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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 115 190
Rank change year-on-year -35 +75 -50
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,345 1,320 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.68% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.97% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 920 677 1,046
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £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 £102,575 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
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 13 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 13 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 -32 1,198 £72,500 -9.38% 509
UK excluding London -35 762 £65,000 -3.70% 324
Work from Home -42 481 £70,000 -2.77% 230
London -22 476 £80,000 -11.11% 247
North of England -39 227 £65,000 - 88
South East +30 188 £65,000 - 79
South West -8 172 £57,500 -23.33% 76
North West -43 120 £71,716 +19.53% 47
Yorkshire -33 64 £70,000 +1.08% 20
Midlands -89 63 £70,000 +7.69% 36
North East -18 43 £55,000 -12.00% 21
East of England -24 42 £60,000 -7.69% 9
Wales -27 37 £68,750 +5.77% 8
West Midlands -62 37 £70,505 +4.45% 25
Northern Ireland -27 34 £62,500 +45.04% 21
East Midlands -61 26 £64,000 +6.67% 11
Scotland -72 7 £60,000 -25.00% 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 39 (2.90%) Apache
2 32 (2.38%) Confluence
3 29 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.30%) IIS
6 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.22%) Appian
7 3 (0.22%) Camunda
7 3 (0.22%) CMS
7 3 (0.22%) WordPress
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.074%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.074%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 788 (58.59%) AWS
2 679 (50.48%) Azure
3 351 (26.10%) GCP
4 219 (16.28%) GitHub
5 187 (13.90%) Serverless
6 161 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 155 (11.52%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (8.48%) OpenShift
10 105 (7.81%) Azure AKS
11 98 (7.29%) Amazon S3
11 98 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
12 80 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 80 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 75 (5.58%) Datadog
14 73 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
15 68 (5.06%) SaaS
16 63 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
17 57 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.50%) Firewall
2 73 (5.43%) DNS
3 66 (4.91%) Broadband
4 43 (3.20%) TCP/IP
5 40 (2.97%) WAN
6 38 (2.83%) Network Security
7 35 (2.60%) VPN
8 33 (2.45%) LAN
9 23 (1.71%) HTTP
10 19 (1.41%) MQTT
11 16 (1.19%) VLAN
12 15 (1.12%) BGP
12 15 (1.12%) OSPF
13 14 (1.04%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.97%) DMARC
15 12 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (0.74%) Wireshark
17 8 (0.59%) AMQP
17 8 (0.59%) IPv4
18 7 (0.52%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 80 (5.95%) MongoDB
4 59 (4.39%) MySQL
4 59 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 58 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 45 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 39 (2.90%) Redis
9 29 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.12%) Pinecone
11 15 (1.12%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.04%) Big Data
13 11 (0.82%) DTS
13 11 (0.82%) InfluxDB
13 11 (0.82%) Metadata
14 10 (0.74%) Db2
15 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 242 (17.99%) Git
2 204 (15.17%) Jenkins
3 181 (13.46%) GitLab
4 43 (3.20%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.90%) JIRA
6 28 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.26%) JUnit
8 17 (1.26%) Maven
8 17 (1.26%) Selenium
9 15 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.12%) Mockito
9 15 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.12%) Vite
10 12 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.74%) Robot Framework
11 10 (0.74%) TestRail
12 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.67%) MLflow
13 8 (0.59%) Gatling
General
1 382 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 279 (20.74%) Finance
3 117 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 100 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (6.77%) Law
6 81 (6.02%) Banking
7 77 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (3.12%) Telecoms
9 32 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.41%) Games
12 19 (1.41%) Retail
13 17 (1.26%) Legal
14 13 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.82%) Front Office
16 9 (0.67%) Billing
16 9 (0.67%) Electronics
16 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (20.67%) Senior
2 254 (18.88%) Developer
3 196 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 188 (13.98%) Software Engineer
5 170 (12.64%) Lead
6 164 (12.19%) Architect
7 128 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (5.28%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 60 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
12 57 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
13 53 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
17 38 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
18 37 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
19 36 (2.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (12.86%) React
1 173 (12.86%) Spring
2 172 (12.79%) RESTful
3 168 (12.49%) Spring Boot
4 144 (10.71%) Node.js
5 141 (10.48%) .NET
6 128 (9.52%) Kafka
7 125 (9.29%) REST
8 81 (6.02%) AngularJS
9 79 (5.87%) gRPC
10 73 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
11 61 (4.54%) OAuth
12 58 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
13 47 (3.49%) .NET Core
13 47 (3.49%) JSON
14 45 (3.35%) OAuth2
15 42 (3.12%) YAML
16 41 (3.05%) FastAPI
17 40 (2.97%) CSS
18 38 (2.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 352 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 169 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.35%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
5 37 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 31 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.86%) PKI
11 21 (1.56%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.34%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.34%) Web3
15 17 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.19%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 271 (20.15%) Linux
2 95 (7.06%) Windows
3 36 (2.68%) Ubuntu
4 35 (2.60%) CentOS
4 35 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.38%) Unix
6 21 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.74%) Debian
8 5 (0.37%) VMS
9 4 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.074%) Android
11 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (67.66%) CI/CD
2 647 (48.10%) DevOps
3 622 (46.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 497 (36.95%) Agile
5 428 (31.82%) Microservices
6 418 (31.08%) Software Engineering
7 346 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (19.85%) Mentoring
9 262 (19.48%) Test Automation
10 257 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (18.44%) Observability
12 223 (16.58%) AI
13 184 (13.68%) Event-Driven
14 179 (13.31%) Platform Engineering
15 170 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
16 143 (10.63%) Clean Code
17 140 (10.41%) Continuous Delivery
18 137 (10.19%) Machine Learning
19 131 (9.74%) Roadmaps
20 128 (9.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 635 (47.21%) Python
2 333 (24.76%) Java
3 246 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 189 (14.05%) Bash
5 172 (12.79%) SQL
6 154 (11.45%) C#
7 151 (11.23%) TypeScript
8 147 (10.93%) PowerShell
9 141 (10.48%) Go
10 55 (4.09%) Bicep
11 53 (3.94%) Scala
12 46 (3.42%) C++
13 33 (2.45%) Ruby
14 30 (2.23%) Rust
15 26 (1.93%) PHP
16 23 (1.71%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.26%) Groovy
18 12 (0.89%) C
19 10 (0.74%) RPG
20 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 345 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 168 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 140 (10.41%) Degree
4 122 (9.07%) DV Cleared
5 76 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.16%) Azure Certification
7 46 (3.42%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.34%) CISSP
11 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.67%) CCNP
13 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.59%) CCNA
14 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.59%) OSCP
14 8 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (8.10%) QA
2 41 (3.05%) GRC
3 39 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.38%) GDPR
4 32 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.71%) NIST
8 18 (1.34%) WCAG
9 16 (1.19%) NCSC
10 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.74%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.074%) PSD2
15 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 790 (58.74%) Docker
2 43 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
2 43 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.74%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.74%) vSphere
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.59%) KVM
6 8 (0.59%) Squid
7 6 (0.45%) Firmware
8 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
9 3 (0.22%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.074%) QEMU
10 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 790 (58.74%) Kubernetes
2 525 (39.03%) Terraform
3 218 (16.21%) Ansible
4 176 (13.09%) Grafana
5 149 (11.08%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.90%) Argo
7 34 (2.53%) Puppet
8 27 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.78%) Istio
10 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (1.41%) Nagios
12 17 (1.26%) Podman
13 15 (1.12%) Kibana
14 13 (0.97%) linkerd
14 13 (0.97%) Packer
15 12 (0.89%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.82%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
17 7 (0.52%) logstash
17 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 171 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.84%) Google
3 64 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 51 (3.79%) Splunk
5 45 (3.35%) Typelevel
5 45 (3.35%) VMware
6 36 (2.68%) Oracle
7 27 (2.01%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 21 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.41%) Cisco
11 18 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.12%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.97%) IBM
13 13 (0.97%) SendGrid
14 11 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.74%) Confluent
15 10 (0.74%) Databricks
15 10 (0.74%) NVIDIA
15 10 (0.74%) Salesforce