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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 131 173
Rank change year-on-year -23 +42 -45
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,427 1,222 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.44% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.75% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 934 612 834
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,505 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 79,954 44,458 67,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.81% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,419 25,298 42,226
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,047
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.09% -9.01%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -19 1,258 £72,500 -6.45% 1,470
UK excluding London -7 866 £65,000 - 754
Work from Home -34 488 £70,000 - 658
London -34 470 £80,000 -8.57% 895
North of England -17 241 £65,576 +0.89% 192
South West +8 202 £65,000 -13.33% 162
South East +32 192 £65,000 -5.45% 153
North West -39 124 £73,750 +13.46% 112
Midlands -58 83 £70,000 +3.70% 75
North East -6 60 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Northern Ireland -28 59 - - 35
Yorkshire -21 57 £70,000 +7.69% 51
West Midlands -48 54 £72,500 +5.45% 45
East of England -34 48 £60,000 +2.56% 46
Wales -34 47 £60,000 -17.24% 20
East Midlands -44 29 £62,500 +13.64% 29
Scotland -64 6 £59,283 -8.80% 77

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 48 (3.36%) Apache
2 38 (2.66%) Confluence
3 36 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.28%) Camunda
8 4 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.28%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.070%) JBoss
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 826 (57.88%) AWS
2 742 (52.00%) Azure
3 338 (23.69%) GCP
4 218 (15.28%) GitHub
5 173 (12.12%) Serverless
6 172 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (7.92%) OpenShift
10 100 (7.01%) Azure AKS
11 93 (6.52%) Amazon S3
12 92 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
13 91 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
14 86 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
16 78 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 76 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
18 62 (4.34%) SaaS
19 61 (4.27%) Datadog
20 55 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.19%) WAN
2 69 (4.84%) Firewall
3 67 (4.70%) LAN
4 65 (4.56%) DNS
5 47 (3.29%) Network Security
6 38 (2.66%) VPN
7 35 (2.45%) TCP/IP
8 33 (2.31%) Broadband
9 22 (1.54%) MQTT
10 19 (1.33%) BGP
11 18 (1.26%) OSPF
12 17 (1.19%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.12%) VLAN
14 13 (0.91%) DMARC
15 12 (0.84%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) DHCP
17 8 (0.56%) HTTP
17 8 (0.56%) IPv4
18 7 (0.49%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (7.64%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 62 (4.34%) MySQL
5 50 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
6 49 (3.43%) DynamoDB
6 49 (3.43%) Relational Database
7 39 (2.73%) SQL Server
8 36 (2.52%) Redis
9 27 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.19%) Big Data
12 15 (1.05%) Pinecone
13 13 (0.91%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.77%) InfluxDB
16 10 (0.70%) Flink
Development Applications
1 278 (19.48%) Git
2 215 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 178 (12.47%) GitLab
4 42 (2.94%) JIRA
5 29 (2.03%) Bitbucket
5 29 (2.03%) CircleCI
5 29 (2.03%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.96%) JUnit
7 23 (1.61%) Maven
8 22 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.47%) Mockito
10 18 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (1.26%) Selenium
11 17 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.77%) Vite
13 10 (0.70%) Postman
13 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.63%) JMeter
14 9 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 440 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 340 (23.83%) Finance
3 157 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 107 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (7.50%) Law
5 103 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (6.66%) Banking
7 69 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (2.31%) Legal
9 30 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 23 (1.61%) Retail
12 22 (1.54%) Games
12 22 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 14 (0.98%) Marketing
14 12 (0.84%) Electronics
15 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.70%) Front Office
17 9 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (18.64%) Senior
2 248 (17.38%) Developer
3 214 (15.00%) Architect
3 214 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 176 (12.33%) Lead
6 121 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 77 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (4.70%) Senior Developer
8 67 (4.70%) Systems Architect
9 65 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.48%) Java Developer
11 58 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 51 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
13 49 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
14 47 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
15 45 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 42 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
17 40 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (38.33%) Terraform
2 195 (13.67%) RESTful
3 191 (13.38%) Spring
4 181 (12.68%) React
5 176 (12.33%) Spring Boot
6 150 (10.51%) Node.js
7 146 (10.23%) Kafka
8 137 (9.60%) .NET
9 132 (9.25%) REST
10 81 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
11 74 (5.19%) AngularJS
12 57 (3.99%) OAuth
13 54 (3.78%) CSS
14 45 (3.15%) JSON
15 44 (3.08%) gRPC
16 43 (3.01%) .NET Core
16 43 (3.01%) OAuth2
17 40 (2.80%) HTML
18 39 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
18 39 (2.73%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 389 (27.26%) Cloud Native
2 173 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 33 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 26 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.75%) PKI
12 23 (1.61%) Blog
12 23 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.26%) Over-the-Top Content
14 18 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 295 (20.67%) Linux
2 101 (7.08%) Windows
3 39 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.59%) Unix
5 31 (2.17%) CentOS
6 20 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.63%) Debian
9 8 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.070%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (66.64%) CI/CD
2 714 (50.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 690 (48.35%) DevOps
4 507 (35.53%) Agile
5 457 (32.03%) Software Engineering
6 412 (28.87%) Microservices
7 332 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (19.97%) Observability
9 279 (19.55%) Mentoring
10 276 (19.34%) Test Automation
11 271 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 266 (18.64%) AI
13 228 (15.98%) Event-Driven
14 210 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
15 179 (12.54%) Roadmaps
16 165 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
17 155 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
18 144 (10.09%) Scrum
19 141 (9.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 138 (9.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 646 (45.27%) Python
2 366 (25.65%) Java
3 239 (16.75%) JavaScript
4 187 (13.10%) Bash
5 166 (11.63%) SQL
6 159 (11.14%) TypeScript
7 151 (10.58%) C#
8 138 (9.67%) PowerShell
9 109 (7.64%) Go
10 63 (4.41%) Bicep
11 56 (3.92%) C++
12 39 (2.73%) Ruby
13 35 (2.45%) Scala
14 33 (2.31%) Rust
15 22 (1.54%) PHP
16 21 (1.47%) Groovy
17 19 (1.33%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.05%) C
19 14 (0.98%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 429 (30.06%) Security Cleared
2 212 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 163 (11.42%) DV Cleared
4 162 (11.35%) Degree
5 90 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (4.27%) Azure Certification
7 58 (4.06%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.61%) CISSP
11 14 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.84%) CCNP
13 11 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.70%) OSCP
15 8 (0.56%) CISM
15 8 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.76%) QA
2 72 (5.05%) GRC
3 60 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.82%) GDPR
5 26 (1.82%) NCSC
6 24 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.61%) NIST
7 23 (1.61%) WCAG
8 20 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.63%) 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%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) SLA
15 1 (0.070%) PSD2
System Software
1 808 (56.62%) Docker
2 48 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 40 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NDS
11 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.070%) iptables
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 822 (57.60%) Kubernetes
2 215 (15.07%) Ansible
3 148 (10.37%) Grafana
4 116 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 36 (2.52%) Argo
5 36 (2.52%) Puppet
6 33 (2.31%) Progress Chef
7 25 (1.75%) Istio
8 18 (1.26%) Nagios
9 17 (1.19%) Podman
10 15 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.05%) Kibana
10 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.98%) linkerd
12 11 (0.77%) Packer
12 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.49%) logstash
14 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.35%) Rancher
15 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 218 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.45%) Google
3 61 (4.27%) Red Hat
4 55 (3.85%) Splunk
5 54 (3.78%) VMware
6 53 (3.71%) Oracle
7 26 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.26%) Fortinet
10 18 (1.26%) Typelevel
10 18 (1.26%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.12%) Cisco
12 15 (1.05%) IBM
13 13 (0.91%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.77%) Databricks
14 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
14 11 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.70%) Confluent