Containerisation Jobs

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 197 91
Rank change year-on-year +82 -106 +43
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,563 1,438 3,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.60% 1.39% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.69% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 711 1,043 1,297
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £89,852
90th Percentile £126,250 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Containerisation.

Salary trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 18 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 16 July 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 +79 1,437 £77,500 +6.90% 952
Work from Home +135 895 £71,991 +2.84% 470
UK excluding London +67 882 £65,000 +8.33% 658
London +91 560 £90,000 +5.88% 462
North of England +50 296 £65,000 +8.33% 172
North West +59 221 £60,000 - 93
South East +47 169 £60,000 -11.11% 195
Midlands +84 138 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Scotland +118 105 £80,000 +14.29% 53
South West +43 99 £75,000 +3.45% 94
West Midlands +70 80 £67,500 +12.50% 43
East of England +43 75 £65,000 +4.00% 63
Yorkshire -5 64 £70,000 +16.67% 65
East Midlands +59 58 £57,500 - 19
Wales +14 16 £65,000 +30.00% 12
North East +47 11 £62,500 -16.67% 14
Northern Ireland +26 2 £43,092 -28.18% 17
Isle of Man +7 1 £34,500 -58.18% 1

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 181 (11.58%) Confluence
2 55 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.28%) Apache
5 14 (0.90%) CMS
6 9 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.45%) IIS
7 7 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.32%) nginx
8 5 (0.32%) SAS
9 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.064%) Camunda
11 1 (0.064%) GemFire
11 1 (0.064%) Mendix
11 1 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Maya
2 4 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.26%) Sketch
3 2 (0.13%) EngageOne
3 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.064%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.064%) Endur
2 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (68.07%) AWS
2 825 (52.78%) Azure
3 425 (27.19%) GCP
4 226 (14.46%) Pulumi
5 136 (8.70%) Serverless
6 133 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 122 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
8 120 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (6.33%) Amazon S3
10 98 (6.27%) GitHub
11 88 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
12 84 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
13 66 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
14 58 (3.71%) SaaS
15 53 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
16 44 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 34 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
18 29 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
18 29 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
19 27 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 215 (13.76%) Broadband
2 24 (1.54%) Network Security
3 22 (1.41%) Firewall
3 22 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.09%) DNS
4 17 (1.09%) HTTP
5 15 (0.96%) Internet
5 15 (0.96%) SAN
6 13 (0.83%) DHCP
7 8 (0.51%) VPN
8 7 (0.45%) LAN
8 7 (0.45%) NAS
8 7 (0.45%) WAN
9 5 (0.32%) Multicast
9 5 (0.32%) VLAN
9 5 (0.32%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.26%) BGP
10 4 (0.26%) EIGRP
10 4 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 321 (20.54%) SQL Server
3 263 (16.83%) Relational Database
4 231 (14.78%) RDBMS
5 120 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (4.09%) DynamoDB
6 64 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
7 63 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
8 53 (3.39%) MongoDB
9 37 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (2.18%) MySQL
11 33 (2.11%) Big Data
12 22 (1.41%) Delta Lake
13 21 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (1.34%) Data Lake
14 19 (1.22%) Metadata
14 19 (1.22%) Spark SQL
14 19 (1.22%) Tick Data
15 16 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (0.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 374 (23.93%) GitLab
2 301 (19.26%) SonarQube
3 296 (18.94%) JIRA
4 283 (18.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 273 (17.47%) Maven
6 268 (17.15%) Cucumber
7 253 (16.19%) Bitbucket
7 253 (16.19%) Selenium
8 215 (13.76%) Jaeger
9 162 (10.36%) Git
10 140 (8.96%) Jenkins
11 31 (1.98%) JUnit
12 30 (1.92%) CircleCI
13 29 (1.86%) MLflow
14 27 (1.73%) TeamCity
15 26 (1.66%) IntelliJ
16 24 (1.54%) Mockito
17 18 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
17 18 (1.15%) webpack
18 15 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 633 (40.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 571 (36.53%) Finance
3 395 (25.27%) Banking
4 331 (21.18%) Social Skills
5 113 (7.23%) Retail
6 103 (6.59%) Investment Banking
7 99 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (5.76%) Corporate Banking
9 89 (5.69%) Marketing
10 87 (5.57%) Public Sector
11 82 (5.25%) Law
12 23 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.34%) Electronics
13 21 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.22%) Front Office
15 18 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 434 (27.77%) Lead
2 386 (24.70%) Software Engineer
3 256 (16.38%) Developer
4 241 (15.42%) Team Leader
5 198 (12.67%) Senior
6 167 (10.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 105 (6.72%) Architect
8 69 (4.41%) Java Engineer
9 62 (3.97%) Python Engineer
10 61 (3.90%) Software Developer
11 59 (3.77%) Senior Developer
11 59 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
12 55 (3.52%) Python Developer
13 53 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
14 50 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
15 47 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
16 46 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
17 42 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
18 40 (2.56%) Data Engineer
19 39 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (28.15%) React
2 351 (22.46%) Kafka
3 348 (22.26%) Spring
4 345 (22.07%) Spring Boot
5 303 (19.39%) CSS
6 299 (19.13%) HTML
7 276 (17.66%) JPA
8 255 (16.31%) Redux
9 254 (16.25%) Elastic Stack
10 249 (15.93%) RESTful
11 220 (14.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 214 (13.69%) REST
13 193 (12.35%) Hibernate
14 179 (11.45%) .NET
15 113 (7.23%) AngularJS
16 112 (7.17%) Jest
17 104 (6.65%) CSS3
17 104 (6.65%) HTML5
17 104 (6.65%) Node.js
18 96 (6.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 310 (19.83%) Product Ownership
2 260 (16.63%) Enterprise Software
3 153 (9.79%) Cloud Native
4 81 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
5 69 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 62 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 49 (3.13%) Cyberattack
8 38 (2.43%) e-Learning
9 33 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 25 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 25 (1.60%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.02%) Data Centre
15 15 (0.96%) Blockchain
15 15 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.96%) Private Cloud
16 13 (0.83%) Reinsurance
16 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 435 (27.83%) Linux
2 243 (15.55%) Unix
3 79 (5.05%) Windows
4 63 (4.03%) Android
5 41 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 36 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.83%) CentOS
9 12 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.51%) Debian
11 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.38%) Rocky
12 5 (0.32%) SUSE
12 5 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.19%) VMS
15 1 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (66.47%) DevOps
2 974 (62.32%) Agile
3 918 (58.73%) CI/CD
4 611 (39.09%) Microservices
5 562 (35.96%) Software Engineering
6 516 (33.01%) Performance Optimisation
7 497 (31.80%) Mentoring
8 493 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 463 (29.62%) Test Automation
10 356 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 340 (21.75%) Roadmaps
12 317 (20.28%) Continuous Integration
13 316 (20.22%) SDLC
14 300 (19.19%) Front End Development
15 282 (18.04%) High Availability
16 258 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
17 252 (16.12%) Product Management
18 245 (15.67%) Cost Optimisation
19 243 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
20 235 (15.04%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 834 (53.36%) Java
2 725 (46.39%) Python
3 652 (41.71%) JavaScript
4 456 (29.17%) SQL
5 331 (21.18%) Bash
6 320 (20.47%) Go
7 171 (10.94%) TypeScript
8 158 (10.11%) C#
9 93 (5.95%) PowerShell
10 83 (5.31%) Rust
11 66 (4.22%) C++
12 21 (1.34%) Scala
13 16 (1.02%) C
14 15 (0.96%) Bicep
15 12 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.70%) PHP
17 8 (0.51%) R
18 6 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 296 (18.94%) AWS Certification
2 174 (11.13%) Degree
3 156 (9.98%) Security Cleared
4 88 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 76 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (4.29%) SC Cleared
7 60 (3.84%) Azure Certification
8 52 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (3.26%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.47%) PhD
11 16 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.96%) HND
13 11 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.45%) CISSP
16 6 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
16 6 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 5 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (21.31%) QA
2 96 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 60 (3.84%) GDPR
4 44 (2.82%) HIPAA
5 23 (1.47%) NIST
6 21 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 10 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.45%) CDISC
11 6 (0.38%) NCSC
12 4 (0.26%) Basel II
12 4 (0.26%) Basel III
12 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.19%) SLA
14 1 (0.064%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,200 (76.78%) Docker
2 48 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 27 (1.73%) Active Directory
6 15 (0.96%) vSphere
7 13 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.64%) NFS
9 7 (0.45%) Postfix
10 5 (0.32%) Apache Flume
11 4 (0.26%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.19%) vCloud
13 2 (0.13%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.064%) KVM
14 1 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,172 (74.98%) Kubernetes
2 598 (38.26%) Terraform
3 411 (26.30%) Ansible
4 309 (19.77%) Prometheus
5 217 (13.88%) Argo
6 215 (13.76%) Kustomize
7 94 (6.01%) Grafana
8 24 (1.54%) Kubeflow
9 13 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.64%) SCCM
11 9 (0.58%) Istio
11 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.45%) Puppet
12 7 (0.45%) SCOM
12 7 (0.45%) WSUS
13 6 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.32%) Oozie
15 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 311 (19.90%) Google
2 247 (15.80%) Solace
3 128 (8.19%) Microsoft
4 62 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 58 (3.71%) IBM
6 57 (3.65%) VMware
7 53 (3.39%) Databricks
8 33 (2.11%) Oracle
9 31 (1.98%) SAP
10 27 (1.73%) Splunk
11 22 (1.41%) Cisco
12 15 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.64%) Ping Identity
14 9 (0.58%) Pure Storage
15 8 (0.51%) Apple
15 8 (0.51%) Commvault
15 8 (0.51%) Hitachi
16 7 (0.45%) OpenAI
17 6 (0.38%) Confluent
17 6 (0.38%) Dell