 21 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.45%) C
16 13 (1.17%) Ruby
17 12 (1.08%) Rust
18 11 (0.99%) Groovy
19 8 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
19 8 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 215 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 112 (10.12%) Degree
2 112 (10.12%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.96%) DV Cleared
4 70 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 48 (4.34%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.72%) CISSP
12 7 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.54%) OSCP
14 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.50%) QA
2 36 (3.25%) GDPR
3 31 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.99%) NIST
7 19 (1.72%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.99%) NCSC
9 10 (0.90%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.81%) GRC
11 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 6 (0.54%) WCAG
12 5 (0.45%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 717 (64.77%) Docker
2 39 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.81%) KVM
5 9 (0.81%) vSphere
6 7 (0.63%) Firmware
6 7 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.36%) iptables
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.18%) GPFS
9 2 (0.18%) Lustre
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.090%) QEMU
10 1 (0.090%) RACF
10 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 691 (62.42%) Kubernetes
2 435 (39.30%) Terraform
3 188 (16.98%) Ansible
4 174 (15.72%) Grafana
5 154 (13.91%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.88%) Argo
7 23 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.81%) Puppet
9 19 (1.72%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.63%) Istio
11 15 (1.36%) Nagios
12 13 (1.17%) Podman
12 13 (1.17%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.72%) Kibana
14 8 (0.72%) Packer
15 7 (0.63%) linkerd
15 7 (0.63%) Mesos
16 5 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 110 (9.94%) Google
2 108 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.24%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.07%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.70%) Splunk
6 38 (3.43%) OpenAI
7 34 (3.07%) Oracle
8 31 (2.80%) VMware
9 23 (2.08%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.36%) Cisco
11 15 (1.36%) Databricks
12 13 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.17%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.17%) UiPath
13 12 (1.08%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.99%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.99%) Confluent
15 7 (0.63%) SAP
15 7 (0.63%) Zscaler