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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 116 193
Rank change year-on-year -51 +77 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,131 1,238 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.85% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.06% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 733 688 1,099
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -41 1,035 £72,500 -6.22% 498
UK excluding London -74 574 £62,500 -7.41% 321
London -13 461 £82,500 -8.33% 210
Work from Home -45 412 £70,932 +3.51% 234
North of England -58 176 £65,000 -1.54% 91
South East +3 149 £70,000 +12.00% 91
South West -6 125 £55,000 -23.60% 65
North West -49 87 £67,500 +3.85% 43
Midlands -94 60 £70,000 +16.67% 35
Yorkshire -72 57 £65,000 -7.14% 26
East of England -37 34 £60,000 -7.69% 19
North East -16 32 £51,000 -22.75% 22
West Midlands -60 32 £70,932 +9.13% 18
East Midlands -60 27 £64,500 +7.50% 17
Wales -18 19 £60,748 +1.25% 6
Scotland -72 13 £60,000 -19.46% 13
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 2

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 27 (2.39%) Apache
2 26 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.24%) Appian
4 14 (1.24%) Confluence
5 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.44%) IIS
7 5 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) Camunda
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.088%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.088%) nginx
10 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.088%) Endur
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 660 (58.36%) AWS
2 583 (51.55%) Azure
3 324 (28.65%) GCP
4 193 (17.06%) GitHub
5 167 (14.77%) Serverless
6 138 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
7 128 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (10.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 101 (8.93%) Azure AKS
10 92 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (7.87%) OpenShift
12 87 (7.69%) Datadog
13 85 (7.52%) Amazon S3
14 68 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 63 (5.57%) SaaS
16 62 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
17 48 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
19 45 (3.98%) IaaS
20 38 (3.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.72%) Broadband
2 75 (6.63%) Firewall
3 60 (5.31%) DNS
4 33 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.74%) Network Security
6 28 (2.48%) HTTP
7 17 (1.50%) VPN
8 9 (0.80%) MQTT
8 9 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.71%) AMQP
10 7 (0.62%) DMZ
11 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.53%) DHCP
12 5 (0.44%) IPv4
12 5 (0.44%) WAN
13 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.27%) Modbus
14 3 (0.27%) RTP
14 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.44%) NoSQL
2 96 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.63%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.54%) SQL Server
5 72 (6.37%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (4.33%) MySQL
8 44 (3.89%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.74%) RDBMS
10 27 (2.39%) Pinecone
11 25 (2.21%) Redis
12 12 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.97%) Big Data
13 11 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.88%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.88%) Metadata
14 10 (0.88%) Power BI
15 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 205 (18.13%) Git
2 171 (15.12%) Jenkins
3 143 (12.64%) GitLab
4 47 (4.16%) CircleCI
5 36 (3.18%) JIRA
6 26 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.21%) JUnit
8 22 (1.95%) Cypress.io
9 20 (1.77%) Mockito
10 19 (1.68%) Maven
10 19 (1.68%) MLflow
11 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
12 17 (1.50%) Vite
13 16 (1.41%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.24%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.97%) Selenium
16 10 (0.88%) JMeter
17 9 (0.80%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.80%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 312 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 238 (21.04%) Finance
3 89 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.54%) Banking
6 67 (5.92%) Law
7 64 (5.66%) Telecoms
8 59 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 22 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.77%) Games
11 17 (1.50%) Front Office
11 17 (1.50%) Retail
12 14 (1.24%) Billing
12 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.15%) Marketing
14 11 (0.97%) Legal
15 10 (0.88%) Electronics
16 8 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 265 (23.43%) Senior
2 240 (21.22%) Developer
3 158 (13.97%) Software Engineer
4 142 (12.56%) Lead
5 137 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 108 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 79 (6.98%) Architect
8 68 (6.01%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (5.39%) Java Developer
11 54 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 45 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (2.65%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
18 28 (2.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 28 (2.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (14.94%) React
2 157 (13.88%) RESTful
3 153 (13.53%) .NET
4 126 (11.14%) REST
5 120 (10.61%) Spring
6 110 (9.73%) Spring Boot
7 107 (9.46%) Kafka
8 100 (8.84%) Node.js
9 89 (7.87%) gRPC
10 70 (6.19%) AngularJS
11 68 (6.01%) Elastic Stack
12 61 (5.39%) .NET Core
13 60 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
14 55 (4.86%) OAuth
15 45 (3.98%) FastAPI
16 35 (3.09%) JSON
16 35 (3.09%) Vue
17 34 (3.01%) CSS
17 34 (3.01%) Django
17 34 (3.01%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 264 (23.34%) Cloud Native
2 147 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.98%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 33 (2.92%) Blockchain
6 32 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.12%) PKI
11 23 (2.03%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.86%) AI Agents
13 21 (1.86%) Web3
14 19 (1.68%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.41%) Low-Code
16 14 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.15%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 228 (20.16%) Linux
2 82 (7.25%) Windows
3 39 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 38 (3.36%) Unix
5 31 (2.74%) CentOS
6 27 (2.39%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.80%) Android
8 9 (0.80%) Debian
8 9 (0.80%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.088%) Rocky
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (67.90%) CI/CD
2 552 (48.81%) DevOps
3 458 (40.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 435 (38.46%) Agile
5 383 (33.86%) Microservices
6 338 (29.89%) Software Engineering
7 301 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
8 232 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (20.07%) AI
10 216 (19.10%) Mentoring
10 216 (19.10%) Test Automation
11 198 (17.51%) Observability
12 156 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 153 (13.53%) Machine Learning
14 146 (12.91%) High Availability
15 133 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
15 133 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
16 124 (10.96%) Clean Code
17 121 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
18 118 (10.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 533 (47.13%) Python
2 268 (23.70%) Java
3 229 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 201 (17.77%) SQL
5 173 (15.30%) Bash
6 154 (13.62%) Go
7 135 (11.94%) C#
8 123 (10.88%) PowerShell
9 119 (10.52%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.33%) Scala
11 34 (3.01%) Bicep
12 33 (2.92%) C++
13 25 (2.21%) PHP
14 20 (1.77%) Kotlin
14 20 (1.77%) Rust
15 16 (1.41%) C
16 14 (1.24%) Ruby
17 12 (1.06%) Groovy
18 9 (0.80%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 229 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.43%) Degree
4 79 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 72 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.86%) AWS Certification
7 52 (4.60%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.80%) CISSP
12 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.62%) OSCP
14 6 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.69%) QA
2 37 (3.27%) GDPR
3 33 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 30 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 28 (2.48%) Data Quality
7 25 (2.21%) NIST
8 18 (1.59%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.15%) JSP 440
10 12 (1.06%) NCSC
11 11 (0.97%) GRC
12 7 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 7 (0.62%) WCAG
13 4 (0.35%) SLA
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 715 (63.22%) Docker
2 37 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.80%) vSphere
6 8 (0.71%) KVM
6 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.53%) Firmware
8 5 (0.44%) Squid
9 4 (0.35%) iptables
10 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.18%) GPFS
11 2 (0.18%) Lustre
11 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.088%) QEMU
12 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 685 (60.57%) Kubernetes
2 435 (38.46%) Terraform
3 194 (17.15%) Ansible
4 163 (14.41%) Grafana
5 152 (13.44%) Prometheus
6 40 (3.54%) Argo
7 26 (2.30%) Puppet
8 21 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.59%) Istio
9 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.50%) Podman
11 16 (1.41%) Nagios
12 14 (1.24%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.88%) Kibana
14 9 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
14 9 (0.80%) Packer
15 7 (0.62%) linkerd
15 7 (0.62%) Mesos
16 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.28%) Google
3 57 (5.04%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.98%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.63%) Splunk
6 35 (3.09%) OpenAI
7 33 (2.92%) Oracle
8 31 (2.74%) VMware
9 25 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.50%) NVIDIA
11 15 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.24%) Cisco
13 12 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
13 12 (1.06%) UiPath
14 11 (0.97%) Databricks
14 11 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.88%) Confluent
16 7 (0.62%) Rapid7
16 7 (0.62%) Zscaler