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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 113 193
Rank change year-on-year -51 +80 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,182 1,215 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.86% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 3.06% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 787 631 1,104
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £45,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £54,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 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 27 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 -45 1,084 £72,500 -7.94% 440
UK excluding London -49 618 £62,500 -7.41% 280
London -13 470 £80,000 -11.11% 199
Work from Home -28 437 £70,932 -1.47% 221
North of England -49 192 £65,000 -3.70% 77
South East +21 161 £70,000 +7.69% 73
South West -3 138 £55,000 -23.60% 59
North West -47 95 £70,000 +7.69% 46
Yorkshire -44 62 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Midlands -92 60 £70,000 +16.67% 25
East of England -37 37 £60,000 -11.11% 18
North East -15 35 £52,000 -22.43% 17
West Midlands -71 32 £70,505 +8.47% 14
East Midlands -65 28 £64,000 +6.67% 11
Wales -27 20 £57,500 -4.17% 9
Scotland -72 11 £60,000 -31.43% 18
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 3

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 30 (2.54%) Apache
2 22 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.52%) Confluence
5 10 (0.85%) Appian
6 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.42%) IIS
8 5 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.34%) Camunda
9 4 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
12 1 (0.085%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.085%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.085%) nginx
12 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.42%) Maya
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Blender
6 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.085%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (0.25%) Shopify
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 699 (59.14%) AWS
2 603 (51.02%) Azure
3 330 (27.92%) GCP
4 196 (16.58%) GitHub
5 172 (14.55%) Serverless
6 140 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (11.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 126 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (8.80%) Azure AKS
10 97 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (7.95%) Amazon S3
12 90 (7.61%) OpenShift
13 82 (6.94%) Datadog
14 76 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (5.41%) SaaS
17 50 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
17 50 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
18 48 (4.06%) IaaS
19 39 (3.30%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.43%) Broadband
2 71 (6.01%) Firewall
3 63 (5.33%) DNS
4 34 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.54%) Network Security
6 25 (2.12%) HTTP
7 17 (1.44%) VPN
8 12 (1.02%) MQTT
9 11 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.68%) AMQP
11 7 (0.59%) DHCP
11 7 (0.59%) DMARC
11 7 (0.59%) IPv4
12 6 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.51%) DMZ
13 5 (0.42%) VLAN
13 5 (0.42%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.34%) OSPF
14 4 (0.34%) RFID
14 4 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (12.10%) NoSQL
2 102 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (6.26%) MongoDB
3 74 (6.26%) Relational Database
4 68 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 62 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
6 51 (4.31%) MySQL
7 49 (4.15%) DynamoDB
8 31 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (2.62%) RDBMS
9 30 (2.54%) Redis
10 22 (1.86%) Pinecone
11 13 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.02%) Big Data
13 10 (0.85%) InfluxDB
13 10 (0.85%) Metadata
14 9 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.76%) Power BI
15 8 (0.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 217 (18.36%) Git
2 181 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 155 (13.11%) GitLab
4 48 (4.06%) CircleCI
5 34 (2.88%) JIRA
6 27 (2.28%) JUnit
7 26 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 24 (2.03%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.86%) Maven
9 22 (1.86%) Mockito
10 18 (1.52%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.44%) MLflow
12 16 (1.35%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.35%) Vite
13 14 (1.18%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.02%) Selenium
15 10 (0.85%) JMeter
16 9 (0.76%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.76%) TestRail
17 8 (0.68%) Storybook
General
1 330 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 237 (20.05%) Finance
3 89 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.35%) Banking
6 63 (5.33%) Law
7 61 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (4.74%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.20%) Aerospace
10 23 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.61%) Retail
12 18 (1.52%) Front Office
13 14 (1.18%) Games
14 13 (1.10%) Billing
14 13 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.02%) Marketing
16 11 (0.93%) Legal
17 10 (0.85%) Electronics
18 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (23.27%) Senior
2 255 (21.57%) Developer
3 176 (14.89%) Software Engineer
4 153 (12.94%) Lead
5 145 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 119 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 88 (7.45%) Architect
8 76 (6.43%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.84%) Java Developer
10 67 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
11 59 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 42 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
15 40 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 39 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
17 35 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
18 33 (2.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 30 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
19 30 (2.54%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (15.06%) React
2 168 (14.21%) RESTful
3 156 (13.20%) .NET
4 140 (11.84%) Spring
5 128 (10.83%) REST
6 127 (10.74%) Spring Boot
7 113 (9.56%) Node.js
8 112 (9.48%) Kafka
9 87 (7.36%) gRPC
10 72 (6.09%) AngularJS
11 65 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
11 65 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
12 61 (5.16%) OAuth
13 59 (4.99%) .NET Core
14 43 (3.64%) FastAPI
15 40 (3.38%) JSON
16 39 (3.30%) OAuth2
17 36 (3.05%) JWT
18 35 (2.96%) Django
19 34 (2.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 281 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 146 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.81%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.81%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.62%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.54%) Blockchain
7 29 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.95%) PKI
10 22 (1.86%) Web3
11 21 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.61%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 233 (19.71%) Linux
2 83 (7.02%) Windows
3 38 (3.21%) Ubuntu
3 38 (3.21%) Unix
4 32 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.62%) CentOS
6 22 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.76%) Debian
8 8 (0.68%) Android
9 7 (0.59%) VMS
10 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.085%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (67.94%) CI/CD
2 575 (48.65%) DevOps
3 487 (41.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 461 (39.00%) Agile
5 394 (33.33%) Microservices
6 364 (30.80%) Software Engineering
7 306 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 241 (20.39%) Test Automation
10 232 (19.63%) Mentoring
11 225 (19.04%) AI
12 210 (17.77%) Observability
13 159 (13.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 150 (12.69%) Machine Learning
15 144 (12.18%) High Availability
16 135 (11.42%) Platform Engineering
17 133 (11.25%) Continuous Delivery
18 132 (11.17%) Event-Driven
19 129 (10.91%) Clean Code
19 129 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 549 (46.45%) Python
2 294 (24.87%) Java
3 243 (20.56%) JavaScript
4 197 (16.67%) SQL
5 180 (15.23%) Bash
6 150 (12.69%) Go
7 144 (12.18%) C#
8 136 (11.51%) TypeScript
9 132 (11.17%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.23%) Scala
11 37 (3.13%) Bicep
12 35 (2.96%) C++
13 25 (2.12%) PHP
14 24 (2.03%) Rust
15 22 (1.86%) Kotlin
16 15 (1.27%) C
16 15 (1.27%) Groovy
16 15 (1.27%) Ruby
17 12 (1.02%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 253 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 131 (11.08%) SC Cleared
3 122 (10.32%) Degree
4 86 (7.28%) DV Cleared
5 71 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.91%) AWS Certification
7 55 (4.65%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.76%) CISSP
13 8 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.59%) OSCP
14 7 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.78%) QA
2 38 (3.21%) GDPR
3 32 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.71%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.95%) NIST
7 16 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.02%) GRC
8 12 (1.02%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.68%) NCSC
9 8 (0.68%) WCAG
10 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) SLA
14 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 741 (62.69%) Docker
2 36 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (2.45%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.85%) vSphere
6 8 (0.68%) KVM
7 7 (0.59%) Squid
8 6 (0.51%) Firmware
9 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.34%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.085%) QEMU
12 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 709 (59.98%) Kubernetes
2 453 (38.32%) Terraform
3 193 (16.33%) Ansible
4 164 (13.87%) Grafana
5 155 (13.11%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.64%) Argo
7 26 (2.20%) Puppet
8 22 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.69%) Istio
10 18 (1.52%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.44%) Podman
11 17 (1.44%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.27%) Nagios
13 11 (0.93%) Packer
14 10 (0.85%) Kibana
15 9 (0.76%) linkerd
16 8 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
17 7 (0.59%) Mesos
17 7 (0.59%) ZABBIX
18 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 117 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.97%) Google
3 59 (4.99%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.81%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.55%) Splunk
6 39 (3.30%) Oracle
7 36 (3.05%) VMware
8 29 (2.45%) OpenAI
9 26 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.27%) Cisco
11 13 (1.10%) NVIDIA
11 13 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.93%) Databricks
12 11 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
13 10 (0.85%) UiPath
14 9 (0.76%) Confluent
14 9 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 8 (0.68%) ServiceNow