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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 156 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 -39 +23
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 933 1,171 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.72% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.08% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 622 742 1,076
10th Percentile £48,174 £48,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £96,539
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 45,732 56,416 49,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 83.00% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,268 29,481 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 14 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 14 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 +1 860 £72,500 - 934
UK excluding London -6 450 £65,000 - 496
London +21 414 £85,000 -2.86% 481
Work from Home -3 320 £67,500 -3.57% 509
North of England +5 168 £65,000 +8.33% 166
North West +32 108 £65,000 +8.33% 116
South West +6 93 £60,000 -11.11% 75
South East -18 71 £75,000 +11.11% 130
Midlands +29 59 £67,500 +3.85% 65
West Midlands +19 41 £70,000 +7.69% 49
Yorkshire -34 39 £68,500 +24.55% 37
Scotland -20 32 £70,000 - 17
East of England +12 25 £58,750 -6.00% 33
North East +17 21 £60,000 +14.29% 13
East Midlands +14 18 £54,500 +31.33% 16
Wales +4 16 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Northern Ireland -3 5 £43,092 -33.35% 13

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 53 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.00%) Apache
4 17 (1.82%) CMS
5 16 (1.71%) Confluence
6 15 (1.61%) IIS
7 13 (1.39%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.75%) nginx
9 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.21%) Appian
11 2 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.21%) CICS
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.21%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Maya
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 2 (0.21%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Shopify
2 3 (0.32%) Endur
3 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 547 (58.63%) AWS
2 483 (51.77%) Azure
3 236 (25.29%) GCP
4 173 (18.54%) GitHub
5 125 (13.40%) Serverless
6 119 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
7 112 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 73 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
10 72 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
11 64 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 60 (6.43%) SaaS
13 56 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 56 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.07%) OpenShift
15 36 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (3.86%) PaaS
16 33 (3.54%) Datadog
17 32 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.04%) Firewall
2 29 (3.11%) DNS
3 19 (2.04%) DHCP
4 17 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.82%) VPN
4 17 (1.82%) WAN
5 15 (1.61%) LAN
5 15 (1.61%) Network Security
6 10 (1.07%) Fibre Channel
7 9 (0.96%) IPsec
8 8 (0.86%) VLAN
9 7 (0.75%) AMQP
10 6 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.64%) HTTP
10 6 (0.64%) SAN
10 6 (0.64%) VoIP
10 6 (0.64%) Wireless
11 4 (0.43%) Internet
11 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (11.15%) NoSQL
3 71 (7.61%) MongoDB
3 71 (7.61%) SQL Server
4 52 (5.57%) DynamoDB
5 49 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (5.25%) MySQL
5 49 (5.25%) Relational Database
6 35 (3.75%) Big Data
7 27 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.57%) Metadata
9 20 (2.14%) Spark SQL
10 19 (2.04%) Delta Lake
11 16 (1.71%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.50%) Tick Data
14 13 (1.39%) Hadoop
15 12 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 173 (18.54%) Git
2 120 (12.86%) Jenkins
3 101 (10.83%) GitLab
4 36 (3.86%) JIRA
5 30 (3.22%) MLflow
6 27 (2.89%) SonarQube
7 24 (2.57%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.25%) TeamCity
9 20 (2.14%) JUnit
10 19 (2.04%) CircleCI
11 18 (1.93%) Selenium
12 13 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (1.18%) JMeter
14 10 (1.07%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.86%) Maven
17 7 (0.75%) Locust
17 7 (0.75%) Mockito
18 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 281 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 240 (25.72%) Finance
3 101 (10.83%) Law
4 97 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 93 (9.97%) Marketing
6 76 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (5.57%) Banking
9 41 (4.39%) Telecoms
10 31 (3.32%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.11%) Retail
12 28 (3.00%) Games
13 24 (2.57%) Electronics
14 23 (2.47%) Front Office
15 13 (1.39%) Legal
16 11 (1.18%) Advertising
16 11 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.18%) French Language
16 11 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.07%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 218 (23.37%) Developer
2 187 (20.04%) Senior
3 135 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (14.47%) Lead
4 113 (12.11%) Software Engineer
5 63 (6.75%) Architect
6 59 (6.32%) Senior Developer
7 58 (6.22%) Python Developer
8 48 (5.14%) Python Engineer
9 46 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (4.50%) Lead Developer
11 40 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 39 (4.18%) Backend Developer
12 39 (4.18%) Data Engineer
13 38 (4.07%) Software Developer
14 36 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 33 (3.54%) Java Engineer
16 32 (3.43%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (15.86%) React
2 135 (14.47%) RESTful
3 131 (14.04%) .NET
4 95 (10.18%) Spring
5 87 (9.32%) Spring Boot
6 80 (8.57%) Kafka
7 75 (8.04%) REST
8 69 (7.40%) Node.js
9 68 (7.29%) FastAPI
10 66 (7.07%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.11%) HTML
12 56 (6.00%) .NET Core
13 55 (5.89%) CSS
14 50 (5.36%) Flask
15 44 (4.72%) PyTorch
16 42 (4.50%) Pandas
17 39 (4.18%) TensorFlow
18 37 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
18 37 (3.97%) YAML
19 36 (3.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 219 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 100 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.22%) Algorithms
8 29 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 28 (3.00%) Public Cloud
10 25 (2.68%) Product Ownership
11 23 (2.47%) Data Centre
12 22 (2.36%) Fixed Income
13 19 (2.04%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
15 17 (1.82%) Blockchain
16 14 (1.50%) Data Structures
17 13 (1.39%) AI Agents
18 9 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
18 9 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 188 (20.15%) Linux
2 106 (11.36%) Windows
3 50 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 35 (3.75%) Unix
5 33 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.50%) VMS
8 11 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.07%) CentOS
10 9 (0.96%) Debian
11 8 (0.86%) Rocky
12 6 (0.64%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.43%) Android
14 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.21%) zOS
16 1 (0.11%) Fedora
16 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
16 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (61.20%) CI/CD
2 493 (52.84%) DevOps
3 343 (36.76%) Agile
4 291 (31.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (28.62%) Microservices
6 246 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (24.54%) AI
8 214 (22.94%) Software Engineering
9 176 (18.86%) Mentoring
10 151 (16.18%) Test Automation
11 131 (14.04%) Machine Learning
12 114 (12.22%) Observability
13 111 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 109 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (10.61%) Computer Science
16 94 (10.08%) Analytics
17 87 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
18 84 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
19 83 (8.90%) Data Science
20 80 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 450 (48.23%) Python
2 200 (21.44%) Java
3 191 (20.47%) SQL
4 146 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 139 (14.90%) C#
6 104 (11.15%) Bash
7 93 (9.97%) PowerShell
8 55 (5.89%) TypeScript
9 40 (4.29%) Go
10 29 (3.11%) Bicep
11 21 (2.25%) PHP
12 19 (2.04%) C++
13 12 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.86%) Delphi
14 8 (0.86%) Ruby
14 8 (0.86%) Scala
14 8 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.75%) Rust
16 6 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 131 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.93%) Degree
3 83 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 79 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (7.07%) AWS Certification
6 63 (6.75%) DV Cleared
7 45 (4.82%) Azure Certification
8 31 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.07%) CISSP
12 8 (0.86%) CISM
12 8 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (0.75%) PhD
13 7 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.64%) ACMT
14 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.79%) QA
2 39 (4.18%) GDPR
3 21 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.82%) NIST
6 14 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.18%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.07%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.86%) WCAG
11 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.54%) GRC
13 3 (0.32%) EMIR
13 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.32%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.32%) NCSC
14 2 (0.21%) ECSS
14 2 (0.21%) PSD2
15 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 608 (65.17%) Docker
2 56 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.18%) Active Directory
4 29 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 22 (2.36%) vSphere
6 11 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.07%) NFS
7 10 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.43%) KVM
8 4 (0.43%) vCloud
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) Ceph
9 2 (0.21%) Lustre
9 2 (0.21%) Postfix
9 2 (0.21%) RACF
9 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 588 (63.02%) Kubernetes
2 317 (33.98%) Terraform
3 127 (13.61%) Ansible
4 107 (11.47%) Grafana
5 87 (9.32%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.57%) Kubeflow
7 11 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.96%) Argo
9 9 (0.96%) Control-M
9 9 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.96%) Puppet
10 8 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.86%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 6 (0.64%) Autotask
12 6 (0.64%) SCCM
13 5 (0.54%) SCOM
13 5 (0.54%) WSUS
14 4 (0.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 115 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.07%) Oracle
3 64 (6.86%) VMware
4 58 (6.22%) Google
5 50 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 43 (4.61%) Databricks
7 33 (3.54%) Splunk
8 31 (3.32%) SAP
9 29 (3.11%) Cisco
10 24 (2.57%) IBM
11 19 (2.04%) Dell
11 19 (2.04%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.82%) Atlassian
13 15 (1.61%) OpenAI
13 15 (1.61%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.50%) Commvault
15 11 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
17 8 (0.86%) MuleSoft
18 7 (0.75%) Salesforce