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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 117 192
Rank change year-on-year -31 +75 -55
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,389 1,289 1,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.61% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.91% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 924 656 847
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,950
25th Percentile £54,867 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,148 £96,250 £88,125
90th Percentile £103,750 £121,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -36 1,223 £72,500 -6.45% 676
UK excluding London -25 824 £65,000 -3.70% 368
Work from Home -33 500 £70,000 -2.77% 312
London -29 476 £80,000 -11.11% 383
North of England -28 229 £65,000 - 100
South East +21 196 £65,000 -1.89% 89
South West +5 188 £60,500 -19.33% 75
North West -32 123 £73,401 +22.33% 61
Midlands -87 71 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Yorkshire -30 58 £67,500 -1.46% 21
Northern Ireland -17 56 £73,801 +71.27% 14
North East -10 48 £55,000 -15.38% 18
West Midlands -53 45 £70,079 +3.82% 33
Wales -30 44 £67,500 +3.85% 8
East of England -26 42 £60,000 -2.83% 16
East Midlands -52 26 £62,500 +8.69% 11
Scotland -67 7 £60,000 -17.24% 24

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 44 (3.17%) Apache
2 33 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.38%) Confluence
3 32 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.79%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.22%) Camunda
6 3 (0.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.22%) WordPress
7 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.072%) CMS
8 1 (0.072%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.072%) JBoss
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.072%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 797 (57.38%) AWS
2 715 (51.48%) Azure
3 341 (24.55%) GCP
4 215 (15.48%) GitHub
5 177 (12.74%) Serverless
6 163 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
8 114 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (7.99%) OpenShift
10 101 (7.27%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (6.70%) Amazon S3
12 93 (6.70%) Cloud Computing
13 90 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
14 83 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 76 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (4.97%) Datadog
17 67 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
18 63 (4.54%) SaaS
19 56 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.18%) Firewall
2 70 (5.04%) WAN
3 66 (4.75%) DNS
4 63 (4.54%) LAN
5 51 (3.67%) Broadband
6 46 (3.31%) Network Security
7 40 (2.88%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.52%) VPN
9 21 (1.51%) MQTT
10 18 (1.30%) BGP
10 18 (1.30%) OSPF
11 17 (1.22%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.15%) VLAN
13 14 (1.01%) HTTP
14 13 (0.94%) DMARC
14 13 (0.94%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.58%) IPv4
16 8 (0.58%) LTE
17 7 (0.50%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (7.99%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.11%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.10%) MySQL
5 51 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 49 (3.53%) DynamoDB
7 43 (3.10%) Redis
8 40 (2.88%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.08%) Big Data
12 12 (0.86%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.79%) DTS
14 10 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.72%) Db2
15 9 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.65%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 259 (18.65%) Git
2 207 (14.90%) Jenkins
3 187 (13.46%) GitLab
4 41 (2.95%) JIRA
5 36 (2.59%) CircleCI
6 27 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 22 (1.58%) JUnit
9 20 (1.44%) Maven
10 18 (1.30%) Mockito
11 16 (1.15%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.08%) Selenium
13 14 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.86%) Vite
15 10 (0.72%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.58%) Gatling
16 8 (0.58%) MLflow
16 8 (0.58%) Postman
16 8 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 427 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 324 (23.33%) Finance
3 122 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 113 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (7.27%) Law
6 91 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 84 (6.05%) Banking
8 62 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.73%) Aerospace
11 24 (1.73%) Legal
12 19 (1.37%) Retail
13 18 (1.30%) Games
14 14 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.86%) Front Office
16 11 (0.79%) Electronics
16 11 (0.79%) Marketing
16 11 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 263 (18.93%) Senior
2 253 (18.21%) Developer
3 207 (14.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 200 (14.40%) Software Engineer
5 193 (13.89%) Architect
6 178 (12.81%) Lead
7 123 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (4.54%) Java Developer
10 63 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
10 63 (4.54%) Systems Architect
11 53 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 52 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
14 48 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
16 42 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
17 40 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
18 38 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (13.53%) Spring
2 182 (13.10%) RESTful
3 177 (12.74%) Spring Boot
4 173 (12.46%) React
5 143 (10.30%) Kafka
6 139 (10.01%) Node.js
7 134 (9.65%) .NET
8 122 (8.78%) REST
9 79 (5.69%) AngularJS
10 78 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
11 64 (4.61%) gRPC
12 57 (4.10%) OAuth
13 51 (3.67%) JSON
14 48 (3.46%) CSS
15 46 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
16 44 (3.17%) OAuth2
17 43 (3.10%) YAML
18 42 (3.02%) .NET Core
19 40 (2.88%) HTML
20 38 (2.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 360 (25.92%) Cloud Native
2 174 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.59%) Over-the-Top Content
6 36 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
7 32 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.66%) Algorithms
13 21 (1.51%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.44%) PKI
14 20 (1.44%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.30%) Blockchain
16 17 (1.22%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 279 (20.09%) Linux
2 91 (6.55%) Windows
3 35 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.30%) CentOS
5 31 (2.23%) Unix
6 26 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.58%) Debian
9 6 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.072%) Android
12 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.072%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 669 (48.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 665 (47.88%) DevOps
4 491 (35.35%) Agile
5 434 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 426 (30.67%) Microservices
7 344 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
8 268 (19.29%) Observability
9 264 (19.01%) Test Automation
10 261 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 261 (18.79%) Mentoring
11 248 (17.85%) AI
12 203 (14.61%) Event-Driven
13 190 (13.68%) Platform Engineering
14 174 (12.53%) Full-Stack Development
15 167 (12.02%) Roadmaps
16 140 (10.08%) Clean Code
17 139 (10.01%) Machine Learning
18 138 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
19 137 (9.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 638 (45.93%) Python
2 346 (24.91%) Java
3 243 (17.49%) JavaScript
4 181 (13.03%) Bash
5 168 (12.10%) SQL
6 152 (10.94%) TypeScript
7 149 (10.73%) C#
8 138 (9.94%) PowerShell
9 124 (8.93%) Go
10 57 (4.10%) Bicep
11 52 (3.74%) C++
12 48 (3.46%) Scala
13 38 (2.74%) Ruby
14 29 (2.09%) Rust
15 24 (1.73%) PHP
16 20 (1.44%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.22%) Groovy
18 12 (0.86%) C
18 12 (0.86%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 186 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 155 (11.16%) Degree
4 140 (10.08%) DV Cleared
5 84 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 46 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.58%) CISSP
10 16 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.86%) CCNP
13 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.58%) OSCP
16 8 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.57%) QA
2 68 (4.90%) GRC
3 47 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.09%) GDPR
5 28 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.73%) NIST
7 22 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.51%) WCAG
9 18 (1.30%) NCSC
10 12 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.72%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.072%) PSD2
15 1 (0.072%) SLA
System Software
1 806 (58.03%) Docker
2 43 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.65%) KVM
6 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.65%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) Squid
8 6 (0.43%) Firmware
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) iptables
9 2 (0.14%) NDS
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.072%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.072%) QEMU
10 1 (0.072%) Xen
Systems Management
1 805 (57.96%) Kubernetes
2 527 (37.94%) Terraform
3 209 (15.05%) Ansible
4 166 (11.95%) Grafana
5 138 (9.94%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.38%) Puppet
7 32 (2.30%) Argo
8 28 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.66%) Istio
10 20 (1.44%) Nagios
11 18 (1.30%) Podman
12 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.15%) Kibana
14 15 (1.08%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.94%) linkerd
16 11 (0.79%) Packer
16 11 (0.79%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.50%) logstash
18 6 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.83%) Google
3 63 (4.54%) Red Hat
4 53 (3.82%) Splunk
5 46 (3.31%) Oracle
5 46 (3.31%) VMware
6 36 (2.59%) Typelevel
7 26 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.58%) Cisco
10 21 (1.51%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.30%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.08%) IBM
14 13 (0.94%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.79%) Rapid7
16 10 (0.72%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.72%) Confluent
16 10 (0.72%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.65%) Salesforce