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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 133 152
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 -29
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,462 1,175 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 2.37% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.66% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 908 586 753
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,375 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £108,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +3.85% +1.96% -1.92%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -23 1,272 £72,500 -3.33% 1,887
UK excluding London -8 903 £67,500 +3.85% 1,592
London -35 453 £80,000 -5.88% 851
Work from Home -44 451 £68,724 +0.33% 1,406
North of England -17 266 £65,788 +1.21% 327
South West +8 214 £70,000 +7.69% 200
South East -5 169 £65,000 -10.34% 244
North West -42 144 £75,000 +15.38% 165
Midlands -64 94 £70,000 - 163
North East -7 73 £60,000 - 70
Northern Ireland -33 59 - - 137
West Midlands -54 56 £82,500 +17.86% 95
Wales -38 52 £61,000 -15.86% 123
Yorkshire -26 49 £70,466 +3.63% 97
East of England -42 49 £72,500 +23.40% 96
East Midlands -53 38 £70,000 +27.27% 68
Scotland -59 11 £90,000 +33.33% 316

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 56 (3.83%) Apache
2 44 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.74%) Confluence
4 30 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.21%) Camunda
10 3 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.068%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Blender
4 3 (0.21%) Maya
5 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 837 (57.25%) AWS
2 770 (52.67%) Azure
3 342 (23.39%) GCP
4 237 (16.21%) GitHub
5 174 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 170 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
7 146 (9.99%) Serverless
8 125 (8.55%) Cloud Computing
9 117 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (6.98%) OpenShift
11 90 (6.16%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
12 84 (5.75%) Amazon S3
13 75 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
17 53 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
18 49 (3.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.13%) WAN
2 68 (4.65%) LAN
3 67 (4.58%) Firewall
4 58 (3.97%) DNS
5 51 (3.49%) Network Security
6 43 (2.94%) VPN
7 40 (2.74%) Internet
8 34 (2.33%) TCP/IP
9 28 (1.92%) MQTT
10 19 (1.30%) BGP
11 18 (1.23%) OSPF
12 17 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 16 (1.09%) VLAN
14 15 (1.03%) DMARC
15 12 (0.82%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
17 9 (0.62%) Broadband
18 8 (0.55%) 3GPP
18 8 (0.55%) HTTP
18 8 (0.55%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 73 (4.99%) MongoDB
4 64 (4.38%) MySQL
5 48 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 40 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 39 (2.67%) Redis
9 29 (1.98%) SQL Server
10 28 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.37%) Big Data
12 17 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.03%) Metadata
14 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
14 14 (0.96%) Pinecone
15 13 (0.89%) Data Lake
16 10 (0.68%) DTS
Development Applications
1 320 (21.89%) Git
2 209 (14.30%) Jenkins
3 181 (12.38%) GitLab
4 38 (2.60%) JIRA
5 29 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.64%) JUnit
7 23 (1.57%) Maven
8 21 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.23%) Selenium
9 18 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 17 (1.16%) Mockito
11 16 (1.09%) CircleCI
11 16 (1.09%) Claude Code
12 15 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.75%) MLflow
14 10 (0.68%) Vite
15 9 (0.62%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.55%) Robot Framework
16 8 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 463 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 341 (23.32%) Finance
3 198 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 130 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.09%) Law
7 87 (5.95%) Banking
8 71 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.80%) Aerospace
10 34 (2.33%) Legal
11 33 (2.26%) Retail
12 29 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.37%) Games
14 15 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.96%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Publishing
17 12 (0.82%) Electronics
18 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.75%) Front Office
19 9 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (20.38%) Senior
2 257 (17.58%) Developer
3 250 (17.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.80%) Architect
5 213 (14.57%) Software Engineer
6 180 (12.31%) Lead
7 103 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 68 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 67 (4.58%) Systems Architect
12 60 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
14 52 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
15 45 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
15 45 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
16 44 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.94%) Software Developer
18 41 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (36.53%) Terraform
2 217 (14.84%) Spring
3 208 (14.23%) RESTful
4 204 (13.95%) Spring Boot
5 187 (12.79%) React
6 156 (10.67%) Kafka
7 150 (10.26%) Node.js
8 127 (8.69%) REST
9 117 (8.00%) .NET
10 84 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
11 67 (4.58%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.69%) OAuth
13 50 (3.42%) CSS
13 50 (3.42%) FastAPI
14 45 (3.08%) OpenAPI
15 43 (2.94%) OAuth2
16 40 (2.74%) Swagger
17 39 (2.67%) LangChain
18 37 (2.53%) HTML
18 37 (2.53%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 419 (28.66%) Cloud Native
2 165 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.56%) Linux Command Line
6 42 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.33%) AI Agents
8 34 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.98%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.85%) PKI
13 26 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.78%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.71%) Blog
15 22 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (1.30%) Management Information System
17 18 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 338 (23.12%) Linux
2 87 (5.95%) Windows
3 44 (3.01%) Unix
4 35 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.92%) CentOS
6 20 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.82%) Debian
8 8 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.21%) Rocky
9 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Android
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (68.40%) CI/CD
2 753 (51.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 750 (51.30%) DevOps
4 520 (35.57%) Agile
5 452 (30.92%) Software Engineering
6 415 (28.39%) Microservices
7 357 (24.42%) Mentoring
8 331 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
9 300 (20.52%) Observability
10 298 (20.38%) AI
11 290 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 266 (18.19%) Test Automation
13 261 (17.85%) Platform Engineering
14 252 (17.24%) Event-Driven
15 206 (14.09%) Roadmaps
16 181 (12.38%) DevSecOps
17 174 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
18 173 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 151 (10.33%) Full-Stack Development
19 151 (10.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 637 (43.57%) Python
2 401 (27.43%) Java
3 208 (14.23%) JavaScript
4 191 (13.06%) Bash
5 167 (11.42%) SQL
6 163 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 133 (9.10%) C#
8 125 (8.55%) PowerShell
9 87 (5.95%) Go
10 62 (4.24%) C++
11 60 (4.10%) Bicep
12 48 (3.28%) Shell Script
13 37 (2.53%) Ruby
14 35 (2.39%) Rust
15 19 (1.30%) Groovy
16 16 (1.09%) Scala
17 14 (0.96%) C
17 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 467 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 234 (16.01%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.45%) DV Cleared
4 165 (11.29%) Degree
5 101 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.85%) CISSP
10 14 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.89%) CCNP
11 13 (0.89%) OSCP
11 13 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.62%) CISM
14 9 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (8.34%) QA
2 72 (4.92%) GRC
3 56 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.74%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.12%) NCSC
6 30 (2.05%) GDPR
7 28 (1.92%) NIST
8 22 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.16%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.27%) SLA
17 2 (0.14%) EU AI Act
17 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 830 (56.77%) Docker
2 46 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.62%) KVM
7 8 (0.55%) Squid
7 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.55%) vSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.34%) NDS
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Lustre
10 2 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.068%) Xen
Systems Management
1 832 (56.91%) Kubernetes
2 215 (14.71%) Ansible
3 143 (9.78%) Grafana
4 118 (8.07%) Prometheus
5 41 (2.80%) Puppet
6 38 (2.60%) Argo
7 33 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.37%) Istio
9 16 (1.09%) linkerd
10 15 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.96%) Kibana
12 13 (0.89%) Nagios
13 12 (0.82%) Podman
14 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.75%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.68%) Packer
16 8 (0.55%) logstash
16 8 (0.55%) Rancher
17 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
18 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 270 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.34%) Google
3 63 (4.31%) Splunk
4 52 (3.56%) VMware
5 51 (3.49%) Red Hat
6 50 (3.42%) Oracle
7 26 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 20 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.23%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.03%) SendGrid
11 13 (0.89%) IBM
12 12 (0.82%) Databricks
13 11 (0.75%) Mistral
14 10 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.68%) Cisco
14 10 (0.68%) Okta
15 9 (0.62%) ForgeRock
15 9 (0.62%) Rapid7