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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 131 158
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 -36
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,463 1,176 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.36% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.65% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 904 586 741
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,705 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
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 £108,750
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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
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 £97,500
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 9 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 9 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 -26 1,272 £72,750 -3.00% 1,773
UK excluding London -7 909 £67,500 +3.85% 851
Work from Home -40 450 £68,724 +1.06% 748
London -37 445 £80,000 -5.88% 1,040
North of England -22 266 £65,788 +1.21% 201
South West +11 217 £70,000 +7.69% 129
South East -3 168 £66,250 -8.62% 182
North West -35 142 £75,000 +15.38% 110
Midlands -60 96 £70,000 +1.82% 88
North East -9 75 £60,000 - 38
Northern Ireland -28 59 - - 39
West Midlands -55 56 £82,500 +17.86% 53
East of England -40 53 £72,500 +26.09% 82
Wales -43 50 £62,000 -17.33% 27
Yorkshire -19 49 £70,466 +3.63% 55
East Midlands -47 40 £70,000 +27.27% 35
Scotland -53 11 £90,000 +28.57% 104

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 58 (3.96%) Apache
2 45 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.60%) 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 3 (0.21%) Blender
3 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.21%) Maya
4 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
1 831 (56.80%) AWS
2 766 (52.36%) Azure
3 336 (22.97%) GCP
4 245 (16.75%) GitHub
5 175 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
6 170 (11.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 143 (9.77%) Serverless
8 124 (8.48%) Cloud Computing
9 113 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (7.38%) OpenShift
11 91 (6.22%) Azure AKS
12 85 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (5.67%) Amazon S3
14 74 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 71 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
19 53 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
20 49 (3.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.06%) WAN
2 67 (4.58%) LAN
3 66 (4.51%) Firewall
4 60 (4.10%) DNS
5 52 (3.55%) Network Security
6 43 (2.94%) VPN
7 39 (2.67%) Internet
8 34 (2.32%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.05%) MQTT
10 19 (1.30%) BGP
11 18 (1.23%) OSPF
12 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.09%) VLAN
14 15 (1.03%) DMARC
15 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 9 (0.62%) AMQP
16 9 (0.62%) HTTP
16 9 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (5.95%) NoSQL
3 70 (4.78%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.44%) MySQL
5 47 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 41 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 40 (2.73%) Redis
8 37 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.98%) SQL Server
11 21 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (1.44%) Big Data
12 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.16%) Metadata
13 15 (1.03%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.96%) Pinecone
15 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
16 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 321 (21.94%) Git
2 207 (14.15%) Jenkins
3 188 (12.85%) GitLab
4 36 (2.46%) JIRA
5 27 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 25 (1.71%) JUnit
7 23 (1.57%) Maven
8 20 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.30%) Selenium
10 18 (1.23%) Mockito
11 17 (1.16%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 13 (0.89%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.75%) MLflow
14 10 (0.68%) Vite
15 9 (0.62%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.62%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.62%) TestRail
General
1 469 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.72%) Finance
3 201 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 129 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.08%) Law
7 87 (5.95%) Banking
8 71 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (2.87%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.32%) Legal
11 33 (2.26%) Retail
12 28 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.37%) Games
14 15 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.89%) Marketing
15 13 (0.89%) Publishing
16 11 (0.75%) Electronics
16 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.75%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 305 (20.85%) Senior
2 256 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 255 (17.43%) Developer
4 227 (15.52%) Architect
5 221 (15.11%) Software Engineer
6 180 (12.30%) Lead
7 100 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 69 (4.72%) Java Developer
11 66 (4.51%) Systems Architect
12 62 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 60 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 49 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
15 46 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
16 45 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
17 43 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 43 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
18 42 (2.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (36.43%) Terraform
2 218 (14.90%) Spring
3 205 (14.01%) RESTful
3 205 (14.01%) Spring Boot
4 183 (12.51%) React
5 155 (10.59%) Kafka
6 146 (9.98%) Node.js
7 133 (9.09%) REST
8 115 (7.86%) .NET
9 86 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
10 69 (4.72%) AngularJS
11 53 (3.62%) FastAPI
12 52 (3.55%) OAuth
13 50 (3.42%) CSS
14 48 (3.28%) OpenAPI
15 43 (2.94%) Swagger
16 41 (2.80%) OAuth2
17 39 (2.67%) LangChain
18 38 (2.60%) HTML
19 37 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 425 (29.05%) Cloud Native
2 164 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
6 43 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.46%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 30 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.91%) PKI
13 27 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.85%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.71%) Blog
14 25 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (1.30%) Private Cloud
16 19 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 342 (23.38%) Linux
2 84 (5.74%) Windows
3 44 (3.01%) Unix
4 32 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.05%) CentOS
6 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.89%) 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
1 995 (68.01%) CI/CD
2 751 (51.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 749 (51.20%) DevOps
4 524 (35.82%) Agile
5 463 (31.65%) Software Engineering
6 412 (28.16%) Microservices
7 362 (24.74%) Mentoring
8 331 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 311 (21.26%) AI
10 296 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 296 (20.23%) Observability
11 270 (18.46%) Test Automation
12 260 (17.77%) Platform Engineering
13 253 (17.29%) Event-Driven
14 209 (14.29%) Roadmaps
15 183 (12.51%) DevSecOps
16 175 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
17 171 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 149 (10.18%) Full-Stack Development
19 148 (10.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 648 (44.29%) Python
2 403 (27.55%) Java
3 206 (14.08%) JavaScript
4 194 (13.26%) Bash
5 169 (11.55%) TypeScript
6 167 (11.41%) SQL
7 133 (9.09%) C#
8 121 (8.27%) PowerShell
9 91 (6.22%) Go
10 61 (4.17%) C++
11 58 (3.96%) Bicep
12 48 (3.28%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.53%) Rust
14 35 (2.39%) Ruby
15 19 (1.30%) Groovy
16 16 (1.09%) Scala
17 15 (1.03%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.96%) C
18 14 (0.96%) PHP
18 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 473 (32.33%) Security Cleared
2 232 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 185 (12.65%) DV Cleared
4 160 (10.94%) Degree
5 96 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.85%) CISSP
10 26 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.89%) CCNP
14 12 (0.82%) OSCP
15 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.62%) CISM
17 9 (0.62%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.54%) QA
2 72 (4.92%) GRC
3 58 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.80%) 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%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 828 (56.60%) Docker
2 45 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.19%) 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
1 833 (56.94%) Kubernetes
2 219 (14.97%) Ansible
3 141 (9.64%) Grafana
4 112 (7.66%) Prometheus
5 42 (2.87%) Puppet
6 40 (2.73%) Argo
7 33 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.44%) Istio
9 16 (1.09%) Kibana
9 16 (1.09%) linkerd
10 15 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.89%) Nagios
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.75%) Packer
13 10 (0.68%) Podman
13 10 (0.68%) ZABBIX
14 9 (0.62%) logstash
14 9 (0.62%) Rancher
15 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.41%) Mesos
Vendors
1 268 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 118 (8.07%) Google
3 64 (4.37%) Splunk
4 52 (3.55%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.49%) VMware
6 47 (3.21%) Oracle
7 27 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 20 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.03%) SendGrid
11 13 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 13 (0.89%) IBM
12 12 (0.82%) Databricks
13 11 (0.75%) Mistral
14 10 (0.68%) Cisco
14 10 (0.68%) Okta
15 9 (0.62%) ForgeRock
15 9 (0.62%) Rapid7