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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 155 117
Rank change year-on-year -3 -38 +20
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 939 1,173 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 1.73% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.08% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 624 745 1,077
10th Percentile £48,191 £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 £91,250 £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 45,647 56,467 49,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.17% 83.08% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,329 29,505 38,075
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -

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 15 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 15 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 +1 865 £72,500 +3.57% 904
UK excluding London -2 454 £65,000 - 487
London +22 415 £85,000 -2.86% 463
Work from Home -13 322 £67,500 -3.57% 504
North of England +12 171 £65,000 +8.33% 157
North West +30 108 £63,750 +6.25% 110
South West 0 93 £60,000 -11.11% 74
South East -18 71 £75,000 +15.38% 130
Midlands +25 59 £68,750 +5.77% 62
West Midlands +20 41 £70,271 +8.11% 46
Yorkshire -29 39 £68,500 +24.55% 34
Scotland -13 33 £70,000 - 19
East of England +16 25 £58,750 -6.00% 34
North East +20 24 £60,000 +14.29% 13
East Midlands +17 18 £54,500 +31.33% 16
Wales +7 16 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Northern Ireland -2 5 £43,092 -33.35% 14

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 54 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.98%) Apache
4 17 (1.81%) CMS
5 16 (1.70%) Confluence
6 15 (1.60%) IIS
7 13 (1.38%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.64%) nginx
9 5 (0.53%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.53%) 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%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.49%) Maya
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 2 (0.21%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) 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
1 551 (58.68%) AWS
2 488 (51.97%) Azure
3 239 (25.45%) GCP
4 176 (18.74%) GitHub
5 126 (13.42%) Serverless
6 121 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (8.31%) Amazon S3
9 74 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
10 73 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
11 62 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 60 (6.39%) SaaS
13 56 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
14 54 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (4.15%) OpenShift
16 38 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (3.83%) PaaS
18 34 (3.62%) Datadog
19 32 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.22%) Firewall
2 31 (3.30%) DNS
3 20 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.02%) DHCP
5 17 (1.81%) VPN
5 17 (1.81%) WAN
6 15 (1.60%) LAN
7 14 (1.49%) Network Security
8 10 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.96%) IPsec
10 8 (0.85%) HTTP
10 8 (0.85%) VLAN
11 7 (0.75%) AMQP
12 6 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.64%) SAN
12 6 (0.64%) VoIP
12 6 (0.64%) Wireless
13 4 (0.43%) Internet
13 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 73 (7.77%) SQL Server
4 71 (7.56%) MongoDB
5 52 (5.54%) DynamoDB
6 51 (5.43%) Relational Database
7 50 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (5.22%) MySQL
9 35 (3.73%) Big Data
10 27 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (2.56%) Metadata
12 20 (2.13%) Spark SQL
13 19 (2.02%) Delta Lake
14 16 (1.70%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.49%) Tick Data
17 13 (1.38%) Hadoop
18 12 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
19 11 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 174 (18.53%) Git
2 122 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 100 (10.65%) GitLab
4 37 (3.94%) JIRA
5 30 (3.19%) MLflow
6 27 (2.88%) SonarQube
7 24 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 22 (2.34%) TeamCity
9 19 (2.02%) JUnit
10 18 (1.92%) Selenium
11 17 (1.81%) CircleCI
12 15 (1.60%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
14 11 (1.17%) JMeter
15 10 (1.06%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.85%) Maven
18 7 (0.75%) Locust
18 7 (0.75%) Mockito
19 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 287 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 242 (25.77%) Finance
3 104 (11.08%) Law
4 96 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 94 (10.01%) Marketing
6 76 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (5.54%) Banking
9 45 (4.79%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.09%) Retail
12 28 (2.98%) Games
13 25 (2.66%) Electronics
14 23 (2.45%) Front Office
15 13 (1.38%) Legal
16 11 (1.17%) Advertising
16 11 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.17%) French Language
17 10 (1.06%) Dutch Language
17 10 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 220 (23.43%) Developer
2 186 (19.81%) Senior
3 136 (14.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 135 (14.38%) Lead
5 112 (11.93%) Software Engineer
6 64 (6.82%) Architect
7 59 (6.28%) Senior Developer
8 58 (6.18%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 48 (5.11%) Python Engineer
10 46 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.47%) Lead Developer
13 40 (4.26%) Data Engineer
13 40 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
14 39 (4.15%) Backend Developer
15 38 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 37 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.41%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (15.76%) React
2 133 (14.16%) RESTful
3 132 (14.06%) .NET
4 94 (10.01%) Spring
5 87 (9.27%) Spring Boot
6 80 (8.52%) Kafka
7 74 (7.88%) REST
8 70 (7.45%) Node.js
9 69 (7.35%) FastAPI
10 65 (6.92%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.07%) HTML
12 56 (5.96%) .NET Core
13 55 (5.86%) CSS
14 50 (5.32%) Flask
15 44 (4.69%) PyTorch
16 42 (4.47%) Pandas
17 40 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (4.15%) TensorFlow
19 37 (3.94%) YAML
20 36 (3.83%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 220 (23.43%) Cloud Native
2 99 (10.54%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.30%) Algorithms
8 30 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.88%) Public Cloud
10 25 (2.66%) Product Ownership
11 23 (2.45%) Data Centre
12 22 (2.34%) Fixed Income
13 19 (2.02%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
15 17 (1.81%) Blockchain
16 14 (1.49%) AI Agents
16 14 (1.49%) Data Structures
17 9 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
17 9 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.13%) Linux
2 108 (11.50%) Windows
3 50 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 35 (3.73%) Unix
5 33 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.49%) VMS
7 11 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.06%) CentOS
9 8 (0.85%) Debian
9 8 (0.85%) Rocky
10 6 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.43%) Android
12 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.21%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (61.24%) CI/CD
2 497 (52.93%) DevOps
3 344 (36.63%) Agile
4 295 (31.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (28.43%) Microservices
6 251 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
7 230 (24.49%) AI
8 213 (22.68%) Software Engineering
9 176 (18.74%) Mentoring
10 151 (16.08%) Test Automation
11 131 (13.95%) Machine Learning
12 114 (12.14%) Observability
13 112 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
15 103 (10.97%) Computer Science
16 96 (10.22%) Analytics
17 90 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
18 84 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
19 83 (8.84%) Data Science
20 80 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 456 (48.56%) Python
2 201 (21.41%) Java
3 193 (20.55%) SQL
4 148 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 140 (14.91%) C#
6 105 (11.18%) Bash
7 94 (10.01%) PowerShell
8 55 (5.86%) TypeScript
9 43 (4.58%) Go
10 29 (3.09%) Bicep
11 21 (2.24%) PHP
12 19 (2.02%) C++
13 12 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.96%) Ruby
15 8 (0.85%) Delphi
15 8 (0.85%) Scala
15 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.75%) Rust
17 6 (0.64%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 134 (14.27%) Degree
1 134 (14.27%) Security Cleared
2 86 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 62 (6.60%) DV Cleared
6 45 (4.79%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.06%) CISSP
11 8 (0.85%) CISM
11 8 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.75%) PhD
12 7 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.64%) ACMT
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.84%) QA
2 39 (4.15%) GDPR
3 21 (2.24%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.81%) NIST
5 14 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 10 (1.06%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.85%) WCAG
10 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.53%) GRC
12 3 (0.32%) EMIR
12 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.32%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.32%) NCSC
13 2 (0.21%) ECSS
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
14 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 610 (64.96%) Docker
2 55 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.15%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.98%) Hyper-V
5 23 (2.45%) vSphere
6 11 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.06%) NFS
7 10 (1.06%) 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
1 592 (63.05%) Kubernetes
2 321 (34.19%) Terraform
3 130 (13.84%) Ansible
4 112 (11.93%) Grafana
5 91 (9.69%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.56%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.17%) Control-M
9 10 (1.06%) Argo
9 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.96%) Puppet
11 8 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.85%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.64%) Autotask
13 6 (0.64%) SCCM
14 5 (0.53%) SCOM
14 5 (0.53%) WSUS
15 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 116 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.03%) Oracle
3 64 (6.82%) VMware
4 57 (6.07%) Google
5 51 (5.43%) Red Hat
6 43 (4.58%) Databricks
7 32 (3.41%) SAP
8 31 (3.30%) Splunk
9 29 (3.09%) Cisco
10 24 (2.56%) IBM
11 19 (2.02%) Dell
11 19 (2.02%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.92%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.70%) OpenAI
14 15 (1.60%) Pure Storage
15 14 (1.49%) Commvault
16 11 (1.17%) Fortinet
17 10 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
18 8 (0.85%) MuleSoft
19 7 (0.75%) Salesforce