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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 113 200
Rank change year-on-year -43 +87 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,191 1,247 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.82% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.04% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 810 634 1,086
10th Percentile £45,743 £48,860 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -
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 £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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 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 9 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 -38 1,094 £72,500 -9.38% 371
UK excluding London -52 625 £62,500 -7.41% 261
London -17 473 £80,000 -11.11% 145
Work from Home -27 441 £70,079 -2.66% 220
North of England -49 193 £65,000 -3.70% 63
South East +21 161 £70,000 +7.69% 84
South West +4 140 £52,500 -28.57% 58
North West -42 93 £71,716 +17.37% 31
Yorkshire -42 62 £65,000 -18.75% 16
Midlands -80 59 £70,000 +12.00% 25
East of England -13 40 £60,050 -11.04% 18
North East -17 38 £55,000 -15.38% 16
West Midlands -60 33 £70,079 +7.81% 18
East Midlands -57 26 £62,000 +3.33% 7
Wales -27 23 £58,750 -2.08% 7
Scotland -68 8 £60,000 -29.41% 8
Northern Ireland -34 5 £62,500 +45.04% 4

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 33 (2.77%) Apache
2 24 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.85%) Confluence
4 8 (0.67%) Appian
5 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) IIS
7 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.084%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.084%) nginx
10 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.084%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 704 (59.11%) AWS
2 599 (50.29%) Azure
3 325 (27.29%) GCP
4 193 (16.20%) GitHub
5 169 (14.19%) Serverless
6 135 (11.34%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (11.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (8.82%) Azure AKS
10 95 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (7.72%) Amazon S3
12 91 (7.64%) OpenShift
13 78 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (6.13%) Datadog
16 67 (5.63%) SaaS
17 53 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
18 52 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
19 50 (4.20%) IaaS
20 40 (3.36%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.47%) Broadband
2 70 (5.88%) Firewall
3 66 (5.54%) DNS
4 36 (3.02%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.60%) Network Security
6 24 (2.02%) HTTP
7 18 (1.51%) VPN
8 14 (1.18%) MQTT
9 11 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 9 (0.76%) DMARC
11 8 (0.67%) IPv4
11 8 (0.67%) VLAN
12 7 (0.59%) AMQP
12 7 (0.59%) BGP
12 7 (0.59%) DHCP
12 7 (0.59%) OSPF
12 7 (0.59%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.50%) DMZ
13 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.34%) NoSQL
2 109 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.63%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.21%) Relational Database
5 62 (5.21%) SQL Server
6 57 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
7 53 (4.45%) MySQL
8 47 (3.95%) DynamoDB
9 34 (2.85%) Redis
10 30 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (2.43%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.60%) Pinecone
13 16 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.09%) Big Data
15 10 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.84%) Metadata
16 9 (0.76%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.76%) Power BI
17 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 214 (17.97%) Git
2 180 (15.11%) Jenkins
3 163 (13.69%) GitLab
4 44 (3.69%) CircleCI
5 37 (3.11%) JIRA
6 27 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.02%) JUnit
8 22 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.76%) Maven
9 21 (1.76%) Mockito
10 18 (1.51%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.34%) Vite
12 15 (1.26%) MLflow
12 15 (1.26%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.18%) Selenium
14 9 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.76%) JMeter
15 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 325 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 229 (19.23%) Finance
3 88 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.30%) Banking
6 68 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (5.04%) Law
8 52 (4.37%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.18%) Aerospace
10 23 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.68%) Retail
12 17 (1.43%) Front Office
13 13 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.92%) Billing
14 11 (0.92%) Games
14 11 (0.92%) Legal
14 11 (0.92%) Marketing
15 10 (0.84%) Electronics
15 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (22.75%) Senior
2 248 (20.82%) Developer
3 177 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 157 (13.18%) Lead
5 151 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 120 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 94 (7.89%) Architect
8 74 (6.21%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.12%) Java Developer
11 60 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 47 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 45 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
16 43 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
18 32 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
18 32 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 31 (2.60%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (14.86%) React
2 168 (14.11%) RESTful
3 150 (12.59%) .NET
4 135 (11.34%) Spring
5 125 (10.50%) REST
6 124 (10.41%) Spring Boot
7 121 (10.16%) Node.js
8 116 (9.74%) Kafka
9 84 (7.05%) gRPC
10 72 (6.05%) AngularJS
11 68 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
12 63 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.12%) OAuth
14 56 (4.70%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.61%) FastAPI
16 41 (3.44%) JSON
16 41 (3.44%) OAuth2
17 36 (3.02%) JWT
18 35 (2.94%) CSS
18 35 (2.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 292 (24.52%) Cloud Native
2 149 (12.51%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.78%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.18%) Blockchain
9 25 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.85%) PKI
11 21 (1.76%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.76%) Web3
12 20 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.60%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.51%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 234 (19.65%) Linux
2 82 (6.88%) Windows
3 39 (3.27%) Unix
4 36 (3.02%) Ubuntu
5 34 (2.85%) Windows Server
6 31 (2.60%) CentOS
7 21 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.76%) Debian
9 6 (0.50%) Android
10 4 (0.34%) VMS
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 578 (48.53%) DevOps
3 499 (41.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 456 (38.29%) Agile
5 391 (32.83%) Microservices
6 374 (31.40%) Software Engineering
7 299 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (19.98%) Test Automation
9 236 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 234 (19.65%) Mentoring
11 220 (18.47%) AI
12 213 (17.88%) Observability
13 163 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 145 (12.17%) Machine Learning
15 141 (11.84%) Event-Driven
15 141 (11.84%) High Availability
15 141 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
16 133 (11.17%) Continuous Delivery
17 131 (11.00%) Clean Code
18 124 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 558 (46.85%) Python
2 296 (24.85%) Java
3 240 (20.15%) JavaScript
4 196 (16.46%) SQL
5 180 (15.11%) Bash
6 149 (12.51%) Go
7 146 (12.26%) C#
8 142 (11.92%) TypeScript
9 130 (10.92%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.20%) Scala
11 41 (3.44%) Bicep
12 35 (2.94%) C++
13 27 (2.27%) PHP
14 24 (2.02%) Rust
15 21 (1.76%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.51%) Groovy
16 18 (1.51%) Ruby
17 16 (1.34%) C
18 12 (1.01%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 258 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 137 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.41%) Degree
4 84 (7.05%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.70%) AWS Certification
7 55 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.01%) CISSP
10 12 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.67%) CCNA
12 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (0.67%) OSCP
12 8 (0.67%) RHCE
12 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (8.06%) QA
2 37 (3.11%) GDPR
3 33 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.69%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.93%) NIST
7 15 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.01%) GRC
8 12 (1.01%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.67%) NCSC
9 8 (0.67%) WCAG
10 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.084%) SLA
14 1 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 732 (61.46%) Docker
2 33 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (2.35%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.84%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.59%) KVM
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.34%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.084%) QEMU
11 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 707 (59.36%) Kubernetes
2 455 (38.20%) Terraform
3 193 (16.20%) Ansible
4 159 (13.35%) Grafana
5 152 (12.76%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.61%) Argo
7 25 (2.10%) Puppet
8 21 (1.76%) Istio
9 20 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.68%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.51%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.43%) Podman
12 16 (1.34%) Nagios
13 13 (1.09%) Packer
14 10 (0.84%) Kibana
14 10 (0.84%) linkerd
15 9 (0.76%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.50%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.50%) Mesos
Vendors
1 118 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 107 (8.98%) Google
3 59 (4.95%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.78%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.61%) Splunk
6 40 (3.36%) Oracle
7 36 (3.02%) VMware
8 27 (2.27%) OpenAI
9 24 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.34%) Cisco
11 13 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.01%) Databricks
12 12 (1.01%) NVIDIA
13 10 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.84%) Confluent
13 10 (0.84%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
14 9 (0.76%) UiPath