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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 127 180
Rank change year-on-year -38 +53 -35
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,077 967 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.36% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.54% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 697 734 1,132
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £121,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% -

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 61,872 38,072 78,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.33% 93.03% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 38,257 22,481 58,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -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 6 months to 5 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 5 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 -31 985 £70,932 -5.42% 465
UK excluding London -55 515 £62,500 -9.42% 350
London 0 455 £82,500 -2.94% 169
Work from Home -6 425 £70,079 -2.66% 214
North of England -44 180 £65,000 - 89
South East +3 116 £70,000 +7.69% 104
South West -21 115 £55,000 -24.14% 64
North West -24 89 £65,000 +5.98% 54
Yorkshire -64 58 £65,000 -4.41% 23
Midlands -51 55 £66,000 +1.54% 44
North East -2 33 £51,500 -25.69% 12
East Midlands -37 27 £64,000 +6.67% 18
West Midlands -37 27 £70,000 +3.70% 26
East of England -21 26 £60,100 -9.28% 27
Scotland -66 15 £59,283 -18.23% 9
Wales -28 10 £65,787 +1.21% 13
Northern Ireland -39 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 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.69%) Apache
3 20 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.49%) Appian
5 9 (0.84%) Confluence
5 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.46%) IIS
8 4 (0.37%) CMS
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Camunda
9 3 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
11 1 (0.093%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.093%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.093%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Maya
2 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Weka
3 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Shopify
2 2 (0.19%) Endur
2 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.093%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.093%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 632 (58.68%) AWS
2 555 (51.53%) Azure
3 327 (30.36%) GCP
4 214 (19.87%) GitHub
5 159 (14.76%) Serverless
6 152 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
7 123 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
8 113 (10.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (8.82%) Datadog
10 93 (8.64%) OpenShift
11 91 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (7.89%) Amazon S3
13 77 (7.15%) Azure AKS
14 76 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 62 (5.76%) SaaS
16 53 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
17 43 (3.99%) PaaS
18 37 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.78%) Firewall
2 72 (6.69%) Broadband
3 45 (4.18%) DNS
4 28 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.51%) Network Security
6 26 (2.41%) HTTP
7 19 (1.76%) VPN
8 9 (0.84%) DHCP
9 8 (0.74%) AMQP
10 7 (0.65%) WAN
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.56%) DMZ
11 6 (0.56%) 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%) Modbus
14 3 (0.28%) SCCP
14 3 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (14.95%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 78 (7.24%) Relational Database
5 70 (6.50%) MongoDB
6 60 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
7 52 (4.83%) MySQL
8 40 (3.71%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.06%) RDBMS
10 26 (2.41%) Pinecone
11 25 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.76%) Redis
13 15 (1.39%) Big Data
14 13 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.11%) Metadata
16 11 (1.02%) InfluxDB
17 10 (0.93%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
18 9 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 185 (17.18%) Git
2 157 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 133 (12.35%) GitLab
4 37 (3.44%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.16%) JIRA
6 29 (2.69%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.23%) JUnit
8 22 (2.04%) MLflow
9 20 (1.86%) Bitbucket
10 19 (1.76%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.58%) Selenium
12 15 (1.39%) JMeter
13 14 (1.30%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.21%) Locust
14 13 (1.21%) TeamCity
15 12 (1.11%) Maven
15 12 (1.11%) Mockito
15 12 (1.11%) SonarQube
15 12 (1.11%) Vite
16 9 (0.84%) Robot Framework
General
1 308 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 231 (21.45%) Finance
3 90 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.71%) Telecoms
5 78 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 73 (6.78%) Banking
7 66 (6.13%) Law
8 54 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (2.41%) Front Office
10 22 (2.04%) Games
11 18 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.67%) Retail
12 16 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 16 (1.49%) Billing
13 14 (1.30%) Legal
14 12 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.11%) Marketing
15 11 (1.02%) Electronics
16 9 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 260 (24.14%) Senior
2 233 (21.63%) Developer
3 136 (12.63%) Lead
4 132 (12.26%) Software Engineer
5 131 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 86 (7.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 76 (7.06%) Architect
8 71 (6.59%) Senior Developer
9 49 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 47 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 41 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 36 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.25%) Data Engineer
15 34 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
16 32 (2.97%) Python Developer
17 31 (2.88%) Software Developer
18 30 (2.79%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (13.93%) React
2 147 (13.65%) RESTful
3 144 (13.37%) .NET
4 124 (11.51%) REST
5 116 (10.77%) Spring
6 107 (9.94%) Spring Boot
7 97 (9.01%) Kafka
8 90 (8.36%) gRPC
9 83 (7.71%) Node.js
10 80 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.22%) .NET Core
12 64 (5.94%) AngularJS
13 56 (5.20%) Django
14 52 (4.83%) OAuth
15 51 (4.74%) FastAPI
16 49 (4.55%) Flask
17 48 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
18 36 (3.34%) Vue
19 33 (3.06%) CSS
19 33 (3.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 269 (24.98%) Cloud Native
2 146 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.18%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.18%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.69%) Blockchain
7 28 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.14%) Fixed Income
11 22 (2.04%) Low-Code
12 21 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.95%) PKI
13 20 (1.86%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (1.58%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.58%) Web3
16 16 (1.49%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 216 (20.06%) Linux
2 90 (8.36%) Windows
3 47 (4.36%) Unix
4 40 (3.71%) Ubuntu
5 28 (2.60%) CentOS
6 24 (2.23%) Windows Server
7 20 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.21%) Android
9 11 (1.02%) 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 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.19%) zOS
14 1 (0.093%) Rocky
14 1 (0.093%) Solaris
14 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 554 (51.44%) DevOps
3 413 (38.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 404 (37.51%) Agile
5 377 (35.00%) Microservices
6 299 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
7 289 (26.83%) Software Engineering
8 234 (21.73%) AI
9 220 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 206 (19.13%) Mentoring
11 185 (17.18%) Test Automation
12 172 (15.97%) Machine Learning
13 170 (15.78%) Observability
14 137 (12.72%) High Availability
15 136 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
16 130 (12.07%) Continuous Delivery
17 129 (11.98%) Continuous Integration
18 117 (10.86%) Clean Code
19 112 (10.40%) Analytics
20 106 (9.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 539 (50.05%) Python
2 257 (23.86%) Java
3 221 (20.52%) SQL
4 206 (19.13%) JavaScript
5 167 (15.51%) Bash
6 154 (14.30%) Go
7 124 (11.51%) C#
8 104 (9.66%) PowerShell
9 89 (8.26%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.55%) Scala
11 34 (3.16%) Bicep
12 31 (2.88%) C++
13 27 (2.51%) PHP
14 22 (2.04%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.11%) C
16 10 (0.93%) Ruby
17 9 (0.84%) Rust
17 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.74%) Delphi
18 8 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 197 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 122 (11.33%) Degree
3 110 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 75 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 73 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (5.94%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.62%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.74%) CISSP
12 7 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.37%) CISM
15 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.52%) QA
2 42 (3.90%) GDPR
3 37 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.16%) PCI DSS
5 26 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.14%) NIST
7 20 (1.86%) SOC 2
8 13 (1.21%) WCAG
9 12 (1.11%) GRC
10 11 (1.02%) NCSC
11 10 (0.93%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.37%) SLA
14 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) EMIR
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.19%) PSD2
15 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 710 (65.92%) Docker
2 37 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.11%) vSphere
6 8 (0.74%) KVM
7 7 (0.65%) Firmware
7 7 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.65%) 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 (0.19%) Ceph
10 2 (0.19%) GPFS
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.093%) QEMU
11 1 (0.093%) Squid
11 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 678 (62.95%) Kubernetes
2 418 (38.81%) Terraform
3 186 (17.27%) Ansible
4 177 (16.43%) Grafana
5 151 (14.02%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.99%) Argo
7 21 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.76%) Istio
8 19 (1.76%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.76%) Puppet
9 13 (1.21%) Nagios
10 10 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.74%) linkerd
11 8 (0.74%) Mesos
12 7 (0.65%) Kibana
12 7 (0.65%) Podman
13 6 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.56%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (9.10%) Google
2 93 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 52 (4.83%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.18%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.81%) Splunk
6 39 (3.62%) Oracle
7 33 (3.06%) VMware
8 31 (2.88%) OpenAI
9 21 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.76%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.67%) Cisco
11 18 (1.67%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.58%) Databricks
13 15 (1.39%) SAP
14 13 (1.21%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.21%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.21%) UiPath
15 12 (1.11%) Atlassian
16 11 (1.02%) Dell
17 10 (0.93%) Fortinet