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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 115 202
Rank change year-on-year -40 +87 -58
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,214 1,251 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.81% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.03% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 835 640 1,094
10th Percentile £45,597 £49,912 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,734 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,750 £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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 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 17 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 -31 1,117 £72,500 -9.38% 994
UK excluding London -47 648 £62,500 -7.41% 1,034
London -22 473 £80,000 -11.11% 242
Work from Home -29 439 £70,079 -2.66% 994
North of England -45 199 £65,000 -1.54% 213
South East +28 162 £67,500 +3.85% 229
South West +4 152 £55,000 -26.67% 120
North West -40 100 £70,000 +16.67% 101
Yorkshire -45 60 £67,966 -2.91% 69
Midlands -81 60 £70,000 +9.80% 109
East of England -16 42 £60,050 -12.65% 125
North East -20 39 £55,000 -15.38% 43
West Midlands -55 32 £70,079 +7.81% 55
East Midlands -59 28 £64,000 +6.67% 54
Wales -29 25 £63,750 +6.25% 65
Scotland -69 7 £60,000 -25.00% 116
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +45.04% 72

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 34 (2.80%) Apache
2 26 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.14%) Confluence
3 8 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 7 (0.58%) Appian
5 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.33%) IIS
6 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.25%) Camunda
7 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.082%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.082%) nginx
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
4 1 (0.082%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Shopify
3 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 722 (59.47%) AWS
2 610 (50.25%) Azure
3 320 (26.36%) GCP
4 206 (16.97%) GitHub
5 169 (13.92%) Serverless
6 142 (11.70%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 124 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (8.65%) Azure AKS
10 96 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (7.83%) OpenShift
12 93 (7.66%) Amazon S3
13 82 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
15 74 (6.10%) Datadog
16 68 (5.60%) SaaS
17 56 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
18 55 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
19 50 (4.12%) IaaS
20 42 (3.46%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.34%) Broadband
2 72 (5.93%) Firewall
3 70 (5.77%) DNS
4 37 (3.05%) TCP/IP
5 33 (2.72%) Network Security
6 24 (1.98%) HTTP
7 21 (1.73%) VPN
8 15 (1.24%) MQTT
9 11 (0.91%) DMARC
9 11 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
9 11 (0.91%) VLAN
10 9 (0.74%) BGP
10 9 (0.74%) DHCP
10 9 (0.74%) OSPF
10 9 (0.74%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.66%) AMQP
11 8 (0.66%) IPv4
12 6 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.49%) DMZ
12 6 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.04%) NoSQL
2 113 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 72 (5.93%) Relational Database
5 60 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 59 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
7 53 (4.37%) MySQL
8 46 (3.79%) DynamoDB
9 36 (2.97%) Redis
10 29 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.31%) RDBMS
12 20 (1.65%) Pinecone
13 18 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (1.15%) Big Data
15 10 (0.82%) Metadata
16 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.74%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.74%) Power BI
17 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 214 (17.63%) Git
2 190 (15.65%) Jenkins
3 171 (14.09%) GitLab
4 46 (3.79%) CircleCI
5 40 (3.29%) JIRA
6 25 (2.06%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.98%) JUnit
8 23 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.81%) Maven
10 21 (1.73%) Mockito
11 18 (1.48%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.48%) Vite
12 16 (1.32%) Selenium
13 15 (1.24%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.15%) Cucumber
15 13 (1.07%) MLflow
16 9 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.74%) JMeter
17 8 (0.66%) Gatling
17 8 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 332 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 229 (18.86%) Finance
3 94 (7.74%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.59%) Banking
6 76 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.86%) Law
8 47 (3.87%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.22%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.65%) Retail
12 14 (1.15%) Front Office
12 14 (1.15%) Games
13 13 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Legal
15 10 (0.82%) Billing
15 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.82%) Marketing
16 9 (0.74%) Electronics
16 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (22.16%) Senior
2 257 (21.17%) Developer
3 180 (14.83%) Software Engineer
4 160 (13.18%) Lead
5 155 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 123 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 101 (8.32%) Architect
8 75 (6.18%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (5.44%) Java Developer
11 59 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 53 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
13 50 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
15 48 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
18 33 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 32 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (14.91%) React
2 174 (14.33%) RESTful
3 153 (12.60%) .NET
4 146 (12.03%) Spring
5 137 (11.29%) Spring Boot
6 128 (10.54%) Node.js
7 127 (10.46%) REST
8 119 (9.80%) Kafka
9 82 (6.75%) gRPC
10 77 (6.34%) AngularJS
11 73 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
12 67 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
13 62 (5.11%) OAuth
14 55 (4.53%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.54%) JSON
16 42 (3.46%) FastAPI
16 42 (3.46%) OAuth2
17 38 (3.13%) CSS
18 37 (3.05%) JWT
18 37 (3.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 309 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 148 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.71%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.22%) Blockchain
8 26 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.81%) Web3
12 21 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.73%) PKI
13 19 (1.57%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.40%) AI Agents
16 16 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
17 15 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 239 (19.69%) Linux
2 87 (7.17%) Windows
3 38 (3.13%) Unix
4 36 (2.97%) Ubuntu
4 36 (2.97%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.64%) CentOS
6 21 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.82%) Debian
8 4 (0.33%) Android
8 4 (0.33%) VMS
9 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (68.04%) CI/CD
2 593 (48.85%) DevOps
3 517 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 468 (38.55%) Agile
5 397 (32.70%) Microservices
6 388 (31.96%) Software Engineering
7 313 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (19.77%) Test Automation
9 239 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 239 (19.69%) Mentoring
10 228 (18.78%) Observability
11 220 (18.12%) AI
12 174 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 150 (12.36%) Event-Driven
14 149 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
15 141 (11.61%) High Availability
16 138 (11.37%) Machine Learning
17 136 (11.20%) Continuous Delivery
18 133 (10.96%) Clean Code
19 124 (10.21%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 569 (46.87%) Python
2 308 (25.37%) Java
3 242 (19.93%) JavaScript
4 193 (15.90%) SQL
5 186 (15.32%) Bash
6 151 (12.44%) C#
7 150 (12.36%) TypeScript
8 146 (12.03%) Go
9 134 (11.04%) PowerShell
10 52 (4.28%) Scala
11 46 (3.79%) Bicep
12 35 (2.88%) C++
13 27 (2.22%) PHP
14 26 (2.14%) Rust
15 23 (1.89%) Ruby
16 22 (1.81%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.48%) Groovy
18 16 (1.32%) C
19 12 (0.99%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 270 (22.24%) Security Cleared
2 147 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 123 (10.13%) Degree
4 84 (6.92%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.61%) Azure Certification
7 53 (4.37%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.07%) CISSP
10 12 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.66%) CCNA
11 8 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (0.66%) OSCP
11 8 (0.66%) RHCE
11 8 (0.66%) RHCSA
12 7 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.07%) QA
2 37 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.97%) GDPR
4 32 (2.64%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.81%) NIST
7 14 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.15%) WCAG
8 12 (0.99%) GRC
8 12 (0.99%) JSP 440
8 12 (0.99%) NCSC
9 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.082%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 747 (61.53%) Docker
2 37 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.55%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.82%) vSphere
6 9 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.66%) Squid
8 6 (0.49%) Firmware
8 6 (0.49%) KVM
9 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.082%) QEMU
11 1 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 722 (59.47%) Kubernetes
2 466 (38.39%) Terraform
3 196 (16.14%) Ansible
4 165 (13.59%) Grafana
5 159 (13.10%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.71%) Argo
7 27 (2.22%) Puppet
8 23 (1.89%) Istio
9 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.40%) Podman
12 16 (1.32%) Nagios
13 13 (1.07%) Packer
14 12 (0.99%) Kibana
14 12 (0.99%) linkerd
15 10 (0.82%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.74%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.57%) Google
3 60 (4.94%) Red Hat
4 45 (3.71%) Splunk
4 45 (3.71%) Typelevel
5 41 (3.38%) Oracle
6 37 (3.05%) VMware
7 27 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 24 (1.98%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.48%) Cisco
10 15 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 12 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 12 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.91%) NVIDIA
12 11 (0.91%) SendGrid
12 11 (0.91%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.82%) Confluent
13 10 (0.82%) Databricks
13 10 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.74%) Atlassian