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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 124 187
Rank change year-on-year -43 +63 -38
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,110 1,018 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.43% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.62% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 708 722 1,138
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
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% -1.98%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,750 £122,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 65,702 38,866 81,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.29% 92.92% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40,633 22,660 59,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +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 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 20 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 20 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 1,016 £72,500 -3.33% 446
UK excluding London -60 537 £62,500 -7.41% 323
London -2 468 £82,500 -4.35% 175
Work from Home -16 437 £70,932 +1.33% 237
North of England -40 182 £65,000 - 83
South West -26 123 £55,000 -23.60% 67
South East -19 122 £70,000 +12.00% 86
North West -15 95 £65,000 +4.49% 49
Midlands -48 57 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Yorkshire -74 56 £65,000 -4.41% 23
North East -18 31 £48,445 -27.73% 11
West Midlands -49 29 £70,079 +7.81% 21
East Midlands -48 27 £64,000 +6.67% 12
East of England -49 25 £60,100 -7.54% 26
Scotland -54 17 £60,000 -29.41% 16
Wales -22 13 £57,600 -11.38% 9
Northern Ireland -38 8 £62,500 - 6

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 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.79%) Apache
3 20 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.44%) Appian
5 12 (1.08%) Confluence
6 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) CMS
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.090%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.090%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Weka
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.090%) Endur
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 647 (58.29%) AWS
2 562 (50.63%) Azure
3 332 (29.91%) GCP
4 208 (18.74%) GitHub
5 169 (15.23%) Serverless
6 144 (12.97%) GitHub Actions
7 130 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (10.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (8.92%) Datadog
10 98 (8.83%) OpenShift
11 96 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
12 84 (7.57%) Amazon S3
12 84 (7.57%) Azure AKS
13 75 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (5.77%) SaaS
15 51 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (4.05%) PaaS
18 43 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
19 40 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.03%) Broadband
2 75 (6.76%) Firewall
3 46 (4.14%) DNS
4 29 (2.61%) Network Security
4 29 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.52%) HTTP
6 19 (1.71%) VPN
7 9 (0.81%) AMQP
7 9 (0.81%) DHCP
8 8 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.63%) WAN
10 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.45%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 4 (0.36%) InfiniBand
12 4 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.27%) IPv4
13 3 (0.27%) RTP
13 3 (0.27%) SCCP
13 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.23%) NoSQL
2 100 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (7.57%) SQL Server
4 77 (6.94%) MongoDB
5 73 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 61 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.50%) MySQL
8 44 (3.96%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.88%) RDBMS
10 29 (2.61%) Pinecone
11 26 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.89%) Redis
13 15 (1.35%) Big Data
14 14 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.17%) InfluxDB
16 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.99%) Metadata
17 11 (0.99%) Power BI
18 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (18.11%) Git
2 160 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 134 (12.07%) GitLab
4 43 (3.87%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.06%) JIRA
6 29 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.16%) JUnit
8 22 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.89%) MLflow
10 19 (1.71%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.71%) Selenium
11 15 (1.35%) JMeter
12 14 (1.26%) TeamCity
12 14 (1.26%) Vite
13 13 (1.17%) Locust
13 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
14 12 (1.08%) Maven
14 12 (1.08%) Mockito
15 11 (0.99%) Robot Framework
General
1 308 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 238 (21.44%) Finance
3 93 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (7.03%) Telecoms
5 75 (6.76%) Banking
5 75 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 62 (5.59%) Law
7 58 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.16%) Front Office
9 23 (2.07%) Games
10 20 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 20 (1.80%) Retail
11 17 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.35%) Billing
13 14 (1.26%) Legal
14 12 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.99%) Marketing
16 10 (0.90%) Electronics
17 9 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 273 (24.59%) Senior
2 235 (21.17%) Developer
3 144 (12.97%) Software Engineer
4 142 (12.79%) Lead
5 133 (11.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 91 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (7.30%) Architect
8 71 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 53 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
9 53 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 52 (4.68%) Java Developer
11 47 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 35 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (2.88%) Data Engineer
14 32 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
15 30 (2.70%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (2.70%) Software Developer
16 28 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (14.50%) React
2 153 (13.78%) RESTful
3 151 (13.60%) .NET
4 126 (11.35%) REST
5 119 (10.72%) Spring
6 110 (9.91%) Spring Boot
7 103 (9.28%) Kafka
8 95 (8.56%) Node.js
9 91 (8.20%) gRPC
10 80 (7.21%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.04%) AngularJS
12 66 (5.95%) .NET Core
13 57 (5.14%) OAuth
14 53 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (4.50%) Django
16 48 (4.32%) FastAPI
17 44 (3.96%) Flask
18 39 (3.51%) Vue
19 34 (3.06%) CSS
19 34 (3.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 278 (25.05%) Cloud Native
2 154 (13.87%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.05%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.05%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.70%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.07%) PKI
11 21 (1.89%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.89%) Fixed Income
11 21 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.89%) Low-Code
12 19 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.71%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.62%) Web3
14 16 (1.44%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 215 (19.37%) Linux
2 90 (8.11%) Windows
3 44 (3.96%) Unix
4 42 (3.78%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.88%) CentOS
6 25 (2.25%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.17%) Android
9 11 (0.99%) VMS
10 10 (0.90%) Debian
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.18%) zOS
14 1 (0.090%) Rocky
14 1 (0.090%) Solaris
14 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (67.21%) CI/CD
2 562 (50.63%) DevOps
3 443 (39.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 425 (38.29%) Agile
5 391 (35.23%) Microservices
6 312 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
7 307 (27.66%) Software Engineering
8 239 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 232 (20.90%) AI
10 213 (19.19%) Mentoring
11 204 (18.38%) Test Automation
12 195 (17.57%) Observability
13 166 (14.95%) Machine Learning
14 148 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 142 (12.79%) High Availability
16 133 (11.98%) Continuous Integration
17 132 (11.89%) Continuous Delivery
18 121 (10.90%) Clean Code
19 115 (10.36%) Event-Driven
20 111 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 538 (48.47%) Python
2 270 (24.32%) Java
3 223 (20.09%) JavaScript
3 223 (20.09%) SQL
4 169 (15.23%) Bash
5 156 (14.05%) Go
6 129 (11.62%) C#
7 112 (10.09%) PowerShell
8 97 (8.74%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.23%) Scala
10 40 (3.60%) Bicep
11 37 (3.33%) C++
12 24 (2.16%) PHP
13 21 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.26%) C
15 12 (1.08%) Ruby
16 11 (0.99%) Rust
17 9 (0.81%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.72%) Delphi
18 8 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 213 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 123 (11.08%) Degree
3 119 (10.72%) SC Cleared
4 76 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 75 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (6.13%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.51%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.81%) CISSP
13 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.54%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.45%) CISM
15 5 (0.45%) OSCP
16 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.57%) QA
2 37 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 37 (3.33%) GDPR
3 36 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.88%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.61%) Data Quality
6 24 (2.16%) NIST
7 21 (1.89%) SOC 2
8 13 (1.17%) WCAG
9 11 (0.99%) GRC
10 10 (0.90%) NCSC
11 9 (0.81%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.45%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) ECSS
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 727 (65.50%) Docker
2 42 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.99%) vSphere
6 9 (0.81%) KVM
7 7 (0.63%) Firmware
7 7 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) iptables
8 4 (0.36%) Lustre
8 4 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.27%) Squid
10 2 (0.18%) Ceph
10 2 (0.18%) GPFS
10 2 (0.18%) RACF
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.090%) QEMU
11 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 690 (62.16%) Kubernetes
2 433 (39.01%) Terraform
3 187 (16.85%) Ansible
4 182 (16.40%) Grafana
5 153 (13.78%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.87%) Argo
7 23 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.89%) Puppet
9 19 (1.71%) Istio
9 19 (1.71%) Kustomize
10 13 (1.17%) Nagios
10 13 (1.17%) Podman
11 10 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.72%) Kibana
12 8 (0.72%) linkerd
12 8 (0.72%) Mesos
13 7 (0.63%) Packer
13 7 (0.63%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.54%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.45%) Cilium
Vendors
1 110 (9.91%) Google
2 101 (9.10%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.23%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.05%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.87%) Splunk
6 39 (3.51%) Oracle
7 34 (3.06%) VMware
8 32 (2.88%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.62%) Cisco
11 17 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.44%) Databricks
13 15 (1.35%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (1.17%) NVIDIA
14 13 (1.17%) UiPath
15 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.99%) Confluent
17 10 (0.90%) SAP
18 9 (0.81%) Dell