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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 131 167
Rank change year-on-year -26 +36 -46
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,421 1,210 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.44% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 2.75% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 910 597 786
10th Percentile £46,199 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,505 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +7.14% -0.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% -7.41%

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -34 1,247 £72,500 -6.45% 803
UK excluding London -15 860 £65,576 +0.89% 461
Work from Home -43 473 £68,724 -1.82% 408
London -42 464 £80,000 -8.57% 456
North of England -31 237 £66,000 +1.54% 113
South West +5 202 £67,500 -5.94% 95
South East +23 181 £65,000 -10.34% 98
North West -41 129 £75,000 +15.38% 66
Midlands -65 87 £70,000 +1.82% 43
North East -8 59 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Northern Ireland -30 59 - - 13
West Midlands -46 54 £71,289 +1.84% 25
East of England -31 50 £60,000 +4.35% 32
Yorkshire -37 49 £72,500 +11.54% 29
Wales -43 49 £60,000 -17.24% 12
East Midlands -43 33 £64,500 +17.27% 17
Scotland -65 7 £60,000 -14.29% 59

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 50 (3.52%) Apache
2 40 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.67%) Confluence
4 28 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.28%) Camunda
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) WordPress
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.070%) JBoss
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.070%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 821 (57.78%) AWS
2 739 (52.01%) Azure
3 337 (23.72%) GCP
4 216 (15.20%) GitHub
5 173 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 164 (11.54%) Serverless
7 148 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (7.53%) OpenShift
10 99 (6.97%) Azure AKS
11 92 (6.47%) Cloud Computing
12 87 (6.12%) Amazon S3
13 84 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
14 82 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
15 77 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
16 75 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 74 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
18 56 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
19 53 (3.73%) SaaS
20 51 (3.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.28%) WAN
2 68 (4.79%) LAN
3 65 (4.57%) Firewall
4 61 (4.29%) DNS
5 48 (3.38%) Network Security
6 37 (2.60%) VPN
7 33 (2.32%) Broadband
8 32 (2.25%) TCP/IP
9 24 (1.69%) MQTT
10 19 (1.34%) BGP
11 18 (1.27%) OSPF
12 17 (1.20%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.13%) VLAN
14 13 (0.91%) DMARC
15 12 (0.84%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) 3GPP
17 8 (0.56%) DHCP
17 8 (0.56%) IPv4
17 8 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (7.11%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 61 (4.29%) MySQL
5 47 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 47 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 43 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 36 (2.53%) SQL Server
8 35 (2.46%) Redis
9 26 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.20%) Big Data
12 15 (1.06%) Pinecone
13 14 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.99%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.84%) InfluxDB
16 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 279 (19.63%) Git
2 213 (14.99%) Jenkins
3 176 (12.39%) GitLab
4 39 (2.74%) JIRA
5 30 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.97%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.90%) JUnit
8 26 (1.83%) CircleCI
9 25 (1.76%) Maven
10 22 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 20 (1.41%) Mockito
12 19 (1.34%) Selenium
13 18 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 14 (0.99%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.77%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.77%) Vite
16 10 (0.70%) Robot Framework
16 10 (0.70%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.70%) TestRail
17 9 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 447 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.86%) Finance
3 168 (11.82%) Public Sector
4 105 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (7.04%) Law
6 96 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (6.40%) Banking
8 69 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.39%) Legal
10 33 (2.32%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.62%) Retail
13 21 (1.48%) Games
14 17 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.84%) Electronics
17 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.63%) Front Office
20 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 276 (19.42%) Senior
2 245 (17.24%) Developer
3 219 (15.41%) Architect
4 214 (15.06%) Software Engineer
5 211 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 174 (12.24%) Lead
7 115 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 80 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (4.71%) Systems Architect
10 66 (4.64%) Senior Developer
11 65 (4.57%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
13 60 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 45 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
18 43 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
19 42 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 41 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (38.14%) Terraform
2 198 (13.93%) RESTful
3 196 (13.79%) Spring
4 189 (13.30%) React
5 181 (12.74%) Spring Boot
6 153 (10.77%) Node.js
7 149 (10.49%) Kafka
8 128 (9.01%) .NET
9 127 (8.94%) REST
10 82 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
11 72 (5.07%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.80%) CSS
12 54 (3.80%) OAuth
13 44 (3.10%) FastAPI
13 44 (3.10%) gRPC
13 44 (3.10%) OAuth2
14 43 (3.03%) JSON
15 40 (2.81%) HTML
16 39 (2.74%) .NET Core
17 37 (2.60%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 392 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 172 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.97%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.76%) PKI
12 25 (1.76%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.62%) Blog
14 21 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.34%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
16 18 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 299 (21.04%) Linux
2 96 (6.76%) Windows
3 39 (2.74%) Unix
4 35 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.32%) CentOS
6 21 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.77%) Debian
9 8 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.070%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (67.21%) CI/CD
2 709 (49.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 691 (48.63%) DevOps
4 507 (35.68%) Agile
5 459 (32.30%) Software Engineering
6 406 (28.57%) Microservices
7 327 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
8 290 (20.41%) Observability
9 285 (20.06%) Mentoring
10 276 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 274 (19.28%) Test Automation
12 273 (19.21%) AI
13 230 (16.19%) Event-Driven
14 213 (14.99%) Platform Engineering
15 186 (13.09%) Roadmaps
16 164 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
17 159 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
18 146 (10.27%) Scrum
19 140 (9.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 139 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 642 (45.18%) Python
2 371 (26.11%) Java
3 233 (16.40%) JavaScript
4 184 (12.95%) Bash
5 164 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 163 (11.47%) SQL
7 145 (10.20%) C#
8 132 (9.29%) PowerShell
9 104 (7.32%) Go
10 62 (4.36%) Bicep
11 57 (4.01%) C++
12 39 (2.74%) Ruby
13 35 (2.46%) Rust
13 35 (2.46%) Scala
14 21 (1.48%) Groovy
15 17 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.13%) PHP
17 15 (1.06%) C
17 15 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 441 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 217 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 167 (11.75%) DV Cleared
4 164 (11.54%) Degree
5 93 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (4.15%) AWS Certification
7 58 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.76%) CISSP
10 13 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 12 (0.84%) CCNP
12 11 (0.77%) OSCP
12 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.63%) CISM
14 9 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.80%) QA
2 72 (5.07%) GRC
3 59 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.74%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.90%) NCSC
6 24 (1.69%) GDPR
6 24 (1.69%) NIST
7 22 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.41%) WCAG
9 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) SLA
16 1 (0.070%) COBIT
16 1 (0.070%) PSD2
System Software
1 804 (56.58%) Docker
2 50 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 39 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.70%) KVM
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.63%) vSphere
8 8 (0.56%) Squid
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
11 4 (0.28%) NDS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) QEMU
13 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 825 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 213 (14.99%) Ansible
3 143 (10.06%) Grafana
4 112 (7.88%) Prometheus
5 38 (2.67%) Argo
5 38 (2.67%) Puppet
6 32 (2.25%) Progress Chef
7 27 (1.90%) Istio
8 18 (1.27%) Podman
9 16 (1.13%) Kibana
9 16 (1.13%) Nagios
10 15 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.06%) linkerd
11 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.77%) Packer
12 11 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.56%) logstash
14 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.42%) Rancher
15 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 227 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.54%) Google
3 59 (4.15%) Red Hat
4 56 (3.94%) Splunk
4 56 (3.94%) VMware
5 52 (3.66%) Oracle
6 26 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 19 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.27%) Typelevel
9 18 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.06%) Cisco
10 15 (1.06%) IBM
11 13 (0.91%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.84%) Databricks
12 12 (0.84%) Mistral
13 11 (0.77%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.63%) Okta