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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 130 168
Rank change year-on-year -25 +38 -41
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,412 1,209 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.43% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.75% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 905 595 788
10th Percentile £45,946 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,788 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.21% +4.00% -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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -32 1,239 £72,500 -6.45% 976
UK excluding London -18 854 £65,788 +1.21% 552
Work from Home -36 469 £68,724 -1.82% 598
London -36 462 £80,000 -5.88% 563
North of England -25 235 £66,750 +2.69% 126
South West +8 201 £67,500 -5.94% 100
South East +7 179 £65,000 -10.34% 122
North West -49 128 £75,000 +15.38% 70
Midlands -69 86 £70,000 +1.82% 56
North East -7 59 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Northern Ireland -30 59 - - 22
West Midlands -48 53 £72,500 +3.57% 33
East of England -33 50 £60,000 +3.45% 43
Wales -36 49 £60,000 -17.24% 17
Yorkshire -39 48 £73,750 +13.46% 34
East Midlands -51 33 £64,500 +17.27% 22
Scotland -62 7 £60,000 -14.29% 69

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 50 (3.54%) Apache
2 40 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.69%) Confluence
4 28 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) JBoss
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 813 (57.58%) AWS
2 733 (51.91%) Azure
3 333 (23.58%) GCP
4 213 (15.08%) GitHub
5 172 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 164 (11.61%) Serverless
7 148 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (7.44%) OpenShift
10 98 (6.94%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
12 87 (6.16%) Amazon S3
13 83 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
14 82 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
15 77 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
16 74 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 74 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
18 52 (3.68%) SaaS
19 51 (3.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.31%) WAN
2 68 (4.82%) LAN
3 65 (4.60%) Firewall
4 61 (4.32%) DNS
5 48 (3.40%) Network Security
6 37 (2.62%) VPN
7 32 (2.27%) Broadband
7 32 (2.27%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.70%) MQTT
9 19 (1.35%) BGP
10 18 (1.27%) OSPF
11 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
12 16 (1.13%) VLAN
13 13 (0.92%) DMARC
14 12 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 10 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.57%) 3GPP
16 8 (0.57%) DHCP
16 8 (0.57%) IPv4
16 8 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 69 (4.89%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.25%) MySQL
5 47 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 47 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 43 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (2.55%) SQL Server
8 35 (2.48%) Redis
9 25 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.20%) Big Data
12 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
13 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.99%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.78%) InfluxDB
16 11 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 276 (19.55%) Git
2 211 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 174 (12.32%) GitLab
4 38 (2.69%) JIRA
5 29 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 26 (1.84%) JUnit
8 25 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 25 (1.77%) Maven
9 22 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.35%) Mockito
11 18 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 18 (1.27%) Selenium
12 13 (0.92%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.78%) Claude Code
13 11 (0.78%) Vite
14 9 (0.64%) MLflow
14 9 (0.64%) Postman
14 9 (0.64%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.64%) TestRail
General
1 446 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 336 (23.80%) Finance
3 168 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 103 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (7.08%) Law
6 96 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (6.37%) Banking
8 69 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.41%) Aerospace
10 33 (2.34%) Legal
11 28 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.70%) Retail
13 21 (1.49%) Games
14 17 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.85%) Electronics
17 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.64%) Front Office
20 8 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (19.48%) Senior
2 244 (17.28%) Developer
3 220 (15.58%) Architect
4 211 (14.94%) Software Engineer
5 210 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 172 (12.18%) Lead
7 114 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 79 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.75%) Systems Architect
10 66 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 65 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
13 59 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 52 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 45 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 45 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
17 43 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
18 42 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (38.03%) Terraform
2 196 (13.88%) RESTful
2 196 (13.88%) Spring
3 188 (13.31%) React
4 181 (12.82%) Spring Boot
5 153 (10.84%) Node.js
6 149 (10.55%) Kafka
7 127 (8.99%) .NET
7 127 (8.99%) REST
8 82 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
9 72 (5.10%) AngularJS
10 55 (3.90%) OAuth
11 54 (3.82%) CSS
12 45 (3.19%) OAuth2
13 44 (3.12%) FastAPI
14 43 (3.05%) gRPC
14 43 (3.05%) JSON
15 40 (2.83%) HTML
16 39 (2.76%) .NET Core
17 37 (2.62%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 391 (27.69%) Cloud Native
2 171 (12.11%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (2.41%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.98%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.77%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.70%) PKI
14 23 (1.63%) Blog
15 21 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
16 18 (1.27%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.27%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 295 (20.89%) Linux
2 94 (6.66%) Windows
3 39 (2.76%) Unix
4 35 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.20%) CentOS
6 21 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.78%) Debian
9 8 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.071%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.071%) Rocky
12 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (67.07%) CI/CD
2 704 (49.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 685 (48.51%) DevOps
4 500 (35.41%) Agile
5 453 (32.08%) Software Engineering
6 405 (28.68%) Microservices
7 326 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (20.47%) Observability
9 285 (20.18%) Mentoring
10 274 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (19.33%) AI
12 270 (19.12%) Test Automation
13 231 (16.36%) Event-Driven
14 211 (14.94%) Platform Engineering
15 185 (13.10%) Roadmaps
16 161 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
17 157 (11.12%) Technical Leadership
18 144 (10.20%) Scrum
19 140 (9.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 136 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 634 (44.90%) Python
2 370 (26.20%) Java
3 229 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 182 (12.89%) Bash
5 163 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 162 (11.47%) SQL
7 143 (10.13%) C#
8 131 (9.28%) PowerShell
9 103 (7.29%) Go
10 61 (4.32%) Bicep
11 56 (3.97%) C++
12 39 (2.76%) Ruby
13 35 (2.48%) Rust
14 34 (2.41%) Scala
15 21 (1.49%) Groovy
16 16 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.13%) PHP
17 15 (1.06%) C
17 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 440 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 218 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 167 (11.83%) DV Cleared
4 164 (11.61%) Degree
5 93 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.11%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.77%) CISSP
10 13 (0.92%) CCNP
10 13 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.78%) OSCP
12 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.64%) CISM
14 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.71%) QA
2 72 (5.10%) GRC
3 58 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.91%) NCSC
6 24 (1.70%) GDPR
6 24 (1.70%) NIST
7 22 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.35%) WCAG
9 10 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) SLA
15 1 (0.071%) COBIT
15 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
System Software
1 796 (56.37%) Docker
2 48 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 37 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.64%) KVM
6 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Squid
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.28%) Firmware
10 4 (0.28%) NDS
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.071%) Xen
Systems Management
1 818 (57.93%) Kubernetes
2 211 (14.94%) Ansible
3 139 (9.84%) Grafana
4 112 (7.93%) Prometheus
5 38 (2.69%) Argo
5 38 (2.69%) Puppet
6 32 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 27 (1.91%) Istio
8 18 (1.27%) Podman
9 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 15 (1.06%) Kibana
9 15 (1.06%) linkerd
9 15 (1.06%) Nagios
10 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.78%) Packer
11 11 (0.78%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.50%) logstash
13 6 (0.42%) Rancher
13 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 226 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.52%) Google
3 57 (4.04%) Red Hat
4 54 (3.82%) Splunk
4 54 (3.82%) VMware
5 52 (3.68%) Oracle
6 26 (1.84%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 19 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 17 (1.20%) Typelevel
11 15 (1.06%) Cisco
11 15 (1.06%) IBM
12 13 (0.92%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.85%) Databricks
13 12 (0.85%) Mistral
14 11 (0.78%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.71%) Rapid7
16 9 (0.64%) Okta