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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 115 197
Rank change year-on-year -39 +82 -48
Permanent jobs citing Containerisation 1,215 1,246 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.79% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.01% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 840 636 1,098
10th Percentile £45,475 £48,934 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,867 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,505 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
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 18 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 18 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 1,119 £72,500 -9.38% 451
UK excluding London -46 648 £62,500 -7.41% 308
London -21 476 £80,000 -11.11% 232
Work from Home -29 439 £70,079 -2.66% 226
North of England -51 196 £65,000 - 73
South East +25 162 £67,250 +3.46% 86
South West 0 153 £55,000 -26.67% 60
North West -32 99 £70,000 +16.67% 43
Midlands -82 61 £70,000 +9.80% 24
Yorkshire -43 58 £70,932 +1.33% 14
East of England -18 43 £60,000 -12.73% 17
North East -18 39 £55,000 -15.38% 16
West Midlands -55 33 £70,505 +8.47% 16
East Midlands -54 28 £64,000 +6.67% 8
Wales -31 26 £67,500 +12.50% 9
Scotland -64 7 £60,000 -25.00% 12
Northern Ireland -29 5 £62,500 +45.04% 34

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 33 (2.72%) Apache
2 26 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.14%) Confluence
3 25 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.66%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.58%) Appian
6 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.33%) IIS
7 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.082%) nginx
10 1 (0.082%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.91%) 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
1 723 (59.51%) AWS
2 611 (50.29%) Azure
3 321 (26.42%) GCP
4 203 (16.71%) GitHub
5 166 (13.66%) Serverless
6 139 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
7 132 (10.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 121 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (8.72%) Azure AKS
10 95 (7.82%) OpenShift
11 93 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (7.41%) Amazon S3
13 79 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
15 74 (6.09%) Datadog
16 68 (5.60%) SaaS
17 55 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
18 53 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
19 51 (4.20%) IaaS
20 42 (3.46%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.34%) Broadband
2 72 (5.93%) Firewall
3 70 (5.76%) DNS
4 37 (3.05%) TCP/IP
5 34 (2.80%) Network Security
6 24 (1.98%) HTTP
7 23 (1.89%) VPN
8 15 (1.23%) 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
1 133 (10.95%) NoSQL
2 112 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.58%) MongoDB
4 71 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
5 59 (4.86%) SQL Server
6 52 (4.28%) MySQL
7 44 (3.62%) DynamoDB
8 36 (2.96%) Redis
9 29 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.30%) RDBMS
11 20 (1.65%) Pinecone
12 18 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.07%) Big Data
14 10 (0.82%) Metadata
15 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.74%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.74%) Power BI
16 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 213 (17.53%) Git
2 190 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 171 (14.07%) 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 (1.23%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.15%) Cucumber
15 12 (0.99%) 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 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 232 (19.09%) Finance
3 95 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 87 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.67%) Banking
6 77 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.86%) Law
8 47 (3.87%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.56%) 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
1 267 (21.98%) Senior
2 257 (21.15%) Developer
3 179 (14.73%) Software Engineer
4 160 (13.17%) Lead
5 155 (12.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 102 (8.40%) Architect
8 75 (6.17%) Senior Developer
9 68 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (5.43%) Java Developer
11 59 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 54 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
13 51 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
14 48 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 35 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
16 35 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
17 33 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 33 (2.72%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (14.81%) React
2 172 (14.16%) RESTful
3 150 (12.35%) .NET
4 145 (11.93%) Spring
5 136 (11.19%) Spring Boot
6 128 (10.53%) Node.js
7 126 (10.37%) REST
8 119 (9.79%) Kafka
9 81 (6.67%) gRPC
10 76 (6.26%) AngularJS
11 72 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
12 68 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (5.02%) OAuth
14 52 (4.28%) .NET Core
15 43 (3.54%) FastAPI
15 43 (3.54%) JSON
16 41 (3.37%) OAuth2
17 39 (3.21%) CSS
18 37 (3.05%) YAML
19 36 (2.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 308 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 149 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.70%) Over-the-Top Content
4 45 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 31 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.22%) Blockchain
7 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.98%) Data Centre
10 22 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.81%) PKI
10 22 (1.81%) Web3
11 19 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.40%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 239 (19.67%) Linux
2 88 (7.24%) Windows
3 38 (3.13%) Unix
4 36 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.80%) Ubuntu
6 31 (2.55%) CentOS
7 20 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.74%) Debian
9 4 (0.33%) Android
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.082%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (68.07%) CI/CD
2 593 (48.81%) DevOps
3 519 (42.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 469 (38.60%) Agile
5 396 (32.59%) Microservices
6 389 (32.02%) Software Engineering
7 314 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (19.84%) Test Automation
9 240 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 240 (19.75%) Mentoring
10 227 (18.68%) Observability
11 219 (18.02%) AI
12 175 (14.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 151 (12.43%) Event-Driven
14 150 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
15 141 (11.60%) High Availability
16 136 (11.19%) Machine Learning
17 135 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
18 134 (11.03%) Clean Code
19 122 (10.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 571 (47.00%) Python
2 309 (25.43%) Java
3 243 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 193 (15.88%) SQL
5 186 (15.31%) Bash
6 153 (12.59%) C#
7 152 (12.51%) TypeScript
8 147 (12.10%) Go
9 134 (11.03%) PowerShell
10 52 (4.28%) Scala
11 49 (4.03%) Bicep
12 36 (2.96%) C++
13 27 (2.22%) PHP
13 27 (2.22%) Rust
14 24 (1.98%) Ruby
15 23 (1.89%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.48%) Groovy
17 16 (1.32%) C
18 12 (0.99%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 270 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 146 (12.02%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.21%) Degree
4 84 (6.91%) DV Cleared
5 71 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (4.61%) Azure Certification
7 53 (4.36%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.07%) CISSP
11 12 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.66%) CCNA
13 8 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.66%) OSCP
13 8 (0.66%) RHCE
13 8 (0.66%) RHCSA
14 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.07%) QA
2 38 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.96%) GDPR
4 33 (2.72%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.89%) 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%) DO-178B
System Software
1 746 (61.40%) Docker
2 37 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (2.63%) 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 7 (0.58%) KVM
9 6 (0.49%) Firmware
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.25%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.082%) QEMU
12 1 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 725 (59.67%) Kubernetes
2 469 (38.60%) Terraform
3 196 (16.13%) Ansible
4 166 (13.66%) Grafana
5 160 (13.17%) Prometheus
6 45 (3.70%) Argo
7 25 (2.06%) Puppet
8 23 (1.89%) Istio
9 22 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.73%) Progress Chef
11 18 (1.48%) Kustomize
12 17 (1.40%) Podman
13 16 (1.32%) Nagios
14 13 (1.07%) Packer
15 12 (0.99%) Kibana
15 12 (0.99%) linkerd
16 11 (0.91%) ZABBIX
17 9 (0.74%) FortiGate
18 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
19 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 127 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.64%) Google
3 59 (4.86%) Red Hat
4 46 (3.79%) Splunk
5 45 (3.70%) Typelevel
6 41 (3.37%) Oracle
7 39 (3.21%) VMware
8 27 (2.22%) OpenAI
9 24 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.48%) Cisco
11 15 (1.23%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.99%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.99%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.91%) SendGrid
13 11 (0.91%) Zscaler
14 10 (0.82%) Confluent
14 10 (0.82%) Databricks
14 10 (0.82%) NVIDIA
14 10 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.74%) Atlassian