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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 114 190
Rank change year-on-year -55 +76 -42
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,129 1,250 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.84% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 3.04% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 734 682 1,108
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,275 £127,500 £105,000
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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 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 19 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 -44 1,030 £72,500 -6.22% 451
UK excluding London -71 574 £62,500 -7.41% 302
London -12 460 £82,500 -8.33% 183
Work from Home -39 407 £70,932 +2.23% 218
North of England -69 173 £65,000 - 83
South East 0 150 £70,000 +12.00% 89
South West -15 126 £55,000 -23.60% 61
North West -49 86 £70,000 +10.06% 41
Midlands -88 60 £70,000 +16.67% 34
Yorkshire -60 58 £65,000 -5.11% 20
East of England -36 35 £60,000 -7.69% 18
West Midlands -56 31 £70,932 +9.13% 21
North East -22 29 £50,000 -24.26% 22
East Midlands -59 28 £64,000 +6.67% 13
Wales -22 20 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Scotland -72 12 £60,000 -24.76% 13
Northern Ireland - 5 £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 27 (2.39%) Apache
2 23 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.42%) Confluence
5 13 (1.15%) Appian
6 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.53%) IIS
7 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Qpid
11 1 (0.089%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.089%) JBoss
11 1 (0.089%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Maya
2 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.089%) Endur
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 659 (58.37%) AWS
2 575 (50.93%) Azure
3 317 (28.08%) GCP
4 191 (16.92%) GitHub
5 169 (14.97%) Serverless
6 137 (12.13%) GitHub Actions
7 124 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 123 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (8.95%) Azure AKS
10 94 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (7.79%) OpenShift
12 87 (7.71%) Amazon S3
13 86 (7.62%) Datadog
14 69 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 64 (5.67%) SaaS
16 63 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
18 47 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
18 47 (4.16%) IaaS
19 38 (3.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.73%) Broadband
2 72 (6.38%) Firewall
3 60 (5.31%) DNS
4 31 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.66%) Network Security
6 25 (2.21%) HTTP
7 17 (1.51%) VPN
8 10 (0.89%) MQTT
8 10 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.71%) AMQP
10 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.53%) DHCP
10 6 (0.53%) DMZ
10 6 (0.53%) IPv4
11 4 (0.35%) VLAN
11 4 (0.35%) WAN
11 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.27%) Modbus
12 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (13.11%) NoSQL
2 96 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (6.64%) MongoDB
4 73 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 70 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (4.43%) MySQL
8 45 (3.99%) DynamoDB
9 31 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.75%) RDBMS
10 27 (2.39%) Redis
11 25 (2.21%) Pinecone
12 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.97%) Big Data
14 10 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.89%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.89%) Metadata
15 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.80%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 206 (18.25%) Git
2 171 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 146 (12.93%) GitLab
4 48 (4.25%) CircleCI
5 34 (3.01%) JIRA
6 25 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.21%) JUnit
7 22 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.77%) Mockito
9 19 (1.68%) Maven
10 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.59%) MLflow
11 16 (1.42%) Vite
12 15 (1.33%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.24%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.97%) Selenium
15 10 (0.89%) JMeter
16 9 (0.80%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 310 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 238 (21.08%) Finance
3 89 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.64%) Banking
6 66 (5.85%) Law
7 59 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (5.23%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 22 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.77%) Games
11 18 (1.59%) Retail
12 17 (1.51%) Front Office
13 14 (1.24%) Billing
13 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.06%) Marketing
15 11 (0.97%) Legal
16 9 (0.80%) Electronics
17 8 (0.71%) Advertising
17 8 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 263 (23.29%) Senior
2 240 (21.26%) Developer
3 162 (14.35%) Software Engineer
4 143 (12.67%) Lead
5 133 (11.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 108 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (7.17%) Architect
8 69 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
8 69 (6.11%) Senior Developer
9 62 (5.49%) Java Developer
10 54 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 40 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 36 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
14 36 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
15 30 (2.66%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (2.66%) Software Developer
16 28 (2.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (14.88%) React
2 156 (13.82%) RESTful
3 153 (13.55%) .NET
4 125 (11.07%) REST
5 123 (10.89%) Spring
6 113 (10.01%) Spring Boot
7 109 (9.65%) Kafka
8 99 (8.77%) Node.js
9 88 (7.79%) gRPC
10 70 (6.20%) AngularJS
11 64 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
12 61 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (5.31%) .NET Core
14 54 (4.78%) OAuth
15 43 (3.81%) FastAPI
16 36 (3.19%) JSON
17 34 (3.01%) JWT
18 33 (2.92%) Django
19 32 (2.83%) CSS
19 32 (2.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 262 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 147 (13.02%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.99%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.99%) Video\Live Streaming
5 34 (3.01%) Blockchain
6 32 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.57%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.04%) PKI
11 22 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.95%) Web3
12 19 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.33%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 227 (20.11%) Linux
2 82 (7.26%) Windows
3 38 (3.37%) Ubuntu
3 38 (3.37%) Unix
4 31 (2.75%) CentOS
5 29 (2.57%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.80%) Debian
8 8 (0.71%) Android
8 8 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.089%) Rocky
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (67.67%) CI/CD
2 548 (48.54%) DevOps
3 457 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 440 (38.97%) Agile
5 384 (34.01%) Microservices
6 344 (30.47%) Software Engineering
7 298 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
8 232 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 222 (19.66%) AI
10 220 (19.49%) Test Automation
11 218 (19.31%) Mentoring
12 198 (17.54%) Observability
13 155 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 149 (13.20%) Machine Learning
15 144 (12.75%) High Availability
16 131 (11.60%) Continuous Delivery
17 129 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
18 123 (10.89%) Clean Code
19 122 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
20 121 (10.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 523 (46.32%) Python
2 272 (24.09%) Java
3 228 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 195 (17.27%) SQL
5 169 (14.97%) Bash
6 148 (13.11%) Go
7 135 (11.96%) C#
8 124 (10.98%) PowerShell
9 123 (10.89%) TypeScript
10 49 (4.34%) Scala
11 34 (3.01%) Bicep
12 33 (2.92%) C++
13 25 (2.21%) PHP
14 21 (1.86%) Rust
15 20 (1.77%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.42%) C
17 12 (1.06%) Groovy
17 12 (1.06%) Ruby
18 10 (0.89%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 228 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 117 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 116 (10.27%) Degree
4 77 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 68 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (5.05%) AWS Certification
7 55 (4.87%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.71%) CISSP
12 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.53%) OSCP
13 6 (0.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.62%) QA
2 37 (3.28%) GDPR
3 31 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 29 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.04%) NIST
7 17 (1.51%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.97%) GRC
8 11 (0.97%) JSP 440
9 9 (0.80%) NCSC
10 7 (0.62%) WCAG
11 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.35%) SLA
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.089%) EMIR
System Software
1 711 (62.98%) Docker
2 36 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.57%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.80%) vSphere
6 8 (0.71%) KVM
7 6 (0.53%) Firmware
7 6 (0.53%) Squid
8 4 (0.35%) iptables
9 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.27%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.089%) QEMU
11 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 682 (60.41%) Kubernetes
2 430 (38.09%) Terraform
3 189 (16.74%) Ansible
4 157 (13.91%) Grafana
5 148 (13.11%) Prometheus
6 38 (3.37%) Argo
7 26 (2.30%) Puppet
8 21 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.59%) Istio
9 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.51%) Podman
11 16 (1.42%) Nagios
12 14 (1.24%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.89%) Kibana
13 10 (0.89%) Packer
14 8 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
15 7 (0.62%) linkerd
15 7 (0.62%) Mesos
16 6 (0.53%) ZABBIX
17 5 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 111 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.30%) Google
3 57 (5.05%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.99%) Typelevel
5 40 (3.54%) Splunk
6 35 (3.10%) Oracle
7 32 (2.83%) OpenAI
8 31 (2.75%) VMware
9 25 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.24%) Cisco
11 14 (1.24%) NVIDIA
12 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.97%) Automation Anywhere
12 11 (0.97%) Databricks
12 11 (0.97%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.97%) UiPath
13 10 (0.89%) Confluent
14 8 (0.71%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.62%) Zscaler