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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 129 182
Rank change year-on-year -35 +53 -37
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,088 975 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 2.39% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 2.56% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 701 739 1,136
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £86,375 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -

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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 April 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 April 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 -29 996 £70,932 -5.42% 465
UK excluding London -58 522 £62,500 -8.09% 350
London +3 459 £82,500 -2.94% 169
Work from Home -7 429 £70,932 +1.33% 214
North of England -59 182 £65,000 - 89
South East +5 118 £70,000 +9.80% 104
South West -18 117 £55,000 -24.14% 64
North West -25 92 £65,000 +4.49% 54
Yorkshire -72 58 £65,000 -4.41% 23
Midlands -50 57 £68,500 +5.38% 44
North East -12 32 £50,750 -25.56% 12
West Midlands -38 29 £70,039 +3.76% 26
East Midlands -47 27 £64,000 +6.67% 18
East of England -26 25 £60,100 -7.54% 27
Scotland -46 15 £59,283 -18.23% 9
Wales -28 10 £61,496 -5.39% 13
Northern Ireland -38 8 £62,500 -9.82% 5

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 34 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.67%) Apache
3 20 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.47%) Appian
5 10 (0.92%) Confluence
5 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.37%) CMS
8 4 (0.37%) IIS
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Camunda
9 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.092%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.092%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Maya
2 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.092%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.092%) Endur
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 640 (58.82%) AWS
2 558 (51.29%) Azure
3 334 (30.70%) GCP
4 213 (19.58%) GitHub
5 162 (14.89%) Serverless
6 150 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 124 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (9.01%) Datadog
10 95 (8.73%) OpenShift
11 92 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (7.81%) Amazon S3
13 77 (7.08%) Azure AKS
14 76 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 62 (5.70%) SaaS
16 53 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
17 51 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.23%) PaaS
19 42 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
20 38 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (6.89%) Firewall
2 74 (6.80%) Broadband
3 44 (4.04%) DNS
4 28 (2.57%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.48%) Network Security
6 26 (2.39%) HTTP
7 20 (1.84%) VPN
8 9 (0.83%) DHCP
9 8 (0.74%) AMQP
10 7 (0.64%) WAN
11 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.55%) DMZ
11 6 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.46%) MQTT
13 4 (0.37%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.37%) VSAN
14 3 (0.28%) RTP
14 3 (0.28%) VLAN
14 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.17%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (7.72%) SQL Server
4 77 (7.08%) Relational Database
5 73 (6.71%) MongoDB
6 60 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.60%) MySQL
8 41 (3.77%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.03%) RDBMS
10 26 (2.39%) Pinecone
11 25 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.84%) Redis
13 15 (1.38%) Big Data
14 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.10%) Metadata
16 11 (1.01%) InfluxDB
17 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.92%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
18 9 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 188 (17.28%) Git
2 157 (14.43%) Jenkins
3 131 (12.04%) GitLab
4 39 (3.58%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.13%) JIRA
6 29 (2.67%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.21%) JUnit
8 22 (2.02%) MLflow
9 21 (1.93%) Bitbucket
10 19 (1.75%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.56%) Selenium
12 16 (1.47%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.38%) JMeter
14 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
15 13 (1.19%) Locust
16 12 (1.10%) Maven
16 12 (1.10%) Mockito
16 12 (1.10%) SonarQube
16 12 (1.10%) Vite
17 9 (0.83%) Robot Framework
General
1 311 (28.58%) Social Skills
2 233 (21.42%) Finance
3 91 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (7.54%) Telecoms
5 77 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 73 (6.71%) Banking
7 64 (5.88%) Law
8 56 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (2.21%) Front Office
10 21 (1.93%) Games
11 17 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.56%) Retail
12 16 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.38%) Billing
13 15 (1.38%) Legal
14 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.10%) Marketing
15 10 (0.92%) Electronics
16 9 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 264 (24.26%) Senior
2 232 (21.32%) Developer
3 136 (12.50%) Lead
4 135 (12.41%) Software Engineer
5 132 (12.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 80 (7.35%) Architect
8 72 (6.62%) Senior Developer
9 49 (4.50%) Java Developer
10 48 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
10 48 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 35 (3.22%) Data Engineer
13 35 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
13 35 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
15 30 (2.76%) Python Developer
15 30 (2.76%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (14.06%) React
2 148 (13.60%) RESTful
3 145 (13.33%) .NET
4 126 (11.58%) REST
5 115 (10.57%) Spring
6 106 (9.74%) Spring Boot
7 98 (9.01%) Kafka
8 90 (8.27%) gRPC
9 86 (7.90%) Node.js
10 80 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
11 66 (6.07%) .NET Core
12 64 (5.88%) AngularJS
13 55 (5.06%) Django
14 54 (4.96%) OAuth
15 50 (4.60%) FastAPI
16 49 (4.50%) Flask
17 48 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
18 37 (3.40%) Vue
19 34 (3.13%) CSS
20 33 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 272 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 149 (13.69%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.14%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.14%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.76%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (2.02%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.02%) Low-Code
10 22 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.02%) PKI
11 21 (1.93%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.75%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.65%) Web3
14 17 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (1.47%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 217 (19.94%) Linux
2 92 (8.46%) Windows
3 48 (4.41%) Unix
4 41 (3.77%) Ubuntu
5 29 (2.67%) CentOS
6 24 (2.21%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.19%) Android
9 11 (1.01%) VMS
10 8 (0.74%) Debian
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.18%) zOS
14 1 (0.092%) Rocky
14 1 (0.092%) Solaris
14 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (66.91%) CI/CD
2 560 (51.47%) DevOps
3 422 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 411 (37.78%) Agile
5 382 (35.11%) Microservices
6 306 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
7 292 (26.84%) Software Engineering
8 234 (21.51%) AI
9 225 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (18.84%) Mentoring
11 190 (17.46%) Test Automation
12 181 (16.64%) Observability
13 170 (15.63%) Machine Learning
14 141 (12.96%) High Availability
15 139 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
16 132 (12.13%) Continuous Delivery
17 130 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
18 119 (10.94%) Clean Code
19 111 (10.20%) Analytics
20 106 (9.74%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 538 (49.45%) Python
2 260 (23.90%) Java
3 225 (20.68%) SQL
4 210 (19.30%) JavaScript
5 165 (15.17%) Bash
6 154 (14.15%) Go
7 124 (11.40%) C#
8 107 (9.83%) PowerShell
9 91 (8.36%) TypeScript
10 48 (4.41%) Scala
11 37 (3.40%) Bicep
12 33 (3.03%) C++
13 26 (2.39%) PHP
14 22 (2.02%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.10%) C
15 12 (1.10%) Ruby
16 9 (0.83%) Rust
16 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.74%) Delphi
17 8 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 202 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 128 (11.76%) Degree
3 115 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 78 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (6.89%) DV Cleared
6 66 (6.07%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.58%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.74%) CISSP
12 7 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.37%) CISM
15 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.44%) QA
2 41 (3.77%) GDPR
3 37 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 26 (2.39%) Data Quality
6 24 (2.21%) NIST
7 20 (1.84%) SOC 2
8 13 (1.19%) WCAG
9 12 (1.10%) GRC
10 11 (1.01%) NCSC
11 10 (0.92%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.37%) SLA
14 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) ECSS
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 716 (65.81%) Docker
2 38 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.10%) vSphere
6 9 (0.83%) KVM
7 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 7 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) iptables
8 4 (0.37%) Lustre
8 4 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.28%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) Ceph
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) RACF
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.092%) Squid
11 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.092%) Xen
Systems Management
1 683 (62.78%) Kubernetes
2 423 (38.88%) Terraform
3 184 (16.91%) Ansible
4 181 (16.64%) Grafana
5 154 (14.15%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.04%) Argo
7 22 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.75%) Istio
8 19 (1.75%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.75%) Puppet
9 13 (1.19%) Nagios
10 10 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.83%) Podman
12 8 (0.74%) linkerd
12 8 (0.74%) Mesos
13 7 (0.64%) Kibana
14 6 (0.55%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.55%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.46%) Packer
15 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (9.56%) Google
2 96 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 52 (4.78%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.14%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.77%) Splunk
6 39 (3.58%) Oracle
7 34 (3.13%) VMware
8 31 (2.85%) OpenAI
9 22 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.75%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.65%) Cisco
12 17 (1.56%) Databricks
12 17 (1.56%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.29%) SAP
14 13 (1.19%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.19%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.19%) UiPath
15 11 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.01%) Dell
16 10 (0.92%) Fortinet