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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 131 189
Rank change year-on-year -34 +58 -45
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,109 1,020 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.41% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.59% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 714 715 1,128
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +6.27% -1.29%
75th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £102,500
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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 30 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 30 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 -29 1,015 £72,500 -3.33% 339
UK excluding London -58 533 £62,500 -7.41% 236
London -4 476 £82,500 -8.33% 140
Work from Home -13 423 £71,466 +3.00% 164
North of England -50 177 £65,000 - 53
South East -15 124 £70,000 +16.67% 78
South West -19 119 £55,000 -23.87% 44
North West -24 92 £65,000 +4.49% 28
Midlands -45 58 £70,000 +16.67% 29
Yorkshire -75 57 £62,500 -8.09% 13
West Midlands -38 31 £70,505 +8.47% 18
North East -14 28 £48,445 -26.62% 12
East of England -36 28 £60,050 -7.62% 13
East Midlands -45 26 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Wales -19 16 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Scotland -58 13 £60,000 -29.52% 8
Northern Ireland -38 7 £62,500 - 8

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 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.34%) Apache
3 18 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.44%) Appian
5 12 (1.08%) Confluence
6 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.27%) Camunda
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 1 (0.090%) JBoss
12 1 (0.090%) nginx
12 1 (0.090%) SAS
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.090%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.090%) Endur
3 1 (0.090%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 647 (58.34%) AWS
2 565 (50.95%) Azure
3 327 (29.49%) GCP
4 204 (18.39%) GitHub
5 164 (14.79%) Serverless
6 139 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
8 122 (11.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (8.75%) OpenShift
10 94 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (8.39%) Datadog
12 91 (8.21%) Azure AKS
13 84 (7.57%) Amazon S3
14 77 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (5.14%) SaaS
16 54 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
17 48 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
19 41 (3.70%) PaaS
20 39 (3.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.03%) Broadband
2 74 (6.67%) Firewall
3 51 (4.60%) DNS
4 31 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.61%) HTTP
6 28 (2.52%) Network Security
7 18 (1.62%) VPN
8 8 (0.72%) AMQP
8 8 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.63%) WAN
10 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.54%) DHCP
10 6 (0.54%) DMZ
11 5 (0.45%) MQTT
12 4 (0.36%) IPv4
13 3 (0.27%) Modbus
13 3 (0.27%) RTP
13 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.27%) VoIP
13 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (14.88%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (7.39%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.12%) MongoDB
5 71 (6.40%) Relational Database
6 62 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.60%) MySQL
8 45 (4.06%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.71%) Pinecone
11 28 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.98%) Redis
13 14 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.17%) Big Data
15 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.08%) InfluxDB
16 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.99%) Metadata
16 11 (0.99%) Power BI
17 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 203 (18.30%) Git
2 173 (15.60%) Jenkins
3 142 (12.80%) GitLab
4 45 (4.06%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.16%) JIRA
6 27 (2.43%) JUnit
7 24 (2.16%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.89%) MLflow
10 19 (1.71%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.71%) Selenium
11 18 (1.62%) Vite
12 16 (1.44%) Maven
13 15 (1.35%) Mockito
14 12 (1.08%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.99%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.90%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.81%) TestRail
18 8 (0.72%) Storybook
General
1 307 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 236 (21.28%) Finance
3 94 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (7.03%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.58%) Banking
6 72 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 60 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (5.41%) Law
8 22 (1.98%) Front Office
9 20 (1.80%) Games
10 19 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.53%) Retail
12 15 (1.35%) Billing
13 14 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.17%) Marketing
15 12 (1.08%) Legal
16 11 (0.99%) Electronics
17 9 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 271 (24.44%) Senior
2 232 (20.92%) Developer
3 146 (13.17%) Software Engineer
4 140 (12.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 138 (12.44%) Lead
6 99 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 77 (6.94%) Architect
8 71 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 60 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (4.78%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 45 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 34 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
14 34 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
15 30 (2.71%) Data Engineer
15 30 (2.71%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (2.71%) Software Developer
16 29 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (14.79%) React
2 157 (14.16%) RESTful
3 151 (13.62%) .NET
4 124 (11.18%) REST
5 117 (10.55%) Spring
6 109 (9.83%) Spring Boot
7 108 (9.74%) Kafka
8 102 (9.20%) Node.js
9 91 (8.21%) gRPC
10 78 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.04%) AngularJS
12 64 (5.77%) .NET Core
13 57 (5.14%) OAuth
13 57 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
14 49 (4.42%) FastAPI
15 46 (4.15%) Django
16 37 (3.34%) Flask
17 35 (3.16%) Vue
18 34 (3.07%) Web Services
19 33 (2.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 278 (25.07%) Cloud Native
2 154 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.06%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.06%) Video\Live Streaming
5 40 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.89%) Blockchain
7 28 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.98%) PKI
10 20 (1.80%) Web3
11 19 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.53%) Fixed Income
14 16 (1.44%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 213 (19.21%) Linux
2 80 (7.21%) Windows
3 42 (3.79%) Unix
4 39 (3.52%) Ubuntu
5 32 (2.89%) CentOS
6 23 (2.07%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.17%) Android
9 9 (0.81%) Debian
9 9 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.090%) Rocky
12 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (68.08%) CI/CD
2 559 (50.41%) DevOps
3 449 (40.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 415 (37.42%) Agile
5 392 (35.35%) Microservices
6 322 (29.04%) Software Engineering
7 305 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
8 232 (20.92%) AI
9 227 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (19.21%) Mentoring
11 206 (18.58%) Test Automation
12 198 (17.85%) Observability
13 165 (14.88%) Machine Learning
14 152 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
15 146 (13.17%) High Availability
16 134 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
17 129 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
18 121 (10.91%) Clean Code
19 120 (10.82%) Event-Driven
20 110 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 534 (48.15%) Python
2 266 (23.99%) Java
3 217 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 213 (19.21%) SQL
5 169 (15.24%) Bash
6 157 (14.16%) Go
7 131 (11.81%) C#
8 116 (10.46%) PowerShell
9 109 (9.83%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.42%) Scala
11 35 (3.16%) Bicep
12 34 (3.07%) C++
13 25 (2.25%) PHP
14 21 (1.89%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.53%) C
16 13 (1.17%) Ruby
17 11 (0.99%) Rust
18 10 (0.90%) Groovy
19 8 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
19 8 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 214 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 116 (10.46%) Degree
3 113 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 77 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 73 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (5.59%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.97%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (0.81%) CISSP
11 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.54%) OSCP
14 5 (0.45%) CISM
15 4 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.30%) QA
2 36 (3.25%) GDPR
3 32 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.61%) PCI DSS
6 23 (2.07%) NIST
7 19 (1.71%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.99%) NCSC
9 10 (0.90%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.81%) GRC
11 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 6 (0.54%) WCAG
12 5 (0.45%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.090%) EMIR
System Software
1 719 (64.83%) Docker
2 39 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.81%) KVM
5 9 (0.81%) vSphere
6 7 (0.63%) Firmware
6 7 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.36%) iptables
7 4 (0.36%) Squid
8 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.18%) GPFS
9 2 (0.18%) Lustre
9 2 (0.18%) RACF
9 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.090%) QEMU
10 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 691 (62.31%) Kubernetes
2 431 (38.86%) Terraform
3 187 (16.86%) Ansible
4 173 (15.60%) Grafana
5 151 (13.62%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.88%) Argo
7 23 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.80%) Puppet
9 19 (1.71%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.62%) Istio
11 15 (1.35%) Nagios
12 13 (1.17%) Podman
13 12 (1.08%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.72%) Kibana
15 8 (0.72%) Packer
16 7 (0.63%) linkerd
16 7 (0.63%) Mesos
17 5 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
17 5 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 109 (9.83%) Google
2 105 (9.47%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.23%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.06%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.88%) Splunk
6 38 (3.43%) OpenAI
7 35 (3.16%) Oracle
8 31 (2.80%) VMware
9 23 (2.07%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.35%) Cisco
11 15 (1.35%) Databricks
12 13 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
12 13 (1.17%) NVIDIA
12 13 (1.17%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.17%) UiPath
13 11 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.99%) Confluent
14 8 (0.72%) SAP
15 7 (0.63%) Fortinet