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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 127 186
Rank change year-on-year -39 +59 -47
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,108 1,017 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.40% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.59% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 713 712 1,130
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.45% +1.40%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,507 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £127,500 £102,625
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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £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 £78,500 £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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1,014 £72,500 -3.33% 363
UK excluding London -53 531 £62,500 -7.41% 241
London -9 476 £82,500 -8.33% 151
Work from Home -19 418 £70,932 +3.51% 167
North of England -43 176 £65,000 - 59
South East -9 123 £68,500 +14.17% 74
South West -30 119 £55,000 -23.87% 45
North West -17 91 £65,000 +2.20% 28
Midlands -50 58 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Yorkshire -72 57 £62,500 -8.09% 15
West Midlands -45 31 £70,505 +8.47% 20
North East -18 28 £48,445 -26.62% 16
East of England -35 28 £60,050 -7.62% 17
East Midlands -43 26 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Wales -18 16 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Scotland -67 13 £60,000 -29.52% 8
Northern Ireland -37 7 £62,500 - 1

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 (2.35%) Apache
3 17 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.44%) Appian
5 12 (1.08%) Confluence
6 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 1 (0.090%) JBoss
11 1 (0.090%) nginx
11 1 (0.090%) SAS
11 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Maya
2 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 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
1 646 (58.30%) AWS
2 563 (50.81%) Azure
3 325 (29.33%) GCP
4 206 (18.59%) GitHub
5 165 (14.89%) Serverless
6 141 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
7 133 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (11.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (8.66%) OpenShift
10 95 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (8.30%) Datadog
12 91 (8.21%) Azure AKS
13 86 (7.76%) Amazon S3
14 78 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (5.14%) SaaS
16 56 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
19 41 (3.70%) PaaS
20 39 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.04%) Broadband
2 73 (6.59%) Firewall
3 51 (4.60%) DNS
4 31 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.62%) HTTP
6 28 (2.53%) Network Security
7 17 (1.53%) 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 (14.89%) NoSQL
2 102 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (7.40%) SQL Server
4 79 (7.13%) MongoDB
5 70 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 64 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (4.60%) MySQL
8 46 (4.15%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 30 (2.71%) Pinecone
11 28 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.99%) Redis
13 14 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.08%) Big Data
14 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.08%) InfluxDB
15 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.99%) Metadata
15 11 (0.99%) Power BI
16 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 203 (18.32%) Git
2 176 (15.88%) Jenkins
3 143 (12.91%) GitLab
4 46 (4.15%) CircleCI
5 35 (3.16%) JIRA
6 27 (2.44%) JUnit
7 25 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.90%) 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 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 238 (21.48%) Finance
3 92 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.13%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.77%) Banking
6 69 (6.23%) Telecoms
7 60 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (5.42%) Law
8 22 (1.99%) Front Office
9 20 (1.81%) 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%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 268 (24.19%) Senior
2 234 (21.12%) Developer
3 146 (13.18%) Software Engineer
4 140 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 136 (12.27%) Lead
6 100 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 77 (6.95%) Architect
8 71 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 59 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (4.78%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 45 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 39 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 35 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
16 34 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
17 31 (2.80%) Software Developer
18 30 (2.71%) Scala Engineer
19 29 (2.62%) Data Engineer
19 29 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (14.71%) React
2 155 (13.99%) RESTful
3 151 (13.63%) .NET
4 123 (11.10%) REST
5 117 (10.56%) Spring
6 109 (9.84%) Spring Boot
7 107 (9.66%) Kafka
8 101 (9.12%) Node.js
9 90 (8.12%) gRPC
10 78 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (6.05%) AngularJS
12 64 (5.78%) .NET Core
13 58 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
14 55 (4.96%) OAuth
15 49 (4.42%) FastAPI
16 46 (4.15%) Django
17 37 (3.34%) Flask
18 35 (3.16%) Vue
19 34 (3.07%) Web Services
20 33 (2.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 279 (25.18%) Cloud Native
2 152 (13.72%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.06%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (4.06%) Video\Live Streaming
5 39 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.98%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.26%) AI Agents
10 23 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.99%) PKI
12 21 (1.90%) Web3
13 19 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.62%) Low-Code
14 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.44%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.44%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 213 (19.22%) Linux
2 79 (7.13%) Windows
3 40 (3.61%) Ubuntu
3 40 (3.61%) Unix
4 33 (2.98%) CentOS
5 23 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (1.08%) Android
8 9 (0.81%) Debian
8 9 (0.81%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.090%) Rocky
11 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (68.14%) CI/CD
2 562 (50.72%) DevOps
3 453 (40.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 415 (37.45%) Agile
5 389 (35.11%) Microservices
6 323 (29.15%) Software Engineering
7 303 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 229 (20.67%) AI
10 213 (19.22%) Mentoring
11 206 (18.59%) Test Automation
12 199 (17.96%) Observability
13 162 (14.62%) Machine Learning
14 152 (13.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 146 (13.18%) High Availability
16 135 (12.18%) Continuous Integration
17 130 (11.73%) Continuous Delivery
18 121 (10.92%) Clean Code
19 119 (10.74%) Event-Driven
20 114 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 535 (48.29%) Python
2 264 (23.83%) Java
3 217 (19.58%) JavaScript
4 211 (19.04%) SQL
5 172 (15.52%) Bash
6 156 (14.08%) Go
7 132 (11.91%) C#
8 116 (10.47%) PowerShell
9 108 (9.75%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.42%) Scala
11 35 (3.16%) Bicep
12 34 (3.07%) C++
13 25 (2.26%) PHP
14 21 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.53%) C
16 13 (1.17%) Ruby
17 12 (1.08%) Rust
18 10 (0.90%) Groovy
19 8 (0.72%) Delphi
19 8 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 214 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 113 (10.20%) Degree
2 113 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.95%) DV Cleared
4 70 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (5.60%) AWS Certification
6 45 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.72%) CISSP
11 7 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.54%) OSCP
13 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.40%) QA
2 36 (3.25%) GDPR
3 31 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.99%) 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
1 720 (64.98%) Docker
2 39 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.62%) Active Directory
4 27 (2.44%) 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 (62.36%) Kubernetes
2 435 (39.26%) Terraform
3 187 (16.88%) Ansible
4 175 (15.79%) Grafana
5 154 (13.90%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.88%) Argo
7 23 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.81%) 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
1 110 (9.93%) Google
2 107 (9.66%) Microsoft
3 58 (5.23%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.06%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.70%) Splunk
6 38 (3.43%) OpenAI
7 35 (3.16%) Oracle
8 31 (2.80%) VMware
9 23 (2.08%) 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