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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 115 192
Rank change year-on-year -29 +77 -52
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,369 1,309 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.67% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.96% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 924 668 936
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,731 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,625 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £126,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.79%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
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 23 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 23 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 -33 1,206 £72,500 -6.45% 553
UK excluding London -26 798 £65,000 -3.70% 297
Work from Home -30 504 £70,000 -2.77% 241
London -16 479 £80,000 -11.11% 306
North of England -41 224 £65,000 - 84
South East +31 189 £65,000 -1.89% 78
South West -1 178 £57,500 -23.33% 52
North West -32 122 £70,000 +16.67% 53
Midlands -79 69 £70,000 +7.69% 40
Yorkshire -32 59 £65,000 -5.11% 18
Northern Ireland -21 56 £73,801 +71.27% 11
Wales -23 44 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North East -19 43 £55,000 -15.38% 13
West Midlands -61 42 £70,079 +3.82% 27
East of England -14 41 £60,000 -7.69% 15
East Midlands -55 27 £63,250 +10.00% 13
Scotland -62 7 £60,000 -19.46% 16

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 (2.85%) Apache
2 32 (2.34%) Confluence
3 31 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.29%) IIS
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.22%) WordPress
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.073%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.073%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.073%) JBoss
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.22%) Blender
4 3 (0.22%) Maya
5 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 783 (57.20%) AWS
2 703 (51.35%) Azure
3 347 (25.35%) GCP
4 217 (15.85%) GitHub
5 181 (13.22%) Serverless
6 159 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
8 117 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (8.11%) OpenShift
10 104 (7.60%) Azure AKS
11 95 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
12 94 (6.87%) Amazon S3
13 90 (6.57%) Cloud Computing
14 82 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
15 81 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 77 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (5.33%) Datadog
18 67 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
19 64 (4.67%) SaaS
20 57 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.33%) Firewall
2 69 (5.04%) DNS
2 69 (5.04%) WAN
3 62 (4.53%) LAN
4 60 (4.38%) Broadband
5 44 (3.21%) Network Security
6 42 (3.07%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.63%) VPN
8 21 (1.53%) MQTT
9 20 (1.46%) HTTP
10 17 (1.24%) BGP
10 17 (1.24%) OSPF
11 16 (1.17%) VLAN
11 16 (1.17%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.95%) DMARC
12 13 (0.95%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (0.58%) IPv4
14 8 (0.58%) LTE
14 8 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 74 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.24%) MySQL
5 57 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
6 54 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.51%) DynamoDB
8 43 (3.14%) SQL Server
9 42 (3.07%) Redis
10 29 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.95%) Big Data
13 12 (0.88%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.80%) DTS
15 10 (0.73%) Db2
16 9 (0.66%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.66%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.66%) Power BI
17 8 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 251 (18.33%) Git
2 209 (15.27%) Jenkins
3 188 (13.73%) GitLab
4 40 (2.92%) CircleCI
4 40 (2.92%) JIRA
5 26 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 24 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.31%) JUnit
7 18 (1.31%) Maven
8 16 (1.17%) Mockito
9 15 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.10%) Selenium
10 14 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.88%) Vite
12 9 (0.66%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.58%) Gatling
13 8 (0.58%) MLflow
13 8 (0.58%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 414 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 310 (22.64%) Finance
3 116 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 108 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.01%) Law
6 83 (6.06%) Banking
7 80 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.68%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.53%) Legal
13 19 (1.39%) Retail
14 17 (1.24%) Games
15 14 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.80%) Front Office
17 10 (0.73%) Electronics
17 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.66%) Billing
19 8 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 266 (19.43%) Senior
2 259 (18.92%) Developer
3 202 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 193 (14.10%) Software Engineer
5 188 (13.73%) Architect
6 168 (12.27%) Lead
7 123 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 67 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (4.67%) Java Developer
10 64 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
11 63 (4.60%) Systems Architect
12 53 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 52 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 51 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
15 49 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
17 42 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
19 37 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (13.29%) RESTful
2 178 (13.00%) Spring
3 171 (12.49%) Spring Boot
4 170 (12.42%) React
5 139 (10.15%) Kafka
6 138 (10.08%) Node.js
7 134 (9.79%) .NET
8 123 (8.98%) REST
9 80 (5.84%) AngularJS
10 77 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
11 75 (5.48%) gRPC
12 60 (4.38%) OAuth
13 50 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
13 50 (3.65%) JSON
14 46 (3.36%) CSS
15 45 (3.29%) OAuth2
16 43 (3.14%) YAML
17 42 (3.07%) .NET Core
18 41 (2.99%) HTML
19 39 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 350 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 179 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.29%) Video\Live Streaming
5 42 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 31 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.53%) PKI
11 20 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.39%) Blockchain
13 17 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.24%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 270 (19.72%) Linux
2 89 (6.50%) Windows
3 34 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.26%) CentOS
5 29 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 28 (2.05%) Unix
7 18 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.66%) Debian
9 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.073%) Android
12 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.073%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (66.54%) CI/CD
2 648 (47.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 642 (46.90%) DevOps
4 476 (34.77%) Agile
5 430 (31.41%) Software Engineering
6 427 (31.19%) Microservices
7 345 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
8 264 (19.28%) Test Automation
9 260 (18.99%) Mentoring
10 256 (18.70%) Observability
11 248 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 232 (16.95%) AI
13 194 (14.17%) Event-Driven
14 185 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
15 171 (12.49%) Full-Stack Development
16 162 (11.83%) Roadmaps
17 146 (10.66%) Clean Code
18 140 (10.23%) Machine Learning
19 136 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
20 131 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 631 (46.09%) Python
2 326 (23.81%) Java
3 241 (17.60%) JavaScript
4 180 (13.15%) Bash
5 168 (12.27%) SQL
6 150 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 149 (10.88%) C#
8 138 (10.08%) PowerShell
9 135 (9.86%) Go
10 56 (4.09%) Bicep
11 55 (4.02%) Scala
12 49 (3.58%) C++
13 37 (2.70%) Ruby
14 30 (2.19%) Rust
15 26 (1.90%) PHP
16 21 (1.53%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.24%) Groovy
18 12 (0.88%) C
19 11 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 10 (0.73%) RPG
Qualifications
1 338 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 151 (11.03%) Degree
4 124 (9.06%) DV Cleared
5 82 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.09%) Azure Certification
7 41 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.53%) CISSP
10 18 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.80%) CCNP
11 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.58%) CCNA
14 8 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.58%) OSCP
14 8 (0.58%) RHCE
14 8 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.40%) QA
2 68 (4.97%) GRC
3 43 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.34%) GDPR
5 31 (2.26%) PCI DSS
6 29 (2.12%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.68%) NIST
9 21 (1.53%) WCAG
10 16 (1.17%) NCSC
11 14 (1.02%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.73%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.073%) SLA
16 1 (0.073%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 793 (57.93%) Docker
2 41 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.66%) vSphere
6 8 (0.58%) Squid
7 7 (0.51%) KVM
8 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.22%) iptables
10 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.15%) NDS
11 1 (0.073%) QEMU
11 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.073%) Xen
Systems Management
1 785 (57.34%) Kubernetes
2 520 (37.98%) Terraform
3 207 (15.12%) Ansible
4 173 (12.64%) Grafana
5 146 (10.66%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.41%) Puppet
7 31 (2.26%) Argo
8 29 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.61%) Istio
10 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (1.39%) Nagios
11 18 (1.31%) Podman
12 15 (1.10%) Kibana
13 14 (1.02%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.88%) linkerd
15 11 (0.80%) Packer
15 11 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.51%) logstash
17 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 195 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.84%) Google
3 60 (4.38%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.80%) Splunk
5 45 (3.29%) Typelevel
6 43 (3.14%) VMware
7 42 (3.07%) Oracle
8 25 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.68%) Palo Alto
10 21 (1.53%) Cisco
10 21 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.24%) Zscaler
13 15 (1.10%) IBM
14 13 (0.95%) SendGrid
15 11 (0.80%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.73%) Confluent
16 10 (0.73%) NVIDIA
16 10 (0.73%) Rapid7
16 10 (0.73%) Salesforce