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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 113 203
Rank change year-on-year -47 +90 -54
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,185 1,241 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.84% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 3.05% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 800 638 1,089
10th Percentile £45,475 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -49 1,090 £72,500 -6.45% 521
UK excluding London -63 620 £62,500 -7.41% 311
London -14 473 £80,000 -11.11% 252
Work from Home -30 442 £70,079 -2.66% 454
North of England -64 193 £65,000 -3.04% 71
South East +10 160 £70,000 +7.69% 89
South West -3 141 £53,750 -25.86% 73
North West -49 93 £70,932 +14.03% 41
Yorkshire -44 62 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Midlands -102 57 £70,000 +14.29% 23
East of England -31 39 £60,000 -11.11% 21
North East -10 38 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West Midlands -72 32 £70,505 +8.47% 14
East Midlands -58 25 £64,000 +6.67% 9
Wales -27 20 £57,500 -4.17% 14
Scotland -63 9 £60,000 -29.41% 15
Northern Ireland -35 5 £62,500 +45.04% 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 32 (2.70%) Apache
2 23 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.86%) Confluence
4 8 (0.68%) Appian
5 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) IIS
7 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Qpid
10 1 (0.084%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.084%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.084%) nginx
10 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.34%) Maya
3 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Blender
5 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.084%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 701 (59.16%) AWS
2 598 (50.46%) Azure
3 323 (27.26%) GCP
4 191 (16.12%) GitHub
5 169 (14.26%) Serverless
6 133 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
7 129 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 123 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (8.78%) Azure AKS
10 95 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (7.68%) Amazon S3
12 90 (7.59%) OpenShift
13 78 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (6.24%) Datadog
15 73 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
16 67 (5.65%) SaaS
17 51 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
18 50 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
18 50 (4.22%) IaaS
19 40 (3.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.50%) Broadband
2 70 (5.91%) Firewall
3 66 (5.57%) DNS
4 37 (3.12%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.62%) Network Security
6 24 (2.03%) HTTP
7 17 (1.43%) VPN
8 13 (1.10%) MQTT
9 11 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.68%) AMQP
10 8 (0.68%) DHCP
10 8 (0.68%) IPv4
11 7 (0.59%) DMARC
11 7 (0.59%) VLAN
12 6 (0.51%) BGP
12 6 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.51%) DMZ
12 6 (0.51%) OSPF
12 6 (0.51%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 108 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 74 (6.24%) Relational Database
5 65 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 58 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
7 53 (4.47%) MySQL
8 47 (3.97%) DynamoDB
9 34 (2.87%) Redis
10 30 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.53%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.60%) Pinecone
12 16 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.10%) Big Data
14 10 (0.84%) Metadata
15 9 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.76%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.76%) Power BI
16 8 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 214 (18.06%) Git
2 178 (15.02%) Jenkins
3 162 (13.67%) GitLab
4 45 (3.80%) CircleCI
5 37 (3.12%) JIRA
6 27 (2.28%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.03%) JUnit
8 22 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.77%) Maven
9 21 (1.77%) Mockito
10 18 (1.52%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.35%) Vite
12 15 (1.27%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.18%) MLflow
13 14 (1.18%) Selenium
14 9 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.76%) JMeter
15 8 (0.68%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 330 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 233 (19.66%) Finance
3 88 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.33%) Banking
6 65 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (5.15%) Law
8 53 (4.47%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.19%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.69%) Retail
12 17 (1.43%) Front Office
13 13 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.01%) Billing
14 12 (1.01%) Games
15 11 (0.93%) Legal
15 11 (0.93%) Marketing
16 10 (0.84%) Electronics
16 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (22.87%) Senior
2 250 (21.10%) Developer
3 177 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 155 (13.08%) Lead
5 149 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 119 (10.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 93 (7.85%) Architect
8 74 (6.24%) Senior Developer
9 67 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (5.32%) Java Developer
11 60 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 43 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
14 43 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (2.87%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
16 32 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (2.53%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (14.85%) React
2 166 (14.01%) RESTful
3 151 (12.74%) .NET
4 136 (11.48%) Spring
5 127 (10.72%) REST
6 124 (10.46%) Spring Boot
7 118 (9.96%) Node.js
8 114 (9.62%) Kafka
9 84 (7.09%) gRPC
10 73 (6.16%) AngularJS
11 66 (5.57%) RabbitMQ
12 62 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
13 59 (4.98%) OAuth
14 56 (4.73%) .NET Core
15 42 (3.54%) FastAPI
15 42 (3.54%) JSON
16 39 (3.29%) OAuth2
17 36 (3.04%) JWT
18 35 (2.95%) CSS
18 35 (2.95%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 283 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 145 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.80%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 30 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.28%) Blockchain
9 25 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.86%) PKI
11 21 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.77%) Web3
12 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.52%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.43%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.35%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.35%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 232 (19.58%) Linux
2 81 (6.84%) Windows
3 39 (3.29%) Unix
4 36 (3.04%) Ubuntu
5 33 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 31 (2.62%) CentOS
7 21 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.76%) Debian
9 6 (0.51%) Android
10 4 (0.34%) VMS
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (67.93%) CI/CD
2 575 (48.52%) DevOps
3 493 (41.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 458 (38.65%) Agile
5 390 (32.91%) Microservices
6 369 (31.14%) Software Engineering
7 303 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 237 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 232 (19.58%) Mentoring
11 216 (18.23%) AI
12 212 (17.89%) Observability
13 162 (13.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 142 (11.98%) Machine Learning
15 140 (11.81%) High Availability
16 138 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
17 135 (11.39%) Event-Driven
18 132 (11.14%) Continuous Delivery
19 130 (10.97%) Clean Code
20 124 (10.46%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 552 (46.58%) Python
2 293 (24.73%) Java
3 240 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 197 (16.62%) SQL
5 179 (15.11%) Bash
6 147 (12.41%) Go
7 144 (12.15%) C#
8 140 (11.81%) TypeScript
9 131 (11.05%) PowerShell
10 50 (4.22%) Scala
11 39 (3.29%) Bicep
12 35 (2.95%) C++
13 27 (2.28%) PHP
14 24 (2.03%) Rust
15 21 (1.77%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.43%) Groovy
16 17 (1.43%) Ruby
17 16 (1.35%) C
18 12 (1.01%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 256 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 136 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.46%) Degree
4 84 (7.09%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.64%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.64%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.01%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.84%) CISSP
12 9 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.68%) CCNA
13 8 (0.68%) OSCP
13 8 (0.68%) RHCE
13 8 (0.68%) RHCSA
14 7 (0.59%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.02%) QA
2 38 (3.21%) GDPR
3 34 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 32 (2.70%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.94%) NIST
8 15 (1.27%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.01%) GRC
9 12 (1.01%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.68%) WCAG
11 7 (0.59%) NCSC
12 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.084%) SLA
15 1 (0.084%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 733 (61.86%) Docker
2 35 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.53%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.84%) vSphere
6 8 (0.68%) Squid
7 7 (0.59%) Firmware
7 7 (0.59%) KVM
8 5 (0.42%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.34%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.084%) QEMU
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.084%) Xen
Systems Management
1 702 (59.24%) Kubernetes
2 450 (37.97%) Terraform
3 192 (16.20%) Ansible
4 159 (13.42%) Grafana
5 151 (12.74%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.63%) Argo
7 25 (2.11%) Puppet
8 22 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.69%) Istio
10 19 (1.60%) Progress Chef
11 18 (1.52%) Kustomize
12 17 (1.43%) Podman
13 16 (1.35%) Nagios
14 13 (1.10%) Packer
15 10 (0.84%) Kibana
16 9 (0.76%) linkerd
16 9 (0.76%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.68%) FortiGate
18 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
19 6 (0.51%) Mesos
Vendors
1 120 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.86%) Google
3 59 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.80%) Typelevel
5 43 (3.63%) Splunk
6 41 (3.46%) Oracle
7 35 (2.95%) VMware
8 27 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 24 (2.03%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.35%) Cisco
11 13 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.01%) NVIDIA
12 12 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.84%) Confluent
14 10 (0.84%) Databricks
14 10 (0.84%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.76%) Automation Anywhere
15 9 (0.76%) UiPath