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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 128 190
Rank change year-on-year -44 +62 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,106 1,017 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.40% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.59% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 713 718 1,122
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -1.29%
75th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,625 £102,500
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 67,035 39,288 81,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.86% 92.85% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,557 22,685 59,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -33 1,013 £72,500 -3.33% 476
UK excluding London -57 534 £62,500 -7.41% 341
London -3 473 £82,500 -8.33% 201
Work from Home -22 428 £70,932 +1.33% 264
North of England -41 177 £65,000 - 84
South East -18 125 £70,000 +12.00% 101
South West -26 120 £55,000 -23.60% 67
North West -19 92 £65,000 +4.49% 49
Midlands -50 58 £70,000 +12.00% 41
Yorkshire -75 57 £62,500 -8.09% 18
West Midlands -37 31 £70,505 +8.47% 27
North East -23 28 £48,445 -26.62% 17
East of England -37 27 £60,100 -7.54% 16
East Midlands -42 26 £64,000 +6.67% 14
Wales -20 15 £57,600 -11.38% 13
Scotland -59 14 £60,000 -29.41% 14
Northern Ireland -36 7 £62,500 - 9

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 32 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.44%) Apache
3 18 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.45%) Appian
5 13 (1.18%) Confluence
6 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.27%) Camunda
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 1 (0.090%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.090%) JBoss
12 1 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.090%) Endur
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 646 (58.41%) AWS
2 563 (50.90%) Azure
3 330 (29.84%) GCP
4 203 (18.35%) GitHub
5 163 (14.74%) Serverless
6 142 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (10.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (8.77%) OpenShift
10 94 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (8.41%) Datadog
12 89 (8.05%) Azure AKS
13 85 (7.69%) Amazon S3
14 76 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 56 (5.06%) SaaS
16 53 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
18 45 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
19 39 (3.53%) PaaS
20 38 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.05%) Broadband
2 74 (6.69%) Firewall
3 49 (4.43%) 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%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) DHCP
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 4 (0.36%) IPv4
13 3 (0.27%) RTP
13 3 (0.27%) SCCP
13 3 (0.27%) VLAN
13 3 (0.27%) VoIP
13 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.10%) NoSQL
2 101 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 80 (7.23%) MongoDB
5 71 (6.42%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.61%) MySQL
8 45 (4.07%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.71%) Pinecone
11 28 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.99%) Redis
13 14 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.18%) Big Data
15 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.08%) InfluxDB
16 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.99%) Metadata
16 11 (0.99%) Power BI
17 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 205 (18.54%) Git
2 167 (15.10%) Jenkins
3 140 (12.66%) GitLab
4 45 (4.07%) CircleCI
5 36 (3.25%) JIRA
6 26 (2.35%) JUnit
7 24 (2.17%) 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 15 (1.36%) Maven
12 14 (1.27%) Mockito
12 14 (1.27%) Vite
13 12 (1.08%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.99%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.90%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.81%) TestRail
17 8 (0.72%) JMeter
General
1 307 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 237 (21.43%) Finance
3 93 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.69%) Banking
6 73 (6.60%) Telecoms
7 60 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (5.33%) Law
9 22 (1.99%) Front Office
10 20 (1.81%) Games
11 19 (1.72%) Aerospace
12 18 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.54%) Retail
14 15 (1.36%) Billing
15 13 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.08%) Legal
16 12 (1.08%) Marketing
17 11 (0.99%) Electronics
18 9 (0.81%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 268 (24.23%) Senior
2 229 (20.71%) Developer
3 149 (13.47%) Software Engineer
4 139 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (12.48%) Lead
6 96 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (6.87%) Architect
8 70 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 58 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (4.70%) Java Developer
10 52 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 47 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
15 34 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Data Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Scala Engineer
17 29 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
18 28 (2.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (14.47%) React
2 156 (14.10%) RESTful
3 149 (13.47%) .NET
4 124 (11.21%) REST
5 120 (10.85%) Spring
6 112 (10.13%) Spring Boot
7 108 (9.76%) Kafka
8 97 (8.77%) Node.js
9 91 (8.23%) gRPC
10 78 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
11 68 (6.15%) AngularJS
12 63 (5.70%) .NET Core
13 57 (5.15%) OAuth
13 57 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
14 47 (4.25%) Django
15 46 (4.16%) FastAPI
16 38 (3.44%) Flask
17 37 (3.35%) Vue
18 33 (2.98%) .NET Framework
18 33 (2.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 280 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 152 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.07%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.07%) Video\Live Streaming
5 41 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.98%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.99%) PKI
12 20 (1.81%) Web3
13 19 (1.72%) Low-Code
14 18 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.63%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.54%) Fixed Income
16 16 (1.45%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 214 (19.35%) Linux
2 82 (7.41%) Windows
3 43 (3.89%) Unix
4 40 (3.62%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.89%) CentOS
6 24 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.18%) Android
9 9 (0.81%) Debian
9 9 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.090%) Rocky
12 1 (0.090%) Solaris
12 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (68.26%) CI/CD
2 563 (50.90%) DevOps
3 447 (40.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 413 (37.34%) Agile
5 387 (34.99%) Microservices
6 323 (29.20%) Software Engineering
7 307 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (20.89%) AI
9 228 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 212 (19.17%) Mentoring
11 205 (18.54%) Test Automation
12 198 (17.90%) Observability
13 166 (15.01%) Machine Learning
14 151 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 146 (13.20%) High Availability
16 134 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
17 129 (11.66%) Continuous Delivery
18 122 (11.03%) Clean Code
19 118 (10.67%) Event-Driven
20 110 (9.95%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 534 (48.28%) Python
2 269 (24.32%) Java
3 216 (19.53%) JavaScript
3 216 (19.53%) SQL
4 169 (15.28%) Bash
5 157 (14.20%) Go
6 130 (11.75%) C#
7 116 (10.49%) PowerShell
8 103 (9.31%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.34%) Scala
10 38 (3.44%) Bicep
11 36 (3.25%) C++
12 25 (2.26%) PHP
13 21 (1.90%) Kotlin
14 17 (1.54%) C
15 13 (1.18%) Ruby
16 11 (0.99%) Rust
17 9 (0.81%) Groovy
18 8 (0.72%) Delphi
18 8 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 209 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 117 (10.58%) Degree
3 113 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 77 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 74 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (5.70%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.98%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (0.81%) CISSP
11 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
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%) CISM
15 4 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.32%) QA
2 36 (3.25%) GDPR
3 33 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 23 (2.08%) NIST
7 18 (1.63%) 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%) ECSS
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 718 (64.92%) Docker
2 40 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.80%) Active Directory
4 26 (2.35%) 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%) iptables
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.18%) GPFS
9 2 (0.18%) Lustre
9 2 (0.18%) RACF
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.090%) QEMU
10 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 688 (62.21%) Kubernetes
2 427 (38.61%) Terraform
3 186 (16.82%) Ansible
4 174 (15.73%) Grafana
5 152 (13.74%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.89%) 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 (1.18%) Podman
13 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.72%) Kibana
15 8 (0.72%) Packer
16 7 (0.63%) linkerd
16 7 (0.63%) Mesos
17 5 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
17 5 (0.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 108 (9.76%) Google
2 102 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 59 (5.33%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.07%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.89%) Splunk
6 37 (3.35%) Oracle
7 34 (3.07%) OpenAI
8 30 (2.71%) VMware
9 23 (2.08%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.45%) Cisco
10 16 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.36%) Databricks
12 13 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.18%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.18%) UiPath
13 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.99%) Confluent
15 8 (0.72%) SAP
16 7 (0.63%) Fortinet