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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 129 158
Rank change year-on-year -27 +29 -36
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,461 1,179 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.37% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.67% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 909 589 744
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,577 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -24 1,269 £72,500 -3.33% 1,704
UK excluding London -4 906 £67,500 +3.85% 842
Work from Home -48 451 £69,305 +2.67% 718
London -38 446 £80,000 -5.88% 975
North of England -20 268 £66,000 +1.54% 199
South West +6 212 £70,000 +7.69% 137
South East -11 168 £66,250 -8.62% 173
North West -38 144 £75,000 +15.38% 111
Midlands -55 96 £70,000 - 92
North East -4 75 £60,000 - 35
Northern Ireland -28 59 - - 37
West Midlands -54 57 £82,500 +17.86% 55
East of England -33 52 £72,500 +26.09% 80
Wales -42 51 £62,000 -17.33% 26
Yorkshire -20 49 £70,466 +3.63% 55
East Midlands -44 39 £70,000 +27.27% 37
Scotland -62 11 £90,000 +28.57% 99

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 57 (3.90%) Apache
2 44 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 39 (2.67%) Confluence
4 31 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.21%) Camunda
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) JBoss
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 832 (56.95%) AWS
2 768 (52.57%) Azure
3 339 (23.20%) GCP
4 244 (16.70%) GitHub
5 174 (11.91%) GitHub Actions
6 171 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 144 (9.86%) Serverless
8 124 (8.49%) Cloud Computing
9 116 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (7.12%) OpenShift
11 91 (6.23%) Azure AKS
12 86 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (5.75%) Amazon S3
14 75 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 72 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
17 54 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
19 51 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.07%) WAN
2 68 (4.65%) Firewall
3 67 (4.59%) LAN
4 60 (4.11%) DNS
5 52 (3.56%) Network Security
6 43 (2.94%) VPN
7 39 (2.67%) Internet
8 34 (2.33%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.05%) MQTT
10 19 (1.30%) BGP
11 18 (1.23%) OSPF
12 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.10%) VLAN
14 15 (1.03%) DMARC
15 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 9 (0.62%) Broadband
16 9 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.55%) AMQP
17 8 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.16%) NoSQL
3 73 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.45%) MySQL
5 47 (3.22%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.87%) DynamoDB
7 39 (2.67%) Redis
8 38 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (1.92%) SQL Server
11 21 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (1.37%) Big Data
13 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.10%) Metadata
15 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (0.96%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.96%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
17 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 316 (21.63%) Git
2 204 (13.96%) Jenkins
3 185 (12.66%) GitLab
4 37 (2.53%) JIRA
5 27 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.71%) JUnit
7 23 (1.57%) Maven
8 21 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 20 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.23%) Mockito
10 18 (1.23%) Selenium
11 17 (1.16%) Claude Code
12 15 (1.03%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.75%) MLflow
15 10 (0.68%) Vite
16 9 (0.62%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.55%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 467 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 342 (23.41%) Finance
3 199 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 128 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.09%) Law
7 87 (5.95%) Banking
8 71 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.81%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.33%) Legal
11 31 (2.12%) Retail
12 28 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.37%) Games
14 15 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.96%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Publishing
17 11 (0.75%) Electronics
17 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.75%) Front Office
18 9 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (20.74%) Senior
2 256 (17.52%) Developer
3 254 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 228 (15.61%) Architect
5 218 (14.92%) Software Engineer
6 180 (12.32%) Lead
7 100 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.72%) Java Developer
11 66 (4.52%) Systems Architect
12 60 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
16 45 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
16 45 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
17 43 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
18 42 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (36.48%) Terraform
2 217 (14.85%) Spring
3 204 (13.96%) RESTful
3 204 (13.96%) Spring Boot
4 184 (12.59%) React
5 155 (10.61%) Kafka
6 149 (10.20%) Node.js
7 131 (8.97%) REST
8 114 (7.80%) .NET
9 83 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
10 67 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 53 (3.63%) OAuth
12 52 (3.56%) FastAPI
13 50 (3.42%) CSS
14 47 (3.22%) OpenAPI
15 42 (2.87%) OAuth2
15 42 (2.87%) Swagger
16 39 (2.67%) LangChain
17 37 (2.53%) GraphQL
17 37 (2.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 420 (28.75%) Cloud Native
2 165 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
4 53 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 35 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 30 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.85%) PKI
11 25 (1.71%) Blog
11 25 (1.71%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
13 20 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 338 (23.13%) Linux
2 85 (5.82%) Windows
3 44 (3.01%) Unix
4 33 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.92%) CentOS
6 19 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.82%) Debian
9 8 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.27%) Rocky
11 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.21%) VMS
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (68.04%) CI/CD
2 750 (51.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 749 (51.27%) DevOps
4 516 (35.32%) Agile
5 458 (31.35%) Software Engineering
6 411 (28.13%) Microservices
7 359 (24.57%) Mentoring
8 327 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
9 305 (20.88%) AI
10 301 (20.60%) Observability
11 293 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 267 (18.28%) Test Automation
13 260 (17.80%) Platform Engineering
14 252 (17.25%) Event-Driven
15 209 (14.31%) Roadmaps
16 183 (12.53%) DevSecOps
17 175 (11.98%) Technical Leadership
18 171 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 150 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 150 (10.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 641 (43.87%) Python
2 398 (27.24%) Java
3 207 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 190 (13.00%) Bash
5 169 (11.57%) TypeScript
6 167 (11.43%) SQL
7 132 (9.03%) C#
8 120 (8.21%) PowerShell
9 87 (5.95%) Go
10 61 (4.18%) C++
11 60 (4.11%) Bicep
12 48 (3.29%) Shell Script
13 36 (2.46%) Rust
14 35 (2.40%) Ruby
15 19 (1.30%) Groovy
16 16 (1.10%) Scala
17 15 (1.03%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.96%) C
18 14 (0.96%) PHP
18 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 467 (31.96%) Security Cleared
2 234 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.46%) DV Cleared
4 163 (11.16%) Degree
5 99 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (4.65%) AWS Certification
7 51 (3.49%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.85%) CISSP
9 26 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.89%) CCNP
13 12 (0.82%) OSCP
14 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.62%) CISM
15 9 (0.62%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.49%) QA
2 72 (4.93%) GRC
3 57 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.74%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.12%) NCSC
6 30 (2.05%) GDPR
7 27 (1.85%) NIST
8 21 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.14%) RMADS
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 826 (56.54%) Docker
2 44 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.55%) KVM
7 7 (0.48%) Squid
7 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.48%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.34%) NDS
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 825 (56.47%) Kubernetes
2 215 (14.72%) Ansible
3 143 (9.79%) Grafana
4 115 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 40 (2.74%) Puppet
6 39 (2.67%) Argo
7 33 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.44%) Istio
9 16 (1.10%) linkerd
10 15 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.96%) Kibana
12 13 (0.89%) Nagios
13 12 (0.82%) Podman
14 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.68%) Packer
15 10 (0.68%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.55%) logstash
16 8 (0.55%) Rancher
17 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 269 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 120 (8.21%) Google
3 62 (4.24%) Splunk
4 50 (3.42%) Red Hat
4 50 (3.42%) VMware
5 47 (3.22%) Oracle
6 26 (1.78%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
9 15 (1.03%) SendGrid
10 13 (0.89%) IBM
11 12 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.82%) Databricks
12 11 (0.75%) Mistral
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco
13 10 (0.68%) Okta
14 9 (0.62%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.62%) Rapid7