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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 155 118
Rank change year-on-year +2 -37 +17
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 929 1,166 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.74% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.09% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 622 736 1,071
10th Percentile £48,174 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 0 857 £72,500 +3.57% 944
UK excluding London -5 447 £65,000 - 508
London +23 411 £85,000 -2.86% 471
Work from Home -7 317 £67,500 -3.57% 631
North of England +16 167 £65,000 +8.33% 180
North West +27 104 £63,750 +6.25% 134
South West +4 92 £60,000 -12.09% 81
South East -5 71 £75,000 +15.38% 122
Midlands +19 58 £67,500 +3.85% 65
West Midlands +29 40 £70,542 +8.53% 50
Yorkshire -30 39 £68,500 +19.13% 34
Scotland -18 33 £70,000 - 20
East of England +9 25 £58,750 -16.07% 33
North East +18 24 £60,000 +14.29% 12
East Midlands +18 18 £54,500 +31.33% 15
Wales +7 15 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Northern Ireland -4 5 £43,092 -33.35% 10

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 54 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.01%) Apache
4 17 (1.83%) CMS
5 15 (1.61%) IIS
6 13 (1.40%) Apache Solr
6 13 (1.40%) Confluence
7 6 (0.65%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.22%) Appian
11 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) FileNet
12 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.51%) Maya
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Shopify
2 3 (0.32%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 546 (58.77%) AWS
2 487 (52.42%) Azure
3 237 (25.51%) GCP
4 172 (18.51%) GitHub
5 124 (13.35%) Serverless
6 122 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (8.29%) Amazon S3
9 72 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
9 72 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (6.46%) SaaS
12 55 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
13 53 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (4.20%) OpenShift
15 38 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (3.88%) PaaS
17 34 (3.66%) Datadog
18 31 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.27%) Firewall
2 31 (3.34%) DNS
3 20 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.05%) DHCP
5 17 (1.83%) VPN
5 17 (1.83%) WAN
6 15 (1.61%) LAN
7 14 (1.51%) Network Security
8 10 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.97%) IPsec
10 8 (0.86%) HTTP
10 8 (0.86%) VLAN
11 7 (0.75%) AMQP
12 6 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.65%) SAN
12 6 (0.65%) VoIP
12 6 (0.65%) Wireless
13 4 (0.43%) InfiniBand
13 4 (0.43%) Internet
13 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (10.76%) NoSQL
3 72 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.32%) MongoDB
5 52 (5.60%) DynamoDB
5 52 (5.60%) Relational Database
6 49 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
6 49 (5.27%) MySQL
7 35 (3.77%) Big Data
8 26 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (2.58%) Metadata
10 20 (2.15%) Spark SQL
11 19 (2.05%) Delta Lake
12 16 (1.72%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.40%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.40%) Tick Data
16 11 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 171 (18.41%) Git
2 121 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 96 (10.33%) GitLab
4 34 (3.66%) JIRA
5 30 (3.23%) MLflow
6 26 (2.80%) SonarQube
7 22 (2.37%) TeamCity
8 21 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.05%) JUnit
10 17 (1.83%) CircleCI
11 15 (1.61%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.61%) Selenium
12 14 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (1.18%) JMeter
14 10 (1.08%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.86%) Maven
15 8 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.75%) Locust
16 7 (0.75%) Mockito
17 6 (0.65%) DbUnit
General
1 283 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 238 (25.62%) Finance
3 104 (11.19%) Law
4 95 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 93 (10.01%) Marketing
6 76 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 51 (5.49%) Banking
9 47 (5.06%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.12%) Retail
12 28 (3.01%) Games
13 25 (2.69%) Electronics
14 23 (2.48%) Front Office
15 13 (1.40%) Legal
16 11 (1.18%) Advertising
16 11 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.18%) French Language
17 10 (1.08%) Dutch Language
17 10 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (23.36%) Developer
2 185 (19.91%) Senior
3 135 (14.53%) Lead
4 133 (14.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 109 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.57%) Architect
7 59 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 55 (5.92%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (5.06%) Python Engineer
11 46 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
12 43 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (4.52%) Lead Developer
14 40 (4.31%) Data Engineer
15 39 (4.20%) Backend Developer
15 39 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
16 38 (4.09%) Software Developer
17 37 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
19 31 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (15.82%) React
2 133 (14.32%) RESTful
3 131 (14.10%) .NET
4 91 (9.80%) Spring
5 84 (9.04%) Spring Boot
6 78 (8.40%) Kafka
7 74 (7.97%) REST
8 71 (7.64%) Node.js
9 69 (7.43%) FastAPI
10 63 (6.78%) AngularJS
11 56 (6.03%) .NET Core
11 56 (6.03%) HTML
12 54 (5.81%) CSS
13 48 (5.17%) Flask
14 46 (4.95%) PyTorch
15 41 (4.41%) TensorFlow
16 40 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
16 40 (4.31%) Pandas
17 37 (3.98%) YAML
18 36 (3.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 219 (23.57%) Cloud Native
2 101 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.34%) Algorithms
8 30 (3.23%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.91%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.58%) Product Ownership
11 23 (2.48%) Data Centre
12 22 (2.37%) Fixed Income
13 19 (2.05%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
15 17 (1.83%) Blockchain
16 15 (1.61%) AI Agents
17 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
18 9 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
18 9 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.34%) Linux
2 108 (11.63%) Windows
3 50 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 35 (3.77%) Unix
5 33 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.51%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.51%) VMS
7 11 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.08%) CentOS
9 8 (0.86%) Debian
9 8 (0.86%) Rocky
10 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.54%) Android
12 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (60.82%) CI/CD
2 490 (52.74%) DevOps
3 337 (36.28%) Agile
4 293 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 262 (28.20%) Microservices
6 248 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
7 235 (25.30%) AI
8 208 (22.39%) Software Engineering
9 173 (18.62%) Mentoring
10 148 (15.93%) Test Automation
11 134 (14.42%) Machine Learning
12 113 (12.16%) Observability
13 112 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 107 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 104 (11.19%) Computer Science
16 96 (10.33%) Analytics
17 90 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
18 83 (8.93%) Data Science
18 83 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
19 80 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 452 (48.65%) Python
2 195 (20.99%) Java
3 189 (20.34%) SQL
4 147 (15.82%) JavaScript
5 138 (14.85%) C#
6 106 (11.41%) Bash
7 94 (10.12%) PowerShell
8 55 (5.92%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.06%) Go
10 29 (3.12%) Bicep
11 20 (2.15%) PHP
12 19 (2.05%) C++
13 12 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.97%) Ruby
15 8 (0.86%) Delphi
15 8 (0.86%) Scala
15 8 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.75%) Rust
17 6 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 135 (14.53%) Degree
1 135 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 87 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 84 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (6.89%) AWS Certification
4 64 (6.89%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.74%) Azure Certification
6 30 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 13 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.29%) CISSP
10 8 (0.86%) CISM
10 8 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.75%) PhD
11 7 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.65%) ACMT
12 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.72%) QA
2 37 (3.98%) GDPR
3 21 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.94%) NIST
5 14 (1.51%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.97%) HIPAA
7 9 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.86%) WCAG
9 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.54%) GRC
10 5 (0.54%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.54%) NCSC
11 3 (0.32%) EMIR
11 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.22%) ECSS
12 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 601 (64.69%) Docker
2 55 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.20%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.01%) Hyper-V
5 23 (2.48%) vSphere
6 11 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.08%) NFS
7 10 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.43%) KVM
8 4 (0.43%) Lustre
8 4 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.43%) vCloud
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) Ceph
9 2 (0.22%) GPFS
9 2 (0.22%) Postfix
9 2 (0.22%) RACF
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 582 (62.65%) Kubernetes
2 320 (34.45%) Terraform
3 130 (13.99%) Ansible
4 111 (11.95%) Grafana
5 90 (9.69%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.58%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.18%) Control-M
9 10 (1.08%) Argo
9 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.97%) Puppet
11 8 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.86%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.65%) Autotask
13 6 (0.65%) SCCM
14 5 (0.54%) SCOM
14 5 (0.54%) WSUS
15 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 117 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.10%) Oracle
3 64 (6.89%) VMware
4 56 (6.03%) Google
5 51 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 40 (4.31%) Databricks
7 33 (3.55%) Splunk
8 31 (3.34%) SAP
9 29 (3.12%) Cisco
10 24 (2.58%) IBM
11 20 (2.15%) Dell
12 19 (2.05%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.94%) Atlassian
14 17 (1.83%) OpenAI
15 15 (1.61%) Pure Storage
16 14 (1.51%) Commvault
17 11 (1.18%) Fortinet
18 10 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
19 8 (0.86%) MuleSoft
20 7 (0.75%) Salesforce