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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 114 197
Rank change year-on-year -42 +83 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,203 1,248 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.80% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 3.02% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 826 638 1,096
10th Percentile £45,621 £49,007 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £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 £128,250 £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 67,867 41,257 88,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 92.63% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46,626 22,001 62,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,353 £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 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 15 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 15 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 -36 1,106 £72,500 -9.38% 342
UK excluding London -46 638 £62,500 -7.41% 243
London -16 473 £80,000 -11.11% 151
Work from Home -28 439 £70,079 -2.66% 194
North of England -59 197 £65,000 -1.54% 64
South East +30 163 £68,750 +5.77% 75
South West -5 145 £52,500 -30.00% 55
North West -45 99 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Yorkshire -38 59 £65,000 -7.14% 12
Midlands -82 59 £70,000 +12.00% 22
East of England -24 41 £60,000 -12.73% 14
North East -20 39 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West Midlands -58 32 £70,079 +7.81% 16
East Midlands -49 27 £64,000 +6.67% 6
Wales -34 25 £63,750 +6.25% 7
Scotland -66 7 £60,000 -25.00% 9
Northern Ireland -29 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 (2.74%) Apache
2 26 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.91%) Confluence
5 8 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.58%) Appian
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.083%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
4 3 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 716 (59.52%) AWS
2 605 (50.29%) Azure
3 321 (26.68%) GCP
4 200 (16.63%) GitHub
5 166 (13.80%) Serverless
6 139 (11.55%) GitHub Actions
7 129 (10.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.81%) Azure AKS
10 93 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (7.73%) OpenShift
11 91 (7.56%) Amazon S3
12 80 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 76 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (6.07%) Datadog
15 69 (5.74%) SaaS
16 55 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
17 54 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
18 50 (4.16%) IaaS
19 41 (3.41%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.40%) Broadband
2 71 (5.90%) Firewall
3 69 (5.74%) DNS
4 37 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 33 (2.74%) Network Security
6 24 (2.00%) HTTP
7 20 (1.66%) VPN
8 14 (1.16%) MQTT
9 11 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
10 10 (0.83%) DMARC
10 10 (0.83%) VLAN
11 9 (0.75%) BGP
11 9 (0.75%) OSPF
11 9 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.67%) DHCP
12 8 (0.67%) IPv4
13 7 (0.58%) AMQP
14 6 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.50%) DMZ
14 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (11.06%) NoSQL
2 111 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.73%) MongoDB
4 73 (6.07%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.90%) SQL Server
6 58 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
7 54 (4.49%) MySQL
8 44 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.91%) Redis
10 30 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.33%) RDBMS
12 20 (1.66%) Pinecone
13 17 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.08%) Big Data
15 10 (0.83%) Metadata
16 9 (0.75%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.75%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.75%) Power BI
17 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 213 (17.71%) Git
2 184 (15.30%) Jenkins
3 169 (14.05%) GitLab
4 44 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 38 (3.16%) JIRA
6 25 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.00%) JUnit
8 23 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.75%) Maven
9 21 (1.75%) Mockito
10 18 (1.50%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.50%) Vite
11 16 (1.33%) Selenium
12 15 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.16%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.08%) MLflow
15 9 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.75%) JMeter
16 8 (0.67%) Robot Framework
16 8 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 329 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 227 (18.87%) Finance
3 90 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.57%) Banking
6 71 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.90%) Law
8 47 (3.91%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 25 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.75%) Retail
12 14 (1.16%) Front Office
12 14 (1.16%) Games
13 13 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Legal
15 10 (0.83%) Billing
15 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.83%) Marketing
16 9 (0.75%) Electronics
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (22.28%) Senior
2 251 (20.86%) Developer
3 180 (14.96%) Software Engineer
4 160 (13.30%) Lead
5 154 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 124 (10.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 98 (8.15%) Architect
8 74 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (5.32%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 51 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
13 50 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 47 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
15 46 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
16 43 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
18 34 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
19 33 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 31 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (14.80%) React
2 166 (13.80%) RESTful
3 148 (12.30%) .NET
4 140 (11.64%) Spring
5 131 (10.89%) Spring Boot
6 125 (10.39%) REST
7 123 (10.22%) Node.js
8 117 (9.73%) Kafka
9 81 (6.73%) gRPC
10 72 (5.99%) AngularJS
11 69 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
12 67 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.07%) OAuth
14 53 (4.41%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.66%) FastAPI
16 42 (3.49%) JSON
17 41 (3.41%) OAuth2
18 36 (2.99%) CSS
18 36 (2.99%) Django
18 36 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 300 (24.94%) Cloud Native
2 147 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.16%) Blockchain
7 26 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.75%) PKI
11 21 (1.75%) Web3
12 19 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 236 (19.62%) Linux
2 83 (6.90%) Windows
3 38 (3.16%) Unix
4 35 (2.91%) Ubuntu
5 34 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.66%) CentOS
7 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.75%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) Android
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (67.91%) CI/CD
2 586 (48.71%) DevOps
3 510 (42.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 464 (38.57%) Agile
5 390 (32.42%) Microservices
6 386 (32.09%) Software Engineering
7 305 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (19.78%) Mentoring
8 238 (19.78%) Test Automation
9 236 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 225 (18.70%) Observability
11 223 (18.54%) AI
12 170 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 147 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
14 145 (12.05%) Event-Driven
15 141 (11.72%) Machine Learning
16 138 (11.47%) High Availability
17 134 (11.14%) Continuous Delivery
18 132 (10.97%) Clean Code
19 123 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 565 (46.97%) Python
2 302 (25.10%) Java
3 240 (19.95%) JavaScript
4 193 (16.04%) SQL
5 186 (15.46%) Bash
6 149 (12.39%) C#
6 149 (12.39%) TypeScript
7 145 (12.05%) Go
8 133 (11.06%) PowerShell
9 51 (4.24%) Scala
10 44 (3.66%) Bicep
11 35 (2.91%) C++
12 27 (2.24%) PHP
13 26 (2.16%) Rust
14 22 (1.83%) Ruby
15 21 (1.75%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.50%) Groovy
17 16 (1.33%) C
18 12 (1.00%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 143 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 123 (10.22%) Degree
4 83 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 54 (4.49%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.00%) CISSP
10 12 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.67%) CCNA
11 8 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.67%) OSCP
11 8 (0.67%) RHCE
11 8 (0.67%) RHCSA
12 7 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.15%) QA
2 36 (2.99%) GDPR
3 34 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.66%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.91%) NIST
8 14 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.00%) GRC
9 12 (1.00%) JSP 440
10 10 (0.83%) NCSC
10 10 (0.83%) WCAG
11 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.083%) DO-178B
System Software
1 739 (61.43%) Docker
2 37 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.49%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.83%) vSphere
6 8 (0.67%) Squid
7 7 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.50%) Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) KVM
9 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.083%) QEMU
11 1 (0.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 714 (59.35%) Kubernetes
2 460 (38.24%) Terraform
3 195 (16.21%) Ansible
4 164 (13.63%) Grafana
5 156 (12.97%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.82%) Argo
7 26 (2.16%) Puppet
8 22 (1.83%) Istio
9 21 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.50%) Kustomize
12 17 (1.41%) Nagios
12 17 (1.41%) Podman
13 13 (1.08%) Packer
14 12 (1.00%) Kibana
15 11 (0.91%) linkerd
16 10 (0.83%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
18 6 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
19 5 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.65%) Google
3 60 (4.99%) Red Hat
4 46 (3.82%) Splunk
5 45 (3.74%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.41%) Oracle
7 36 (2.99%) VMware
8 28 (2.33%) OpenAI
9 24 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.41%) Cisco
11 15 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.00%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.91%) Databricks
13 11 (0.91%) NVIDIA
13 11 (0.91%) Zscaler
14 10 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.83%) Confluent
14 10 (0.83%) SendGrid
14 10 (0.83%) ServiceNow