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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 135 172
Rank change year-on-year -19 +37 -35
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,045 1,034 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 2.37% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.53% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 690 759 1,113
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,100 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,929 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,310 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £118,750 £100,000
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 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 14 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 6 months to 14 March 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 -22 957 £70,932 -5.42% 434
UK excluding London -42 492 £62,500 -8.09% 332
London +16 446 £82,500 -2.94% 155
Work from Home -7 407 £70,000 -2.77% 197
North of England -31 188 £65,000 +4.00% 89
South West -22 111 £55,000 -23.60% 61
South East -3 102 £70,000 +5.66% 104
North West -10 92 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Yorkshire -50 57 £63,750 -6.25% 36
Midlands -56 45 £64,500 -0.77% 37
North East +4 39 £51,500 -24.46% 13
East of England +5 25 £60,100 -10.96% 19
West Midlands -29 23 £70,079 +3.82% 20
East Midlands -35 21 £60,000 - 17
Scotland -49 14 £59,283 -18.23% 14
Northern Ireland -31 8 £62,500 -9.82% 3
Wales -13 7 £70,079 +7.81% 11

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 37 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.87%) Apache
3 22 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.53%) Appian
5 7 (0.67%) Confluence
5 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.48%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.38%) IIS
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.29%) Camunda
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Shopify
2 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.096%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 609 (58.28%) AWS
2 547 (52.34%) Azure
3 313 (29.95%) GCP
4 216 (20.67%) GitHub
5 159 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 152 (14.55%) Serverless
7 123 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 89 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
10 84 (8.04%) OpenShift
11 83 (7.94%) Amazon S3
11 83 (7.94%) Datadog
12 72 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 66 (6.32%) Azure AKS
14 61 (5.84%) SaaS
15 50 (4.78%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (4.31%) PaaS
17 39 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
18 36 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.60%) Firewall
2 59 (5.65%) Broadband
3 41 (3.92%) DNS
4 27 (2.58%) HTTP
4 27 (2.58%) Network Security
4 27 (2.58%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.82%) VPN
6 9 (0.86%) DHCP
7 8 (0.77%) AMQP
8 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.57%) DMZ
8 6 (0.57%) WAN
9 5 (0.48%) MQTT
9 5 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.38%) InfiniBand
10 4 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.38%) VSAN
11 3 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.29%) VLAN
11 3 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (14.45%) NoSQL
2 107 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (8.61%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.56%) Relational Database
5 74 (7.08%) MongoDB
6 57 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (5.36%) MySQL
8 35 (3.35%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.16%) RDBMS
10 25 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.39%) Pinecone
11 19 (1.82%) Redis
12 17 (1.63%) Big Data
13 14 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.24%) Metadata
15 11 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.86%) Power BI
17 8 (0.77%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 181 (17.32%) Git
2 153 (14.64%) Jenkins
3 128 (12.25%) GitLab
4 36 (3.44%) JIRA
5 30 (2.87%) CircleCI
6 24 (2.30%) JUnit
7 23 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.11%) MLflow
9 21 (2.01%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.82%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.63%) Selenium
12 14 (1.34%) JMeter
12 14 (1.34%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.15%) Locust
13 12 (1.15%) Mockito
14 11 (1.05%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.05%) Vite
15 10 (0.96%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.86%) Maven
17 8 (0.77%) Robot Framework
General
1 307 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 223 (21.34%) Finance
3 91 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.94%) Telecoms
5 79 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 65 (6.22%) Law
7 62 (5.93%) Banking
8 41 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.78%) Front Office
9 29 (2.78%) Games
10 18 (1.72%) Billing
11 14 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.24%) Marketing
12 13 (1.24%) Retail
13 12 (1.15%) Advertising
13 12 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.96%) Electronics
14 10 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 263 (25.17%) Senior
2 245 (23.44%) Developer
3 127 (12.15%) Lead
3 127 (12.15%) Software Engineer
4 116 (11.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 78 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 75 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (6.99%) Architect
8 51 (4.88%) Java Developer
8 51 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 42 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
10 39 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 38 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.06%) Python Developer
14 31 (2.97%) .NET Software Engineer
15 29 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
15 29 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (13.88%) React
2 144 (13.78%) .NET
3 141 (13.49%) RESTful
4 120 (11.48%) Spring
5 111 (10.62%) REST
5 111 (10.62%) Spring Boot
6 86 (8.23%) Kafka
7 83 (7.94%) Node.js
8 81 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
9 76 (7.27%) gRPC
10 70 (6.70%) .NET Core
11 65 (6.22%) AngularJS
12 58 (5.55%) FastAPI
13 54 (5.17%) Django
14 51 (4.88%) Flask
14 51 (4.88%) OAuth
15 40 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (3.44%) Vue
17 34 (3.25%) HTML
18 33 (3.16%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 266 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 127 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.44%) Over-the-Top Content
5 36 (3.44%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (2.68%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.49%) Fixed Income
9 25 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.20%) Low-Code
10 23 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.11%) PKI
12 20 (1.91%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.72%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
15 15 (1.44%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 218 (20.86%) Linux
2 93 (8.90%) Windows
3 48 (4.59%) Unix
4 37 (3.54%) Ubuntu
5 27 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 24 (2.30%) CentOS
7 17 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.44%) VMS
9 13 (1.24%) Android
10 8 (0.77%) Debian
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.096%) Fedora
14 1 (0.096%) Rocky
14 1 (0.096%) Solaris
14 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (66.03%) CI/CD
2 534 (51.10%) DevOps
3 393 (37.61%) Agile
4 385 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 372 (35.60%) Microservices
6 299 (28.61%) Problem-Solving
7 274 (26.22%) Software Engineering
8 236 (22.58%) AI
9 207 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 206 (19.71%) Mentoring
11 165 (15.79%) Test Automation
12 164 (15.69%) Machine Learning
13 152 (14.55%) Observability
14 135 (12.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 126 (12.06%) High Availability
16 124 (11.87%) Continuous Integration
17 116 (11.10%) Analytics
17 116 (11.10%) Continuous Delivery
18 110 (10.53%) Clean Code
19 100 (9.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 521 (49.86%) Python
2 254 (24.31%) Java
3 216 (20.67%) SQL
4 197 (18.85%) JavaScript
5 164 (15.69%) Bash
6 136 (13.01%) Go
7 122 (11.67%) C#
8 93 (8.90%) PowerShell
9 82 (7.85%) TypeScript
10 38 (3.64%) Scala
11 32 (3.06%) C++
12 30 (2.87%) Bicep
13 27 (2.58%) PHP
14 20 (1.91%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.05%) C
16 10 (0.96%) Ruby
17 8 (0.77%) Delphi
17 8 (0.77%) Rust
17 8 (0.77%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 188 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 126 (12.06%) Degree
3 104 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 81 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (7.37%) DV Cleared
6 64 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 34 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.77%) CISSP
12 7 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.38%) CISM
15 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.27%) QA
2 41 (3.92%) GDPR
3 38 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 32 (3.06%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.68%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.20%) NIST
8 17 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.15%) NCSC
9 12 (1.15%) WCAG
10 11 (1.05%) GRC
11 10 (0.96%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.38%) EMIR
13 4 (0.38%) SLA
14 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) ECSS
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 688 (65.84%) Docker
2 33 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.15%) vSphere
5 7 (0.67%) KVM
6 6 (0.57%) Firmware
6 6 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.38%) iptables
7 4 (0.38%) Lustre
7 4 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.29%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) Ceph
9 2 (0.19%) GPFS
9 2 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 661 (63.25%) Kubernetes
2 389 (37.22%) Terraform
3 180 (17.22%) Ansible
4 177 (16.94%) Grafana
5 157 (15.02%) Prometheus
6 41 (3.92%) Argo
7 20 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.82%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.72%) Puppet
10 11 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.05%) Istio
10 11 (1.05%) Nagios
11 9 (0.86%) Control-M
12 8 (0.77%) linkerd
12 8 (0.77%) Mesos
13 6 (0.57%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.48%) Kibana
14 5 (0.48%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.38%) Cilium
Vendors
1 99 (9.47%) Google
2 94 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 48 (4.59%) Red Hat
4 42 (4.02%) Oracle
5 39 (3.73%) Splunk
6 36 (3.44%) Typelevel
7 32 (3.06%) VMware
8 31 (2.97%) OpenAI
9 20 (1.91%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.63%) Cisco
11 17 (1.63%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.53%) Databricks
13 15 (1.44%) Atlassian
13 15 (1.44%) SAP
14 13 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.24%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.24%) UiPath
15 11 (1.05%) Dell
15 11 (1.05%) Fortinet