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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 151 117
Rank change year-on-year -8 -34 +20
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 923 1,181 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 1.76% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.10% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 626 746 1,042
10th Percentile £48,208 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 45,477 56,157 48,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.69% 83.58% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27,500 29,119 37,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 0 850 £72,500 +3.57% 913
UK excluding London -10 439 £65,000 - 494
London +18 413 £85,000 -2.86% 463
Work from Home -3 323 £67,500 -3.57% 519
North of England +8 169 £65,000 +8.33% 169
North West +27 106 £65,000 +8.33% 129
South West +2 92 £60,000 -12.09% 79
South East -21 59 £75,000 +15.38% 125
Midlands +34 58 £68,750 +5.77% 58
West Midlands +22 39 £71,521 +10.03% 40
Yorkshire -38 39 £68,500 +24.55% 28
Scotland -18 33 £70,000 - 22
East of England +13 27 £57,500 -8.00% 32
North East +20 24 £60,000 +14.29% 12
East Midlands +18 19 £54,500 +31.33% 18
Wales +6 16 £80,000 +23.08% 7
Northern Ireland -1 5 £43,092 -33.35% 9

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 55 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 44 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.25%) Apache
4 17 (1.84%) CMS
5 15 (1.63%) IIS
6 13 (1.41%) Apache Solr
7 12 (1.30%) Confluence
8 6 (0.65%) nginx
9 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.43%) Appian
11 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.22%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) FileNet
13 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Maya
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 2 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Shopify
2 3 (0.33%) Endur
3 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 550 (59.59%) AWS
2 497 (53.85%) Azure
3 238 (25.79%) GCP
4 176 (19.07%) GitHub
5 126 (13.65%) Serverless
6 124 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (12.78%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (8.34%) Amazon S3
9 72 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
11 62 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 59 (6.39%) SaaS
13 54 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (4.44%) OpenShift
15 38 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (4.01%) Datadog
17 36 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (3.90%) PaaS
18 33 (3.58%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.53%) Firewall
2 31 (3.36%) DNS
3 19 (2.06%) DHCP
4 18 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.95%) VPN
5 17 (1.84%) Network Security
6 16 (1.73%) WAN
7 13 (1.41%) LAN
8 9 (0.98%) IPsec
9 8 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (0.87%) HTTP
9 8 (0.87%) VLAN
10 7 (0.76%) AMQP
11 6 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.65%) SAN
11 6 (0.65%) VoIP
11 6 (0.65%) Wireless
12 4 (0.43%) DMZ
12 4 (0.43%) Internet
12 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (11.16%) NoSQL
3 73 (7.91%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.37%) MongoDB
5 53 (5.74%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.53%) DynamoDB
6 51 (5.53%) MySQL
7 49 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (3.79%) Big Data
9 26 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (2.60%) Metadata
11 20 (2.17%) Spark SQL
12 19 (2.06%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.73%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.41%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.41%) Tick Data
16 12 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (1.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 170 (18.42%) Git
2 122 (13.22%) Jenkins
3 96 (10.40%) GitLab
4 34 (3.68%) JIRA
5 31 (3.36%) MLflow
6 25 (2.71%) SonarQube
7 21 (2.28%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.28%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.95%) JUnit
9 17 (1.84%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.63%) Selenium
11 13 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (1.19%) JMeter
13 10 (1.08%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.76%) Locust
15 7 (0.76%) Maven
16 6 (0.65%) Mockito
17 5 (0.54%) Artifactory
General
1 285 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 241 (26.11%) Finance
3 104 (11.27%) Law
4 94 (10.18%) Marketing
5 82 (8.88%) Public Sector
6 71 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (5.63%) Banking
9 50 (5.42%) Telecoms
10 33 (3.58%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.14%) Games
12 28 (3.03%) Retail
13 26 (2.82%) Electronics
14 23 (2.49%) Front Office
15 13 (1.41%) Legal
16 11 (1.19%) Advertising
16 11 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.19%) French Language
17 10 (1.08%) Dutch Language
17 10 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (23.73%) Developer
2 187 (20.26%) Senior
3 135 (14.63%) Lead
4 117 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 109 (11.81%) Software Engineer
6 63 (6.83%) Architect
7 59 (6.39%) Senior Developer
8 55 (5.96%) Python Developer
9 48 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 48 (5.20%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (4.98%) Python Engineer
11 45 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (4.55%) Lead Developer
13 41 (4.44%) Data Engineer
14 40 (4.33%) Backend Developer
14 40 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (4.12%) Software Developer
16 35 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 33 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (16.14%) React
2 135 (14.63%) RESTful
3 131 (14.19%) .NET
4 91 (9.86%) Spring
5 84 (9.10%) Spring Boot
6 79 (8.56%) Kafka
7 76 (8.23%) REST
8 75 (8.13%) Node.js
9 70 (7.58%) FastAPI
10 64 (6.93%) AngularJS
11 57 (6.18%) HTML
12 56 (6.07%) CSS
13 55 (5.96%) .NET Core
14 48 (5.20%) Flask
14 48 (5.20%) PyTorch
15 43 (4.66%) TensorFlow
16 42 (4.55%) Pandas
17 41 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
18 38 (4.12%) scikit-learn
18 38 (4.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 225 (24.38%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (3.36%) Algorithms
6 30 (3.25%) Onboarding
7 29 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.93%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 23 (2.49%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.49%) Fixed Income
11 18 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.84%) Blockchain
13 15 (1.63%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.52%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.19%) PKI
16 9 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.48%) Linux
2 108 (11.70%) Windows
3 50 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.90%) Unix
5 30 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.63%) VMS
7 11 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.08%) CentOS
9 8 (0.87%) Debian
9 8 (0.87%) Rocky
10 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.54%) Android
12 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.11%) Fedora
14 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (62.51%) CI/CD
2 478 (51.79%) DevOps
3 321 (34.78%) Agile
4 296 (32.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (28.93%) Microservices
6 251 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
7 226 (24.49%) AI
8 209 (22.64%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.23%) Mentoring
10 138 (14.95%) Machine Learning
11 132 (14.30%) Test Automation
12 116 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (12.57%) Observability
13 111 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 105 (11.38%) Computer Science
15 99 (10.73%) Analytics
16 93 (10.08%) Data Pipeline
17 85 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
18 82 (8.88%) Data Science
19 80 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 458 (49.62%) Python
2 198 (21.45%) Java
3 196 (21.24%) SQL
4 150 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 138 (14.95%) C#
6 108 (11.70%) Bash
7 97 (10.51%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 48 (5.20%) Go
10 29 (3.14%) Bicep
11 20 (2.17%) C++
11 20 (2.17%) PHP
12 12 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.08%) Ruby
14 8 (0.87%) Delphi
14 8 (0.87%) Scala
14 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.76%) Rust
16 6 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 136 (14.73%) Degree
2 135 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 85 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.15%) DV Cleared
5 63 (6.83%) AWS Certification
6 44 (4.77%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.30%) CISSP
11 8 (0.87%) CISM
11 8 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.76%) PhD
12 7 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.65%) ACMT
13 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.88%) QA
2 41 (4.44%) GDPR
3 25 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.17%) NIST
6 16 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.98%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.87%) WCAG
11 7 (0.76%) GRC
11 7 (0.76%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.76%) NCSC
12 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.33%) EMIR
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) ECSS
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 607 (65.76%) Docker
2 52 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.33%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.28%) vSphere
6 11 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.87%) NFS
8 4 (0.43%) KVM
8 4 (0.43%) Lustre
8 4 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.43%) vCloud
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) Ceph
9 2 (0.22%) GPFS
9 2 (0.22%) Postfix
9 2 (0.22%) RACF
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 586 (63.49%) Kubernetes
2 320 (34.67%) Terraform
3 130 (14.08%) Ansible
4 112 (12.13%) Grafana
5 92 (9.97%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.60%) Kubeflow
7 12 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.19%) Argo
8 11 (1.19%) Control-M
9 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.98%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.98%) Puppet
11 8 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 6 (0.65%) Autotask
13 6 (0.65%) SCCM
14 5 (0.54%) SCOM
14 5 (0.54%) WSUS
15 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 119 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.15%) Oracle
3 61 (6.61%) VMware
4 56 (6.07%) Google
5 40 (4.33%) Databricks
6 34 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.58%) Splunk
8 32 (3.47%) SAP
9 26 (2.82%) Cisco
10 20 (2.17%) Dell
10 20 (2.17%) Palo Alto
11 19 (2.06%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.84%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.30%) Pure Storage
14 11 (1.19%) Commvault
14 11 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (0.98%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.87%) IBM
17 8 (0.87%) Salesforce