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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 134 159
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 -37
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,464 1,182 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.38% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.67% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 909 591 756
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -27 1,274 £72,500 -3.33% 2,299
UK excluding London -9 905 £67,500 +3.85% 1,877
London -33 453 £80,000 -5.88% 969
Work from Home -50 451 £68,724 +1.81% 1,683
North of England -23 267 £65,576 +0.89% 397
South West +14 215 £70,000 +7.69% 233
South East -6 169 £65,000 -10.34% 337
North West -33 145 £75,000 +15.38% 193
Midlands -63 94 £70,000 - 211
North East -5 73 £60,000 - 84
Northern Ireland -29 59 - - 82
West Midlands -53 56 £82,500 +17.86% 122
Wales -37 52 £61,000 -15.86% 169
Yorkshire -30 49 £70,466 +3.63% 124
East of England -38 49 £72,500 +26.09% 144
East Midlands -60 38 £70,000 +27.27% 89
Scotland -58 11 £90,000 +33.33% 313

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 (3.76%) Apache
2 43 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.73%) Confluence
4 30 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
10 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.068%) JBoss
11 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Blender
4 3 (0.20%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 837 (57.17%) AWS
2 769 (52.53%) Azure
3 341 (23.29%) GCP
4 238 (16.26%) GitHub
5 173 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 171 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
7 145 (9.90%) Serverless
8 124 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
9 117 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (7.17%) OpenShift
11 90 (6.15%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.67%) Amazon S3
14 74 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
15 72 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
15 72 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 54 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
19 49 (3.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.12%) WAN
2 68 (4.64%) Firewall
2 68 (4.64%) LAN
3 59 (4.03%) DNS
4 51 (3.48%) Network Security
5 43 (2.94%) VPN
6 40 (2.73%) Internet
7 35 (2.39%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.91%) MQTT
9 19 (1.30%) BGP
10 18 (1.23%) OSPF
11 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.09%) VLAN
13 15 (1.02%) DMARC
14 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (0.61%) Broadband
17 8 (0.55%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.55%) HTTP
17 8 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 73 (4.99%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.44%) MySQL
5 48 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.87%) DynamoDB
7 39 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
7 39 (2.66%) Redis
8 29 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 20 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (1.30%) Big Data
11 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.02%) Metadata
13 14 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 14 (0.96%) Pinecone
14 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 321 (21.93%) Git
2 208 (14.21%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.36%) GitLab
4 38 (2.60%) JIRA
5 29 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.64%) JUnit
7 23 (1.57%) Maven
8 21 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.30%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.23%) Selenium
11 17 (1.16%) Claude Code
11 17 (1.16%) Mockito
12 15 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (1.02%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.75%) MLflow
14 10 (0.68%) Vite
15 9 (0.61%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.55%) Robot Framework
16 8 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 463 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 342 (23.36%) Finance
3 198 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 129 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.08%) Law
7 86 (5.87%) Banking
8 71 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.80%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.32%) Legal
11 33 (2.25%) Retail
12 29 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.37%) Games
14 15 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.96%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Publishing
17 12 (0.82%) Electronics
18 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.75%) Front Office
19 9 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 296 (20.22%) Senior
2 258 (17.62%) Developer
3 252 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.78%) Architect
5 213 (14.55%) Software Engineer
6 180 (12.30%) Lead
7 103 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (5.05%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 67 (4.58%) Systems Architect
12 60 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 52 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
15 45 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.94%) Software Developer
18 41 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (36.54%) Terraform
2 217 (14.82%) Spring
3 207 (14.14%) RESTful
4 204 (13.93%) Spring Boot
5 187 (12.77%) React
6 154 (10.52%) Kafka
7 150 (10.25%) Node.js
8 128 (8.74%) REST
9 117 (7.99%) .NET
10 83 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
11 67 (4.58%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.69%) OAuth
13 50 (3.42%) CSS
13 50 (3.42%) FastAPI
14 45 (3.07%) OpenAPI
15 43 (2.94%) OAuth2
16 40 (2.73%) Swagger
17 39 (2.66%) LangChain
18 38 (2.60%) Middleware
19 37 (2.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 420 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 164 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
4 53 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 34 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.98%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.84%) PKI
13 26 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.78%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.71%) Blog
15 22 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (1.30%) Management Information System
17 18 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 339 (23.16%) Linux
2 87 (5.94%) Windows
3 44 (3.01%) Unix
4 35 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.98%) CentOS
6 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.82%) Debian
8 8 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.27%) Rocky
10 3 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.20%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (68.44%) CI/CD
2 753 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 751 (51.30%) DevOps
4 520 (35.52%) Agile
5 451 (30.81%) Software Engineering
6 414 (28.28%) Microservices
7 358 (24.45%) Mentoring
8 331 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
9 300 (20.49%) Observability
10 299 (20.42%) AI
11 290 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 266 (18.17%) Test Automation
13 260 (17.76%) Platform Engineering
14 252 (17.21%) Event-Driven
15 206 (14.07%) Roadmaps
16 181 (12.36%) DevSecOps
17 174 (11.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 174 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
18 151 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 151 (10.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 638 (43.58%) Python
2 401 (27.39%) Java
3 208 (14.21%) JavaScript
4 193 (13.18%) Bash
5 167 (11.41%) SQL
6 163 (11.13%) TypeScript
7 133 (9.08%) C#
8 125 (8.54%) PowerShell
9 87 (5.94%) Go
10 62 (4.23%) C++
11 60 (4.10%) Bicep
12 48 (3.28%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.53%) Ruby
14 35 (2.39%) Rust
15 19 (1.30%) Groovy
16 15 (1.02%) Scala
17 14 (0.96%) C
17 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 467 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 234 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.43%) DV Cleared
4 164 (11.20%) Degree
5 100 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (4.64%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.84%) CISSP
10 14 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.89%) CCNP
11 13 (0.89%) OSCP
11 13 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.61%) CISM
14 9 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.40%) QA
2 72 (4.92%) GRC
3 56 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.12%) NCSC
6 30 (2.05%) GDPR
7 28 (1.91%) NIST
8 22 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.14%) RMADS
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 831 (56.76%) Docker
2 46 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (3.07%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.61%) KVM
7 8 (0.55%) Squid
7 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.55%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.34%) NDS
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 833 (56.90%) Kubernetes
2 216 (14.75%) Ansible
3 143 (9.77%) Grafana
4 117 (7.99%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.80%) Puppet
6 40 (2.73%) Argo
7 33 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.43%) Istio
9 16 (1.09%) linkerd
10 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.96%) Kibana
12 13 (0.89%) Nagios
13 12 (0.82%) Podman
14 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.75%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.68%) Packer
16 8 (0.55%) logstash
16 8 (0.55%) Rancher
17 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 270 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.33%) Google
3 63 (4.30%) Splunk
4 52 (3.55%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.55%) VMware
5 50 (3.42%) Oracle
6 26 (1.78%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.02%) SendGrid
10 13 (0.89%) IBM
11 12 (0.82%) Databricks
12 11 (0.75%) Mistral
13 10 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.61%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.61%) Rapid7