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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 113 195
Rank change year-on-year -40 +82 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,335 1,312 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.67% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.96% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 910 673 1,043
10th Percentile £46,199 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.44% +12.50% -7.69%

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 72,823 44,302 82,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.72% 90.16% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,276 24,855 57,929
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -40 1,179 £72,500 -7.94% 495
UK excluding London -38 767 £64,500 -4.44% 372
Work from Home -32 491 £70,000 -2.77% 319
London -24 474 £80,000 -11.11% 207
North of England -35 216 £65,000 - 92
South East +36 186 £65,000 - 87
South West -3 169 £57,500 -23.33% 60
North West -39 117 £71,250 +18.75% 50
Midlands -72 65 £70,000 +7.69% 53
Yorkshire -37 59 £65,000 -7.14% 27
Northern Ireland -15 51 £68,151 +58.15% 25
East of England -19 41 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Wales -28 41 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -24 40 £55,000 -12.00% 15
West Midlands -65 38 £70,079 +3.82% 36
East Midlands -63 27 £63,250 +10.00% 17
Scotland -68 7 £60,000 -25.00% 18

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 35 (2.62%) Apache
2 31 (2.32%) Confluence
3 28 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Appian
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.075%) Apache Qpid
10 1 (0.075%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.075%) nginx
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 765 (57.30%) AWS
2 683 (51.16%) Azure
3 336 (25.17%) GCP
4 216 (16.18%) GitHub
5 181 (13.56%) Serverless
6 155 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
7 154 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 118 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (7.94%) OpenShift
10 105 (7.87%) Azure AKS
11 95 (7.12%) Amazon S3
11 95 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
12 83 (6.22%) Cloud Computing
13 79 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 78 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
15 76 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
16 74 (5.54%) Datadog
17 69 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
18 65 (4.87%) SaaS
19 55 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.39%) Firewall
2 70 (5.24%) DNS
3 66 (4.94%) Broadband
4 61 (4.57%) WAN
5 54 (4.04%) LAN
6 42 (3.15%) Network Security
6 42 (3.15%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.70%) VPN
8 21 (1.57%) HTTP
9 20 (1.50%) MQTT
10 16 (1.20%) BGP
10 16 (1.20%) OSPF
10 16 (1.20%) VLAN
11 15 (1.12%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.97%) DMARC
13 11 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.82%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.60%) IPv4
15 7 (0.52%) DHCP
16 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (8.91%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
6 56 (4.19%) MySQL
7 47 (3.52%) DynamoDB
8 45 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 39 (2.92%) Redis
10 27 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.12%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.97%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.90%) Big Data
15 11 (0.82%) DTS
16 10 (0.75%) Db2
17 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.67%) InfluxDB
17 9 (0.67%) Power BI
18 8 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 234 (17.53%) Git
2 201 (15.06%) Jenkins
3 180 (13.48%) GitLab
4 42 (3.15%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.92%) JIRA
6 25 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.27%) JUnit
8 17 (1.27%) Maven
9 15 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.12%) Mockito
10 14 (1.05%) Selenium
10 14 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.97%) Vite
12 12 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.67%) MLflow
14 8 (0.60%) Gatling
14 8 (0.60%) Robot Framework
14 8 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 398 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 290 (21.72%) Finance
3 112 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 102 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.67%) Law
6 81 (6.07%) Banking
7 79 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (3.07%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.72%) Aerospace
12 18 (1.35%) Games
12 18 (1.35%) Legal
12 18 (1.35%) Retail
13 14 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.82%) Front Office
15 9 (0.67%) Billing
15 9 (0.67%) Electronics
15 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 265 (19.85%) Senior
2 255 (19.10%) Developer
3 193 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (13.86%) Software Engineer
5 177 (13.26%) Architect
6 165 (12.36%) Lead
7 124 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.32%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
12 56 (4.19%) Systems Architect
13 53 (3.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 50 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 48 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (13.18%) RESTful
2 171 (12.81%) React
3 169 (12.66%) Spring
4 164 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 138 (10.34%) Node.js
6 137 (10.26%) .NET
7 130 (9.74%) Kafka
8 123 (9.21%) REST
9 77 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 76 (5.69%) gRPC
11 73 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
12 60 (4.49%) OAuth
13 55 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
14 48 (3.60%) JSON
15 44 (3.30%) .NET Core
15 44 (3.30%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.22%) YAML
17 42 (3.15%) CSS
18 39 (2.92%) FastAPI
18 39 (2.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 343 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 170 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.37%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.37%) Video\Live Streaming
5 38 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.62%) Data Centre
7 29 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.65%) PKI
12 21 (1.57%) Blockchain
13 20 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.35%) Web3
15 17 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.27%) Algorithms
16 16 (1.20%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 257 (19.25%) Linux
2 88 (6.59%) Windows
3 34 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.32%) Ubuntu
4 31 (2.32%) Unix
5 30 (2.25%) CentOS
6 17 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.67%) Debian
8 4 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.30%) VMS
9 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.075%) Android
10 1 (0.075%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.075%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (66.07%) CI/CD
2 629 (47.12%) DevOps
3 627 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 473 (35.43%) Agile
5 416 (31.16%) Microservices
6 414 (31.01%) Software Engineering
7 338 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
8 258 (19.33%) Mentoring
9 257 (19.25%) Test Automation
10 247 (18.50%) Observability
11 246 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 222 (16.63%) AI
13 185 (13.86%) Event-Driven
14 178 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
15 164 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
16 157 (11.76%) Roadmaps
17 144 (10.79%) Clean Code
18 135 (10.11%) Machine Learning
19 128 (9.59%) Continuous Delivery
19 128 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 613 (45.92%) Python
2 321 (24.04%) Java
3 241 (18.05%) JavaScript
4 180 (13.48%) Bash
5 170 (12.73%) SQL
6 148 (11.09%) C#
6 148 (11.09%) TypeScript
7 140 (10.49%) PowerShell
8 138 (10.34%) Go
9 55 (4.12%) Bicep
10 54 (4.04%) Scala
11 44 (3.30%) C++
12 35 (2.62%) Ruby
13 31 (2.32%) Rust
14 26 (1.95%) PHP
15 21 (1.57%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.27%) Groovy
17 13 (0.97%) C
18 10 (0.75%) RPG
19 8 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 324 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 164 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 144 (10.79%) Degree
4 118 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 79 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (4.27%) Azure Certification
7 45 (3.37%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.50%) CISSP
10 18 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.75%) CCNP
12 10 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.60%) CCNA
14 8 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.60%) OSCP
14 8 (0.60%) RHCE
14 8 (0.60%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (8.31%) QA
2 62 (4.64%) GRC
3 41 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.40%) GDPR
4 32 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.72%) NIST
8 20 (1.50%) WCAG
9 17 (1.27%) NCSC
10 14 (1.05%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.82%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.075%) SEPA
16 1 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 772 (57.83%) Docker
2 41 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.62%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.67%) vSphere
6 8 (0.60%) Squid
7 7 (0.52%) KVM
8 6 (0.45%) Firmware
8 6 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
9 3 (0.22%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.075%) QEMU
10 1 (0.075%) Xen
Systems Management
1 770 (57.68%) Kubernetes
2 509 (38.13%) Terraform
3 202 (15.13%) Ansible
4 171 (12.81%) Grafana
5 150 (11.24%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.92%) Argo
7 31 (2.32%) Puppet
8 27 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.65%) Istio
10 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.35%) Podman
12 17 (1.27%) Nagios
13 14 (1.05%) Kibana
14 13 (0.97%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.90%) linkerd
16 11 (0.82%) Packer
16 11 (0.82%) ZABBIX
17 6 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.45%) logstash
17 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 185 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.99%) Google
3 58 (4.34%) Red Hat
4 49 (3.67%) Splunk
5 45 (3.37%) Typelevel
6 42 (3.15%) VMware
7 36 (2.70%) Oracle
8 26 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 20 (1.50%) Cisco
11 19 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.20%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.97%) IBM
13 13 (0.97%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.75%) Confluent
15 10 (0.75%) Databricks
15 10 (0.75%) NVIDIA
16 9 (0.67%) Rapid7