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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 112 190
Rank change year-on-year -51 +78 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,120 1,234 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.84% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 3.04% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 719 712 1,113
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £88,449 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £104,750
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 67,484 40,549 82,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.46% 93.37% 85.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42,329 22,500 59,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -39 1,026 £72,500 -6.22% 429
UK excluding London -79 549 £62,500 -7.41% 293
London -11 469 £82,500 -8.33% 168
Work from Home -50 409 £72,000 +3.77% 184
North of England -68 177 £65,000 - 82
South East -17 136 £70,000 +16.67% 86
South West -21 122 £55,000 -23.87% 54
North West -55 91 £67,500 +8.51% 41
Yorkshire -62 57 £63,750 -6.25% 21
Midlands -85 57 £70,000 +16.67% 35
East of England -38 30 £60,000 -7.69% 19
West Midlands -59 30 £70,932 +9.13% 19
North East -17 29 £48,445 -26.62% 20
East Midlands -63 26 £66,000 +10.00% 16
Wales -20 17 £60,748 -6.54% 7
Scotland -79 13 £60,000 -29.41% 10
Northern Ireland -32 5 £62,500 - 2

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 31 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.41%) Apache
3 17 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.43%) Appian
5 13 (1.16%) Confluence
6 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.089%) JBoss
11 1 (0.089%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) SAS
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.089%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.089%) Endur
3 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 656 (58.57%) AWS
2 577 (51.52%) Azure
3 328 (29.29%) GCP
4 196 (17.50%) GitHub
5 163 (14.55%) Serverless
6 138 (12.32%) GitHub Actions
7 131 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (11.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (8.75%) Azure AKS
10 92 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (8.13%) OpenShift
12 89 (7.95%) Datadog
13 85 (7.59%) Amazon S3
14 69 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 59 (5.27%) SaaS
16 58 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
19 41 (3.66%) IaaS
20 40 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.88%) Broadband
2 76 (6.79%) Firewall
3 56 (5.00%) DNS
4 33 (2.95%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.68%) Network Security
6 29 (2.59%) HTTP
7 18 (1.61%) VPN
8 9 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.71%) AMQP
10 7 (0.63%) DHCP
11 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.54%) DMZ
11 6 (0.54%) MQTT
11 6 (0.54%) WAN
12 5 (0.45%) IPv4
13 4 (0.36%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.27%) Modbus
14 3 (0.27%) RTP
14 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 98 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.61%) SQL Server
5 70 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.55%) MySQL
8 44 (3.93%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.86%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.68%) Pinecone
11 29 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (2.05%) Redis
13 14 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.07%) InfluxDB
15 11 (0.98%) Big Data
15 11 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.98%) Metadata
15 11 (0.98%) Power BI
16 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 200 (17.86%) Git
2 172 (15.36%) Jenkins
3 140 (12.50%) GitLab
4 47 (4.20%) CircleCI
5 36 (3.21%) JIRA
6 26 (2.32%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.88%) Cypress.io
7 21 (1.88%) JUnit
7 21 (1.88%) MLflow
8 19 (1.70%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.61%) Vite
10 17 (1.52%) Maven
11 16 (1.43%) Mockito
12 15 (1.34%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.25%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.98%) Selenium
14 11 (0.98%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.89%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.80%) TestRail
17 8 (0.71%) Storybook
General
1 305 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 240 (21.43%) Finance
3 92 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.70%) Banking
6 67 (5.98%) Telecoms
7 61 (5.45%) Law
8 58 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.88%) Aerospace
10 20 (1.79%) Games
10 20 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.70%) Front Office
12 17 (1.52%) Retail
13 15 (1.34%) Billing
13 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.89%) Electronics
14 10 (0.89%) Legal
14 10 (0.89%) Marketing
15 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 265 (23.66%) Senior
2 232 (20.71%) Developer
3 149 (13.30%) Software Engineer
4 140 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (12.32%) Lead
6 104 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (7.23%) Architect
8 66 (5.89%) Senior Developer
9 63 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (4.82%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 45 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
17 30 (2.68%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
18 29 (2.59%) Data Engineer
19 28 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (14.91%) React
2 158 (14.11%) RESTful
3 152 (13.57%) .NET
4 127 (11.34%) REST
5 113 (10.09%) Spring
6 109 (9.73%) Kafka
7 105 (9.38%) Spring Boot
8 99 (8.84%) Node.js
9 89 (7.95%) gRPC
10 70 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
11 69 (6.16%) AngularJS
12 62 (5.54%) .NET Core
13 59 (5.27%) RabbitMQ
14 56 (5.00%) OAuth
15 50 (4.46%) FastAPI
16 39 (3.48%) Django
17 35 (3.13%) CSS
17 35 (3.13%) Vue
18 34 (3.04%) JWT
18 34 (3.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 271 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 153 (13.66%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.02%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.02%) Video\Live Streaming
5 33 (2.95%) Blockchain
6 32 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.77%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 24 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.96%) PKI
11 21 (1.88%) Web3
12 19 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.61%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.52%) Low-Code
15 15 (1.34%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 224 (20.00%) Linux
2 84 (7.50%) Windows
3 40 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 39 (3.48%) Unix
5 33 (2.95%) CentOS
6 25 (2.23%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.98%) Android
9 10 (0.89%) VMS
10 9 (0.80%) Debian
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.089%) Rocky
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (68.21%) CI/CD
2 558 (49.82%) DevOps
3 463 (41.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 422 (37.68%) Agile
5 387 (34.55%) Microservices
6 327 (29.20%) Software Engineering
7 301 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (20.63%) AI
8 231 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 209 (18.66%) Test Automation
10 207 (18.48%) Mentoring
11 197 (17.59%) Observability
12 158 (14.11%) Machine Learning
13 155 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 144 (12.86%) High Availability
15 135 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
16 132 (11.79%) Continuous Delivery
17 124 (11.07%) Clean Code
18 119 (10.63%) Event-Driven
18 119 (10.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 533 (47.59%) Python
2 261 (23.30%) Java
3 221 (19.73%) JavaScript
4 211 (18.84%) SQL
5 173 (15.45%) Bash
6 156 (13.93%) Go
7 135 (12.05%) C#
8 121 (10.80%) PowerShell
9 115 (10.27%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.38%) Scala
11 36 (3.21%) C++
12 34 (3.04%) Bicep
13 25 (2.23%) PHP
14 21 (1.88%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.43%) C
16 15 (1.34%) Rust
17 14 (1.25%) Ruby
18 12 (1.07%) Groovy
19 8 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
19 8 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 226 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 118 (10.54%) SC Cleared
3 115 (10.27%) Degree
4 82 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 72 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (5.54%) AWS Certification
7 48 (4.29%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.80%) CISSP
12 8 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.63%) OSCP
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.41%) QA
2 37 (3.30%) GDPR
3 32 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 29 (2.59%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.05%) NIST
7 20 (1.79%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.98%) JSP 440
8 11 (0.98%) NCSC
9 10 (0.89%) GRC
10 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (0.54%) WCAG
11 5 (0.45%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.089%) EMIR
System Software
1 718 (64.11%) Docker
2 38 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.77%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.89%) vSphere
6 9 (0.80%) KVM
7 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.63%) Firmware
9 5 (0.45%) Squid
10 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.36%) iptables
11 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.18%) GPFS
12 2 (0.18%) Lustre
12 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.089%) QEMU
13 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 690 (61.61%) Kubernetes
2 441 (39.38%) Terraform
3 194 (17.32%) Ansible
4 167 (14.91%) Grafana
5 154 (13.75%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.75%) Argo
7 23 (2.05%) Puppet
8 22 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.70%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.61%) Istio
11 15 (1.34%) Nagios
12 14 (1.25%) Podman
12 14 (1.25%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.80%) Packer
14 7 (0.63%) Kibana
14 7 (0.63%) linkerd
14 7 (0.63%) Mesos
15 5 (0.45%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 111 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.64%) Google
3 59 (5.27%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.02%) Typelevel
5 42 (3.75%) Splunk
6 38 (3.39%) OpenAI
7 33 (2.95%) VMware
8 31 (2.77%) Oracle
9 23 (2.05%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.34%) Cisco
10 15 (1.34%) Databricks
10 15 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.25%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.16%) UiPath
13 12 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.98%) Confluent
15 8 (0.71%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.63%) Rapid7