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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 156 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 -36 +16
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 926 1,171 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 1.75% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.09% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 628 738 1,058
10th Percentile £48,225 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +4 853 £72,500 +3.57% 932
UK excluding London -3 441 £65,000 - 498
London +19 415 £85,000 -2.86% 477
Work from Home -2 322 £67,500 -3.57% 502
North of England +15 168 £65,000 +8.33% 167
North West +19 105 £65,000 +8.33% 126
South West +1 92 £60,000 -12.09% 77
South East -26 62 £75,000 +15.38% 126
Midlands +24 58 £67,500 +3.85% 65
West Midlands +21 40 £70,542 +8.53% 47
Yorkshire -33 39 £68,500 +19.13% 29
Scotland -18 33 £70,000 - 22
East of England +11 26 £58,750 -16.07% 33
North East +16 24 £60,000 +14.29% 12
East Midlands +18 18 £54,500 +31.33% 18
Wales +4 16 £80,000 +23.08% 6
Northern Ireland -3 5 £43,092 -33.35% 10

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 55 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.13%) Apache
4 17 (1.84%) CMS
5 15 (1.62%) IIS
6 13 (1.40%) Apache Solr
6 13 (1.40%) Confluence
7 6 (0.65%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.32%) Appian
10 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.51%) Maya
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Shopify
2 3 (0.32%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 550 (59.40%) AWS
2 495 (53.46%) Azure
3 238 (25.70%) GCP
4 176 (19.01%) GitHub
5 125 (13.50%) Serverless
6 124 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
7 115 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (8.32%) Amazon S3
9 72 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
9 72 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (6.48%) SaaS
12 55 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
13 53 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (4.32%) OpenShift
15 38 (4.10%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (3.89%) PaaS
17 35 (3.78%) Datadog
18 33 (3.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.62%) Firewall
2 31 (3.35%) DNS
3 20 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.05%) DHCP
5 18 (1.94%) VPN
5 18 (1.94%) WAN
6 17 (1.84%) Network Security
7 15 (1.62%) LAN
8 10 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.97%) IPsec
10 8 (0.86%) HTTP
10 8 (0.86%) VLAN
11 7 (0.76%) AMQP
12 6 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.65%) SAN
12 6 (0.65%) VoIP
12 6 (0.65%) Wireless
13 4 (0.43%) DMZ
13 4 (0.43%) Internet
13 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 73 (7.88%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.34%) MongoDB
5 53 (5.72%) Relational Database
6 52 (5.62%) DynamoDB
7 50 (5.40%) MySQL
8 49 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (3.78%) Big Data
10 26 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.59%) Metadata
12 20 (2.16%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.05%) Delta Lake
14 16 (1.73%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (1.40%) Hadoop
17 13 (1.40%) Tick Data
18 12 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
19 11 (1.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 174 (18.79%) Git
2 121 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 96 (10.37%) GitLab
4 35 (3.78%) JIRA
5 31 (3.35%) MLflow
6 26 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 22 (2.38%) TeamCity
8 21 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.05%) JUnit
10 17 (1.84%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.62%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.62%) Selenium
12 14 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (1.19%) JMeter
14 10 (1.08%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.86%) Maven
15 8 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.76%) Locust
16 7 (0.76%) Mockito
17 6 (0.65%) DbUnit
General
1 286 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 240 (25.92%) Finance
3 104 (11.23%) Law
4 93 (10.04%) Marketing
5 85 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 70 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (5.51%) Banking
9 47 (5.08%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.46%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.13%) Retail
12 28 (3.02%) Games
13 25 (2.70%) Electronics
14 23 (2.48%) Front Office
15 13 (1.40%) Legal
16 11 (1.19%) Advertising
16 11 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.19%) French Language
17 10 (1.08%) Dutch Language
17 10 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (23.65%) Developer
2 187 (20.19%) Senior
3 136 (14.69%) Lead
4 121 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 110 (11.88%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.59%) Architect
7 59 (6.37%) Senior Developer
8 55 (5.94%) Python Developer
9 49 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (5.08%) Python Engineer
11 45 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 43 (4.64%) Lead Developer
13 41 (4.43%) Data Engineer
14 40 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
15 39 (4.21%) Backend Developer
16 38 (4.10%) Software Developer
17 37 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (3.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (16.20%) React
2 136 (14.69%) RESTful
3 132 (14.25%) .NET
4 92 (9.94%) Spring
5 84 (9.07%) Spring Boot
6 78 (8.42%) Kafka
7 75 (8.10%) REST
8 74 (7.99%) Node.js
9 70 (7.56%) FastAPI
10 65 (7.02%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.16%) HTML
12 56 (6.05%) .NET Core
12 56 (6.05%) CSS
13 49 (5.29%) Flask
14 47 (5.08%) PyTorch
15 42 (4.54%) TensorFlow
16 41 (4.43%) Pandas
17 40 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
18 38 (4.10%) YAML
19 37 (4.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 223 (24.08%) Cloud Native
2 101 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (3.46%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.35%) Algorithms
7 30 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.92%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.48%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.38%) Fixed Income
12 18 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 17 (1.84%) Blockchain
14 15 (1.62%) AI Agents
15 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.19%) PKI
17 9 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 190 (20.52%) Linux
2 108 (11.66%) Windows
3 50 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 35 (3.78%) Unix
5 33 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.62%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.62%) VMS
7 11 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.08%) CentOS
9 8 (0.86%) Debian
9 8 (0.86%) Rocky
10 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.54%) Android
12 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (61.77%) CI/CD
2 480 (51.84%) DevOps
3 327 (35.31%) Agile
4 295 (31.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (28.62%) Microservices
6 251 (27.11%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (24.51%) AI
8 210 (22.68%) Software Engineering
9 161 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 136 (14.69%) Machine Learning
10 136 (14.69%) Test Automation
11 115 (12.42%) Observability
12 114 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
14 104 (11.23%) Computer Science
15 98 (10.58%) Analytics
16 92 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
17 84 (9.07%) Platform Engineering
18 83 (8.96%) Data Science
19 80 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 456 (49.24%) Python
2 197 (21.27%) Java
3 194 (20.95%) SQL
4 149 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 139 (15.01%) C#
6 106 (11.45%) Bash
7 95 (10.26%) PowerShell
8 57 (6.16%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.08%) Go
10 29 (3.13%) Bicep
11 20 (2.16%) PHP
12 19 (2.05%) C++
13 12 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.08%) Ruby
15 8 (0.86%) Delphi
15 8 (0.86%) Scala
15 8 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.76%) Rust
17 6 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 137 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 135 (14.58%) Degree
3 87 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 84 (9.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (7.13%) DV Cleared
6 64 (6.91%) AWS Certification
7 44 (4.75%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.30%) CISSP
12 8 (0.86%) CISM
12 8 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (0.76%) PhD
13 7 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.65%) ACMT
14 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.86%) QA
2 40 (4.32%) GDPR
3 24 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.16%) NIST
6 16 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.51%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.97%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.86%) WCAG
11 7 (0.76%) GRC
11 7 (0.76%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.76%) NCSC
12 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.32%) EMIR
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) ECSS
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 607 (65.55%) Docker
2 55 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.32%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.02%) Hyper-V
5 23 (2.48%) vSphere
6 11 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.08%) NFS
8 4 (0.43%) KVM
8 4 (0.43%) Lustre
8 4 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.43%) vCloud
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) Ceph
9 2 (0.22%) GPFS
9 2 (0.22%) Postfix
9 2 (0.22%) RACF
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 588 (63.50%) Kubernetes
2 322 (34.77%) Terraform
3 131 (14.15%) Ansible
4 111 (11.99%) Grafana
5 90 (9.72%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.59%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.19%) Argo
8 11 (1.19%) Control-M
9 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.97%) Puppet
11 8 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.86%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.65%) Autotask
13 6 (0.65%) SCCM
14 5 (0.54%) SCOM
14 5 (0.54%) WSUS
15 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 119 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.13%) Oracle
3 64 (6.91%) VMware
4 56 (6.05%) Google
5 40 (4.32%) Databricks
6 39 (4.21%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.56%) Splunk
8 31 (3.35%) SAP
9 29 (3.13%) Cisco
10 20 (2.16%) Dell
10 20 (2.16%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.94%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.94%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.62%) Pure Storage
13 14 (1.51%) Commvault
14 11 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.19%) IBM
15 10 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
16 8 (0.86%) MuleSoft
17 7 (0.76%) Salesforce