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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 115 202
Rank change year-on-year -41 +87 -55
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,240 1,252 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.77% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.00% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 858 645 1,080
10th Percentile £45,743 £49,471 £46,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 June 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 23 June 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 1,139 £72,500 -9.38% 322
UK excluding London -46 659 £62,500 -7.41% 229
London -15 485 £80,000 -11.11% 161
Work from Home -34 443 £70,079 -2.66% 180
North of England -42 197 £65,000 - 62
South East +20 165 £65,000 - 72
South West -3 159 £55,000 -26.67% 40
North West -40 100 £70,000 +16.67% 34
Midlands -93 62 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Yorkshire -39 58 £70,932 +1.33% 16
East of England -18 44 £60,000 -12.73% 10
North East -22 39 £55,000 -15.38% 12
West Midlands -57 34 £70,505 +6.42% 14
East Midlands -53 28 £64,000 +6.67% 7
Wales -29 27 £67,500 +12.50% 6
Scotland -65 6 £60,000 -25.00% 7
Northern Ireland -33 5 £62,500 +45.04% 17

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 34 (2.74%) Apache
2 27 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.18%) Confluence
3 26 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.48%) Appian
5 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.32%) IIS
8 3 (0.24%) Camunda
8 3 (0.24%) CMS
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.081%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.081%) nginx
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.24%) Blender
3 3 (0.24%) Maya
4 1 (0.081%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 743 (59.92%) AWS
2 620 (50.00%) Azure
3 329 (26.53%) GCP
4 204 (16.45%) GitHub
5 171 (13.79%) Serverless
6 140 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
7 139 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 120 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (8.71%) Azure AKS
10 99 (7.98%) OpenShift
11 92 (7.42%) Amazon S3
11 92 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
12 80 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 78 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
14 72 (5.81%) Datadog
15 69 (5.56%) SaaS
16 59 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
17 58 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
18 52 (4.19%) IaaS
19 43 (3.47%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 78 (6.29%) Broadband
2 72 (5.81%) Firewall
3 71 (5.73%) DNS
4 37 (2.98%) TCP/IP
5 36 (2.90%) Network Security
6 26 (2.10%) VPN
7 22 (1.77%) HTTP
8 17 (1.37%) MQTT
9 13 (1.05%) VLAN
10 12 (0.97%) DMARC
11 11 (0.89%) BGP
11 11 (0.89%) OSPF
11 11 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
11 11 (0.89%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.73%) DHCP
13 8 (0.65%) AMQP
13 8 (0.65%) IPv4
14 7 (0.56%) Wireshark
15 6 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (10.97%) NoSQL
2 117 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (6.69%) MongoDB
4 70 (5.65%) Relational Database
5 57 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (4.60%) SQL Server
6 53 (4.27%) MySQL
7 48 (3.87%) DynamoDB
8 37 (2.98%) Redis
9 30 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (2.18%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
11 19 (1.53%) Pinecone
12 13 (1.05%) Big Data
13 11 (0.89%) Metadata
14 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.81%) Power BI
15 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.56%) DTS
Development Applications
1 218 (17.58%) Git
2 189 (15.24%) Jenkins
3 171 (13.79%) GitLab
4 45 (3.63%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.23%) JIRA
6 27 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.69%) JUnit
9 20 (1.61%) Maven
10 19 (1.53%) Mockito
11 18 (1.45%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.45%) Vite
12 16 (1.29%) Selenium
13 14 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.13%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.05%) MLflow
15 10 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.73%) TestRail
17 8 (0.65%) Gatling
General
1 337 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 238 (19.19%) Finance
3 98 (7.90%) Public Sector
4 91 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.53%) Banking
6 79 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.76%) Law
8 45 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.53%) Retail
12 15 (1.21%) Games
13 14 (1.13%) Front Office
14 13 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.05%) Legal
15 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.81%) Marketing
16 9 (0.73%) Advertising
16 9 (0.73%) Billing
16 9 (0.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 271 (21.85%) Senior
2 255 (20.56%) Developer
3 181 (14.60%) Software Engineer
4 165 (13.31%) Lead
5 161 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 127 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 109 (8.79%) Architect
8 72 (5.81%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (5.32%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
13 53 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
18 35 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
18 35 (2.82%) Software Developer
19 33 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (14.68%) React
2 176 (14.19%) RESTful
3 148 (11.94%) Spring
4 147 (11.85%) .NET
5 139 (11.21%) Spring Boot
6 130 (10.48%) Node.js
7 125 (10.08%) REST
8 123 (9.92%) Kafka
9 79 (6.37%) gRPC
10 75 (6.05%) AngularJS
11 74 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
12 67 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
13 60 (4.84%) OAuth
14 53 (4.27%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.47%) FastAPI
15 43 (3.47%) JSON
16 41 (3.31%) OAuth2
17 39 (3.15%) YAML
18 38 (3.06%) CSS
19 36 (2.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 320 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 157 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.63%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.63%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.10%) Blockchain
10 25 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.69%) PKI
11 21 (1.69%) Web3
12 19 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 248 (20.00%) Linux
2 90 (7.26%) Windows
3 39 (3.15%) Unix
4 37 (2.98%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.74%) Ubuntu
6 32 (2.58%) CentOS
7 20 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.73%) Debian
9 4 (0.32%) VMS
10 3 (0.24%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.16%) Rocky
12 1 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (67.90%) CI/CD
2 605 (48.79%) DevOps
3 536 (43.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 481 (38.79%) Agile
5 407 (32.82%) Microservices
6 400 (32.26%) Software Engineering
7 322 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
8 250 (20.16%) Mentoring
9 249 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 248 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 233 (18.79%) Observability
12 221 (17.82%) AI
13 177 (14.27%) Full-Stack Development
14 165 (13.31%) Event-Driven
15 155 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
16 143 (11.53%) High Availability
17 139 (11.21%) Machine Learning
18 137 (11.05%) Clean Code
18 137 (11.05%) Continuous Delivery
19 122 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 584 (47.10%) Python
2 312 (25.16%) Java
3 244 (19.68%) JavaScript
4 191 (15.40%) Bash
5 190 (15.32%) SQL
6 155 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 154 (12.42%) C#
8 144 (11.61%) Go
9 138 (11.13%) PowerShell
10 52 (4.19%) Scala
11 50 (4.03%) Bicep
12 39 (3.15%) C++
13 28 (2.26%) Rust
14 26 (2.10%) PHP
15 24 (1.94%) Ruby
16 23 (1.85%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.45%) Groovy
18 15 (1.21%) C
19 11 (0.89%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 285 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 125 (10.08%) Degree
4 84 (6.77%) DV Cleared
5 72 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.60%) Azure Certification
7 53 (4.27%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.13%) CISSP
10 12 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.65%) CCNA
12 8 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.65%) OSCP
12 8 (0.65%) RHCE
12 8 (0.65%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.98%) QA
2 37 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 35 (2.82%) GDPR
4 32 (2.58%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.85%) NIST
8 14 (1.13%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.13%) WCAG
9 11 (0.89%) GRC
9 11 (0.89%) JSP 440
9 11 (0.89%) NCSC
10 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.081%) DO-178B
15 1 (0.081%) SLA
System Software
1 759 (61.21%) Docker
2 39 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.81%) vSphere
6 9 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.65%) Squid
8 7 (0.56%) KVM
9 6 (0.48%) Firmware
10 4 (0.32%) iptables
10 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.081%) QEMU
12 1 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 743 (59.92%) Kubernetes
2 482 (38.87%) Terraform
3 202 (16.29%) Ansible
4 167 (13.47%) Grafana
5 160 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.71%) Argo
7 27 (2.18%) Puppet
8 23 (1.85%) Istio
8 23 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (1.45%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.37%) Podman
12 16 (1.29%) Nagios
13 13 (1.05%) Packer
14 12 (0.97%) Kibana
14 12 (0.97%) linkerd
15 11 (0.89%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.48%) logstash
17 6 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 131 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.47%) Google
3 61 (4.92%) Red Hat
4 46 (3.71%) Splunk
5 45 (3.63%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.31%) VMware
7 38 (3.06%) Oracle
8 27 (2.18%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.45%) Cisco
11 17 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.05%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.97%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.89%) Databricks
16 10 (0.81%) Confluent
16 10 (0.81%) NVIDIA
16 10 (0.81%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.73%) IBM