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 3 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 116 203
Rank change year-on-year -24 +87 -39
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 537 451 833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 2.59% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.74% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 361 340 656
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £54,468 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,500 £104,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.92% +6.74% +8.33%

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 28,024 16,448 52,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 94.51% 85.38%
Number of salaries quoted 18,596 9,585 39,877
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +13.69% -12.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £104,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 3 months to 10 March 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 3 months to 10 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 495 £70,932 -11.34% 583
UK excluding London -35 257 £62,500 -9.92% 443
London +3 228 £82,500 -8.33% 181
Work from Home -9 220 £70,932 -1.47% 329
North of England -37 83 £65,000 -4.06% 104
South West -6 68 £55,000 -23.60% 84
South East -2 66 £68,500 +9.60% 135
North West -26 34 £70,000 +14.56% 41
Yorkshire -41 32 £61,250 -35.28% 47
Midlands -59 19 £70,505 +8.47% 51
North East -12 17 £47,500 -26.92% 16
East of England -9 13 £60,100 -14.14% 43
West Midlands -29 11 £70,932 +7.07% 28
East Midlands -45 8 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Northern Ireland - 5 £62,500 - 3
Scotland -35 3 £60,000 -42.86% 20
Wales -17 2 £71,940 +10.68% 13

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 35 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.89%) Apache
3 23 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Appian
5 8 (0.80%) Confluence
6 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.50%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
8 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.40%) IIS
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.30%) nginx
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.100%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Maya
2 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.100%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 577 (57.58%) AWS
2 529 (52.79%) Azure
3 293 (29.24%) GCP
4 211 (21.06%) GitHub
5 157 (15.67%) GitHub Actions
6 148 (14.77%) Serverless
7 121 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (9.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 87 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (7.98%) Amazon S3
11 79 (7.88%) Datadog
12 78 (7.78%) OpenShift
13 69 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 63 (6.29%) Azure AKS
15 60 (5.99%) SaaS
16 48 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
17 45 (4.49%) PaaS
18 44 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
19 38 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
20 36 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.69%) Firewall
2 48 (4.79%) Broadband
3 38 (3.79%) DNS
4 27 (2.69%) HTTP
4 27 (2.69%) Network Security
5 26 (2.59%) TCP/IP
6 20 (2.00%) VPN
7 9 (0.90%) DHCP
8 8 (0.80%) AMQP
9 6 (0.60%) DMZ
9 6 (0.60%) WAN
10 5 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.50%) MQTT
10 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.40%) InfiniBand
11 4 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.40%) SAN
11 4 (0.40%) VSAN
12 3 (0.30%) RTP
12 3 (0.30%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (14.07%) NoSQL
2 100 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (8.88%) SQL Server
4 77 (7.68%) Relational Database
5 68 (6.79%) MongoDB
6 54 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.99%) MySQL
8 35 (3.49%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.29%) RDBMS
10 25 (2.50%) Pinecone
11 23 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.80%) Redis
13 16 (1.60%) Big Data
14 14 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.30%) Metadata
16 12 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.10%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
18 9 (0.90%) BigQuery
19 7 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 172 (17.17%) Git
2 145 (14.47%) Jenkins
3 119 (11.88%) GitLab
4 35 (3.49%) JIRA
5 26 (2.59%) CircleCI
6 23 (2.30%) MLflow
7 22 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 21 (2.10%) JUnit
9 20 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.90%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.60%) Selenium
12 13 (1.30%) JMeter
12 13 (1.30%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.10%) Locust
13 11 (1.10%) Vite
14 9 (0.90%) Mockito
14 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.80%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.80%) Maven
15 8 (0.80%) Storybook
General
1 298 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 215 (21.46%) Finance
3 86 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.88%) Telecoms
5 77 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 61 (6.09%) Law
7 58 (5.79%) Banking
8 38 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.99%) Front Office
10 28 (2.79%) Games
11 18 (1.80%) Billing
12 14 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.30%) Marketing
13 13 (1.30%) Retail
14 12 (1.20%) Advertising
14 12 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.00%) Electronics
15 10 (1.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 255 (25.45%) Senior
2 236 (23.55%) Developer
3 121 (12.08%) Lead
4 119 (11.88%) Software Engineer
5 111 (11.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 76 (7.58%) Senior Developer
7 74 (7.39%) Architect
8 73 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 47 (4.69%) Java Developer
11 42 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 37 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 36 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (3.49%) Data Engineer
15 35 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 31 (3.09%) Python Developer
17 30 (2.99%) .NET Software Engineer
18 28 (2.79%) Software Developer
19 26 (2.59%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (14.07%) .NET
1 141 (14.07%) React
2 131 (13.07%) RESTful
3 112 (11.18%) Spring
4 106 (10.58%) REST
5 104 (10.38%) Spring Boot
6 84 (8.38%) Kafka
7 79 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
7 79 (7.88%) Node.js
8 67 (6.69%) .NET Core
9 66 (6.59%) gRPC
10 63 (6.29%) AngularJS
11 57 (5.69%) FastAPI
12 53 (5.29%) Django
13 50 (4.99%) Flask
14 48 (4.79%) OAuth
15 38 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (3.39%) Vue
17 32 (3.19%) WebSockets
18 31 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 257 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 117 (11.68%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (2.69%) Blockchain
6 27 (2.69%) Fixed Income
6 27 (2.69%) Over-the-Top Content
6 27 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
7 26 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.20%) Low-Code
9 21 (2.10%) PKI
10 20 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.90%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.80%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 208 (20.76%) Linux
2 88 (8.78%) Windows
3 46 (4.59%) Unix
4 36 (3.59%) Ubuntu
5 26 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 21 (2.10%) CentOS
7 16 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.50%) VMS
9 13 (1.30%) Android
10 8 (0.80%) Debian
11 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.20%) zOS
14 1 (0.100%) Fedora
14 1 (0.100%) Rocky
14 1 (0.100%) Solaris
14 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (65.27%) CI/CD
2 516 (51.50%) DevOps
3 375 (37.43%) Agile
4 371 (37.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 351 (35.03%) Microservices
6 287 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
7 251 (25.05%) Software Engineering
8 234 (23.35%) AI
9 195 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 195 (19.46%) Mentoring
10 155 (15.47%) Machine Learning
11 153 (15.27%) Test Automation
12 144 (14.37%) Observability
13 127 (12.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 123 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
15 118 (11.78%) High Availability
16 115 (11.48%) Analytics
17 105 (10.48%) Continuous Delivery
18 99 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
19 96 (9.58%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 495 (49.40%) Python
2 244 (24.35%) Java
3 208 (20.76%) SQL
4 187 (18.66%) JavaScript
5 161 (16.07%) Bash
6 126 (12.57%) Go
7 119 (11.88%) C#
8 89 (8.88%) PowerShell
9 81 (8.08%) TypeScript
10 31 (3.09%) C++
11 30 (2.99%) Bicep
12 29 (2.89%) Scala
13 25 (2.50%) PHP
14 19 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.10%) C
16 9 (0.90%) Ruby
17 8 (0.80%) Delphi
17 8 (0.80%) Rust
17 8 (0.80%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 183 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 121 (12.08%) Degree
3 104 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 78 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (7.39%) DV Cleared
6 63 (6.29%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.80%) CISSP
12 7 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.40%) CISM
15 4 (0.40%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.09%) QA
2 38 (3.79%) GDPR
3 37 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 31 (3.09%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.89%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.30%) NIST
7 16 (1.60%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.20%) NCSC
9 11 (1.10%) GRC
9 11 (1.10%) WCAG
10 10 (1.00%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.40%) EMIR
12 4 (0.40%) SLA
13 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.20%) ECSS
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 659 (65.77%) Docker
2 33 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.20%) vSphere
6 6 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.60%) KVM
6 6 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.50%) Firmware
8 4 (0.40%) iptables
8 4 (0.40%) Lustre
8 4 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.20%) Ceph
10 2 (0.20%) GPFS
10 2 (0.20%) RACF
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 635 (63.37%) Kubernetes
2 379 (37.82%) Terraform
3 176 (17.56%) Ansible
4 170 (16.97%) Grafana
5 156 (15.57%) Prometheus
6 40 (3.99%) Argo
7 19 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 18 (1.80%) Puppet
9 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.10%) Istio
11 10 (1.00%) Nagios
12 9 (0.90%) Control-M
13 8 (0.80%) linkerd
13 8 (0.80%) Mesos
14 6 (0.60%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.40%) Cilium
16 4 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 95 (9.48%) Google
2 93 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.19%) Oracle
3 42 (4.19%) Red Hat
4 37 (3.69%) Splunk
5 32 (3.19%) VMware
6 31 (3.09%) OpenAI
7 27 (2.69%) Typelevel
8 21 (2.10%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.80%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.60%) Databricks
11 15 (1.50%) Cisco
11 15 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.50%) SAP
12 14 (1.40%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.30%) Automation Anywhere
13 13 (1.30%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.30%) NVIDIA
13 13 (1.30%) UiPath
14 11 (1.10%) Dell